Evaluation of a pharmacist-led medication assessment used to identify prevalence of and associations with polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use among ambulatory senior adults with cancer. [PDF]
, 2015 PURPOSE: The use of multiple and/or inappropriate medications in seniors is a significant public health problem, and cancer treatment escalates its prevalence and complexity.
Andrel-Sendecki, Jocelyn +4 more
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Pauci-immune glomerulonephritis in individuals with disease associated with levamisole-adulterated cocaine: a series of 4 cases. [PDF]
, 2014 Exposure to levamisole-adulterated cocaine can induce a distinct clinical syndrome characterized by retiform purpura and/or agranulocytosis accompanied by an unusual constellation of serologic abnormalities including antiphospholipid antibodies, lupus ...
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, 2009 A 40-year-old woman who recently received a diagnosis of Graves' disease comes for a follow-up visit. She has been taking methimazole, at a dose of 10 mg daily, and is now euthyroid, but for the past 3 months, she has had bothersome eye symptoms ...
Bartalena, Luigi +1 more
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Long-Term Antithyroid Drug Therapy in Smoldering or Fluctuating-Type Graves’ Hyperthyroidism with Potassium Iodide [PDF]
Endocrinology and MetabolismGraves’ hyperthyroidism is characterized by stimulation of the thyroid gland by thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibodies (TRAbs). Antithyroid drug (ATD) continuation is recommended as long as the thyroid gland is stimulated. Goiter size, thyroidal
Ken Okamura
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Clinical Usefulness of TSH Receptor Autoantibody Using Different Assay Systems [PDF]
, 2011 Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody (TRAb) plays an important role in Graves' disease (GD). A second-generation measurement system has been developed and we have gotten a benefit by the system clinically. In this study, we determined 4 kinds of
Mimura, Yukari +2 more
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Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis—A Misleading Challenge in the Emergency Department
Diagnostics, 2020 Despite its’ life-threatening potential due to cardiac severe dysrhythmia in the context of severe hypokalemia, thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) often goes unrecognized.
Stefana Bilha +4 more
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Graves' Disease: Can It Be Cured? [PDF]
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2019 Whether or not Graves' hyperthyroidism can be really cured, depends on the definition of “cure.” If eradication of thyroid hormone excess suffices for the label “cure,” then all patients can be cured because total thyroidectomy or high doses of 131I will
Wilmar M. Wiersinga
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Atrial Fibrillation and Hyperthyroidism [PDF]
, 2005 Atrial fibrillation occurs in 10 – 15% of patients with hyperthyroidism. Low serum thyrotropin concentration is an independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation. Thyroid hormone contributes to arrythmogenic activity by altering the electrophysiological
Francis, Johnson, Jayaprasad, N
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Hashimoto encephalopathy: Neurological and psychiatric perspective [PDF]
, 2009 Hashimoto encephalopathy (HE) is an autoimmune disease with neurological and neuropsychiatric manifestations and elevated titers of antithyroid antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Patients are mostly women.
Lačković Maja +2 more
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