The primary therapy for early stage Parkinson's disease is to give patients more dopamine, Dr. Lansbury said.
Even so, Dr. Lichtman said, 2-CdA remains the primary therapy for the hairy cell form of leukemia and has subsequently been used to treat multiple sclerosis.
(2) They are administered as the primary therapy for individuals with advanced cancer for which there is no other alternative therapy.
The primary therapy for GERD has been proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
Arterial bypass graft implantation remains the primary therapy for patients with advanced cardiovascular disease; however, there is no available synthetic small-diameter vascular graft.
To identify and review original studies on balloon and rigid dilatation as primary therapy for laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) in pediatric patients.
Since depletion or suppression of one of several types of effector cells does not significantly improve the severity of the disease, combined TCR-based immunotherapy should be considered as a primary therapy for T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases.
From July 2001 to July 2011, 48 patients (mean age of diagnosis 58.1 years) who completed initial therapy for ovarian carcinoma with no known cancer recurrence who underwent concurrent PET/CT and serum CA-125 within 3 to 9 months of completion of primary therapy for ovarian carcinoma were identified from the radiology database (Table 1).
Life style intervention, including dietary changes, is suggested as a primary therapy for the metabolic syndrome (Grundy et al. 2005) and dietary fibres, including β-glucans, have been identified as important substances in the management of the metabolic abnormalities within the syndrome (Delzenne and Cani 2005; Galisteo et al. 2008).
In an effort to improve the ability to detect small volume disease, we have evaluated the usefulness of N -acetylglucosamine:β1,4-galactosyltransferase as a potential biomarker for the detection of subclinical disease after the completion of primary therapy for ovarian cancer.
The primary therapy for PCP is the combination of the anti-folate inhibitors trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) together with adjunctive corticosteorids.
