Epirubicin seems to cause venous sclerosis

Epirubicin for breast cancer may cause considerable venous sclerosis.

lecting data, conducting the analysis, and drafting the original article. All his coauthors helped to develop the study design, interpret the results, draft the manuscript, and revise the article for intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the final version. SGM is the guarantor. Funding: This project was supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Re...

Cause-of-death certification--not as easy as it seems.

Multiple sclerosis, an unlikely cause of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency: retrospective analysis of catheter venography

OBJECTIVES It is unknown if a relationship exists between multiple sclerosis and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency and if this venous pathology is a causal factor for multiple sclerosis or is a product of a neurological disease. Even so, one should expect that if multiple sclerosis were the cause for venous lesions, then patients with an extended history of the disease would present wi...

Epirubicin

nalogue development is an intensively pursued goal. e rationale behind this is the selection of agents with cn "^proved therapeutic index with respect to the parent ^Pound but with an enhanced spectrum of activity, reduced toxicity. Sj P'^ubicin is a new anthracycline antibiotic, syntheed in an effort to find a cytotoxic agent with a better Cjr0raPeutic index than that of Adriamycin the parent ...

Multiple sclerosis in time and space--geographic clues to cause.

Geographically MS describes three frequency zones. High frequency areas (prevalence 30+ per 100 000) now comprise most of Europe, Israel, Canada, northern US, southeastern Australia, New Zealand, and easternmost Russia. Medium frequency areas include southern US, most of Australia, South Africa, the southern Mediterranean basin, Russia into Siberia, the Ukraine and parts of Latin America. Preva...