Rilpivirine.

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：:Roxatidine acetate (HOE 760, TZU 0460) is a new H2-receptor antagonist which is more potent than cimetidine and ranitidine. A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was conducted in healthy men to determine the effects of multiple oral doses of roxatidine acetate on unstimulated gastric acid secretion, and...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lassman HB,Ho I,Puri SK,Sabo R,Scheffler MR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of use of long-term systemic glucocorticoid therapy in the general adult population is 1 %. This figure increases to up to 3 % in elderly women. Metabolic (i.e. diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, weight gain, lipodystrophy) and cardiovascular (i.e. hypertension, cardiovascular events) adverse events are c...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Fardet L,Fève B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for and treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in pregnant women deserves special attention. Treatment possibilities are limited because of potential risks for the developing fetus, and because effects can differ in pregnant compared with non-pregnant women, re-infection may be missed because of the int...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Donders GG

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in the adult has now been fully recognised as a clinical entity characterised by abnormal body composition, osteopenia, impaired quality of life, cardiac dysfunction and an adverse lipid profile. While short-term studies of GH replacement have demonstrated irrefutably a favourable effec...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Verhelst J,Abs R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varicella zoster virus (VZV), a member of the herpesvirus family, is responsible for both primary (varicella, chickenpox) as well as reactivation (zoster, shingles) infections. In immunocompetent patients, the course of varicella is generally benign. For varicella zoster, post-herpetic neuralgia is the most common com...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Snoeck R,Andrei G,De Clercq E

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare systems are in flux throughout the world. Traditional structures and attitudes are changing. The balance of power between political bodies, payers, providers and patients is being destabilised. New approaches by governments and forward integration by drug companies and payers into care management are all ma...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Weber F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Tranexamic acid is a synthetic derivative of the amino acid lysine that exerts its antifibrinolytic effect through the reversible blockade of lysine binding sites on plasminogen molecules. Intravenously administered tranexamic acid (most commonly 10 mg/kg followed by infusion of 1 mg/kg/hour) caused reductio...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dunn CJ,Goa KL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients with superficial bladder tumours intravesical treatment or prophylaxis with thiotepa, doxorubicin, mitomycin C or Bacillus Calmette-Guerin has added a useful dimension to management, although the precise indications for each regimen remain to be better defined. For patients with metastatic bladder cancer ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Whitmore WF Jr,Yagoda A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specifically formulated for nebulisation using the PARI LC PLUS reusable nebuliser, tobramycin solution for inhalation (TSI) [TOBI] provides a high dose of tobramycin (an aminoglycoside antibacterial with good activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa) to the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis, while maintaining low...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Cheer SM,Waugh J,Noble S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The naturally occurring catecholamines, noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine, have been found in a wide range of animal and vegetable tissues, but are particularly associated with nervous tissue in animals. Of the many processes affecting the response to stimulation of catecholamine containing nerves, the synthesis ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Laverty R

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 40 years since the initial synthesis of fluorouracil, there have been many attempts to improve fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy. These have included the utilisation of different schedules of fluorouracil administration, modulation of the metabolism of fluorouracil with other drugs to increase its therapeutic b...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Diasio RB

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyclovir (aciclovir) is a nucleoside antiviral drug with antiviral activity in vitro against members of the herpes group of DNA viruses. As an established treatment of herpes simplex infection, intravenous, oral and to a lesser extent topical formulations of acyclovir provide significant therapeutic benefit in genita...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： O'Brien JJ,Campoli-Richards DM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antibiotic resistance is primarily due to excessive and often unnecessary use of antibiotics in humans and animals. Risk factors for the spread of resistant bacteria in hospitals and the community can be summarised as over-crowding, lapses in hygiene or poor infection control practices. Increasing ant...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rao GG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vasodilator drugs are of proven worth in the management of patients with severe heart failure, a useful system of classification of vasodilator drugs has not yet been devised. The traditional system of classification based on the dominant arterial and/or venous sites of action as determined by limb plethysmog...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Packer M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin is currently the most widely prescribed treatment in the prevention of cardiovascular complications. The indications for the use of aspirin during pregnancy are, however, the subject of much controversy. Since the first evidence of the obstetric efficacy of aspirin in 1985, numerous studies have tried to deter...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Atallah A,Lecarpentier E,Goffinet F,Doret-Dion M,Gaucherand P,Tsatsaris V

