(n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
(n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(3) Pheochromocytoma may present without the typical features of paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, headache, increased sweating, and palpitations.
(4) The patients who had little or no paroxysmal activity during sleep were the youngest.
(5) Following a midcollicular transection the paroxysmal bulbar activity abruptly disappeared.
(6) We speculate that this paroxysmal activity is a type of seizure discharge.
(7) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
(8) The first patient had paroxysmal headaches from an arteriovenous malformation which resolved following embolization.
(9) A diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria may be suggested with magnetic resonance imaging, based on the massive renal cortical hemosiderosis that occurs in this disease.
(10) In all patients, the nystagmus elicited during the paroxysm was compatible with excitation of the posterior semicircular canal.
(11) The administration of vitamin E, a natural antioxidant, to a patient with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) failed to diminish the urinary excretion of 59-Fe as monitored by 59-Fe whole body counting and urinary loss of isotope.
(12) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
(13) A 16 year old white female presented with paroxysmal cough and hemoptysis of recent onset.
(14) The effectiveness and electrophysiologic mechanisms of antiarrhythmic effect of digoxin were examined in 27 patients with paroxysmal atrioventricular nodal reciprocal tachycardia (PAVNRT) and supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) due to latent complementary conductive pathways, i. e. latent Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome.
(15) It thus appears that paroxysmal, vagally mediated complete AV block should be seriously considered in patients with unexplained syncope.
(16) In 13 cases of infantile spasms whose EEG showed hypasrhythmia, paroxysmal discharges were completely or remarkably suppressed in 4 cases, partially suppressed in 3 cases, but not improved in 6 cases.
(17) The majority were abnormal, and those from patients with intracranial pathology often showed asymmetry of delta activity and paroxysmal discharges.
(18) We report on 2 patients with a history of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia in whom 2:1 AV block with persistence of the arrhythmia was documented.
(19) Because of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and fatigue, the patient underwent investigation.
(20) Both paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and left ventricular dysfunction were reversed with administration of digoxin and propranolol hydrochloride.
Recurrent
Definition:
(a.) Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.
(a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(2) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
(3) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(4) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
(5) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(6) There were two recurrent P. (1 Tbc, 1 viral) and no recurrent constriction.
(7) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(8) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(9) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
(10) The group consisted of 34 primary diseases and 7 recurrences.
(11) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(12) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
(13) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(14) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(15) We report a case of chronic recurrent polymyositis associated with increasing antibody titers of coxsackievirus A9 in serum during clinical exacerbations.
(16) Among patients in whom the neuroma had been operated on once previously (first recurrence group), 88% achieved good to excellent pain relief with the technique described in this article.
(17) Effective medical or surgical therapy increased DAO activity and decreased CDAI, while clinical recurrence had the opposite effect.
(18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(19) A return of high-frequency sensitivity accompanied the recurrence of pain in some patients who had been injected up to 13 years prior to testing.
(20) Six cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia fulfilled the following criteria: 1) more than a two-month history of symptoms prior to diagnosis, 2) a prolonged clinical course and 3) recurrence.