Current Therapy, 1953

Suxamethonium-modified electroconvulsive therapy in the frail and elderly.

[Pulmonary arterial hypertension].

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease characterised by vascular remodelling of the small lung arteries leading to a decrease of the vessel lumen and eventually to occlusion. According to the current guidelines, PAH is defined by a pulmonary arterial pressure ≥ 25 mmHg, an arterial wedge pressure ≤ 15 mmHg, and an elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR > 3 WU). The current...

The mode of action of electro-convulsive therapy.

Antibiotic Therapy *

The advent of each new antibiotic is not an unmixed blessing. The advantage of acquiring another agent whose range of antibacterial activity parallels that of already existing antibiotics is somewhat offset by the necessity of re-evaluating the known in the light of the new unknown. And involved is not just the effectiveness of one agent versus another, but the relative cost, potential toxicity...

Effects of intensive sex steroid hormone therapy in advanced breast cancer.