I suppose it must be like having occasional surgery.
The patients in the latter group were considered NTDT patients because of the regular transfusion regimen that did not start in childhood but starts later, after an occasional event (pregnancy, surgery, infection,…), or because of clinical complications, such as heart failure and fatigue with very low Hb levels leading to poor quality of life.
But unlike religious or sexual masochism, which is free (except for the occasional dominatrix), plastic surgery is expensive — even if, as more and more people do, you put it on a credit card.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 14 — In another lifetime, long before the elbow problems, shoulder surgery and occasional bouts of fatigue melded to create an image of his being a less-than-durable pitcher, Orlando Hernández routinely flouted baseball convention.
In contrast, because of the poor prognosis for HNSCC and, in the past for OSCC, therapeutic measures have recently been intensified with induction chemotherapy, hyperfractionated radiotherapy, surgery, and occasional use of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors.
This can necessitate prolonged antibiotics, repeat operations and revision surgery as well as occasional fusion of the joint or, rarely, amputation.
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As if to prove that there are no supernatural forces working against Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" movies, for which that director has already contended with a labor dispute, the occasional explosion and emergency ulcer surgery, the studios have settled on some interesting release dates for the two-part fantasy epic.
Finally, miniaturization of the CPB machine has proved to be effective in reducing pump-prime, inflammation, blood loss, and donor blood usage which are occasional outcomes of cardiopulmonary bypass surgery [ 4].
