This suggests that two serial bronchial washings are a beneficial and reasonable option for detection of TB and evaluation of drug resistance in patients who have negative AFB smears or who are unable to produce sputum samples in intermediate TB-burden countries.
Considering the safety of fish oil and the increased cardiovascular risk seen in lupus, fish oil seems a reasonable option for treatment of 'minimal lupus', which is defined as the presence of arthralgia and a strongly positive antinuclear antibody.
In this high-risk patient population, micafungin alone or in combination with other antifungal agents is a reasonable option for treatment of invasive aspergillosis.
Fluconazole, on the other hand, is an antifungal that is considered by the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines to be a reasonable option for treatment of invasive candidiasis, a common and often fatal condition in preterm VLBW infants [ 13].
"The vast majority of the time, it has been a family or a geriatric care manager who calls me up, not a primary care doctor saying, 'I need help with this older person.'" Dr. Hollmann said, "I think it is a reasonable option for some number of geriatricians to have this kind of practice, but hopefully it won't be too many, because we want Medicare patients to have access to care".
Moreover, results from the WHI follow-up study did not support use of HRT for chronic disease prevention, although it remains a reasonable option for the management of moderate to severe menopausal symptoms [ 3].
Since the physical properties of Y suggest that this radionuclide will be more effective in larger tumor masses and Lu in smaller tumor masses and metastases, the combination treatment of Y- and Lu-labeled SST analogs seems a reasonable option for managing tumors of varying sizes and SSTR subtypes.
Substitution of anthracycline with taxane is also a reasonable option to reduce the risk of cardiac toxicity.
Distraction arthroplasty appears to be a reasonable option to provide a good percentage of patients a satisfactory period of time of improvement.
Surveillance of UTIs for the first 3 months is a reasonable option for improving graft function free of kidney infections and assuring the quality of life for the kidney transplant population and the loss of graft function, especially for female patients and those receiving suspicious deceased grafts.
