Book Review: Biochemistry for the Medical Sciences

Book Review: From the Physical to the Social Sciences

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

– BACKGROUND: Combination of local and regional anesthetic agents are widely used in emergency and surgical setting and the interaction between the medications used in general anesthesia and these local and/or regional anesthetic becomes a growing concern in current patient management system. The interaction between general anesthetic agents and the local anesthetic agents given epidurally, spi...

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

– AIM: This prospective study was designed to assess whether the use of GnRH antagonists can improve the success rate of controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) in intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatments. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Eighty patients were divided into two groups: GnRH antagonist group (Group A, n=40) and control group (Group B, n=40). Patients in Group B underwent COS with recombinant ...

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

goiter. There is no clear cut off value of circulating thyroid hormones (TH) defining the thyroid storm, since the results of laboratory tests show, in most cases, similar serum levels of TH to those observed in uncomplicated thyrotoxicosis2. Nevertheless, the rapid recognition of the thyrotoxic crisis and the institution of immediate drug therapy is important in limiting the morbidity and mort...

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

umn. It is estimated that more that 10% of tumour patients develop symptomatic spinal metastases2,3. The vertebral bodies are reached largely via the bloodstream and neoplastic substitution of the bone tissue causes progressive structural destruction leading to loss of stability and compression of the intracanal nerve structures. Refinement of the protocols for treating tumour patients has led ...