Gynecomastia Associated with Indinavir Therapy

Gynecomastia and potent antiretroviral therapy.

The use of pharmacokinetically guided indinavir dose reductions in the management of indinavir-associated renal toxicity.

OBJECTIVES Indinavir is associated with nephrotoxicity. Therapeutic drug monitoring of indinavir improves clinical outcome, but there is little data regarding therapeutic drug monitoring for patients with established indinavir-associated renal impairment. We prospectively studied the use of therapeutic drug monitoring in patients with virological success but established nephrotoxicity on an ind...

Gynecomastia.

Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. During an evaluation for low back pain, a 67-year-old man is found to have gynecomastia on the right side that is nontender on palpation. Other than a body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) of 32, the physical examination is normal. His medical history is notable only for hyperlipidemia; his only me...

Gynecomastia.

Gynecomastia is defined as benign proliferation of glandular breast tissue in men. Physiologic gynecomastia is common in newborns, adolescents, and older men. It is self-limited, but can be treated to minimize emotional distress and physical discomfort. Nonphysiologic gynecomastia may be caused by chronic conditions (e.g., cirrhosis, hypogonadism, renal insufficiency); use of medications, suppl...

Arthritis Associated With Low Dose Methimazole Therapy: A Case Report.

Here in this paper, we report a 31-year-old case admitted with symptoms of hyperthyroidism that was then diagnosed with Grave's disease (GD) and underwent treatments with a low dosage of methimazole (10 mg/day). 20 days after treatments initiations, she developed antithyroid arthritis syndrome. This patient experienced arthritis and arthralgia in at least 4 joints. And all autoimmune and microb...