Disease relevance of Terminally Ill

• Nitrous oxide analgesia for refractory pain in the terminally ill [1].
• During their second year of life, all HOX11 transgenic mice became terminally ill with more than 75% developing large cell lymphomas in the spleen, which frequently disseminated to thymus, lymph nodes, and other nonhematopoietic tissues [2].
• Effect of nebulized furosemide in terminally ill cancer patients with dyspnea [3].
• The levels of spi 2 mRNA were increased during the course of scrapie prior to the onset of clinical signs of the disease and the increase reached 11 to 45 fold relative to uninfected controls in terminally ill mice [4].
• The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of octreotide in the management of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, secondary to bowel obstruction in terminally ill cancerpatients, when surgery was inappropriate [5].

Psychiatry related information on Terminally Ill

• In essence, Buchanan rejects Annas's argument that, taken together, the Saikewicz opinion and the Quinlan opinion of the Supreme Court of New Jersey delineate a proper division of medical and legal decision-making responsibility concerning terminally ill incompetents [6].

High impact information on Terminally Ill

• On the other hand, prolongation of pain and suffering for the terminally ill cancer patient is obviously not an indication for TPN [7].
• We conclude that Medicare's PPS resulted in the increased transfer of terminally ill patients from hospitals to nursing homes [8].
• Law-medicine notes. Laetrile for the terminally ill: Supreme Court stops the nonsense [9].
• OBJECTIVE--To determine the frequency of symptoms of hunger and thirst in a group of terminally ill patients and determine whether these symptoms could be palliated without forced feeding, forced hydration, or parenteral alimentation [10].
• Withholding of life-sustaining treatment from the terminally ill, incompetent patient: who decides? Part II [11].

Chemical compound and disease context of Terminally Ill

• An aqueous suspension of n-butyl-p-aminobenzoate (BAB), a highly lipid-soluble congener of benzocaine, was applied epidurally in terminally ill cancer patients with intractable pain [12].
• Torsades de pointes caused by a small dose of risperidone in a terminally ill cancer patient [13].
• Therefore, lactulose appeared to be a useful treatment for constipation in the terminally ill patient [14].

Biological context of Terminally Ill

• The only acyclovir patient who reactivated HSV was terminally ill, and it is highly likely that she did not absorb a sufficient amount of the orally administered drug to control infection [15].
• Radiation protection consequences of the care of a terminally ill patient having received a thyroid ablation dose of 131I-sodium iodide [16].

Anatomical context of Terminally Ill

• Donor germ cells were harvested from the testes of terminally ill leukemic rats and were either used directly or cryopreserved and thawed before transplantation by rete testis microinjection [17].
• We report post-mortem CNS histopathological changes of subpial spinal cord vacuolation in a terminally ill cancer patient who received continuous infusion intrathecal ketamine at a rate of 5 mg/day for a duration of 3 weeks [18].

Associations of Terminally Ill with chemical compounds

• Assessing and managing depression in the terminally ill patient. ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel. American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine [19].
• Three acute high-dose animals received 2.0 mg methylmercury for 17 to 18 days, when they became terminally ill [20].
• Pirfenidone, a new, investigational antifibrotic agent, was evaluated for its tolerability and usefulness in terminally ill patients with advanced IPF [21].
• In a terminally ill patient given 30 mg/d for 361 d, plasma and tissue (x+/-SD) RRR-rac ratios (and % deuterated alpha-tocopherol) at autopsy were 2.06 (6.3%) and 1.71+/-0.24 (5.9+/-2.2%), respectively [22].
• In terminally ill mice, there was also a 2.5-fold increase in both total ubiquinone and its reduced form [23].

Gene context of Terminally Ill

• This occurred despite the accumulation of extraneuronal PrPSc to levels seen in terminally ill wild-type animals [24].
• Intrathecal somatostatin in terminally ill patients. A report of two cases [25].
• Although elevated serum S100 beta levels were consistently observed in terminally ill animals for both routes of infection, the experiments failed to detect significantly increased S100 beta serum concentrations prior to the manifestation of clinical symptoms [26].
• The relationship between vitamin B12 levels and survival was studied in a group of 161 terminally ill cancer patients who were recruited consecutively between 1988 and 1989 [27].
• In contrast, plasma IL-6 was detectable from days 4 to 9 and was detectable in colonic tissue in only a few (two of four) terminally ill animals on day 9 [28].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Terminally Ill

• The evidence suggests an alternative formulation, namely, that unrequested nutritional support provided by either the enteral or parenteral route to a terminally ill patient may be both medically and ethically indefensible because it may increase suffering without improving outcome [29].
• Concentrations of blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, phosphorus, and calcium in the terminally ill mice were significantly elevated when compared with those of healthy animals [30].
• To explore the association between midazolam dose for symptom palliation and the administration period, a retrospective study was performed on 62 terminally ill cancer patients who required parenteral midazolam in the final three days of life [31].
• Total parenteral nutrition for a terminally ill patient [32]?

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