Bronchopulmonary infection due to B. catarrhalis. Clinical features and therapeutic response.

abstract：:Endothelial dysfunction and increased arterial stiffness occur early in the pathogenesis of diabetic vasculopathy. They are both powerful independent predictors of cardiovascular risk. Advances in non-invasive methodologies have led to widespread clinical investigation of these abnormalities in diabetes mellitus, gene...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Woodman RJ,Chew GT,Watts GF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the published literature on eptacog alfa (recombinant factor VIIa; rFVIIa) for nonhaemophiliac conditions with the aim of determining its current place in therapy. Initial surgical and/or medical management is required for any patient with life-threatening bleeding. In those with continued life-threat...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Mallarkey G,Brighton T,Thomson A,Kaye K,Seale P,Gazarian M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluticasone furoate nasal spray is a new topical intranasal corticosteroid with enhanced affinity for the glucocorticoid receptor and low systemic exposure, which was recently approved in the US for the treatment of seasonal or perennial allergic rhinitis in adults and in children aged >or=2 years. Fluticasone furoate...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： McCormack PL,Scott LJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25 years have elapsed since the introduction of the first effective oral diuretic, chlorothiazide. Diuretics are now amongst the most widely prescribed drugs in clinical practice worldwide. Availability of these drugs has not only brought therapeutic benefit to countless numbers of patients but it has at the same time...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Lant A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the structure, function and distribution of the components of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAS) and the integrated physiological role of this hormonal system is rapidly increasing, although many questions remain unanswered. The primary structure and localisation of RAS such as renin, prorenin...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Johnston CI

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Nateglinide is a novel D-phenylalanine derivative that inhibits ATP-sensitive K+ channels in pancreatic beta-cells in the presence of glucose and thereby stimulates the prandial release of insulin. Nateglinide reduces fasting and mealtime blood glucose levels in animals, healthy volunteers, and patients with type 2 (n...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Dunn CJ,Faulds D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the incidence of HIV-associated cryptococcosis has decreased in developed countries since the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, this disease continues to cause significant morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa among patients with AIDS. Important strides have been made in an attempt to decrease t...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： La Hoz RM,Pappas PG

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pulmonary embolism (PE) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) is higher in pregnant patients than in non-pregnant patients. The incidence of thrombosis in all pregnancies is reported to be between 0.05 and 1%, and an incidence as high as 3% may be present in women after caesarean section. Anticoagulant med...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Laurent P,Dussarat GV,Bonal J,Jego C,Talard P,Bouchiat C,Cellarier G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined oral contraceptive pill is the most popular method of contraception worldwide, with modern low-dose formulations significantly improving tolerability. Breakthrough bleeding is the most significant adverse event associated with the low-dose combined oral contraceptives. Monophasic, biphasic, triphasic and ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Weisberg E

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General anaesthesia is the reversible depression of central nervous system function. There is still no agreement over what constitutes depth of anaesthesia, and the clinical anaesthetist must thus titrate drug input according to clinical signs (heart rate, blood pressure, somatic movement, autonomic responses). The po...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Sear JW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When peripheral decarboxylation is blocked by carbidopa or benserazide, the main metabolic pathway of levodopa is O-methylation by catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT). Entacapone and tolcapone are new potent, selective and reversible nitrocatechol-type COMT inhibitors. Animal studies have demonstrated that entacapone ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Kaakkola S

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Trifluridine/tipiracil (Lonsurf(®)) is a novel, orally active, antimetabolite agent comprised of trifluridine, a thymidine-based nucleoside analogue, and tipiracil, a potent thymidine phosphorylase inhibitor. Trifluridine is incorporated into DNA via phosphorylation, ultimately inhibiting cell proliferation. Tipiracil...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Burness CB,Duggan ST

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthmatic patients during sympton-free periods almost invariably have abnormalities in lung mechanics and gas exchange. Tentacious secretions and mucosal thickening exaggerate maldistribution of ventilation and cause flow limitation in small airways. Hence, the maximal expiratory flow volume loop in these patients wil...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Goldstein RS,Slutsky AS,Rebuck AS

