BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The optimal treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis of the leg is undefined. The main study objective was to assess the efficacy and safety of unmonitored high doses as compared to low doses of unfractionated heparin (UFH) for prevention of venous thromboembolic complications in patients with superficial thrombophlebitis of the thigh. DESIGN AND METHODS Sixty conse...

The Renoprotection of Optimal Antiproteinuric Doses (ROAD) study was performed to determine whether titration of benazepril or losartan to optimal antiproteinuric doses would safely improve the renal outcome in chronic renal insufficiency. A total of 360 patients who did not have diabetes and had proteinuria and chronic renal insufficiency were randomly assigned to four groups. Patients receive...

Pertussis toxin (PTX) is used to promote development of autoimmune diseases. The mechanism(s) are still incompletely understood. We dissected the innate and adaptive immune responses in a PTX-dependent model of autoimmune retinal disease, experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU), a Th1-driven disease of the neural retina elicited in F344 rats with a peptide derived from the retinal antigen i...

Leukemic relapse of the eye has sometimes been cured. In this paper we review the cases of leukemic infiltration of the eye tissue with the aim of ascertaining whether an optimal treatment can be suggested. Data from 25 children (16 males, 9 females) with isolated ocular relapse (10 in therapy, 15 off therapy) of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in first complete remission are examined. The p...

Objective: The aim of this meta-analysis is to estimate efficacy and safety of different daily doses of oral direct factor Xa inhibitor for thromboprophylaxis after total hip or knee replacement. Methods: This paper searched the databases such as Pubmed, Medline, Web of Science and Embase databases. 15 RCT studies were included and dichotomousdata were presented as the risk ratio (RR) with a 95...

objectives: graft versus host disease (gvhd) is a life threatening reaction in the stem cell transplantation process. nowadays cyclosporine is the most commonly utilized agent for gvhd prophylaxis and it has a major role in successful transplantation. cyclosporine has been applied for many years in this field but it could be stated that currently no general consensus is available for its optima...

background: the objective of this study is to optimize the effective dose of heparin and ligustrazine hydrochloride injection (lhi) for drug combination. materials and methods: the animal clinical study of lhi was performed by the rat’s model of induced arteriovenous shunt thrombosis. experimental animals were grouped into several groups and separately treated with both lhi (20, 40, 80 mg/kg, i...