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If you have symptoms and/or tests show that your organs are involved, you will be offered a medication called cyclophosphamide. This belongs to a group of medicines called immunosuppressants....
Rituximab is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) if: [ 20 ] Further cyclophosphamide treatment would exceed the maximum cumulative cyclopho...
The use of FC with rituximab (FCR) is now considered first-line treatment in patients able to tolerate this chemotherapy regime - see below. [ 5 , 12 ] Fludarabine is recommended as second line ...
Hydroxychloroquine. Cyclophosphamide is reserved for treatment of life-threatening disease, particularly lupus nephritis, vasculitis and cerebral disease.
Relapsing disease may go into remission following treatment with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide or ciclosporin. One third of patients have one episode, one third develop occasional rela...
Stages III-IV: Rituximab, in combination with: Cyclophosphamide, vincristine and prednisolone (CVP). Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone (CHOP)....
Examples of these medications include azathioprine and cyclophosphamide. More recently other medications are being given which work to reduce inflammation in your body. , Behcet's dise...
The main groups of chemotherapeutic agents are: [ 1 ] Alkylating agents, eg, cyclophosphamide, busulfan, chlorambucil, melphalan, lomustine, carmustine, dacarbazine. Anthracyclines...
EGPA treatment and management [ 12 ] High-dose steroids are usually adequate for treatment. Cyclophosphamide is administered in patients with severe or life-threatening complication...
The most common combination used is with the medicines: cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone. (This combination is often called CHOP.)
If these treatments don't work then immunosuppressant drugs such as methotrexate and cyclophosphamide may be used. They can take several weeks to work. Some of the new 'biologi...
In a 2015 UK-based postal survey 7% of the women had symptoms of overactive bladder and 20% had mixed urinary incontinence. [ 1 ] A 2018 study of adults aged over 40 years in South Korea showed noctu...
An important German study showed that the addition of rituximab to the usual chemotherapy agents (fludarabine and cyclophosphamide) improved not just progression-free survival but also overall...
These include azathioprine , ciclosporin , cyclophosphamide , methotrexate and mycophenolate mofetil , and biological medicines . What is the outlook (prognosis) for people with ...
Examples of immunosuppressant medicines which may be used for pemphigus vulgaris are cyclophosphamide , azathioprine , ciclosporin , methotrexate or mycophenolate mofetil . Immunosuppre...
Sirolimus . Cyclophosphamide . Leflunomide . These medicines are used to treat all sorts of conditions, some of the more common ones including: Cancers such as lymphoma or...
Examples of these treatments are steroids , methotrexate , cyclophosphamide , azathioprine , and mycophenolate mofetil . The medicines that are used will depend on the individual situati...
Corticosteroids are the mainstay of therapy in rheumatoid interstitial lung disease. Cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil have been used with varying success. Many of the therapeutic...
Drugs - eg, cyclophosphamide. Girls: Gonadal dysgenesis: Turner syndrome , Prader-Willi syndrome, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Swyer syndrome (45,XY).
Drugs High-dose corticosteroids (intravenous methylprednisolone 7 to 15 mg/kg/day in divided doses) with cyclophosphamide or azathioprine are of benefit. Intravenous steroids are then c...