Lanreotide Autogel in the Treatment of Persistent Diarrhea following a Total Colectomy
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Lanreotide Autogel in the Treatment of Persistent Diarrhea following a Total Colectomy
Diarrhea is one of the most common complications following colectomy in patients with slow transit constipation (STC). Early postoperative diarrhea is usually treated with opioid agonists; however, to date, published data on the management of persistent diarrhea after colectomy for STC are scarce. Here, we report a case of severe diarrhea after a total colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis. One...
متن کاملLanreotide Autogel® in the Treatment of Acromegaly
Background: In acromegaly expert surgery is curative in only about 60% of patients. Postoperative radiation therapy is associated with a high incidence of hypopituitarism and its effect on GH production is slow, so that adjuvant medical treatment becomes of importance in the management of many patients. Objective: To delineate the role of lanreotide Autogel® in the treatment of acromegaly. Meth...
متن کاملThe Use of Lanreotide Autogel® in the Treatment of Intestinal Obstruction in a Patient with Adenocarcinoma
Intestinal obstruction is a common complication in patients with advanced abdominal or pelvic cancer. The synthetic somatostatin analogue octreotide can help relieve nausea, vomiting and pain in patients with inoperable obstruction. Here, we report a case of recurrent intestinal obstruction in a patient with adenocarcinoma. Although the obstruction was resolved after 3 days of treatment with oc...
متن کاملLanreotide autogel-induced acute pancreatitis in a patient with acromegaly.
Somatostatin and somatostatin analogues are considered very useful for the treatment of hormone producing tumors and acute variceal bleeding. They have also been proposed for the treatment of acute pancreatitis and for the prevention of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis although clinical trials have failed to show any efficacy. The authors report the case of a 45-...
متن کاملClinical utility of lanreotide Autogel® in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
Somatostatin analogs (SSAs), which were initially used to control hormonal syndromes associated with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs), have been successfully proposed as antiproliferative agents, able to control tumor growth in patients affected by gastroenteropancreatic (GEP)-NENs. The development of long-acting formulations of SSAs which require only weekly or monthly injections can improve pa...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6528,2090-6536
DOI: 10.1155/2015/686120