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Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Replacement hormone therapy
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), also known as bioidentical hormone therapy or natural hormone therapy, is a poorly-defined term referring to the use of hormones that are identical, on a molecular level, with endogenous hormones in hormone replacement therapy. The term is also associated with pharmacy compounding, blood or saliva testing, efforts to reach a targeted level of hormones in the body (as established through blood or saliva testing) and unfounded claims of safety and efficacy. Specific hormones used in BHRT include estrone, estradiol, progesterone (which are available both in FDA-approved manufactured products and as pharmacy-compounded products) testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone (both products have more limited availability and approval in Canada and the United States) and estriol (which is available in Europe but is not approved in Canada and the United States)...
Replacement hormone therapy - List of case studies
- 3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma
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and endocrine abnormalities , including growth hormone deficiency, and other possible endocrine damage, all of which can be handled with replacement hormone therapy. This protocol ...
- Treatments
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counterpulsator Aortic valve and ascending aorta replacement Aortic valve replacement Aortocoronary bypass ... replacement treatment Hormonal treatments Hormone intervention Hormone therapy Hormonotherapy Hyaluronic ...
- Infiltrating Duct Carcinoma of Breast
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status were optimal, and therefore the expert recommends hormone therapy. He also recommends to complete the ongoing adjuvant ... she is in postmenopausal status and has been on hormonal replacement treatment, this should be stopped. 2b. if she still has ...
- Drugs
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inhibitors Homeopathic remedies Hormonal replacement treatment Hormonotherapy Humalog Human chorionic ... 1a) Recombinant FSH Recombinant human Growth Hormone Reminyl Resection of the uterus Restiv-oil Retinoic ...
- Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (Hashimoto thyroiditis)
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After an attempt to replace thyroid function with thyroid hormone in pills (Eutirox), the patient had reported multiple symptoms which ... the administered chemical compound is simply a “replacement” for a chemical that is natural to the body, not really a ...