| Several of these molecular abnormalities have independent prognostic importance in the context of particular treatment regimens. |
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| Patients suffering from such poor prognostic criteria often times will benefit from lung transplantation. |
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| Thus, this new definition of airflow obstruction appears to impart useful prognostic information. |
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| For instance, anatomic pathology prognostic data may be integrated with clinical laboratory serologic tumor markers that are graphically trended. |
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| Although many general practices have facilities for electrocardiography, the prognostic importance of common abnormalities is underappreciated. |
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| State policy for ensuring information security during military conflicts has a prognostic, organizational and administrative function. |
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| In earlier studies of the prognostic importance of ECG changes, sample sizes were small and the results were equivocal. |
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| The selection of systemic adjuvant therapy is based on prognostic and predictive factors. |
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| Our study of pathological prognostic factors at presentation confirmed these findings for women with early breast cancer. |
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| Nitrates often are used in emergency treatment of acute chest pain, but relief with nitrates is an uncertain diagnostic and prognostic sign. |
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| The secretory histology confers no prognostic significance over and above the diagnosis of meningioma. |
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| Mitosis, size of tumour, necrosis and pleomorphism are thought to be prognostic factors for aggressiveness of solitary fibrous tumours. |
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| Sonographic evaluation at presentation can usually differentiate between intrauterine and extrauterine pregnancy and offer some prognostic clues. |
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| Thirdly, our work hints at corrective techniques that might be used to counteract prognostic error. |
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| The thickness of the tumour and whether there is ulceration remain important prognostic discriminators in patients with a negative biopsy. |
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| Free peritoneal tumour cells are an independent prognostic factor in curatively resected stage IB gastric carcinoma. |
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| Both patients and physicians are most interested in disease indicators that will best predict therapeutic responses and prognostic outcomes. |
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| At the initial assessment it is important to define factors that have prognostic importance. |
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| Severe cachexia, as a result of increased energy expenditure mediated by the tumour, is also a poor prognostic indicator. |
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| Unfortunately, prognostic error may have untoward effects on both patient care and social policy. |
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| Therefore, every reported case is useful in defining the diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and natural history criteria of the disease. |
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| Poor prognostic indicators include poorly responsive disease, delay in diagnosis and the presence of malignancy. |
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| Important negative prognostic factors in both conditions include patients older than 65 years, hypotension, and coma. |
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| It is probable that studies showing a strong prognostic ability are more likely to be published. |
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| The results obtained by special studies led to the re-evaluation of the original diagnosis as an erythroblastic disorder of undetermined prognostic significance. |
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| Measurement of these variables can be obtained in most practices quickly and can provide the practicing clinician with powerful prognostic information. |
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| Ectopic beats during the test, however, had no prognostic importance. |
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| Future developments are likely to modify the clinical manifestations, treatments, and prognostic factors of critical illness in patients with HIV infection. |
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| In general, comas are a negative prognostic factor and indicate severe damage. |
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| When electrocardiographic abnormalities occur in association with chest pain but in the absence of frank infarction, they confer prognostic significance. |
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| However, only one prognostic study of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality comparing home and office blood pressure measurements measurements has been conducted. |
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| Evaluation of changes in clinical and physiological variables over 6 and 12 months may provide clinicians with more accurate prognostic information than baseline values alone. |
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| Finally, for failure to have some prognostic importance it should correlate with fatality, and we have shown that in these studies a correlation did not exist. |
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| The number of lymph nodes with metastases also has prognostic importance. |
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| The effective management of ventilatory control abnormalities has important prognostic implications in the setting of both acute and chronic disease. |
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| In the case of cancer, in particular, its study is already playing a valuable part in developing diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic tools. |
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| This work now needs to be extended to study affected children, for whom the impact of more certain prognostic information could be much greater. |
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| Besides stage and grade, important prognostic factors related to molecular phenomena exist for many types of cancer. |
