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follow

verb To maintain clinical surveillance on a patient.

follow

verb To maintain clinical surveillance on a Pt

Patient discussion about follow

Q. What pattern of heredity does diabetes follow? I know that baldness comes from your mother's father. How does diabetes travel through generations?

A. Ninety percent of children who develop type 1 diabetes actually have no relative with the disease. But it’s an auto immune disease. That means that some people are in risk of getting diabetes type 1. Depends on the immune system they inherited. It’s not “recessive” or “dominant”, if your parent has type 1 – you have a 25% chance of getting the risk factor.

Q. is anyone following a diet for gastroparesis? i developed a bezoar in the stomach, as a result of gastroparesis and it caused internal bleeding, was wondering of anyone else has or knows someone who has had a similar experience

A. brandon

well i had vegus nerve severed also many years ago (forty or so) never gave me trble till recently everything seems ok rite now, but i think it may br an ongoing thing

thanks

Q. What specific symptoms should we follow for an autism child? What specific symptoms should we follow for an autism child if he is facing any problem with language learning?

A. Look out for the symptoms such as 1) if he/she talks later to other children of same age 2) if he/she speaks well and soon had lost on the previous known words 3) he/she does not make eye contact while talking 4) speaks with an abnormal tone 6) he/she is not be able to start the talk and even can’t continue it and generally lacks with words and thus repeats same words. Look for these symptoms as these symptoms are connected to communication of the child with autism.

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Twice he had seen it from his window, by the light of the moon and had risen and followed the strange apparition.

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Coiling the rope that had carried me thus far upon my strange journey, I sought for the other end, but found that as I followed it forward it extended always before me.

I had followed it for several hundred yards when I felt a knot beneath my fingers.

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So he went to the tunnel and said to his army: 'March home!' At once the Nomes turned and marched back through the tunnel, and the King followed after them, laughing with delight to find his orders so readily obeyed.

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we are in the forbidden chamber." Simultaneously there came from behind the hangings beyond the grewsome dead a hollow moan followed by a piercing scream, and the hangings shook and bellied before their eyes.

At sight of them the warriors who had remained with the jeddak leaped to their feet with drawn swords, thinking that their fellows were pursued by many enemies; but no one followed them into the room, and the three chieftains came and stood before O-Tar with bowed heads and trembling knees.

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All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna Mikhaylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, hanging his head, meekly followed her.

The eldest princess followed him, and the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door.

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We were each attached to a party sent out by the general's orders to prevent the plunder and confusion which followed our conquest.

Before I could stir in the matter, the men who had followed me across the courtyard crowded in.

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The reader cannot but have recognized in Jacob our old friend, or rather enemy, Isaac Boxtel, and has guessed, no doubt, that this worthy had followed from the Buytenhof to Loewestein the object of his love and the object of his hatred, -- the black tulip and Cornelius van Baerle.

Only as this time he followed her in the night, and bare-footed, he was neither seen nor heard except once, when Rosa thought she saw something like a shadow on the staircase.