Sentence examples for protracted survival from inspiring English sources

In contrast protracted survival, in the late stages of the disease usually in a vegetative state, has been described both in natural history and treated case reports.

MiHA-specific T cells may have a more protracted survival in these subjects.

It was therefore used to help explain whether the upward survival trend was due to long term cures or merely to protracted survival with cancer.

Intrinsic mechanisms of antibiotic resistance (i.e. those not acquired by mutation or lateral genetic transfer) in S. aureus, might facilitate the acquisition of clinical resistance by allowing for protracted survival in the presence of subinhibitory drug concentrations [ 4, 5].

For example, a single, stable brain metastasis in the motor cortex is capable of massively limiting patient independence, even if the organism on the whole remains largely unaffected by the tumor, resulting in the protracted survival of the patient despite a severely reduced KPS.

15 Consistent with Effenberger and colleagues, 20 obesity did not seem to predominate among those requiring revision surgery, and their protracted survival times compared to those with infection diagnoses, suggested prosthetic 'wear and tear' rather than excess body weight alone explained this complication.

The data, however, suggested that patients with stage III disease with a good performance status may achieve greater long-term survival with protracted higher dose schedules.

After progression, patients will be followed every 3 months for disease status, protracted toxicities, further treatment, and survival.

Su and colleagues [ 12] noted that starch, albumin, gelatin and Ringers lactate fluid resuscitation afforded similar survival benefits during protracted fecal peritonitis in sheep, in spite of greater hemodynamic effects with the first two.

The exceptions might be the neurologically and mentally intact younger patients in whom survival might be significantly protracted.

Recent trials have demonstrated that moderate hypothermia, started within 6 hours after birth and protracted for 72 hours, can significantly improve survival and reduce neurologic impairment in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.