Sentences with phrase «systemic treatments for»

The most common forms of systemic treatments for psoriasis are methotrexate, cyclosporine and retinoids.

«Systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma has long consisted of just one agent — sorafenib - which was shown to provide a significant improvement in life expectancy almost 10 years ago, but no other agent has surpassed its benefits,» said the study's principal investigator Dr Jordi Bruix, Head of the BCLC group at the Hospital Clínic and Scientific Director of the Network for Biomedical Research for Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD).

Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, has launched Itrafungol ™ (itraconazole oral solution), the only marketed FDA - approved * systemic treatment for dermatophytosis (ringworm) caused by Microsporum canis in cats.

GREENFIELD, Ind. (January 10, 2016)-- Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, has launched Itrafungol ™ (itraconazole oral solution), the only marketed FDA - approved * systemic treatment for dermatophytosis (ringworm) caused by Microsporum canis in cats.

Not exact matches

New treatment recommendations that guide physicians caring for children with systemic JIA are now published in the ACR journals, Arthritis & Rheumatism and Arthritis Care & Research.

They include treatment options for patients with and without active systemic disease, along with varying degrees of inflammation of the joint lining (synovitis), as well as recommendations for repeat TB screening for JIA patients receiving biologics.

Treatment options for moderate to severe psoriasis include phototherapy; systemic medications such as acitretin, cyclosporine and methotrexate; and biologics, which block the immune system responses that fuel inflammation.

The study was a randomized phase II trial testing whether the addition of local treatment, in the form of consolidative radiation therapy, to the standard treatment of systemic therapy improved progression - free survival for patients with limited metastatic NSCLC.

«Additional studies are needed to see if these nanoparticles could also effectively deliver other antitumor genes for the treatment of brain tumors as well as systemic cancers.»

The toxicity of some therapies, when delivered as a systemic treatment to the whole body, for example, is another obstacle.

In the current study, a number of prognostic factors such as age, stage, comorbidity, hormonal receptor and HER2 status and differences in systemic treatments (medication after surgery) were included and considered as possible explanations for the previously reported survival differences between BCT and mastectomy.

It's hoped this latest insight will lead to the widespread use of antigen - specific immunotherapy as a treatment for many autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes, Graves» disease and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Long - term goal of the project will be to visualize and manipulate tau expression also in a systemic context (organotypic slice preparations, mouse brain) by affecting the function of tau mRNA - containing neuronal granules as a potential drug target for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

The FDA granted approval to Yescarta ™ (axicabtagene ciloleucel, Kite / Gilead) for the treatment of adult patients with several types of non-Hogdkin large B cell lymphoma that is refractory or has relapsed after at least two previous systemic treatments.

Looking at treatments possible in the next 5 years, I think that a treatment for senile systemic amyloidosis, telomerase gene therapy, and thymus rejuvenation, in addition to the anti-aging therapies that are already available, would be able to allow some of the supercentenarians (110 +) to be able to make it past 122.

Effective systemic therapy for the treatment of stage III melanoma has emerged.

Last year the Food and Drug Administration approved Benlysta (belimumab), the first new treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus in more than 50 years, and Yervoy (ipilimumab), the first drug shown to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma.

Viral vectors have the main adverse effect of inducing neutralizing antibodies, while several non-viral vectors present toxic effects (e.g. respiratory system).14, 15 In an effort to deliver efficiently the necessary drug concentration to the tumor site and prevent systemic adverse effects, the concept of administering local treatment for lung cancer has been explored.

However, these anthelminthics were administered orally for the treatment of nematode infections and showed mostly poor resorption and, therefore, systemic toxicity data are frequently not available.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the oral Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor ibrutinib for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory marginal zone lymphoma who require systemic therapy and have had at least one prior anti-CD20 therapy.

The meeting focused on evidence from preclinical models and patients that indicate SMN has a role outside of the CNS and the implications of these data for systemic treatment of SMA.

In a study involving 12 patients with bladder cancer, who also underwent prostate surgery as part of their treatment, she identified the ICOS molecule as the first immunologic marker identified in both tumor tissues and the systemic circulation that can be used as a biomarker for monitoring of anti-CTLA-4 treated patients as a possible marker of therapeutic activity.

