71. In addition, the group proposed adjusting the criteria for determining how urgently patients need livers and it encouraged local regions to share organs among themselves. 72. In addition to therapy, patients sometimes need medication. 73. In addition, she told him, cancer patients needed far more nourishment than they could get from a diet of carrot juice, herbs and vitamins. 74. In another case, the surgery caused an abnormal heart rhythm and the patient needed a procedure to destroy damaged nerve fibers that were disrupting his heartbeat. 75. In the clinical trials, most patients needed retreatment, some as often as every three months. 76. In the meantime, however, they stress that FAP patients will still need surgery. 77. Increasingly, though, doctors avoid vein stripping, in part to save the saphenous vein in case patients need it later for a heart bypass. 78. In those cases, the patients needed to have a tube inserted down their throats to breathe. 79. Instead of receiving two injections a week, patients need to receive a single DepoCyt injection only every two weeks. 80. Instead of receiving two injections a week or more with other drugs, patients need to receive a single DepoCyt injection only every two weeks. |