DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Immunomodulatory treatment
Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is a medical term defined as the "treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response". Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies. While immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are classified as suppression immunotherapies. The active agents of immunotherapy are collectively called immunomodulators. They are a diverse array of recombinant, synthetic and natural preparations, often cytokines. Some of these substances, such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), interferons, imiquimod and cellular membrane fractions from bacteria are already licensed for use in patients...
Immunomodulatory treatment - List of case studies
- Treatments
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Abdominal radical nephrectomy Ablation Ablation treatment (tricuspidal isthmus Ablative procedures Absorbables ... Immunologic therapy Immunomodulating therapy Immunomodulatory treatment Immunostimulants Immunosuppressant ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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more pronounced in the lower extremities. Her treatment included mitoxantrone and Interferon-beta treatment, both were ... is mainly progressive, it is poorly, if any, responsive to immunomodulatory medications , such as Interferon beta or Copaxone. In my ...
- Drugs
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Tamoxifen Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant treatment with Interferon (part of the Mel A) Adria Adriamycin ... Immune suppressive treatment Immune therapy Immunomodulatory medications Immunotherapy Inderal Indobufen ...
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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or sensorial deficiencies. He was offered several immunomodulatory treatment options: Rebif, Betaferon and Copaxone, and asks about their pros, ...
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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patient is interested in your opinion on: 1) His current treatment? 2) What are the alternatives to this treatment? 3) What are ... PG. Emerging treatments for multiple myeloma: beyond immunomodulatory drugs and bortezomib. Semin Hematol. 2009;46:166-75. ...