Disease classes

Ventricular extrasystoles are treated only if they may degenerate into life-threatening arrhythmia. In milder forms the proarrhythmic risk of the diugs overshadows their benefits. In such cases (3-adrenoceptor antagonists may be attempted. For the treatment of ventricular extrasystoles, such as series or runs of extrasystoles, amiodarone or sotalol are used. In the absence of structural heart disease, class I anti-arrhythmic diugs can be considered an alternative. However, they may not be administered during the post-infarction period. 

Rule 14 deals with devices used for contraception or the prevention of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases - Class 11b, for example, condoms, contraceptive diaphragms and if they are implantable or long-term invasive Class 111, for example, intrauterine devices. 

Current European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines recommend ACE-inhibitor therapy in CAD patients with co-existing indications for ACE-inhibitors, such as hypertension, heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction, prior MI with left ventricular dysfunction, or diabetes (class I, level of evidence A). These guidelines also recommend ACE-inhibitor therapy in all patients with angina and proven coronary disease (class Ila, level of evidence B). 

Mortality from Each Class of Disease Disease Class Found and Expected in Three Series Studied3 ... 

The three kinds of disease process we have surveyed in this chapter are the natural analogues of experimental probes of the brain systems that normally alter brain states in animals. Not surprisingly, they alter consciousness in informative ways in humans. Strokes are the equivalent of electrolytic and excitatory neurotoxic lesions seizures are the equivalent of direct electrical and chemical stimulation alcohol is the equivalent of parenteral drug administration. In reading across the three disease classes in search of unifying concepts, I hope to stimulate a new era of experimental work in animals, as well as to celebrate what we have accomplished in the arena of human neuropsychology. 

In view of his extensive metastatic disease classed as good prognosis, the treating oncologist has decided to prescribe the BEP regimen as follows ... 

The most prevalent past-year mental disease classes arc anxiety disorders (18%), mood disorders (10%), impulse-control disorders (9%), and substance abuse (15%). 

This chapter deals with the documentation of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge of rural communities and phyto-sociology of ethnobotanical resources of district Kachchh in western India with a major objective of setting up conservation priorities of ethnobotanical resources. We recorded the ethnobotanical knowledge from about 900 respondents spread across various age groups, gender, educational and socio-economic strata. We documented more than 10200 information units on medicinal and non-medicinal (i.e. domestic) uses of plants. While 259 species were reported for 16 human and 10 veterinary disease classes, 193 plant species were reported for 18 domestic uses. In total 320 species were reported useful by the local communities. The availability of these species was recorded by sampling 24 representative locations in the district. Based on reports of purpose-part used combinations of species, two different indices (the Use-Value Richness, and Use-Value Diversity) were computed to record overall ethnobotanical use-values of each species. 

Importantly, while 193 species were described for their 18 non-medicinal uses, 259 species were reported for their medicinal value for treating 16 human and 10 veterinary diseases classes (Table 1). 

Use category No. of species Disease classes No. of species (Human uses) No. of species (Veterinary uses)... 

Expression profifing coupled with appropriate statistical analysis holds promise not only in cancer classification, but also by extension to many other areas of disease research and management. Transcription profile databases maybe assembled from samples that differ by tissue source, disease state or progression, morbidity/mortahty, response to drugs and other treatments, and countless other variables. New patterns may be revealed and disease classes refined or discovered. Patients may be more finely stratified in clinical trials so that the success of treatments can be better judged and the expectation is that the diagnosis and treatment of disease will improve substantially as a result. 

The database incorporates information about 54 nosological entities pertaining to chemical-produced acute intoxications, which give rise to hepatotoxic effects of any type of severity, with manifestations presented by 455 signs. The differential diagnosis within a definite disease class is predominantly based on clinical features of an individual disease, i.e. etiopathogenesis. 

Nevertheless, although the nonsedating H antihistamines have substantially improved the acceptabiUty and clinical efficacy of this class of compounds, these do not provide complete rehef eye disease responds less well than nasal disease, of the rhinitis symptoms nasal congestion responds poorly, breakthrough symptoms occur at high poUen counts, and only some 70% of patients report excellent to good treatment responses. Considerable research therefore still continues in the H antihistamine field. New antihistamines are continually being introduced. 

New impetus was given to photomedicine by development of lasers that are compatible with the clinical environment. These include HeNe, Ar ion, mby, and tunable dye lasers operating in the continuous wave (cw) mode. Prior to the advent of lasers in medicine, only the treatment of newborn jaundice, and the appHcation of long wavelength uv irradiation in conjunction with adininistration (or topical appHcation) of psoralen class sensitizers to treatment of skin diseases (86), principally psoriasis, were clinically important phototherapies. 

Members of the aminoglycoside class of antibacterial antibiotics retain an important role in the control of bacterial infectious disease, especially in... 

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