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Ofloxacin is an established fluoroquinolone agent which achieves good concentrations in genitourinary tract tissues and fluids. It has good in vitro activity against most Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis and Haem...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Onrust SV,Lamb HM,Balfour JA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, several clinical problems associated with the diagnosis of hypertension are discussed. Blood pressure variability and reactivity are factors underlying the difficulties in the diagnosis of hypertension. These phenomena are interrelated and mixed. White coat hypertension (WCH), referring to the phenomeno...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Ocón-Pujadas J,Mora-Maciá J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data indicate that the most common beta-lactamase produced by Branhamella catarrhalis is plasmid mediated. The same enzyme occurs in Moraxella nonliquefaciens, a commensal in the upper respiratory tract. The ability to produce the enzyme, which is known as BRO-1, can be transferred by conjugation from M. non...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Eliasson I,Kamme C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the antibiotic market in developing countries is double that seen in developed countries. There are some valid reasons for this difference, one of which is the higher frequency of diverse infections in the developing world. However, other factors are involved: for example, antibiotics are available without...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Rodríguez-Noriega E,Morfin-Otero R,Esparza-Ahumada S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Torasemide (torsemide) is a high-ceiling loop diuretic which acts on the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle to promote rapid and marked excretion of water, sodium and chloride. Like furosemide (frusemide), its major site of action is from the luminal side of the cell. Torasemide is at least twice as potent as f...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Friedel HA,Buckley MM

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:The effects of enalapril on clinical well-being, treadmill exercise performance, haemodynamic measurements, hormone levels, and plasma biochemistry in patients with moderate heart failure, were assessed in a 12-week placebo-controlled, double-blind study. Maintenance frusemide and digoxin treatment was continued throu...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Webster MW,Fitzpatrick MA,Hamilton EJ,Nicholls MG,Ikram H,Espiner EA,Wells JE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is crucial in B-cell development and survival. The role of BTK as a downstream kinase in the B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling pathway is well described. As a key player in the pathogenesis of B-cell malignancies, targeting of dysregulated BCR signaling has been explored by development of ...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： da Cunha-Bang C,Niemann CU

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently available quinolones are either inactive or marginally active against anaerobic bacteria. This review summarises the in vitro activity of currently available as well as experimental quinolones against clinically significant anaerobic bacteria. Quinolones with low activity against anaerobes include ciprofloxa...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Appelbaum PC

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glatiramer acetate is a synthetic analogue of the multiple sclerosis (MS)-associated antigen, myelin basic protein. It is indicated in the EU, US and many other countries to reduce the frequency of relapses in patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), and for the treatment of patients who have experienced a well de...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Carter NJ,Keating GM

更新日期：2010-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'funny' (pacemaker, I(f)) current, first described almost 30 years ago in sinoatrial node (SAN) myocytes, is a mixed sodium/potassium inward current, activated on hyperpolarisation in the diastolic range of voltages. 'Funny' (f) channels are activated by intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) concentr...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： DiFrancesco D,Borer JS

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gemfibrozil improves lipid and apolipoprotein profiles, particularly very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) triglyceride and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, in patients with dyslipidaemia when administered at a total daily dose of 900 or 1200 mg. As demonstrated by the Helsinki Heart Study, these effec...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Spencer CM,Barradell LB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflibercept (Eylea(®)) is an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor agent indicated for intravitreal use in the treatment of diabetic macular oedema. In patients with diabetic macular oedema, significantly greater improvements from baseline to week 52 in visual acuity were seen with intravitreal aflibercept versus ma...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Keating GM

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomised multicentre double-blind study was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of roxatidine acetate 75 mg twice daily and ranitidine 150 mg twice daily in 295 patients with endoscopically confirmed gastric ulcers. Substantial reductions in ulcer diameters and healing rates of 85.6 and 88.2% for roxatidi...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Judmaier G

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) is characterized by the presence of wheals, angioedema, or both for at least 6 weeks. It may persist for a long time-up to 50% of the patients have been reported to be symptomatic 5 years after the onset. Some patients can suffer more than one episode of CSU during their lifetime. C...

journal_title：Drugs

authors： Giménez-Arnau AM,Salman A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00