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine-derived lung surfactant (PLS; Curosurf) has shown efficacy in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. PLS consists of phospholipids, mainly dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine, the primary surface-active agent of natural lung surfactant, and pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins which facilitate spreading and ad...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wiseman LR,Bryson HM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simplest response to the question, what is the prevalence of hypertension in the United States today?, is given by a currently popular slogan: 23,000,000 Americans have hypertension. It is clear that the problem is large in scale, but this figure alone is an insufficient guide to many practical issues. The prevale...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Labarthe DR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefits of the treatment of hypertension currently consist of a substantially reduced incidence of premature stroke, left ventricular failure and malignant hypertension. The benefits for the individual are most clearcut in those who have already had severe or symptomatic hypertension. Older subjects who have a hi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Beilin LJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind study, 40 patients scheduled for saphenectomy or inguinal hernioplasty were randomly assigned to treatment with nimesulide (200mg 3 times daily) or diclofenac (100mg 3 times daily) administered rectally. Therapy with either drug resulted in significantly less pain, oedema and hyperaemia, and resoluti...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ramella G,Costagli V,Vetere M,Capra C,Casella G,Sogni A,Scaricabarozzi I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that arterial hypertension, in addition to being a cardiovascular and renal risk factor, may also be associated with an impairment of male sexual function. Since other cardiovascular risk factors, especially diabetes mellitus, have also been shown to correlate with impaired sexual function it has bee...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Düsing R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The comprehensive treatment of schizophrenia requires the full resources of a clinical team that is able to offer treatment for the acute psychotic state in a hospital environment, and appropriate rehabilitation following resolution of the florid symptoms. Following a second or subsequent relapse, maintenance therapy ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Johnson DA

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methotrexate has been approved for the treatment of refractory rheumatoid arthritis by several regulatory agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration. The tendency is now to prescribe it at earlier stages of the disease. Methotrexate is a well known antifolate. Its exact mechanism of action in rheumatoid arth...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Bannwarth B,Labat L,Moride Y,Schaeverbeke T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute infectious diarrhoea is the major killer of children in the Third World. It is also the principal cause of malnutrition in children under 5 years of age. More than 4 million children die each year of diarrhoea and its complications. Acute diarrhoea kills by causing dehydration, which leads to hypovolaemia and me...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Gold R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) programmes are effective, well tolerated and economically advantageous in carefully selected patient populations. Inclusion criteria for patient selection for OPAT include good clinical appearance and uncomplicated infection. By virtue of their favourable microbiological...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Esposito S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of functionally related zinc-containing enzymes that denature and degrade fibrillar collagens and other components of the extracellular matrix. Myocardial extracellular matrix remodelling and fibrosis regulated by MMPs are believed to be important contributors to the progr...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Li YY,Feldman AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alfuzosin, a new quinazoline derivative, acts as a selective and competitive antagonist of alpha 1-adrenoceptor-mediated contraction of prostatic, prostatic capsule, bladder base and proximal urethral smooth muscle, thereby reducing the tone of these structures. Consequently, urethral pressure and resistance, bladder ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wilde MI,Fitton A,McTavish D

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 2 decades, progressive improvements in the results of organ transplantation as a therapeutic strategy for patients with end-stage organ disease have been achieved due to greater insight into the immunobiology of graft rejection and better measures for surgical and medical management. It is now known that T...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Perico N,Remuzzi G

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alirocumab (Praluent®) is a fully human monoclonal antibody developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi that has been approved in the US as an adjunct to diet and maximally tolerated statin therapy for the treatment of adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH) or clinical atherosclerotic car...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Markham A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifestyle interventions constitute the initial strategy for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. However, pharmacotherapy is often indicated for control of major cardiovascular risk factors, and abundant clinical trial data support the morbidity and mortality benefit of a number of ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Wenger NK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00