Mycophenolate mofetil has shown its efficacy both as induction and maintenance therapy of selected cases of lupus nephritis.
For the maintenance therapy of breast cancer, drugs which act as antagonists/partial agonists of hormone receptors against the breast tissue are used in the conventional clinical practices.
Drug replacement and maintenance therapy of methadone has been used all over the world in maintenance treatment programmes of opioid dependence.
Subjects were to have been on oral amiodarone maintenance therapy of 200 mg/day for at least 10 months.
He was on treatment with cyclosporin A (2 × 150 mg) and deflazacort (1 × 30 mg) for maintenance therapy of PG.
Thus, there is clearly a need for additional treatment options that are safe, well tolerated, and effective for the maintenance therapy of bipolar disorder.
This treatment achieved a partial response, and for a time the patient remained stable with maintenance therapy of doxorubicin alone (50 mg/m2).
Despite convergent evidence and corresponding recommendations in the national and international guidelines for the use of lithium for acute and maintenance therapy of affective disorders (Pfennig and Bauer 2013; Grunze et al. 2013), the use of lithium is still uncommon.
Despite the unambiguous evidence of lithium's anti-suicidal effects and recommendations in national and international guidelines for its use in acute and maintenance therapy of affective disorders, the use of lithium is still underrepresented.
A randomized trial comparing the efficacy and safety of imiglucerase (Cerezyme) infusions every 4 weeks versus every 2 weeks in the maintenance therapy of adult patients with Gaucher disease type 1. Imiglucerase (Cerezyme) has been the standard of care for treatment of Gaucher disease, a lysosomal storage disorder resulting from deficiency of glucocerebrosidase, since its approval in 1994.
In obese patients, patients with malabsorption syndromes, and patients on medications affecting vitamin D metabolism, two to three times higher doses (at least 6000 10,000 IU/day vitamin D) are recommended to treat vitamin D deficiency, followed by maintenance therapy of at least 3000 6000 IU/day [24].