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| That approach has prognostic significance, because tumours with a high proportion of dividing cells tend to be more aggressive. |
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| Fortunately, systematic screening and better diagnostic and prognostic tools have improved curing rates and management of the disease. |
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| National authorities may allow drivers with recognised good prognostic indicators to drive sooner. |
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| We do have sufficient information on prognostic factors in ovarian cancer and this is the basis for these surgical staging recommendations. |
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| The individual variability was so great as to suggest that the usefulness of these cells as a prognostic marker would be limited. |
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| First of all, I must point out that our recommendation naturally contains something of a prognostic element. |
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| Biomarkers offer promising prospects for the future as diagnostic and prognostic tools. |
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| If my mother had just had Huntington's disease diagnosed my request for a prognostic test would be unlikely to be turned down on the basis that the disease is untreatable. |
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| The distribution of patients according to vital status, therapy received, or a specific prognostic factor can also be displayed as a table or a chart. |
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| The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import. |
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| Eradicative degree of surgery, pathologic stage, depth of tumor invasion and tumor location were also identified as independent prognostic factors found significant. |
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| Current prognostic tools include a determination of the stage and grade of the tumor, the PSA level and the rate of change of the PSA level over time. |
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| The presence of tumor at the surface of the visceral pleura has been recognized as an independent adverse prognostic factor for quite some time. |
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| The final objective is to highlight new mechanism in melanoma progression and to open new ways for the prognostic and the treatment of this pathology. |
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| As long as a gap exists between the results of prognostic and diagnostic analyses, caution should be exercised when developing coping strategies and policies based on seemingly conflicting evidence. |
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| Epidemiological, microbiological, clinical, and prognostic factors of bacteremia caused by high-level vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species. |
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| This study makes a very important contribution to the evolving science of osteogenetics and to the objective of developing a highly desired prognostic test for assessing the risk of developing low bone mass and osteoporosis. |
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| Sources providing a sound assessment of the security situation and conflict analysis are indispensable for the prognostic assessment at the heart of a decision on the need for international protection. |
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| Outcome and prognostic factors in patients with advanced prostate cancer and obstructive uropathy. |
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| However, anemia, leucocytosis, smoking status, weight loss and pleural effusion were not prognostic factors for survival. |
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| This algorithm is also applicable to other cancer types and subtypes for the identification of prognostic or drug response biomarkers, opening the door to personalized therapy regimens. |
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| His primary research focus is on cardiac CT, and he is involved in multicentre and single centre studies that explore the prognostic value and clinical utility of this new modality. |
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| Rhouma and co-authors present two outcome predictive models for replanted avulsed teeth based on early prognostic indicators. |
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| In addition, anti-androgen hormone treatments may affect the detection of true PSA levels, invalidating this test as an effective prognostic indicator during this type of treatment. |
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| The second relates to studies of clinical pathological correlations where diagnostic tissue specimens are being retrieved for the purpose of conducting assays of novel biologic markers, which may be predictive or prognostic. |
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| How can we work fighting spirit into our prognostic algorithms. |
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| This is particularly important with respect to diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic and preventive developments for multifactorial diseases, which are anticipated to replace rare monogenic diseases in patent applications. |
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| The CD4 T cell count in peripheral blood is an important prognostic marker in the context of HIV infection. |
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| In addition, eradicative degree of surgery, pathologic stage, depth of tumor invasion and location of tumor were identified as independent prognostic factors of patients with GC as well. |
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| The technique was found to be a better prognostic tool than conventional visual analysis of receptor density. To speed things up, engineers in the same group have now created an instrument that automates the analysis. |
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| The 2002 AJCC pT2 substages confer no prognostic information on the rate of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. |
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| It may be that the two symptoms reflect differing vasomotor sensitivities, and these in turn could be prognostic factors for later cardiovascular disease. |
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| When considering markers for myocardial infarct, laboratorians know that CK-MB and troponin are both used to give diagnostic and sometimes even prognostic information. |
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