DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Drug therapy
Pharmacotherapy
Pharmacotherapy is the treatment of disease through the administration of drugs. As such, it is considered part of the larger category of therapy. Pharmacists are experts in pharmacotherapy and are responsible for ensuring the safe, appropriate, and economical use of medicines. As pharmacotherapy specialists, pharmacists have responsibility for direct patient care, often functioning as a member of a multidisciplinary team, and acting as the primary source of drug-related information for other healthcare professionals. In the US, a pharmacist can gain Board Certification in the area of pharmacotherapy upon fulfilling eligibility requirements and passing a certification examination...
Drug therapy - List of case studies
- Atrial Fibrillation at medium /high ventricular response
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If so, is it correct to use a stronger antiarrhythmic drug? 3) Do ... compensation; patient on OAT (Oral anticoagulant therapy) with usual INR around 3; no evidence of ischemia in myocardial ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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her to join a group of patients treated with a new drug, of which her husband does not remember the name, already in Phase II that ... in MS ). I recommend to give the patient pulse therapy with intra venous high dose steroids - 1 gram of ... of the dosage. Physiotherapy and Occupatinal therapy are an essential part of the treatment and should be included in the ...
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Acute Myeloradiculoneuritis
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Guillain-Barré syndrome, a plasmapheresis therapy was performed. It was well tolerated by the patient (5 sessions) with ... Onlus centre in Villorba (TV). Today, the patient’s drug therapy is only composed of Ig Vena (60g/day for two days), cyclically ...
- Endometrial Cancer
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case. Another option is endocrine manipulation by hormone therapy. questions: ... outcome to cisplatin with doxorubicin.3-4 The three-drug regimen (doxorubicin, cisplatin, and paclitaxel) with granulocyte ...
- Left lumbosciatic pain from L4-L5 and L5-S1 annular protrusion
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lumbar pain returned spreading to the left leg. Further drug therapy was prescribed (voltaren+ Muscoril, and later Indoxen). The patient ...
- Cancer of Colon with Metastases
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disease and celiac lymphadenopathy. He underwent directed therapy with radiofrequency ablation and stereotactic radiation, but ... dishomogeneous hyperaccumulations of radiopharmaceutical drug localized in the liver. Associated abnormal hyperfixations in both ...
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
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1) What therapy do you suggest? 2) Is ... Tegretol can be increased up to 2,400 mg a day. Other drug that can be used are: Lamotrigine, Gabapentine or Valproate . In my ...
- Hypertensive Patient with mostly uncontrolled Blood Pressure
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thing which should be done is to offer an optimal therapy. Frequent changes and discontinuations of drugs can be ... Cardizem - a good drug for coronary patients is relatively mild antihypertensive drug. - Clonidine ...
- Motor Neuropathy – additional opinion
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the increase to the standard CSF-serum albumin quotient, a therapy with Rilutex 1 tablet x 2 daily, Rigentex 400 mg 1 tablet x 2 ... conduction block, before embarking on immunosuppressive drug treatment with cyclophoshamide, methotrexate or azathioprine because ...
- Treatments
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Abundant hydration Acupuncture Acupuncture therapy Acupuncture treatment Adaptation training exercises ... Beta interferons Beta-adrenergic blocking drug Beta-blocker BiPap Bicycle riding Bio-chemotherapy ...