Example sentences of "[num] patients [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 From January 1984 to October 1991 , 480 patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding of non-variceal origin were admitted to our gastroenterology department .
2 Selection , management , and early outcome of 113 patients with symptomatic gall stone treated by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy
3 The 30 patients with normal endoscopic and histological findings had biopsy specimens taken at different levels of the oesophagus .
4 In the second series only 30 patients with variceal bleeding were considered and the treatment was not defined .
5 The past history of 540 patients with motor neurone disease in this period was compared with that of 1370 patients with multiple sclerosis ( neurological controls ) and over 240000 control patients with a variety of ther conditions .
6 The European study asked a slightly different question : whether or not a policy of immediate angioplasty was preferable to a non-invasive strategy ? " 367 patients with acute MI were treated with rt-PA thrombolytic therapy ( Table 3 ) .
7 12 patients with mild asthma .
8 Breuer et al studied 12 patients with adenomatous polyps and found no differences in faecal bile acid excretion ; the participants in this study were , however , hospitalised and a change in diet may be of relevance to their findings .
9 When followed up with serial biopsies one third of 12 patients with atrophic or superficial gastritis showed considerable increases in their mascimal acid output , which paralleled the histological improvement seen in these patients .
10 Ascending and descending colonic biopsy specimens were taken from 12 patients with longstanding quiescent ulcerative colitis who were being examined as part of a programme to screen for dysplasia/malignancy , and from 12 patients who acted as controls , who did not have ulcerative colitis .
11 Good correlation was noted between clinical classification and the expected amyload type in 15 of 16 patients ; the 12 patients with secondary amyloidosis had AA , two with multiple myeloma had AL , one with longterm haemodialysis had AH .
12 The phospholipid composition of gastric mucosa from endoscopic biopsy specimens in 28 subjects ( eight healthy controls , 12 patients with duodenal ulcer , and 8 with chronic atrophic gastritis ) was studied .
13 Serum samples were obtained from 12 patients with active coeliac disease and seven with non-active disease , and compared with serum samples of 17 children with gastrointestinal symptoms but with a small bowel normal unbiopsy examination and 33 normal controls .
14 Forty patients with advanced multiple sclerosis received either pure oxygen or a mixture of 10 per cent oxygen in nitrogen , for 90 minutes a day .
15 Forty patients with active duodenal ulcer disease and H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa were randomly assigned to receive either omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) and amoxicillin suspension ( 500 mg four times daily ) for two weeks ( group I ) or bismuth subsalicylate ( 600 mg three times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , tetracycline ( 500 mg three times daily ) , and raniditine ( 300 mg in the evening ) for two weeks ( group II ) .
16 High values of serum pepsinogen C were frequently found in all groups of patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A. In the group of subjects with raised concentrations of serum pepsinogen A , four blood transfusion donors had a mean ( SD ) serum pepsinogen C concentration of 34 ( 20 ) µg/l , 20 patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome of 73 ( 81 ) µg/l , 21 duodenal ulcer patients of 65 ( 34 ) µg/l , 43 patients with chronic renal failure of 69 ( 42 ) µg/l , and 14 patients with reflux oesophagitis on longterm omeprazole treatment of 66 ( 39 ) µg/l .
17 In subjects with hyperpepsinogenaemia A , four blood transfusion donors had a mean ( SD ) pepsinogen A:C ratio of 3.9 ( 1.9 ) , five patients with hypertrophic gastropathy of 1.2 ( 0.3 ) , 20 patients with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome of 5.9 ( 2.4 ) , 21 duodenal ulcer patients of 2.6 ( 1.3 ) , 43 patients with chronic renal failure of 4.2 ( 2.1 ) , and in 21 patients with reflux oesophagitis on longterm omeprazole treatment of 2.9 ( 1.5 ) ( see Fig 2 ) .
18 Neither of the 2 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms attributed to irritable bowel syndrome had haematological or serological abnormalities .
19 In a similar study conducted in another Dublin hospital , O'Morain et al also described high serum cholesterol values among 57 patients with adenomatous colonic polyps as well as significantly lower serum cholesterol values among 49 patients with colorectal cancer .
20 The insertion of a transjugular intrahepatic portasystemic stent shunt ( TIPSS ) was evaluated in 22 patients with recurrent upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage related to portal hypertension ( bleeding from oesophageal varices 10 , gastric varices six , portal hypertensive gastropathy six ) .
21 We report here our early experience of TIPSS in 22 patients with recurrent upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage related to portal hypertension .
22 Rectal mucosal biopsy samples were taken from 25 patients presenting with their first episode of ulcerative colitis ( new colitis ) , 20 patients with active relapse of ulcerative colitis , and 44 patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis .
23 All 44 patients with chronic type B hepatitis had pre-S1 and pre-S2 display in the liver .
24 Of 44 patients with chronic type B hepatitis without hepatitis delta virus infection , 28 were positve for hepatitis B virus-DNA in serum and HBcAg in the liver , and the remainder 16 were negative for both .
25 We also saw a significantly increased concentration 0.0110 patients with inactive disease ( average 546 ng/nl ) ( see Fig 4B ) .
26 Duodenogastric reflux ( DGR ) was investigated with a sodium ion selective electrode in 10 normal controls , 10 patients with persistent pain after gastric surgery , and five patients with gastric ulcer .
27 Of the 10 patients with indeterminate colitis — three developed pelvic sepsis one because of a leak from the pouch and six have developed some form of pouch related fistula ( p=0.01 v ulcerative colitis group ) .
28 Gastric surgery was the only treatment in 10 patients with low grade , in three patients with mixed grade , and in nine patients with high grade lymphomas .
29 In the 10 patients with definite Crohn 's colitis — pelvic sepsis developed postoperatively in three patients and all three developed postoperative pouch related fistulas .
30 Deviations from the agreed procedure occurred in 10 patients with abdominal and 24 with thoracic CTs .
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