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abstract：:In the 30 years since the rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG) Thymoglobulin(®) was first licensed, its use in solid organ transplantation and hematology has expanded progressively. Although the evidence base is incomplete, specific roles for rATG in organ transplant recipients using contemporary dosing strategies are...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Mohty M,Bacigalupo A,Saliba F,Zuckermann A,Morelon E,Lebranchu Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newest (third generation) fluoroquinolones are potentially useful agents in the management of community-acquired respiratory tract infections. This is mainly due to their increased activity against Streptococcuspneumoniae, a pathogen poorly susceptible to the second-generation compounds, and playing a major role i...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Momméja-Marin H,Carbon C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telavancin is the first available lipoglycopeptide antibacterial agent. It is active against Gram-positive bacteria, including meticillin/oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains associated with complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSIs). In randomized, double-blind trials, intravenous tel...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lyseng-Williamson KA,Blick SK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has become the most common single cause of end-stage renal disease in the Western world. Diabetic nephropathy, as most forms of renal disease leading to end-stage renal failure, is frequently complicated by arterial hypertension. In type 1 diabetes mellitus the reported excess in arterial hypertensio...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Viberti G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirsuties and androgenic alopecia are the patterns of hair growth in women which develop in a similar manner to that normally seen in men. This process is mediated by androgens. It may be due to increased hormone production or increased target organ sensitivity. The majority of patients with hirsuties may be adequatel...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Barth JH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of digitalis in congestive heart failure with normal sinus rhythm is still debated. While older uncontrolled, withdrawal studies from 1969 to 1983 provided incomplete data, with poorly documented clinical status and poor haemodynamic and exercise data, some patients did improve clinically when digitalis treatm...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Riaz K,Forker AD

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results from prevalence, case-control, angiographic and echocardiographic investigations incriminate elevated fibrinogen levels as a strong independent risk factor for the occurrence of initial and recurrent cardiovascular events. Average fibrinogen levels are higher in women and persons with other risk factors includ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kannel WB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinocandins are a new class of antifungal agents with a novel mechanism of action (interference with fungal cell wall synthesis). Caspofungin (Cancidas), Caspofungin MSD) is the first echinocandin to be approved and is administered intravenously. Caspofungin 50 mg/day had similar efficacy to intravenous fluconazole ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating G,Figgitt D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Patients with beta-thalassaemia and other transfusion-dependent diseases develop iron overload from chronic blood transfusions and require regular iron chelation to prevent potentially fatal iron-related complications. The only iron chelator currently widely available is deferoxamine, which is expensive and ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Barman Balfour JA,Foster RH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZD1839 ('Iressa') is an orally active, selective epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor which blocks signal transduction pathways implicated in the proliferation and survival of cancer cells and other host-dependent processes promoting cancer growth. In preclinical studies, ZD1839 produced reversib...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Baselga J,Averbuch SD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Almotriptan is a selective serotonin 5-HT(1B/1D) receptor agonist ('triptan'). Its efficacy and tolerability have been assessed in a number of randomised, controlled trials in over 4800 adults with moderate or severe attacks of migraine. Oral almotriptan has a rapid onset of action (significant headache reli...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keam SJ,Goa KL,Figgitt DP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many drugs alter the anticoagulant effect of oral coumarins. It is essential that physicians be aware of interactions leading to increased or decreased anticoagulation or to erratic control. Interacting drugs can be classified as influencing the pharmacodynamics (pharmacological actions) or the pharmacokinetics (absor...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： MacLeod SM,Sellers EM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marijuana has been used for over 2 centuries. Its major psychoactive constituent, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was isolated in 1964 and first used to control nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy in the 1970s. THC has cardiovascular, pulmonary and endocrinological effects as well as actions on the central nerv...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Vincent BJ,McQuiston DJ,Einhorn LH,Nagy CM,Brames MJ

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between low serum potassium concentrations and ventricular arrhythmias has been observed by a number of investigators in patients with both acute myocardial infarction and symptomatic angina. The increased frequency of ventricular fibrillation in patients with low serum potassium concentrations has not ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Solomon RJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood obesity has become the most common paediatric disorder in the developed world. Treatment of obesity in children may include lifestyle interventions, pharmacotherapy and weight-loss supplements. The outcome of lifestyle interventions, which classically include dietary modifications, increased activity and beh...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rogovik AL,Chanoine JP,Goldman RD

