Sentences with phrase «immunosuppressant diseases»

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Currently, there are no targeted therapies for affected children, who are usually treated with topical steroids and, in severe disease, with immunosuppressant drugs.

Immunosuppressant drugs can have severe side effects, increasing the risk of heart disease, infection, cancer and diabetes.

Doctors treat skin inflammation with topical steroids, or in more severe cases, administer immunosuppressants, similar to those used to treat other autoimmune diseases.

Patients with Crohn's disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, B cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia have also developed the devastating brain disease after immunosuppressant therapy with natalizumab and other drugs.

In the past, the virus usually only developed into brain disease in individuals with suppressed immune systems, such as AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressant medications.

Why people on immunosuppressant drugs for autoimmune conditions have a higher incidence of an often - fatal brain disease may be linked to a mutation in a common virus, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

The disease is now most common in multiple sclerosis patients who have the virus and who receive an immunosuppressant therapy called natalizumab.

For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, medications — including steroids, immunosuppressants or anti-inflammatory drugs — are used to slow the progression of disease.

Or, if you have an autoimmune disease, or are on immunosuppressants, it could stimulate your immune system too much.

Glomerular disease will be treated through a combination of immunosuppressant medication, angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibition, low - dose aspirin and a special diet low in protein, phosphorous, calcium and sodium and high in potassium and polyunsaturated fatty acids such as omega - 3 and omega - 6.

Lymphoma can respond to some extent to chemo, but it is not a cure, and in most cases, we will treat your cat with what is called palliative meds - meds to make your cat feel better, but not fix the disease, which usually consist of high dose steroids and / or immunosuppressants.

We treat this disease with supportive care, antibiotics, low - protein diets and sometimes immunosuppressants.