Incurable Patients
Mostrando 13-24 de 38 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Vivendo com Fibrose Cística: a experiência da doença no contexto familiar / Living with Cystic Fibrosis: the disease experience in the familiar context.
Cystic Fibrosis, also known as Mucoviscidosis, is a chronic disease of autosomal recessive origin and so far incurable. The present study aimed to understand the experience of Cystic Fibrosis in the familiar context of children carriers. The subjects of the study are children with Cystic Fibrosis under follow-up at a university hospital from an interior city
Publicado em: 2008
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14. Esclerose múltipla: aspectos psicológicos da doença / Multiple sclerosis: psychological aspects of the disease.
Multiple sclerosis is an incurable, chronic and progressive neurological disease. Its cause is still unknown. The disease affects multiple organs and it can result in irreversible consequences. The objective of this study is to investigate psychological aspects of the multiple sclerosis in patients receiving treatment at Center of Diagnosis and Treatment of
Publicado em: 2005
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15. Avaliação da aderencia a fisioterapia respiratoria dos pacientes com fibrose cistica acompanhados no hospital de clinicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Cystic fibrosis (CF) remains an incurable life limiting condition which is the most common inherited lethal condition in most Western countries. Advances in the care of this condition, particularly advances in respiratory management, have seen the focus of treatment Chest physiotherapy (CPT) has been an important part of CF treatment regimens for over 40 yea
Publicado em: 2004
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16. Irinotecan and oxaliplatin: an overview of the novel chemotherapeutic options for the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies in humans and an important cause of cancer death. Metastatic colorectal cancer remains incurable with available systemic therapeutic options. The most active cytotoxic drug against this malignancy, the antimetabolite 5-fluorouracil, was developed more than forty years ago, and as a single agent produ
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 2001-09
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17. Effectiveness of home care programmes for patients with incurable cancer on their quality of life and time spent in hospital: systematic review
Objective: To investigate whether for patients with incurable cancer comprehensive home care programmes are more effective than standard care in maintaining the patients’ quality of life and reducing their “readmission time” (percentage of days spent in hospital from start of care till death).
British Medical Journal.
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18. The needs of patients with advanced, incurable cancer
Nature Publishing Group.
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19. Chemotherapy for cancer patients who present late
Doctors should not overlook the potential benefits of chemotherapy in patients with incurable cancer
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd..
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20. Experimental studies designed to evaluate the management of patients with incurable cancer.
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21. Experimental studies designed to evaluate the management of patients with incurable cancer.
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22. Effective long-term palliation of symptomatic, incurable metastatic medullary thyroid cancer by operative resection.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short- and long-term consequences of palliative reresection of specific symptomatic lesions in patients with widely disseminated (incurable) medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Although reoperative neck microdissections can normalize calcitonin levels in patients with metastatic MTC confined to regional lymph n
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23. Managing malignant pericardial effusion.
The involvement of the pericardium by metastatic tumors is not uncommon, particularly in patients with lung cancer, breast cancer, lymphomas, leukemias, and melanomas. There are five therapeutic modalities for the treatment of malignant pericardial effusion, including pericardiocentesis, pericardial sclerosis, systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgica
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24. Long term survival in a patient with variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease treated with intraventricular pentosan polysulphate
Variant Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease (vCJD) is a neurodegenerative disease that principally affects young people and has a median duration of illness of 13 (range 6–39) months. vCJD is incurable and there are currently no treatments that conclusively slow the rate of disease progression. However, recent animal studies and isolated case reports have suggeste
BMJ Group.