DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Immunosuppressive treatments
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...
Immunosuppressive treatments - List of case studies
- Treatments
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agent Anti coagulation therapy Anti dystonic treatments Anti incontinence procedure Anti reflux medication ... + Cetuximab regime Chromogranin A Chronic immunosuppressive therapy Circumcision (acquired phimosis) Cisplatin ...
- PANCYTOPENIA OF UNKNOWN PATHOGENESIS
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with trilineage maturation. The treatment include immunosuppressive agents and erythropoietin. ... would recommend that erythropoietin be started with weekly treatments. If the patient has a myelodysplastic syndrome then treatment ...
- Symptomatic Pancytopenia- Additional opinion
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anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), with or without the other immunosuppressive agents. Obviously, ATG is the most effective (up to 50% ... Desferrioxamine, Desferal, Deferasirox, Exjade. Treatments : blood transfusions, Vascular surgery, Colon polypectomy, ...
- Pancytopenia of uncertain pathogenesis
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marrow with trilineage maturation. The treatment include immunosuppressive agents and erythropoietin. ... recommend that erythropoietin be started with weekly treatments . If the patient has a myelodysplastic syndrome then treatment ...
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)_1
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every 4 weeks for several months. I don’t think that immunosuppressive therapy is needed. The patient should be reassessed ... drug, intraveinous immunoglobulins. Treatments : hypocholesterolemizing therapy, intravenous cortisone ...
- ABO-incompatible (ABOI) renal transplantation
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of serious infection, especially in the setting of chronic immunosuppressive therapy, has limited the enthusiasm for ABOI transplantation. ... ABO colums , intravenousimmunoglobulin (IVIG). Treatments : kidney transplants, ABO-incompatible (ABOI) renal ...
- Motor Neuropathy – additional opinion
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- Other immunosuppressive treatments for multifocal motor neuropathy: If no response appears after ... the NCVs now show conduction block, before embarking on immunosuppressive drug treatment with cyclophoshamide, methotrexate or ...