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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Tacrolimus
Tacrolimus
Tacrolimus (also FK-506 or Fujimycin) is an immunosuppressive drug that is mainly used after allogeneic organ transplant to reduce the activity of the patient's immune system and so lower the risk of organ rejection. It is also used in a topical preparation in the treatment of severe atopic dermatitis, severe refractory uveitis after bone marrow transplants, exacerbations of minimal change disease, and the skin condition vitiligo. It is a 23-membered macrolide lactone discovered in 1984 from the fermentation broth of a Japanese soil sample that contained the bacteria Streptomyces tsukubaensis...
Tacrolimus - List of case studies
- End Stage Renal Disease
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with thymoglobulin induction and maintenance tacrolimus, MMF and prednisone. The Eculizumab group (n=3) received drug at ... Eculizumab, eculizumab, prednisone, thymoglobulin, tacrolimus. Treatments : Renal Transplants, PTCA, stenting to ... immunosuppression with thymoglobulin, induction tacrolimus, maintenance tacrolimus, MMF, Complement inhibition. ...
- Treatments
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physiotherapy Induction chemotherapy Induction tacrolimus Induction therapy Infiltrations Infiltrations with ...
- ABO-incompatible (ABOI) renal transplantation
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triple-drug immunosuppression consisting of tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and prednisone , starting 1 week before ... Medicines : rituximab, triple-drug immunosuppression, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, Glycosorb ABO colums , ... rituximab, triple-drug immunosuppression, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, Glycosorb ABO colums , ...
- Drugs
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Tachipirina Tachipirina(Paracetamol) Tacrolimus Tamoxifen Tarceva Tauxib Tavor Taxanes ...