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In medical and forensic science, a presumptive test is an analysis of a sample which establishes either: •The sample is definitely not a certain substance •The sample probably is the substance. ...
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; Synonyms of presumptive diagnosis ... Diagnosis made solely on the basis of symptoms, without the use of specific diagnostictests. ... Scientific Glossary for Nurses and Clinical Researchers;
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The study of the clinical pathology of rinderpest has been neglected and its potential role in aiding the formulation of a presumptive diagnosis by the clinician has been largely ignored. Both the haematological and biochemical changes are characteristic, although not pathognomonic.
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the adequacy of criteria used for presumptive diagnosis of Neurotoxoplasmosis (NT). METHODS: Review of medical records of all patients with a presumptive diagnosis of cerebral toxoplasmosis seen in a tertiary hospital in R.J., Brazil.
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May 30, 2003 — Many patients with presumptive diagnoses of peptic ulcer disease (PUD) who are receiving chronic acid suppression have neither PUD nor Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, according to the results of an open-label, randomized trial published in the May 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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It is suggested that some of those in the sputum were from nocardias and that their appearance in sputum, as seen from the Gram-stained slide, when combined with clinical symptoms can serve for a presumptive diagnosis of pulmonary nocardiosis pending a more definitive identification by a specialized laboratory...
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Diagnoses were established by brain biopsy or autopsy, except for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis, which was made by both clinical and radiographic response to two weeks of anti-toxoplasma therapy.
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Introduction: The aim of this open label prospective study was to assess the efficacy and tolerance of cotrimoxazole (CTX) for treatment of acute toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE). ... METHODS: Presumptive diagnosis of TE was defined as the association of two out of four criteria: 1) HIV infection;
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Nosocomial Pneumonia - A working definition of nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is that of a new pulmonary infiltrate that occurs after one week of hospitalization and that resembles a bacterial pneumonia on the chest radiograph. ... The presumptive diagnosis of NP is clinical and based on nonspecific findings; therefore,
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Urinary Tract Infection, Female - Urinary tract infection (UTI) is defined as significant bacteriuria in the presence of symptoms. This common clinical entity accounts for a significant number of emergency department (ED) visits. ... Excerpt from Urinary Tract Infection, Female ... ; Synonyms, Key Words, and Related Terms:
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