Implications of the new IASLC staging system and adenocarcinoma classification for systemic treatment of NSCLC - Eric Lim, MB, ChB, MD, MSc, FRCS (C - Th)

We offer a program focused on the treatment of pediatric hypertension, as well as a combined program with our rheumatology colleagues for the treatment of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder) and other combined kidney / rheumatologic conditions.

This would prevent the toxicity seen when patients are treated with systemic immune - boosting therapies and reduce the need for multiple rounds of T - cell treatment.

While novel treatment opportunities for heart disease, like microRNA therapeutics, are often effective, systemic delivery induces a low cardiac exposure and can lead to undesirable effects in other tissues.

Preliminary analyses of the results of the first combination trials, which show higher response rates than with either agent alone, offer some optimism that these locoregional therapies will find application — as treatment for patients who can not tolerate systemic immunotherapies, to alleviate locoregional morbidity, and perhaps even to «prime» the immune system.

Results of the multicenter Systemic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP - BD) study support the notion that antidepressants like Prozac may not be appropriate for bipolar patients.

Today is my second anniversary since beginning treatment for Lyme Disease and multiple other systemic infections.

Steroids are used as the main treatment for certain inflammatory conditions, such as systemic vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels) and myositis (inflammation of muscle).

An evolutionary new treatment concept for eliminating systemic Candida albicans from the blood and soft tissues of the body.

If topical treatments aren't effective enough for your psoriasis, you may want to consider systemic treatments.

Other common medical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis include phototherapy or systemic agents (strong drug treatments), and I've found that many psoriasis patients simply aren't interested in going down this path.

Naturopath William Vayda advised readers to discard their usual aversion to pharmaceutical drugs in the case of Nystatin, in view of its superiority over natural treatments for the systemic elimination Candida albicans.

It remains unclear how exactly systemic inflammation could damage the integrity and function of the BBB and alter cognitive function, and the mechanisms need to be elucidated in order to develop new treatments for Alzheimer's focusing on vascular and other interface pathology.»

If MG is having repeat occurrences of pink eye, you should visit your Veterinarian again especially if there are swollen lymph nodes and other symptoms; a prolonged treatment for the pink eye may be required as well as a systemic treatment as well.

All in - contact pets should be treated and, in some cases (severe and / or chronic infestation, multiple pets in the household, affected humans in the household), environmental treatment is recommended.1 Although no veterinary products are labeled for the treatment of Cheyletiella dermatitis, a variety of topical and systemic drugs have been found to be effective.

Systemic review of clinical trials of treatments for osteoarthritis in dogs.

Traditional treatments for osteosarcoma include amputation of the affected limb to address local pain issues, followed by systemic chemotherapy for the treatment of distant metastasis.

We monitor your pet throughout its lifetime for early signs of systemic disease so that, if necessary, treatment can begin sooner, and many times, be more effective.

A physical exam by one of our veterinarians would allow us to plan the best treatment course for your pet that might include oral or inject - able pain medications and topical or systemic antibiotic therapy.

If your pet currently has a systemic illness that requires extended technician and doctor care or requires treatment more than twice daily, they will be upgraded to hospitalization status in order for us to be able to provide them with the special care that they require.

Supportive care for systemic vasculitis, thrombocytopenia and organ dysfunction is often needed during Stage 1 treatment.

Systemic anticancer chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for canine lymphoma.

A treatment plan may be topical or systemic, but it should be managed for all dogs that came in contact with the affected dog.

Specific treatments for infection may include systemic antibiotics and antifungal drugs.

In the case of any pet under treatment for cancer, I also recommend supplementation with vitamin C. Cancer in the body creates systemic free radicals that vitamin C helps to eliminate.

Surgery For all but systemic cancers, such as lymphoma, surgery to remove a tumor is still usually the initial step in treatment.

In middle to late stages, treatment is as for the early stage, but some dogs also need systemic anti-inflammatory medication.

As IPCC, in a search for objectivity in uncertainty assessment, has turned more to describing uncertainty in terms of the characteristics of ensembles of model outcomes, the deficiency in such an approach (its exclusion or limited treatment of systemic, structural uncertainty in models) has become increasingly apparent to the community (Winsberg 2010; Knutti et al. 2008; Goldstein and Rougier 2009).