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  2. Pulp capping - Wikipedia

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    A further study testing medical Portland cement, mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) and calcium hydroxide in indirect pulp treatment found varying success rates of 73–93%. This study concluded that indirect pulp capping had a success rate of 90.3% regardless of which material was used but stated that it is preferable to use non-resorbing ...

  3. Mineral trioxide aggregate - Wikipedia

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    The examples are chitosan and gelatin, which has been used with injectable bone grafting paste. MTA Plus is used with gelatin complex as antiwashout agent. MTA Angelus Fillapex sealer contains less than 20% tri/dicalcium silicate powder in a salicylate carrier medium similar to Sealapex.

  4. Community-acquired pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    CAP is common, affecting people of all ages, and its symptoms occur as a result of oxygen-absorbing areas of the lung filling with fluid. This inhibits lung function, causing dyspnea, fever, chest pains and cough. CAP, the most common type of pneumonia, is a leading cause of illness and death worldwide [citation needed].

  5. List of chemotherapeutic agents - Wikipedia

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    For example, the CHOP regimen consists of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisone. Besides chemotherapy, medical oncology (pharmacotherapy for cancer) includes several noncytotoxic classes of therapy, such as hormonal therapy and targeted therapy (biologic therapy). Those agents are described in the relevant articles.

  6. List of antineoplastic agents - Wikipedia

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    1.09 Alkylating agents: Altretamine: PO Alkylates DNA. Recurrent or advanced ovarian cancer Myelosuppression, peripheral neuropathy, seizures and hepatotoxicity (rare). Bendamustine: IV: Alkylates DNA. Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, mantle cell lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Myelosuppression, hypokalaemia and tachycardia. Busulfan: IV, PO ...

  7. Dimercaprol - Wikipedia

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    Dimercaprol has been used as an adjunct in the treatment of the acute encephalopathy of lead toxicity. It is a potentially toxic drug, and its use may be accompanied by multiple side effects. Although treatment with dimercaprol will increase the excretion of cadmium, there is a concomitant increase in renal cadmium concentration, so that its ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The gaping lack of a medical model in the U.S., one without the baggage of residential treatment, has not gone unnoticed by policy makers. “If buprenorphine is being used and being bought on the street to self-treat addiction, that’s a reflection of a need to have better medically assisted treatment programs out there,” said the CDC’s ...

  9. Chemotherapy regimen - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy regimens are often identified by acronyms, identifying the agents used in the drug combination.However, the letters used are not consistent across regimens, and in some cases - for example, "BEACOPP" - the same letter combination is used to represent two different treatments.