Then, if complaints of dysreflexia are present the clinician should consider all potential sources and if necessary provide prophylactic medication to treat dysre- flexia in association with sexual activity. In
It is important to provide early screening and identify pregnant women at high risk who might benefit from prophylactic agents [1]. The Fetal Medicine Foundation proposed a Bayes theorem-based model to predict preterm PE using a combination of maternal characteristics, medical history, mean arterial ...
All patients were discharged the day following the oper- ation with prescriptions for prophylactic antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for several days until the first visit. Alpha-blockers and anti-cholinergics were not administered. The string-stent group patients were reminded to ...
Today is the three-year anniversary of my prophylactic double mastectomy when I was 21 years old. At the time of this writing, I’m 24–almost 25. For over a year, this blog was my lifeline. It kept me sane through all of my surgeries and frustrations. Now, it’s a memento of th...
A percentage of 48.1% (n = 51) of the whole sample was treated with pain prophylaxis medication before therapy started, looking specifically at the sub- groups, the highest percentage of prophylactic treatment (64.7%) was evident in chronic migraineurs as expected by applying the guidelines....
prophylactic to prevent disease (or severe disease) that may occur in the future. However, usually, they are used in currently healthy individuals. People are therefore much more wary about side effects that those vaccines can have, even if the side effects are rare. This, in addition to ...
These interventions can include drugs, therapeutic agents, prophylactic agents, diagnostic agents, medical devices, procedures, vaccines and noninvasive approaches, such as modifying diet and exercise. One example of an interventional study is a randomized control trial (RCT). During a randomized control...
The invasive nature of IV administration is associated with an increased risk of infections; it is inconvenient, and it is challenging in the very young and old to find adequate venous access for repeated injections. Furthermore, prophylactic treatment using concentrates is expensive and not ...
offered chemotherapy accepted it. Those accepting chemotherapy had a mean age of 73.1 (s.d. 2.3) years. One (17%) lived alone and two (33%) had co-morbidity. Treatment was well tolerated (no grade 3/4 toxicity), and no patients required dose reductions or delays. Prophylactic GCSF was...
in situ (DCIS) and for women seeking prophylactic mastectomies-that is, breast removal in order to prevent any possibility of breast cancer occurring. The basic indication for a total mastectomy is the presence of cancer, or a high risk of cancer that prompts consideration of a prophylactic ...