Language barriers are common among healthcare professionals and the patients' population.
Furthermore, we discuss the usefulness of dose-distribution models for estimation of expected clinical benefit and for selection of the patients' population with the highest expected benefit.
The patients' population was racially and ethnically similar.
Another difference between our and Rabe's study relates to the patients population [11].
Clinical characteristics of the patients' population are included in Table 1.
Therefore, the aim of the present study was to specifically evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of tSNS in this patients population.
This, along with differences in the patients population and treatment schemes, may contribute explaining the differences between our results and theirs.
The characteristics of the patients' population studied are comparable with those of other studies presented in the literature [6, 7, 8, 9,11] in terms of age and sex.
Notwithstanding the fact that the RV has long been considered spared by HCM, the introduction of CMR has revealed an incidence of RV involvement at around 33%% (if considered RV wall thickness > 8 mm) among HCM patients population [26].
Discussion In this small unselected medical ICU patients population with no neurological injury and unlikely to have raised intracranial pressure, the two US devices provided statistically different values with higher values with one of the devices.
However, future research should focus on a better characterisation of lymphocytes sub-populations, in relationship with other biomarker of "immunosuppression" (i.e. HLA-DR on monocytes) to better understand the potential prognostic and therapeutic role of lymphopaenia in this patients' population.
