Sentence examples for prognostic observations from inspiring English sources

Thus, MIBG findings after chemotherapy may guide additional treatment options and the heterogeneity of malignant pheochromocytoma response to chemotherapy might have important clinical implications, particularly when alternative therapeutic approaches are contemplated and/or prognostic observations are requested.

An example of a newly recognised genetic disorder discovered through prognostic observation is Brugada syndrome in which an ST elevation pattern on resting electrocardiogram is associated with sudden death.

The question "what is the prognosis of this condition?" is intimately related to the question "what is this condition?" For example, the entity of non-fatal myocardial infarction was identified only after many decades of clinical prognostic observation that symptoms of chest pain may precede death, replacing the view that the disease of myocardial infarction was inevitably and instantly fatal.

Despite a broad consensus on these prognostic patterns, recent observations of poor correlation between RNA and CD4 decline rates in adult patients have led to a renewed debate over the relative merits of RNA and CD4 as prognostic indicators in the absence [11], [12] and presence [13] of highly active antiretroviral treatment (ART).

Although XAF1 did not provide independent prognostic information, these observations fit well with the pro-apoptotic activities of XAF1 and suggest its down-regulation to play a role during the process of ccRCC progression.

3 This study extends previous findings by describing the value of a throat swab on admission as a prognostic factor, an observation that was independent of blood and urine culture results (as demonstrated by multivariable logistic regression).

From a pathological point of view, the lower vascular density of colon cancer metastasis in comparison with sarcoma metastasis may be related to the intense central necrosis observed in colon cancer metastasis but the biological and prognostic meaning of these observations are not clear and only the follow up study of this population may clarify this aspect in the future.

The method was extended for censored data (ICSc) but two problems remain: (i) given a prognostic index, how can observations be grouped in different risk groups; (ii) given the risk groups, how can survival curves be estimated for survival models based on support vector machines or ICS models.

Future studies are needed to assess the prognostic implications of our observations.

Indeed, the prognostic implications of our observations should be evaluated in prospective follow-up studies.

Our cumulative meta-analyses by annual clinic volume suggested improved survival with increasing clinic volume for each prognostic factor, consistent with observations by others.