Current treatment options and safety considerations when treating adult-onset Still's disease.

abstract：:The objective of this review is to describe psychiatric adverse events occurring after ingestion of dietary supplements containing herbal ephedra and to assess the possible relationship between supplement use and the events. The authors reviewed all adverse event reports related to dietary supplements containing herba...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Maglione M,Miotto K,Iguchi M,Hilton L,Shekelle P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Oral antidiabetic medications are important in many type 2 diabetes care plans. AREAS COVERED:The article summarizes the cardiovascular and renal safety data for DPP-4 inhibitors and SGLT-2 inhibitors and specific safety data particular to each class. EXPERT OPINION:DPP-4 and SGLT-2 inhibitors provide un...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Lamos EM,Hedrington M,Davis SN

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cardiac injury is one of the most impairing side effects of anticancer treatment. The extension of the range of available drugs, the use of combination regimens and the association with radiation therapy have improved life expectancy; however, they have also caused a rising typology of cardiac toxicities, ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Minoia C,Giannoccaro M,Iacobazzi A,Santini D,Silvestris N,Fioretti A,Oliva S,Guarini A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Paliperidone, the major active metabolite of risperidone, is a second-generation antipsychotic that has been developed as an extended-release (ER) oral formulation and a long-acting injectable paliperidone palmitate (PP) formulation. Paliperidone has demonstrated efficacy in the reduction of acute schizoph...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Mauri MC,Reggiori A,Paletta S,Di Pace C,Altamura AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to investigate the ADR reports of drugs with a monitoring registry (MR drugs), in particular those related to abuse/misuse, medication error, overdose, which might indicate an unsafe use. We compared these reports with those of similar drugs without a registry (non-MR drugs), thus verifying wheth...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Magro L,Arzenton E,Moretti U,Sottosanti L,Potenza S,Leone R

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pain management has become a widely discussed topic throughout all medical subspecialties. Although pediatric pain management has evolved significantly in its recent history, there is continued interest in the adequacy of pain treatment, both in the acute inpatient setting as well as the postoperative and ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Martin DP,Bhalla T,Beltran R,Veneziano G,Tobias JD

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are considered at higher risk of influenza-related complications and are listed worldwide among the subjects for whom yearly influenza vaccination is strongly recommended. However, influenza vaccination coverage of patients with ESRD is significantly lower than ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Principi N,Esposito S,ESCMID Vaccine Study Group (EVASG).

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosis in Alzheimer's disease is common and troublesome. The impact on the quality of life of both patients and caregivers is high and drug treatments raise concern in terms of both efficacy and safety. Therefore, identifying the risk factors that play an important role in the onset of psychosis is mandatory for th...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Cancelli I,Beltrame M,D'Anna L,Gigli GL,Valente M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many commonly used drugs have primary or secondary anticholinergic effects contributing to adverse outcomes ranging from mild-to-severe to potentially lethal. Anticholinergic adverse effects frequently occur with medications prescribed with other intended mechanisms of action, including antihistamines, ant...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Gerretsen P,Pollock BG

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This meeting was convened to encourage the incorporation of empirical and mechanism-based pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modelling into safety pharmacology to improve the predictability of nonclinical investigations for human outcomes. These technologies make use of mathematical expressions relating measured ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Cavero I

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hyperhidrosis affects 4.8% of the U.S. population and has been underestimated by physicians for long time despite considerable interference with quality of life. Many patients suffer from primary (idiopathic) hyperhidrosis which results from over-activity of sympathetic nerves and is restricted to specific...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Hosp C,Hamm H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A number of new biological immune modulators have become available as treatments for inflammatory diseases over the past two decades. Most prominent among them are TNF-α inhibitors (TNFi) which have been available in the clinic since the late 1990s. TNFi have demonstrated efficacy in various rheumatologic ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Yang H,Kavanaugh A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality among adults with Type 2 diabetes. The thiazolidinediones including rosiglitazone are approved for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes on the basis of their ability to lower blood sugar and surrogate markers of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVES:To ascer...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Singh S,Loke YK

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Epidural steroid injections (ESI) are a commonly utilized treatment for cervical and lumbar radicular pain. All medical procedures and medications carry an inherent level of risk, that must be balanced with the effectiveness of the treatment to determine the risk to benefit ratio for a patient. AREAS COVE...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Schneider B,Zheng P,Mattie R,Kennedy DJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Clozapine was first introduced as an antipsychotic in the 1970's but a cluster of deaths, later linked to the drug's risk of agranulocytosis, led to its withdrawal in most countries. However, work in the 1980's established its unique efficacy in treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS), which constitutes as...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Remington G,Lee J,Agid O,Takeuchi H,Foussias G,Hahn M,Fervaha G,Burton L,Powell V

