(1) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
(2) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(3) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
(4) Eleven had hematological disorders, and 12 received steroids (sometimes with immunosuppressive or cytotoxic drugs).
(5) These cycles of treatment were repeated as soon as the hematologic restoration was complete.
(6) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
(7) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
(8) To exclude influences other than time on the outcome of the reactions, all the material was taken from hematologically normal persons.
(9) It is of advantage for the staff of the enlarged blood bank to perform some degree of clinical activity, to facilitate discussion of clinical and technical problems relating to hematological disorders in general.
(10) We evaluated clinical effects and toxicities of a combination treatment with cefminox (CMNX) and fosfomycin (FOM) for infections complicated with hematological disorders in 56 patients.
(11) A study was conducted in a sample of 140 children with sickle cell anemia to evaluate the relationship between hematological variables (%HbF, %HbA2, %Hb, and mean cell volume) and disease severity.
(12) Adverse hematologic effects which could be attributed to splenectomy in these patients were confined to two patients who developed marked thrombocytosis.
(13) Despite the presence of splenic myeloid metaplasia, splenectomy did not impair the patient's hematologic status.
(14) Hematologic indices in wolves older than 24 weeks were comparable to those of the adult domestic dog; however, PCV, hemoglobin concentration, and RBC counts were higher.
(15) Such properties, as assessed by the H*1 hematology analyzer, are very useful in distinguishing these two common types of microcytic anemia.
(16) A non-randomized study was carried out in the Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, to investigate the (hematologic) toxicity and antitumor response of patients with advanced breast cancer treated with intensive chemotherapy in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
(17) In contrast to the generally grave clinical manifestations of the patients described in previous publications documenting erythrophagocytosis, this patient lacked a concomitant hematologic deterioration or serious systemic illness.
(18) Hematological side effects of neuroleptic drugs occur infrequently but remain a potential cause of serious toxicity.
(19) Hematologic toxicity was comparable in both treatment arms, with 80% of patients experiencing grade 3 or 4 neutropenia or thrombocytopenia.
(20) The diagnosis has usually been made only at autopsy, and early surgical intervention has often been withheld because of the patient's precarious hematological status.
Hepatology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiological examination and complete hepatological exploration were carried out before and after the treatment in all cases.
(2) The aim of this study was to describe and to evaluate the publications of the last 30 years devoted to computer-aided decision support in clinical hepatology.
(3) Recent progress in hepatology has provided better knowledge in etiology and pathophysiology of hepatic dysfunction and its sequelae.
(4) The program uses a hierarchical list of current (key) topics in hepatology to offer "intelligent" searches.
(5) An expert system for medical decision making in hepatology has been developed with the aim of assisting medical education.
(6) With respect to their knowledge representation, CADIAG-1 has obvious advantages in totally ill-defined areas such as syndromes in internal medicine, whereas CADIAG-2 seems more suited for domains with basic laboratory programs, e.g., hepatology or gall bladder and bile duct diseases.
(7) 45 data had been studied (clinical results, paraclinical data concerning hepatological diagnostic and connective tissue metabolism and morphologic data).
(8) We previously reported that high-dose ursodeoxycholate (UDC) infusion in rats resulted in extensive glucuronidation of UDC, and speculated that the glucuronidation causes bicarbonate-rich hypercholeresis induced by UDC (Takikawa, H., Sano, N., Narita, T. and Yamanaka, M. Hepatology 1990; 11: 743-749).
(9) An epidemiological survey of patients in the Warsaw Clinic of Infectious Hepatology, the Polish National Center of AIDS Control, has been made.
(10) Inspection of the partial amino acid sequence of an unidentified mitochondrial autoantigen (Muno, Kominami, Ishii, Usui, Saituku, Sakakibara & Namihisa, Hepatology 1990; 11, 16-23) shows that it is the E1 beta-subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, previously identified as a major autoantigen, and not a 'new' alternative major autoantigen.
(11) A study from five hepatology units documenting 157 cases of drug-induced hepatitis and a second study from a laboratory of immunology which tested more than 100,000 sera permitted us to establish the frequency of antiorganelle antibodies and their diagnostic value in drug-induced hepatitis.
(12) Based upon these findings, it can be concluded that liver biopsy remains an indispensable diagnostic procedure in the field of hepatology, since it can result in modification of the clinician's diagnosis in one out of five cases.
(13) In a survey the trend of the biochemical investigations in hepatology is analysed.
(14) In this paper we describe LIED (Liver: Information, Education and Diagnosis), a diagnostic expert system devoted to medical education in the field of hepatology.
(15) Information was gathered on recognition and treatment of alcohol problems in the primary and secondary health sectors, the latter represented by a department of hepatology.
(16) Basic therapy of more complicated causes includes well balanced nutrition and symptomatic treatment according to the known principles of hepatology and intensive care medicine.
(17) For the manual search, the contents of 34 arbitrarily selected, gastroenterologic, hepatologic, surgical, or general journals were perused.
(19) CADIAG-1 and CADIAG-2 are medical expert systems with applications in rheumatology, gastroenterology, and hepatology.
(20) This is an overview about the work of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Gastroenterology, Moscow, with special attention of hepatology.