Nausea is an uncomfortable sensation in the back of the throat, middle of the chest, or top of your stomach. It is often accompanied by the urge to vomit but doesn't always lead to vomiting. The sensation may be dull and lingering or come on suddenly and severely. Although nausea is no...
Acute cholecystitis, especially if difficult, can change the above paradigm, resulting in open conversion or change of technique. The conditions that define a difficult cholecystectomy are as follows: necessity of conversion from laparoscopic to open surgery; duration of procedure greater than 180 min;...
To treat or not to treat, and to avoid ineffective therapies Patients with mild anemia or compensated hemolysis and no clinical symptoms have not been shown to benefit from treatment. However, the restrictive attitude to drug therapy often found in the literature seems influenced by the poor effic...
Targeted therapy uses substances produced by the body or synthetic versions of these substances – such as antibodies, cytokines, and other immune system features, which can target the cancer cells – to treat disease. One type of targeted therapy is referred to as immunotherapy, and the goal is...
Medicines That May Lead to Ulcers Some medications, when you take them at the same time as NSAIDs, can set the stage for an ulcer. Steroids and blood thinners can be tough on your stomach. So are some drugs that help treat the bone-thinning condition called osteoporosis, such as alendrona...
Braddom and Rocco24 indicate that prazosin was the third most used medication (36%) in 1991 to treat AD, but mention that the product can cause hypotension or syncope upon the first dose, suggesting to start treatment the evening before. Sildenafil and prostaglandins. Sildenafil is a type 5 ...
A procedure that would not be used to diagnose or treat lung cancer is: a. hormone therapy. b. bronchoscopy. c. sputum cytology. d. pneumonectomy. Explain in detail. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is also known as acute lymphoblastic leuke...
Exceeding the recommended dose of PROLEUKIN has been associated with a more rapid onset of severe or lifethreatening toxicities. Treat toxicities supportively; life-threatening toxicities may be ameliorated by the intravenous administration of dexamethasone. ...
Gallbladder inflammation.This condition is calledcholecystitis. It's usually caused by agallstoneblocking a duct. Cholecystitis can either be acute or chronic. Acute cholecystitis happens suddenly with severe pain in your upper abdomen. Chronic cholecystitis is long-lasting and can damage your gallbladd...
This operation can require many hours to complete because of its complexity. The pancreas is cut out with surgical staplers. The pancreas specimen then is removed from the abdomen by enlarging one of the small incisions. After all, this has been accomplished, the carbon dioxide is released out...