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abstract：INTRODUCTION:Graves' hyperthyroidism is associated with significant morbidity and mortality risk. The thionamides, methimazole, its pro-drug derivative carbimazole, and propylthiouracil, remain a cornerstone of management. Yet despite decades of use, optimal strategies for maximising treatment response and curtailing a...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Okosieme OE,Lazarus JH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) is the primary viral cause of respiratory diseases, leading to bronchiolitis and pneumonia in vulnerable populations. The only current treatment against this virus is palliative, and no efficient and specific vaccine against this pathogen is available. AREAS COVERE...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Kalergis AM,Soto JA,Gálvez NMS,Andrade CA,Fernandez A,Bohmwald K,Bueno SM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With emphasis on the pulmonary circulation, three general types of vascular disease are discussed: fibroproliferative (atherosclerosis), cellular proliferative (endothelial neoplasms) and inflammatory (granulomatous vasculitis). The causes of these phenotypic responses are invariably multifactorial, but infectious age...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Egermayer P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While antibiotic resistance has grabbed the headlines and the attention of the pharmaceutical industry, the lack of susceptibility of biofilms formed both on animate and inanimate surfaces deserve greater attention from the industry, medical practitioners and regulators. The current literature tells us that the inhere...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Ceri H,Olson ME,Turner RJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a major cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Although advanced NSCLC is still incurable, various anti-neoplastic agents have become available for the treatment of this disease. Pemetrexed , a multi-target folate antagonist, has improved the survival of non-squamous...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Genova C,Rijavec E,Truini A,Coco S,Sini C,Barletta G,Dal Bello MG,Alama A,Savarino G,Pronzato P,Boccardo F,Grossi F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Clostridium difficile has become the most important healthcare-associated infection worldwide within the past decade. This is in part due to the emergence of a highly virulent epidemic strain of C. difficile as well as the relative ineffectiveness of current therapies at producing a sustained response. Fid...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Hostler CJ,Chen LF

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overweight, obesity and the metabolic syndrome occur in genetically susceptible individuals with environmental influences, and may be further compounded by other disorders of metabolism or pharmacological therapy that increase insulin resistance or promotes weight gain. Treatment of the metabolic syndrome should focus...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Stone NJ,Schmeltz LR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almotriptan is a serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5HT)(1B/1D)-receptor agonist approved for the acute treatment of migraine. In 3500 acute migraine patients enrolled in short-term trials and 1500 patients in long-term open-label trials, almotriptan 12.5 mg was effective and well-tolerated. Almotriptan maintains a consi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Dodick DW

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Increasing population age, obesity and physical inactivity mean that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasingly common. Current treatments may be limited by adverse events, drug-drug interactions or contraindication/need for dose adjustment in patients with renal impairment. AREAS COVERED:This paper ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Forst T,Pfützner A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Despite the availability of many antihypreglycemic agents, many patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) fail to achieve the glycemic treatment goal, primarily due to progressive beta-cell dysfunction, and increased risk of hypoglycemia. AREAS COVERED:The aim of the present article is to review the efficacy a...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Abdul-Ghani MA,DeFronzo RA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injectable and absorbable contrast media for the use in radiology, all of which contains iodine as an essential component, has been, and continues to be, one of the main sources of agents which cause hospital-acquired renal failure. Although numerous methods have been explored to prevent renal contrast damage, radioco...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Mintz EP,Gruberg L

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CrD) is characterised by an ongoing inflammatory response in the gut, in the absence of an obvious trigger. The treatment of CrD in children, during relapse and remission, requires special consideration of growth and development. This review addresses the use of present medical management strategies, ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Bremner AR,Beattie RM

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Metastatic prostate cancer is an incurable disease that is treated with a variety of hormonal therapies targeting various nodes of the androgen receptor (AR) pathway. Invariably patients develop resistance and become castration resistant. Common treatments for castration-resistant disease include novel hor...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Maughan BL,Antonarakis ES

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) is the gold standard initial diagnostic intervention for bladder cancer and provides diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic benefit in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). However, TURBT alone is inadequate for optimal management of NMIBC, as patients...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Patel SG,Cohen A,Weiner AB,Steinberg GD

