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A study of adjunctive treatments in a Veterans Administration medical setting found that of 53,807 depressed patients that received adjunctive treatment because of unsatisfactory response, 49.7% received a second antidepressant and 33.1% received an atypical antipsychotic (Valenstein et al. 2006).
Each of these nine patients had discontinued therapy because of unsatisfactory response (either no response or loss of response).
Four patients dropped out because of side effects; in three patients infliximab was stopped between 14 and 30 weeks because of lack of clinical response; one patient was lost to follow up because of change of residence; and one was lost to follow-up after 14 weeks because of unsatisfactory response and fear of potential side effects (information obtained by telephone contact).
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Specifically, we wished to investigate the degree of tumour shrinkage after a change of chemotherapy regimen because of an unsatisfactory response to ddAC.
During the study, 1% of TNF antagonist-naïve patients with PsA (five of 376) and 2% of patients with PsA previously treated with TNF antagonists (one of 66) discontinued adalimumab because of an unsatisfactory response.
During the complete study, 1% of patients with AS (10 of 924) without prior anti-TNF therapy and 3% of patients with AS (11 of 326) with prior anti-TNF therapy withdrew because of an unsatisfactory response to adalimumab.
During the complete treatment period, 6 (1.4%) patients withdrew because of unsatisfactory therapeutic response and 26 (5.9%) patients withdrew because of adverse events.
In particular, only one of 143 patients withdrew as a result of an unsatisfactory response, indicating that no general loss of response occurred during long-term treatment.
In the case of an unsatisfactory response to a triptan or headache recurrence, a NSAID can be used [38].
In the case of an unsatisfactory response to verapamil, the second choice drug is prednisone at the dosage of 50 mg, in association with a proton-pump inhibitor.
One way to overcome this shortcoming is to evaluate the early response to therapy and then switch to another treatment in case of an unsatisfactory response.
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