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Immunosuppressive - Articles
How to best design RCTs for new transplant immunosuppressives
by
Matt S.
Posted
Tue 20 Oct 2009 12:00am
The ability to adequately suppress the immune system and prevent allograft rejection has been a true success story over the past several decades. With the advent of drugs such as calcineurin inhibitors, induction agents such as thymoglobulin, azathioprine and later MMF, the vast majority of patients who undergo kidney transplant can count on ...
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Urge Congress to Support the Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage Bill
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Matt S.
Posted
Wed 05 Oct 2011 1:21pm
Lifetime immunosuppressive drug coverage is part of protecting the health of kidney transplant recipients and under current medicare rules this coverage only extends for 36 months post transplant. During this period medicare covers 80% of immunosuppressant drug costs, while patients and or insurers cover the rest. Patients who qualify for Med ...
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Transplant Immunosuppression on Step 1
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Manu V.
Posted
Thu 29 Dec 2011 4:27pm
Like any workaholic second-year medical student, I'm spending part of the holiday break studying for Step 1 of the boards (the standardized Big Test after the first two years of medical school). But since it is supposed to be a vacation, I felt justified in studying a more familiar topic, so transplant immunosuppression it is.
Wow. Everyon ...
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My Love-Hate Relationship with Immunosuppressant Medicines
by
Andrew
Posted
Sat 23 Oct 2010 8:06pm
Towards the end of a whirlwind of recent travels, a never ending headache set in. Many factors historically caused me headaches including migraines, stress, and reaction to medications (see earlier post re. Humira). When I was driving home from work yesterday, I began to connect together a set of other symptoms…constantly clogged left side of ...
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Primary CNS lymphoma: a tumor that preys on the immunosuppressed
by
pathologystudent
Posted
Mon 12 Sep 2011 6:00am
Here’s another primary CNS tumor that arises in the brain parenchyma: primary CNS lymphoma.
This is a rare tumor, overall: it accounts for 2% of all extra-nodal lymphomas, and only 1% of intracranial tumors. However, in immunosuppressed patients (like patients with AIDS, or patients who have had a transplant), it is the most c ...
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Immunosuppression & Training
by
Alberto R.
Posted
Fri 23 Jan 2009 6:26pm
Y esterday, the signs and symptoms of URTI (upper respiratory tract infection) started to present themselves in the afternoon and in such a manner that in less than an hour I found myself submerged in a state of sickness. I had a sore throat, I was sneezing, had a running nose, I had a feeling of fullness in my head, my body ached and I went qu ...
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Comparing the less toxic immunosuppressants for vasculitis.
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Katie C.
Posted
Mon 29 Dec 2008 6:04pm
Quick and interesting: The New England Journal of Medicine did a comparison of azathioprine and methotrexate for maintaining the remission status of vasculitides such as Wegener’s. These are the much less caustic drugs used post cyclophosphamide and steroids. The study found the drugs to have surprisingly similar results.
More here: modernmedi ...
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