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluoroquinolones have been shown to be active in vitro against many mycobacterial species, including most strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and M. fortuitum, and some strains of M. kansasii, M. avium-intracellulare (MAI) complex and M. leprae. Ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and sparfloxacin are the best stud...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Jacobs MR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting heart rate is associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality, and the mortality benefit of some cardiovascular drugs seems to be related in part to their heart rate-lowering effects. Since it is difficult to separate the benefit of heart rate lowering from other actions with currently available drugs, ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： DiFrancesco D,Camm JA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tocilizumab (RoActemra or Actemra) is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody that acts as an interleukin (IL)-6 receptor antagonist. Intravenous tocilizumab 8 mg/kg (and no less than 4.8 mg), in combination with methotrexate, is approved in the EU for the treatment of moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthriti...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Oldfield V,Dhillon S,Plosker GL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was formally defined in 1988 to describe a syndrome of severe and disabling fatigue of uncertain aetiology associated with a variable number of somatic and/or psychological symptoms. CFS has been reported in most industrialised countries and is most prevalent in women aged between 20...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Blondel-Hill E,Shafran SD

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diquafosol ophthalmic solution 3 % (Diquas(®)) is a P2Y2 receptor agonist that promotes tear fluid and mucin secretion and is currently approved in Japan and South Korea for the treatment of dry eye. In randomized, double-blind, multicentre trials in patients with dry eye, significantly greater improvements in fluores...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating GM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temocillin is a novel injectable beta-lactam antibiotic designed for parenteral use. It is active against the majority of Gram-negative bacteria and is stable to a wide range of beta-lactamases. Disposition and metabolic studies on temocillin in animals and man demonstrate that the drug is well distributed throughout ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Cockburn A,Mellows G,Jackson D,White DJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:5-Methoxypsoralen, a naturally occurring linear furocoumarin, has been successfully used in combination with ultraviolet (UV) A irradiation [psoralen plus UV (PUVA)] to manage psoriasis and vitiligo. In patients and volunteers, PUVA 5-methoxypsoralen causes a dose-related increase in cutaneous photosensitivi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McNeely W,Goa KL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enteral suspension (ES)/intestinal gel formulation of levodopa/carbidopa (hereafter referred to as levodopa/carbidopa ES) [Duodopa® (EU); Duopa™ (USA)] has been developed to overcome the fluctuating plasma levodopa concentrations associated with oral levodopa/carbidopa formulations. In various countries, including ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hoy SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:204 individuals from a rural community were given a single dose of oxantel-pyrantel at 15mg/kg bodyweight and if still infected, 20mg/kg bodyweight, with cure rates of 100%, 53% and 71% for ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm infection, respectively. From an urban community, 124 patients were given the same drug eit...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Cabrera BD,Sy FS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Darunavir is an oral nonpeptidic HIV-1 protease inhibitor (PI) that is used, together with a low boosting dose of ritonavir, as part of an antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen in treatment-experienced and -naive patients with HIV-1 infection. Compared with early-generation PIs, boosted darunavir has a high g...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McKeage K,Perry CM,Keam SJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important cause of infection, particularly in hospitalized patients and those with significant healthcare exposure. In recent years, epidemic community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections occurring in patients without healthcare risk factors have become more fre...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Patel M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep apnoea (SA) is a common sleep disorder affecting 4 to 25% of the adult population. The most common form, obstructive SA, is characterised by recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep associated with sleep disruption and hypoxaemia. There is increasing evidence that SA leads to impaired vigilance, quality o...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Grunstein RR,Hedner J,Grote L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mid-1980s it was discovered that serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) was at least partially responsible for producing chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. It was therefore realised that serotonin receptor blockade with serotonin 5-HT3 receptor antagonists could inhibit chemotherapy-induced nausea and vom...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Gregory RE,Ettinger DS

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is defined as a brain dysfunction caused by liver insufficiency and/or portal-systemic blood shunting. This article relates to the so-called type C HE: that is, HE in patients with liver cirrhosis. It manifests as a wide spectrum of neurological or psychiatric abnormalities, ran...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Weissenborn K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This narrative review reports on the pharmacological and pharmacokinetic properties of rotigotine, a non-ergolinic D₃/D₂/D₁ dopamine receptor agonist approved for the treatment of early- and advanced-stage Parkinson's disease (PD) and moderate to severe restless legs syndrome (RLS). Rotigotine is formulated as a trans...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Elshoff JP,Cawello W,Andreas JO,Mathy FX,Braun M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00