Peritoneal Cancer - Articles
Ixempra for ovarian cancer
by
Mark Levin
... cancer and I found at least two ongoing phase II studies: Ixabepilone in Treating Patients With Relapsed and/or Refractory Stage III or Stage IV Ovarian Epithelial or Primary Peritoneal Cancer. NCT00030706 and Ixabepilone in Treating Patients With Ovarian Epithelial or Primary Peritoneal Cancer That Has Not Responded to Previous Chemotherapy NCT000 ...
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SIGNS OF OVARIAN CANCER
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Cascia T.
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... ss but alas, too late. She wrote a book to heighten awareness. Gene Wilder is her widower. Kathy's Story: this is the story of Kathy West As all of you know, I have Primary Peritoneal Cancer. This cancer has only recently been identified as its OWN type of cancer, but it is essentially Ovarian Cancer. Both types of cancer are diagnosed in the sa ...
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
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xoxomarebear
The doctors' best guess, which can't be confirmed, about what happened with Vivienne is Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis. Basically, they feel that early on the bacteria caused a problem in Vivienne's gut that lead to a rapidly increasing accumulation of fluid (the ascites). The prompt administration of antibiotics killed off the bacteria, but wi ...
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Mesenteric or peritoneal cyst
by
Catherine
Daddy's nose, mama's lips in a pout, Reuben's face, Buttercup at 32 wksDaddy's nose, mama's lips in a pout, Reuben at exactly the same age, 32 wksThe cyst is the middle black circular mass, measuring 2cmJust woken from a 4hr afternoon nap in time for the night shift. Whoops. Dr Neil Silverman was so very compassionate upon our arrival, saying as s ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 1
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Kamal S.
... HUS recurrence. My transplant had failed and the kidney was causing a few problems. So, it had to be removed. I was by then, back on thrice a week dialysis.I had heard about Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) and also read about it on the internet. This was a modality of dialysis where a catheter is inserted into the peritoneal cavity of the body. The perit ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 3
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Kamal S.
... .The only problem is that the machine is not portable so you need to do manual exchanges during the day when you go out of town or are away from home.We did a test called the Peritoneal Equilibrium Test. This test basically determines the rate of transfer of solutes across the peritoneal membrane. The test would indicate whether I was a 'low transp ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 4
by
Kamal S.
... essary to me. I could not have been more wrong.The exit site puss culture identified the bacteria as the dreaded pseudomonas aeruginosa.I had attended a medical conference on Peritoneal Dialysis about a year back sponsored by Baxter. Usually such conferences are attended by doctors and technicians. But I knew one of the senior executives in Baxter, ...
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Six years of normalcy - Peritoneal Dialysis Part 2
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Kamal S.
... the catheter was in place.A day after the surgery, I had a lot of sharp stinging pain in my lower abdomen. They said it was the tip of the catheter touching nerve ends in my peritoneal cavity. The pain would go once fluid was infused. but that could not be done till the surgery wound healed.A few days passed. It was time for the first infusion of ...
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