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Allopurinol is used to reduce urate formation in conditions where urate deposition has already occurred or is predictable. The specific diseases and conditions where it is used include gouty arthritis, skin tophi, kidney stones, idiopathic gout; uric acid lithiasis; acute uric acid nephropathy; neoplastic disease and myeloproliferative disease with high cell turnover rates, in which high urate ...
Allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) typically occurs in persons with preexisting kidney failure. [3]: 119 Weeks to months after allopurinol is begun, the patient develops a morbilliform eruption [3]: 119 or, less commonly, develops one of the far more serious and potentially lethal severe cutaneous adverse reactions viz., the DRESS syndrome, Stevens Johnson syndrome, or toxic epidermal ...
Lesinurad/allopurinol (trade name Duzallo) is a fixed-dose combination drug for the treatment of gout. [1] It contains 200 mg of lesinurad and 300 mg of allopurinol.In August 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration approved it for the treatment of hyperuricemia associated with gout in patients for whom target serum uric acid levels have not been achieved with allopurinol alone. [2]
In immunology, cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a form of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that can be triggered by a variety of factors such as infections and certain drugs. [3]
An equianalgesic chart is a conversion chart that lists equivalent doses of analgesics (drugs used to relieve pain). Equianalgesic charts are used for calculation of an equivalent dose (a dose which would offer an equal amount of analgesia) between different analgesics. [1]
Since its inception, the hospital has trained over 6,000 doctors, 501 dentists, 4,513 nurses, 2307 midwives, 471 perioperative nurses, 1,062 laboratory scientists, 576 environmental health officers tutors, 451 nurses/midwives/public health educators, 326 primary health care tutors, 590 community health officers, 640 physiotherapists, 551 health ...
2. Seattle Storm: G Olivia Miles (Notre Dame). Goodbye Jewell Loyd, hello Olivia Miles.The Storm parted with Loyd in a three-team trade with the Las Vegas Aces and Los Angeles Sparks, but acquired ...
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. [1] [2] [3] A 76-page volume with 3 page appendix published by Harrison of Pall Mall, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others.