These new transplant strategies are still somewhat experimental, but are being used more widely on elderly patients unfit for myeloablative regimens and for whom the higher risk of cancer relapse may be acceptable.

It is generally indicated in older, high-risk patients or patients unfit for open repair.

This work would become a popular text for the advocacy of sterilization, as it purported to be an objective study of the operations in the state and concluded, not surprisingly, that rigorous programs for the sterilization of the " unfit " were beneficial to all involved, including the sterilized patients.

Tuke, together with Godfrey Higgins set about investigating the appalling conditions within the York Lunatic asylum after Hannah Mills ' death, and successfully had it deemed unfit for purpose due to the squalor the patients lived in.

In its final phase, Dirlewanger's men came to include, besides common criminals, increasing numbers of political prisoners, homosexuals, Gypsies ( likely recruited from Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps ) and patients from psychiatric hospitals, as well as others considered unfit to serve in normal military units.

`` I should say it is the turning of courts of law into veritable theatres for sex dramas, involving clergymen and parishioners, psychiatrists and patients.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

There were thirty-eight patients on the bus the morning I left for Hanover, most of them disturbed and hallucinating.

It seemed incredible, as I listened to the monotonous drone of voices and smelled the fetid odors coming from the patients, that technically I was a ward of the state of Illinois, going to a hospital for the mentally ill.

It makes my work a great deal easier to be able to pray for the Lord's guidance while ministering to the physical needs of my patients.

One doctor made a careful survey of his patients and the reasons for their troubles, and he reported that 40% of them worried about things that never happened ; ;

In this randomized controlled trial, patients used nasal mupirocin twice daily 5 days a month for 1 year.

Perianal abscesses can be seen in patients with for example inflammatory bowel disease ( such as Crohn's disease ) or diabetes.

* ASA physical status classification system, a system for assessing the fitness of patients before surgery

Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.

These antigens should, under normal conditions, not be the target of the immune system, but, due to mainly genetic and environmental factors, the normal immunological tolerance for such an antigen has been lost in these patients.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.

For instance, patients with naming deficits ( anomic aphasia ) might show an inability only for naming buildings, or people, or colors.

The extracts are generally no longer used to reduce or inhibit tumor growth, for which verifiable results have been found in vitro and in animal studies but not in humans, but instead to improve the patients ' quality of life and to reduce tumor-induced symptoms and the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

ACE inhibitors have been shown to be effective for indications other than hypertension even in patients with normal blood pressure.

The use of a maximum dose of ACE inhibitors in such patients ( including for prevention of diabetic nephropathy, congestive heart failure, prophylaxis of cardiovascular events ) is justified, because it improves clinical outcomes, independent of the blood pressure-lowering effect of ACE inhibitors.

Examples are the Sushruta Samhita written in the 3rd or 4th century CE, which recommends beef for certain patients and for pregnant women, and the Charaka Samhita which describes meat as superior to all other kinds of food for convalescents.

There is a risk of a benzodiazepine withdrawal and rebound syndrome after continuous usage for longer than two weeks, and tolerance and dependence may occur if patients stay under this treatment for longer.

Noninvasive surgery using the gamma knife or other devices used in radiosurgery is currently being investigated as an alternative to traditional open surgery in patients who would otherwise qualify for anterior temporal lobectomy.

* Many patients with existing pulmonary disorders may not tolerate pneumoperitoneum ( gas in the abdominal cavity ), resulting in a need for conversion to open surgery after the initial attempt at laparoscopic approach.

The lower field strengths can be achieved with permanent magnets, which are often used in " open " MRI scanners, for claustrophobic patients.

While some open units are physically unlocked, other open units still use locked entrances and exits depending on the type of patients admitted.

Yad Sara, the only Israeli institution of its kind, provides patients and the handicapped with medical equipment ( such as wheelchairs ) on loan at no charge, and it is open to all Israelis.

However, the open technique caused greater scar tenderness during the first three months after surgery, and a longer time before the patients could return to work.

In addition, in patients without workers compensation issues, the single-incision endoscopic carpal tunnel release led to less palmar tenderness and a quicker return to work compared to the two-incision endoscopic carpal tunnel release ( Palmer DH, Paulson JC, Lane-Larsen CL, Peulen VK, Olson JD: Endoscopic carpal tunnel release: a comparison of two techniques with open release.

In addition, in patients without workers compensation issues, the single-incision endoscopic carpal tunnel release leads to less scar tenderness and a quicker return to work compared to the two-incision endoscopic carpal tunnel release < Palmer DH, Paulson JC, Lane-Larsen CL, Peulen VK, Olson JD: Endoscopic carpal tunnel release: a comparison of two techniques with open release.

The Registry supports clinical trials and genetic studies of Sjögren's Syndrome and is open to patients wishing to participate in research studies and researchers studying the disease.

Dalton pointed out that a small column, travelling in open country and burdened with carts full of hospital patients, would be easily overtaken and defeated by a numerically superior Zulu force, and so it was soon agreed that the only acceptable course was to remain and fight.

During the 1994 earthquake, the hospital remained open and treated over 1, 000 patients that came to the facility during the first few days following the 6. 7 magnitude quake.

Recovery may be a little quicker with laparoscopic surgery ; the procedure is more expensive and resource-intensive than open surgery and generally takes a little longer, with the ( low in most patients ) additional risks associated with pneumoperitoneum ( inflating the abdomen with gas ).

MRSA is especially troublesome in hospitals, prisons, schools, and nursing homes, where patients with open wounds, invasive devices, and weakened immune systems are at greater risk of infection than the general public.

If the surgery is done open instead of laparoscopically, patients may need to take a month off work.

However, part of the complex remained open until the last patients could be relocated to a new facility at Waireka Home that was still under construction.

Genetic counseling is the process by which patients or relatives, at risk of an inherited disorder, are advised of the consequences and nature of the disorder, the probability of developing or transmitting it, and the options open to them in management and family planning.

More recently, a randomized controlled trial comparing corticosteroid injection with needle release and open release of the A1 pulley reported that only 57 % of patients responded to corticosteroid injection ( defined as being free of triggering symptoms for greater than 6 months ).

In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.

In addition, PVS patients often open their eyes in response to feeding, which has to be done by others ; they are capable of swallowing, whereas patients in a coma subsist with their eyes closed ( Emmett, 1989 ).

In this review of 3. 7 million elective open surgical procedures performed on inpatients at 102 hospitals in the Netherlands during 1991 – 2005, postoperative mortality from all causes was observed in 67, 879 patients, for an overall rate of 1. 85 %.

In bygone days, the spas were frequented by European royalty and the wealthy, but in the 1980s they were open to all, including foreign tourists ( who made up 10 % of the patients in 1985 ).

Arthroscopy helped patients recover from the surgery in a matter of days, rather than the weeks to months required by conventional, ' open ' surgery.

While no treatment is risk free, the risks of interventional procedures are far lower than the risks of open surgery, and are a major advance in medicine for patients.