DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Symptomatic treatment
Tetrabenazine
Tetrabenazine is a drug for the symptomatic treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorder and is marketed under the trade names Nitoman in Canada and Xenazine in New Zealand and some parts of Europe, and is also available in the USA as an orphan drug. On August 15, 2008 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of tetrabenazine to treat chorea associated with Huntington's disease (HD), the first in the US. The compound has been known since the 1950s. The effort for US FDA approval was led by Dr. Joseph Jankovic. According to a 2008 news report, "Americans with Huntington's who weren't Jankovic's patients ordered tetrabenazine from Canada if they could afford it...
Symptomatic treatment - List of case studies
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
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60-year-old male was diagnosed with a symptomatic metastatic well differentiated rectal neuroendocrine tumor, with ... It seems that the diagnostic procedure and treatment have been state of the art for the treatment of this disease. I would ...
- Massive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis
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the pandemic period he was going through. In spite of the symptomatic therapies administered, the symptoms still continued more or less ... will be excluded, start administering oral anticoagulant treatment with farfari tab. (at a dosage to maintain the values of INR ...
- MDS – Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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I would like an expert's opinion regarding treatment option strategies for my medical situation. I heard of treatment ... 1) No therapy, just monitoring of counts. 2) If symptomatic anemia supervenes, erythopoietin injections (Procrit, Aranesp, ...
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), with kariotype del(11)q(11)
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tired.He was offered chemotherapy, but he declined this treatment because of fear that it would worsen his already severe weakness. ... 1) No therapy, just monitoring of counts. 2) If symptomatic anemia supervenes, erythopoietin injections ( Procrit, ...
- Lung Cancer: Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma (BAC) of the lung (T1 N0).
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1. Do you agree with the surgical treatment carried out? 2. Would you consider any further oncological ... of the TKI erlotinib if and when the disease becomes symptomatic, especially so if she has not been a smoker. ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_2
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point). On 11/2007 the treatment was switched to Tarceva for 1 month (the reasons for ... options (A) and (B) are exhausted and the disease becomes symptomatic. If there was no serious toxicity from the previously administered ...
- Relapse of Chondrosarcoma of Cervical Spine
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of the cervical spine. Following diagnosis his treatment was composed of 3 locoregional interventions: surgery, ... Expert's opinion regarding therapy and additional treatment: 1. Do you suggest any other additional therapy? 2. What is the ... for re-operation , both for prolonging survival and for symptomatic control, mainly for prevention of neurological damage correlated ...
- SOL (Space occupying lesion) of brain
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1. Preferred treatment? 2. Urgency and type of surgery? 3. Prognosis? ... cavernous malformation . We feel because the patient is symptomatic , this further suggests that surgery is necessary. Naturally, we ...
- Right Knee Pain
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grasp movements. The patient had responded to NSAID treatment for 2 weeks. MRI of the right knee showed Mild endoarticular effusion ... Hospitalization for surgery was advised and the following symptomatic medical therapy recommended: Indoxen 25 mg. 1 tablet twice ...
- Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (Hashimoto thyroiditis)
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40 years old female that became symptomatic 10 years ago with relapsing fever episodes, persisting ... was placed with indication to follow a substitution treatment with Eutirox 50 mcg at a dosage of 1 tablet daily with ... Hashimoto’s thyroiditis advising a substitution treatment with Eutirox (dosage of 100 mcg daily) during which, however, the ...