Based on donor versus no-donor comparison, allogeneic SCT may result in a better outcome as compared to maintenance chemotherapy or ASCT14, 15, 16 (and Dekker et al., Blood 2001; 98: 859abstractabstract
A phase III randomized trial showed that polychemotherapy with gemcitabine and vinorelbine does not improve any outcome as compared to single agent chemotherapy with vinorelbine or gemcitabine.
We believe that the evidence arising from various studies across the globe largely supports the 'favorable outcome hypothesis in developing countries', i.e. developing countries have a larger proportion of patients with a good outcome and lesser percentage with a worst outcome as compared to developed countries, albeit amidst the controversies discussed by us.
There was no significant difference in primary and secondary outcome as compared with placebo group at the end of 3rd treatment and four times follow ups.
Therefore, the information on years of schooling is likely to be much less related to their final schooling outcome as compared to slightly older children.
Five out of nine postoperative patients (55.5%) having polymicrobial infection had favorable visual outcome as compared with only 4 patients out of 31 (12.9%) having posttraumatic endophthalmitis.
S. aureus was the most frequently identified pathogen, with a high prevalence of PVL-positive S. aureus, Infection with a PVL-positive strain was not associated with a poorer outcome as compared to other co-infections.
Mucosal melanoma is often diagnosed late and is associated with poor outcome, as compared to cutaneous melanoma (5-year overall survival rate of 25%% compared to 81%% with cutaneous melanoma) [2].
Conversely, in patients with already installed acute kidney injury at inclusion, a high-target MAP was not associated with a better renal outcome as compared to the low-MAP target.
In 2006, Kacmarek et al. [22] demonstrated that partial liquid ventilation did not improve outcome as compared to conventional mechanical ventilation and recommended against its use in ARDS patients.
This was based on previous works performed in non-cancer critically ill patients and cancer patients with septic shock, for whom trends in organ failures during the first 3 days in the ICU were found accurate predictors of outcome as compared to single assessment on admission [16 18, 8].
