Sentence examples for unresolved focus from inspiring English sources

An infected thrombus over the subclavian vein was detected by venous duplex and thought to be an unresolved focus.

Moreover, positive blood cultures obtained within this period are likely due to either ineffective antibiotic therapy or an unresolved focus of infection and do rarely constitute an entirely new clinical episode.

The clinical observations used to argue that immunosuppression occurs in sepsis patients surviving the initial inflammatory cascade [ 1] are in essence that patients develop nosocomial infections due to opportunistic pathogens, including reactivated chronic viral infections, and that patients who die after sepsis have unresolved foci of infection.

On average, the width perpendicular to the septum of the single foci (94 nm) was ∼1.7× larger than that of each individually resolved cluster in dual foci (54 nm), while their width parallel to the septum was similar (∼80 nm, Figure 5C), suggesting that single foci are unresolved dual foci.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06474.018 We reasoned that if the 61% of septa that showed single foci in the ΔσE strain were unresolved dual foci, they should be elongated across the septum compared to each focus in septa with dual-foci.

At this time, the level of RPA foci is similar to that of γH2AX foci (see Figure 2A), suggesting that all unrepaired DSBs in Brca2-deficient cells exhibit unresolved RPA foci.

Post-mortems (PMs) identifying unresolved infection foci are not reliable proof that patients are dying of sepsis.

New research has shown that most patients admitted to intensive care units for treatment of sepsis had unresolved septic foci postmortem, suggesting that patients were unable to eradicate invading etiologic pathogens and were highly susceptible to nosocomial organisms, or both [ 11].

A recent, still unresolved discussion, has focused on the presence of mitochondrial dysfunction in critically ill that could limit pyruvate metabolism (and thus increase lactate levels) in the absence of limited oxygen availability [29, 30]. Figure 4 Lactate levels and LDH levels in a patient with a lymphoma admitted to the ICU because of respiratory failure.

A recent, still unresolved discussion, has focused on the presence of mitochondrial dysfunction in critically ill that could limit pyruvate metabolism (and thus increase lactate levels) in the absence of limited oxygen availability [ 29, 30].

Regardless, his actions have sharpened focus on unresolved questions of Indigenous sovereignty at a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders are debating the merits and potential wording of constitutional recognition in the leadup to a proposed 2017 referendum.