Neither persistent elevation in urinary VMA/HVA with stable disease nor an increase in VMA/HVA without clinical or radiographic evidence of progression indicate progressive disease, but does warrant continued follow-up.
This could be caused by a process in the mother which causes persistent elevation of fetal hemoglobin, e.g. sickle cell trait.
The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells, while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP.
Transient or persistent elevations in serum aminotransferase levels might occur before loss of HBeAg, on discontinuation of anti-HBV therapy, and in association with emergence of HBV drug resistance.
Subcellular findings in murine studies with induced T. cruzi infection revealved that the chronic state is associated with the persistent elevation of phosphorylated (activated) extracellular-signal-regulated kinase (ERK), AP-1, and NF-κB.
Progressive adrenal hyperplasia due to persistent elevation of ACTH results in extreme overproduction of 11-deoxycorticosterone (DOC) by mid-childhood.
Heart rate is greater than 2 standard deviations above normal for age in the absence of stimuli such as pain and drug administration, or unexplained persistent elevation for greater than 30 minutes to 4 hours.
Persistent disease; persistent GTD: If there is any evidence of persistence of GTD, usually defined as persistent elevation of beta hCG (see "Diagnosis" below), the condition may also be referred to as gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN).
It is approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in adults with evidence of active viral replication and either evidence of persistent elevations in serum aminotransferases (primarily ALT) or histologically active disease.
Complications of hypertension are clinical outcomes that result from persistent elevation of blood pressure.