Long term management of oesophageal varices.

abstract：:Systemic therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has evolved over the last two decades, with modest improvements in quality of life and overall survival. A plateau has been reached with traditional chemotherapy, and efforts are now being directed at developing molecularly targeted agents. To date, thre...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Triano LR,Deshpande H,Gettinger SN

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interstitial lung disease (ILD) can be associated with all connective tissue diseases and is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The management of connective tissue disease-interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD) is challenging due substantial heterogeneity in disease behaviour and paucity of controlled clinica...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Jee AS,Corte TJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of infection in clean surgery (i.e. surgery with no major contamination of the operative site) should be less than 2%, although the incidence of postoperative infections can be higher in patients with various risk factors (namely insertion of foreign bodies, a compromised immune status or prolonged durat...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Mini E,Nobili S,Periti P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eltrombopag (Revolade(®)) is an orally bioavailable, low molecular weight, synthetic nonpeptide thrombopoietin receptor agonist, which selectively binds to the transmembrane and juxtamembrane domains of the thrombopoietin receptor on the surface of platelets, megakaryocytes and megakaryocyte precursor cells, resulting...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Garnock-Jones KP

更新日期：2011-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The article Bictegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Alafenamide: A Review in HIV-1 Infection, written by Emma D. Deeks, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 78, issue 17, pages 1817-1828 Gilead Sciences requested that the article be Open Choice to make the article an open ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Deeks ED

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulbactam is a semisynthetic beta-lactamase inhibitor which when combined with certain beta-lactam antibacterials extends their activity against bacteria that are normally resistant to the antibiotic due to production of beta-lactamases. In combination with ampicillin it extends the antibacterial activity of ampicilli...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Campoli-Richards DM,Brogden RN

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:Azimilide is a potassium channel antagonist that, in contrast to existing class III antiarrhythmic agents, blocks both the rapidly (I(Kr)) and slowly (I(Ks)) activating components of the delayed rectifier potassium current. In animal and clinical studies, azimilide prolonged repolarisation by increasing the action pot...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Clemett D,Markham A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developed by Bayer in Germany, nifedipine was shown to be effective in the treatment of patients with angina pectoris by Japanese investigators. Professor Kimura first reported the efficacy of nifedipine in patients with angina pectoris and those findings have been replicated in numerous trials conducted since then. C...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hosoda S

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The lowering of cholesterol concentrations in individuals at high risk of cardiovascular disease improves outcome. No study, however, has assessed benefits of cholesterol lowering in the primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in hypertensive patients who are not conventionally deemed dyslipidaemi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sever PS,Dahlöf B,Poulter NR,Wedel H,Beevers G,Caulfield M,Collins R,Kjeldsen SE,Kristinsson A,McInnes GT,Mehlsen J,Nieminen M,O'Brien E,Ostergren J,ASCOT Investigators.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic chemotherapy plays a key role in the treatment of carcinoma for thousands of patients annually who either present with metastatic disease or relapse after surgical excision of apparently localised disease. Unfortunately, there is such a wide range of responsiveness to drug therapy within individual tumour ty...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sarosdy MF,Von Hoff DD

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of inappropriate signals from the volume-regulation system and a reduction in renal blood flow, the kidney is not able to prevent sodium and water retention in chronic congestive heart failure (CHF). A brief summary of normal renal function and renal involvement in CHF is given and a study of renal function in...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ljungman S,Laragh JH,Cody RJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogenic compounds are the most important group of drugs that can induce hypertension. Studies have shown an incidence of significant hypertension amounting to less than 1% after 1 year of taking oral contraceptives and about 2% after 5 years. The ratio of the incidence of hypertension among ''takers'' to that of ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Stokes GS

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has made considerable progress in recent years, and new emerging strategies are being developed. On the basis of the results of two randomised studies in the early 2000s, nephrectomy has now become the standard as cytoreductive surgery before embarking on systemic treatment wit...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Escudier B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ten large, well-controlled, randomised trials (n = 203 to 1089), valdecoxib, a selective inhibitor of cyclo-oxygenase-2, was significantly more effective than placebo in the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and pain associated with primary dysmenorrhoea, and for postsurgical analgesia. Valdecoxib 1...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ormrod D,Wellington K,Wagstaff AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The continuous-use combination oral contraceptive ethinylestradiol/levonorgestrel 20microg/90microg suppresses gonadotropins, and subsequently ovulation and endometrial thickening, and suppresses breakthrough bleeding. Amenorrhoea and absence of breakthrough bleeding increase in incidence with extended administration....

