Patient is a 43-year-old man with a history of end-stage renal disease, status post cadaveric renal transplant in ___. Patient had multiple episodes of increased (sl corrented) and rejection and had been treated with steroids in the past.
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When a patient is pregnant, she undergoes important alterations in acid-based, electrolyte, and renal function due to pregnancy-associated physiologic changes in renal and systemic hemodynamics. That means she might be susceptible to conditions such as albuminuria, nephropathy, uremia, and gestational proteinuria, Your inputs on it? ...
Nothing in BOS, at least that I could find. Couldn't find anything on Loma Linda University site. Don't recognize the Google hits for arabic. Anyone know? Thanks. ...
Patient has Kohler's disease of the right foot. Whether this is s/l(stone na claps) stage or on into the healing stage, it is difficult to ascertain at this point.
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Clinical stage IIB (T1cN1aM0), ER/PR negative, HER2/neu negative invasive poorly differentiated ductal carcinoma of the right breast. Status post radical mastectomy with the finding of "ypT0ypN1ayp stage IIA" disease. WHAT?? ...
Is stage capitalized or not as a general rule? What about as it pertains to renal? And do we now use arabic or roman numerals? - perplexed! Thanks for your help!! ...
Some "re" words seem to be pretty well used, such as "readmission" not "re-admission" or "replaced" not "re-placed" but how do you tell when to add the hyphen? I've come across "reexploration" and it doesn't seem right without the hyphen, but I can't find any references that support it either with the hyphen or without. ...
Thought it was cross-fused renal ectopia (with hyphen?) but when searching I see a ton of references to crossed fused renal ectopia. Anyone with a reliable source to verify or can you explain why one versus the other? Thanks! ...
The other day the doc dictated "stage IV, baseline 3.5". Since BOS states to use roman numerals with stages, how would you transcribe the 3.5? The above is exactly what I transcribed but don't know if it is correct. ...
QA corrected my kidney disease stage 3, to III. on a more recent report, they corrected my stage III to 3. what the heck? i have on my notes that grade is 1,2,3, and stage I, II, III. anyone in the know? what is up with QA?????
wish they would get it together and at least try to be consistent. ...
The sentence is " Two and a half years ago she had knee replacement."
Should the two and a half be hyphenated? I never know how to write that.
Or, should I rearrange the sentence to " She has knee replacement 2.5 years ago." ...
Sorry don't see a grammar board to post this on at the moment, so posting here. How would you transcribe the bolded phrase?
"She does have a small central tear which, again, is likely from an acute on chronic-type/acute-on-chronic-type? injury from work."
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What is the proper way to hypenate non-weight-bearing? I have found it several ways, just started working for a new company and their dictionary spell check has no hypens at all in it...I sooooo hate hyphens.
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