An important complication of chemotherapy is thromboembolic events that can occur during treatment course. In this way, Warfarin can be used as an efficient prophylactic agent to prevent these complications. Although bleeding is a common adverse effect of Warfarin, eosinophilia is a rare side effect of this drug. We have reported a 5-year-old boy with Burkitt lymphoma who underwent chemotherapy...

conclusions according to our study, phototherapy should not be used as prophylactic therapy for all vlbw infants, but rather it should be individualized in order to maintain low bilirubin levels. results the mean bilirubin level on the first day in both groups exhibited no significant difference. the peak serum bilirubin was 7.7 ± 1.4 and 8.5 ± 2.1 mg/dl in the prophylactic and therapeutic grou...

OBJECTIVES A number of randomized clinical trials of prophylactic sclerotherapy have been carried out with different results. The main objective of this study was to determine if the literature provides evidence that prophylactic sclerotherapy increases the survival rate of patients with esophageal varices. METHODS Meta-analysis was used to evaluate the effect of prophylactic sclerotherapy on...

362 Maedica A Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 4 No.4 2009 Comment on a paper: R Prymula, CASiegrist, R Chlibek et al – Effect of prophylactic paracetamol administration at time of vaccination on febrile reactions and antibody responses in children: two open-label, randomised controlled trials; Lancet 17 October 2009; Volume 374:9698; 1339-1350 Prophylactic paracetamol lowers the effect of ...

Background: This study was conducted to reveal that whether i.v. injection of oleuropein, the most potent polyphenolic antioxidant in olive leaf, has any effect on the magnitude of reperfusion arrhythmia in anesthetized rats or not. Methods: Eighty male Wistar rats were divided into 8 groups of 10 each: groups 1 and 5 were assigned as the prophylactic and treatment control groups, groups 2 and ...

Tamoxifen (TAM) is a potent anticancer agent known to interrupt the enhanced estrogen activity of malignant mammary gland cells, The mechanism of tamoxifen’s anti-tumor activity is primarily due to its anti estrogen action. Female Swiss albino mice were used in the present study and divided into:normal control group, two Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) control groups [treated interaperitonealy(...

In the article by Bedrosian et al. (1) entitled " Population-based study of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy and survival outcomes of breast cancer patients, " the authors used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and

Knee injury is one of the major problems in sports medicine, and the use of prophylactic knee braces is an attempt to reduce the occurrence and/or severity of injuries to the knee joint ligament(s) without inhibiting knee mobility. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of one recently designed prophylactic knee brace and two neoprene knee sleeves upon performance of healthy ath...