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wagstaff AJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of skin and hair pigmentation are important features that have warranted treatment from ancient history on up to modern time. In some cultures, even today patients with vitiligo are regarded as social outcasts and are affected considerably both emotionally and physically. This article presents current opti...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Hartmann A,Bröcker EB,Becker JC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avapritinib (AYVAKIT™) is a potent and selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor of platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRA) and KIT activation loop mutants. It is being developed by Blueprint Medicines for the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), solid tumours and systemic mastocytosis. Avapr...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dhillon S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind, parallel-group randomised trial of 3 months' duration, the efficacy of cyclandelate 800 mg twice daily in migraine prophylaxis was compared with that of flunarizine 5mg daily in 40 patients. In comparison with placebo and baseline values, both drugs significantly relieved symptoms of migraine as ass...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Nappi G,Sandrini G,Savoini G,Cavallini A,de Rysky C,Micieli G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diuretics are used in first-step antihypertensive monotherapy or in combination with adrenergic-inhibiting agents in the majority of hypertensive patients in the United States. A 30-year experience has demonstrated that blood pressure is lowered to as great or greater a degree with diuretics than when many of the pres...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Moser M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma is a rare yet well defined subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The correct histological diagnosis of this lymphoma subtype is of the utmost importance; however, it is also a very difficult diagnosis. Clinical management is often complex, and despite the successful introduction of monoclonal ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Weigert O,Unterhalt M,Hiddemann W,Dreyling M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etoposide is one of the most active agents for the therapy of lymphomas. Oral etoposide has proven to be active in and clearly beneficial for patients with previously treated lymphomas. The optimal dose and schedule of oral etoposide for use in combination chemotherapy are still uncertain, but low daily doses (50 to 1...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Greco FA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During depression, chronobiological disorders occur, such as disturbances in body temperature and early urinary excretion of a noradrenaline metabolite. Sleep patterns are disturbed in 90% of depressed patients; early REM sleep and shortened slow-wave sleep (stages 3 and 4), resulting in an increase in REM sleep, have...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rüther E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suvorexant (Belsomra(®)), a first-in-class, orally active dual orexin-1 receptor and orexin-2 receptor antagonist, has been developed by Merck for the treatment of insomnia. Variations in the levels of the neuropeptides orexin A and orexin B have been linked to circadian rhythms and wakefulness. Orexin-producing neuro...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Yang LP

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug treatment for various anorectal conditions has been known since ancient times. Today, modern as well as traditional drugs are being increasingly used in all grades of symptomatic haemorrhoids. These drugs (oral and local) are used as a part of conservative management or as an adjuvant to invasive outpatient proce...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Misra MC,Imlitemsu

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a systemic bone disease characterized by low bone mass and bone mineral density, and deterioration of the underlying structure of bone tissue. These changes lead to an increase in bone fragility and an increased risk for fracture, which are the clinical consequences of osteoporosis. The classical triad...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Reginster JY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meningococcal groups C and Y and Haemophilus b (Hib) tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine (HibMenCY-TT) contains Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C and Y capsular polysaccharide antigens, and Hib capsular polysaccharide [polyribosyl-ribitol-phosphate (PRP)]. The HibMenCY-TT vaccine is available in the USA for use as a...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Perry CM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunotherapies have shown remarkable success in the treatment of multiple cancer types; however, despite encouraging preclinical activity, registration trials of immunotherapy in prostate cancer have largely been unsuccessful. Sipuleucel-T remains the only approved immunotherapy for the treatment of asymptomatic or m...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rathi N,McFarland TR,Nussenzveig R,Agarwal N,Swami U

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00