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonorrhea remains an important clinical and public health problem throughout the world. Gonococcal infections have historically been diagnosed by Gram stain and culture but are increasingly diagnosed through nucleic acid tests, thereby eliminating the opportunity for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Gonococcal in...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Barry PM,Klausner JD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) fail to achieve the desired A1c goal because the antidiabetic medications used do not correct the underlying pathophysiologic abnormalities and monotherapy is not sufficiently potent to reduce the A1c to the 6.5 - 7.0% range. Insulin resistance and islet (...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Triplitt C,Solis-Herrera C,Cersosimo E,Abdul-Ghani M,Defronzo RA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease is thought to be caused by increased formations of neurotoxic amyloid beta (A beta) peptides, which give rise to the hallmark amyloid plaques. Therefore, pharmacological agents that reduce A beta formation may be of therapeutic benefit. OBJECTIVE:This paper reviews the pharmacology and c...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Henley DB,May PC,Dean RA,Siemers ER

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The global epidemic of diabetes has led to an epidemic of diabetes complications. Diabetic neuropathy is the most common microvascular complication, of which diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and autonomic neuropathy (AN) are the most prevalent, affecting ~50% of patients. DPN results in pain with a poo...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Azmi S,Alam U,Burgess J,Malik RA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an increase in the incidence and prevalence of gout in the past several decades. A distinction needs to be made between the treatment of gout as an acute inflammatory disease and the lowering of the serum urate (SU) levels into a normal range. Treating acute gout attacks alone is not sufficient to preve...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Schlesinger N,Dalbeth N,Perez-Ruiz F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Varicella zoster virus is a highly contagious virus that causes a primary infection known as varicella (chickenpox) that may reactivate years later to cause herpes zoster (HZ or shingles). After shingles heal, patients may develop post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), neuropathic pain syndrome that can cause sign...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Kim SR,Khan F,Ramirez-Fort MK,Downing C,Tyring SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Malaria in pregnancy continues to be a significant public health burden globally, with over 100 million women at risk each year. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is the only antimalarial recommended for intermittent preventive therapy in pregnancy (IPTp) but increasing parasite resistance threatens its viabi...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Moore BR,Davis TME

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sitagliptin is a highly selective oral dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor. This drug increases the plasma concentration of active glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide. These two hormones then simulate the secretion of insulin in a glucose-dependent manner and inhibit glu...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Gagliardino JJ,Santoro S,Arellano S,Di Girolamo G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common high grade primary brain tumor in adults. Despite significant advances in treatment, the prognosis remains poor. Bevacizumab (BVZ) and irinotecan (CPT-11) are currently being investigated in the treatment of GBM patients. Although treatment with BVZ and irin...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Jakobsen JN,Hasselbalch B,Stockhausen MT,Lassen U,Poulsen HS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Prostate cancer is a common cancer and the role of adjuvant medical therapy continues to be investigated. An understanding of the use of adjuvant medical therapy is essential for the appropriate care of prostate cancer patients, especially for those with locally advanced or high-risk disease. A...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Sumey C,Flaig TW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the treatment response, tolerability and safety of once-monthly paliperidone palmitate (PP1M) in non-acute patients switched from oral antipsychotics, stratified by time since diagnosis as recently diagnosed (≤3 years) or chronic patients (>3 years). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:Post hoc analysis o...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Hargarter L,Bergmans P,Cherubin P,Keim S,Conca A,Serrano-Blanco A,Bitter I,Bilanakis N,Schreiner A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Complicated intraabdominal infections (cIAIs) are a common cause of infection-related morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients and present many challenges unique from other serious infections. cIAIs are generally polymicrobial in nature; however, controversy exists around the pathogenicity of some ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Skrupky LP,Tellor BR,Mazuski JE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) represents a paradigm of therapeutic success in clinical hematology. Since the introduction of all-trans-retinoic-acid in the early 1980s, complete remission rates exceed 90% and the cure rate is > 70%. Notwithstanding, various questions concerning the manageme...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Ferrara F

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related epileptic comorbidity is now well documented and appears to have been previously underestimated. Prescribing antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in AD patients aims at preventing seizure-related morbi-mortality and the occurrence of deleterious status epilepticus. At the earlier sta...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Cretin B

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is the least common but the most aggressive of the classic Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms. Survival is much shorter in PMF than in polycythemia vera (PV) or essential thrombocythemia (ET). Post-PV/ET myelofibrosis (MF) is clinically indistinguishab...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Bose P,Verstovsek S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists have traditionally been used in the treatment of hypertension but in recent years they have become increasingly common in the treatment of benign prostatic enlargement (BPE), where they reduce the 'dynamic' component of bladder outlet obstruction and appear to have additional actions to ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy

authors： Chess-Williams R

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00