DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Immune suppressive treatment
Immunosuppression
Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immuno-suppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression may occur as an adverse reaction to treatment of other conditions. Deliberately induced immunosuppression is generally done to prevent the body from rejecting an organ transplant, treating graft-versus-host disease after a bone marrow transplant, or for the treatment of auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease...
Immune suppressive treatment - List of case studies
- Drugs
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Ig Vena cycle Imatinib mesylate Immugen-r Immune suppression Immune suppressive treatment Immune therapy Immunomodulatory medications ...
- Treatments
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Abdominal radical nephrectomy Ablation Ablation treatment (tricuspidal isthmus Ablative procedures Absorbables ... cycles IVIG infusion Ice Ig Vena cycle Immune suppression Immune suppression (Globulins / ATG Immune suppressive treatment Immune therapy Immunoadsorption ...
- Symptomatic Pancytopenia- Additional opinion
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revealed some myelodysplasia, and the patient started immune therapy. He continues to require repeated blood transfusions. The expert ... continuing the current RBC transfusion regimen, Immune suppressive treatment, and other therapeutic modalities such as erythropoietin ...