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) do not have epilepsy. There are a number of compelling reasons to take these patients off antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), including drug toxicity and teratogenicity, as well as possibly poorer outcome of PNES and increased risk of iatrogenic harm when...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Duncan R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important risk factor of oesophageal adenocarcinoma is gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease is in itself a common disorder, giving bothersome symptoms. In daily clinical practice, anticholinergic drugs are believed to increase the risk of gastro-oesophageal reflux through effec...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： van Soest EM,Dieleman JP,Kuipers EJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The approval of sofosbuvir (SOF), a nucleotide analogue NS5B polymerase inhibitor, and ledipasvir (LDV), a NS5A inhibitor, marked a new chapter in IFN and ribavirin-free treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV). This drug reduces adverse events associated with IFN therapy. AREAS COVERED:The purpose of this pa...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Fazel Y,Lam B,Golabi P,Younossi Z

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Since calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) plays an important role in the pathophysiology of migraine via the activation of the trigeminovascular system, the newest prophylactic treatments directly block CGRP or its receptor. However, the safety of these novel antimigraine drugs is not yet sufficiently e...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Rivera-Mancilla E,Villalón CM,MaassenVanDenBrink A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Alemtuzumab is a humanised anti-CD52 mAb which has recently been licensed for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis in Europe. AREAS COVERED:The efficacy and safety of alemtuzumab from open label, Phase II and Phase III trials is reported. EXPERT OPINION:Alemtuzumab causes rapid and profound comp...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Willis M,Robertson NP

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The prevalence of depression in pregnancy is over 10% and a significant proportion of pregnant women use antidepressant medication. The safety of antidepressants in pregnancy is controversial, partly due to methodological challenges. The conflicting results in the literature may, however, also be due to di...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Pedersen LH

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Fixed-dose combination (FDC) medicines contain more than one approved active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), are manufactured as a fixed-dose and packed in a single dosage form. FDCs have been drawing attention from the pharmaceutical industries because of the government's ban on 328 irrational FDCs in ...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Miranda MRH,Dubey A,G S R,Charyulu RN

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs are currently an important cause of liver disease, ranked as the most frequent reason for acute liver failure. Despite recent advances in knowledge of the mechanisms implicated in drug-induced hepatocellular damage and cholestasis, as well as the identification of several risk factors, the diagnosis of hepatotox...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Andrade RJ,Camargo R,Lucena MI,González-Grande R

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD:Atorvastatin is the most widely used statin administered in a variety of settings, including primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events, in the elderly, in patients with chronic kidney disease and in diabetic patients. Therefore, the safety and tolerability of atorvastatin is of p...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Athyros VG,Tziomalos K,Karagiannis A,Mikhailidis DP

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Conventional systemic therapies for psoriasis are associated with serious toxicities that can limit long-term use. In recent years, biological therapies have offered the possibility of long-term therapy with improved safety and efficacy for the treatment of psoriasis. Biological therapies can be classified...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Talamonti M,Spallone G,Di Stefani A,Costanzo A,Chimenti S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nasal cavity is a vulnerable zone which may be damaged by vascular disorders. We systematically assessed the frequency and severity of nasal cavity alterations during bevacizumab treatment, to determine its clinical relevance and factors contributing to its onset. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We conducted a hos...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： D'Amico M,Pagano M,Pasa A,Puntoni M,Clavarezza M,Gennari A,Gozza A,Zanardi S,Defferrari C,Provinciali N,Campazzi E,Campora S,Paleari L,Marra D,Petrera M,DeCensi A

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hyperphosphatemia is common in the late stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and is associated with elevated parathormone levels, abnormal bone mineralization, extraosseous calcification and increased risk of cardiovascular events and death. Several classes of oral phosphate binders are available to help...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Locatelli F,Del Vecchio L,Violo L,Pontoriero G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) is a novel solvent-free formulation of paclitaxel, which was developed to avoid toxicities associated with Cremophor EL® vehicle used in solvent-based paclitaxel. It is approved as monotherapy for treatment of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) in Europe a...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Cecco S,Aliberti M,Baldo P,Giacomin E,Leone R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A water soluble derivative of camptothecin, irinotecan (CPT-11) is effective against small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), as well as non-SCLC and gastrointestinal cancers. This extended review of recently concluded and ongoing studies focuses on irinotecan in the treatment of limited (LD) and extensive (ED) SCLC specificall...

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Kawahara M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is widely used to treat various rheumatic diseases. Many autoimmune diseases occur in women of child-bearing age who may become pregnant while on therapy, which raises concerns regarding the teratogenicity of HCQ and its effect on the outcome of the pregnancy....

journal_title：Expert opinion on drug safety

authors： Abarientos C,Sperber K,Shapiro DL,Aronow WS,Chao CP,Ash JY

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00