DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Intravenous steroids
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is the condition of having an abnormally low platelet count of no known cause. As most incidents of ITP appear to be related to the production of antibodies against platelets, immune thrombocytopenic purpura or immune thrombocytopenia are terms also used to describe this condition. Often ITP is asymptomatic (devoid of obvious symptoms), however a very low platelet count can lead to visible symptoms, such as purpura (large bruises), or more seriously, bleeding diathesis. ITP was first described by the German physician Paul Gottlieb Werlhof in 1735, and was originally referred to as Werlhof’s disease...
Intravenous steroids - List of case studies
- IgG Multiple Myeloma
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was consistent with IgG myeloma. He was treated with steroids and local radiotherapy with improvement in symptoms and a modest ... R, Oakervee, H, Williams, C, et al. Bortezomib, low-dose intravenous melphalan, and dexamethasone for patients with relapsed multiple ...
- Treatments
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procedure Corporoplasty techniques Cortico-steroids Corticosteroid therapy Corticosteroids Cortisone ... chemohyperthermia Intraveinous immunoglobulins Intravenous cortisone drip Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) Intravenous steroid therapy ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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both lower limbs pharmacologically treated with NSAIDs and steroids . Since then, periodic re-acutization of this symptomatology mostly ... nausea, vomiting and hypotension regressed by means of intravenous steroid injection in E.R.). The NMR report related as follows: ...
- Multiple sclerosis in remission under Avonex treatment
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bands . The patient was treated with high-dose steroids which were later tapered over a month and replaced with weekly ... immunomodulators will not give relief to acute symptoms. Intravenous steroids called methylprednisolone (Solumedrol) are used to ...
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)_2
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paresthesias so that was stopped. Patient was treated with steroids without improvement, until he received IV deltacortene, which improved ... untill May 2008 when at the Borgo Roma Hospital (VR) an intravenous cortisone drip was performed for 1 week. After an improvement ...
- Drugs
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Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) Cordarone Cortico-steroids Corticosteroids Cortisone Cotareg Coumadin ... high dose steroids Intraveinous immunoglobulins Intravenous Immunoglobulins (IVIG) Intravenous anti-thymocyte globulin ...
- Multiple Sclerosis
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no oligoclonal bands. I treated with high-dose steroids which were later tapered over a month and replaced with weekly ... immunomodulators will not give relief to acute symptoms. Intravenous steroids called methylprednisolone (Solumedrol) are used to treat ...
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) secondary to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
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DNA antibodies. The patient was initially treated with steroids and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) without improvement in his hematologic ...