Sentence examples for prior operation from inspiring English sources

The majority of paediatric cardiologists recommend epicardial pacing in children less than 10 kg and when venous access to the heart is limited by congenital anomalies or prior operation; for older children, transvenous implantation has become the technique of choice.

A total of 12 patients (32%) had a prior operation and a histological diagnosis of either AII (six cases) or AA (six cases).

Cases were more likely than controls to be diabetic, immunocompromised, to have had a prior operation on the index joint, and to have had a prior arthroplasty on the index joint.

Patients were excluded from analysis if they were: (1) aged <20 years, (2) had postoperative surgical site infection due to prior operation, and (3) mortality after surgery in hospital.

Healthy, low-risk women without any disease known to influence the pregnancy, one fetus in cephalic presentation, a pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI) ≤32, not smoking more than ten cigarettes per day, no prior operation on the uterus, no prior complicated deliveries, and spontaneous onset of labour between 36+1 and 41+6 weeks of gestation.

Timing of sera collection in each patient was: one day prior operation (time point I), 14 28 days after operation before any non-surgical treatment (time point II) and 14 28 days after first treatment modality: either chemotherapy or radiotherapy (time point III).

Prior surgery at the involved spinal segments may be measured as yes-no or as the number of prior operations.

The standard Chinese version of QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) was administered following diagnosis but prior to operation or re-operation for all eligible patients.

Baseline SCr was measured at 6 to 12 hr prior to operation and post-operative daily at least for five days in all patients.

When several CT scans preceded surgery, the CT obtained prior to operation was used for classification.

63 joints involving 86 operations were analyzed using serum CRP measurement prior to operation and tissue samples were collected intraoperatively for real-time PCR and histopathology.