Nervous system tumors treatment

Patients with seizure disorders should not take bupropion. Similarly, an alternative treatment should be considered in the case of patients with a history of significant head trauma, a central nervous system tumor, or an active eating disorder. 

Fontanesi, J., Heideman, R.L., Muhlbauer, M., Mulhem, R., Sanford, R.A., Douglass, E.C., Kovnar, E., Ochs, J.J., Kuttesch, J.F., Tai, D. et al. (1995). High-activity interstitial irradiation in the treatment of pediatric central nervous system tumors a pilot study. Pediatr. Neurosurg. 22 289-97. 

The study of the Central Nervous System (CNS) is the primary clinical indication for the use of extracellular Gd(III) agents. The majority of these pathologies are brain tumors, and three quarters of them are represented by metastases occurring in patients undergoing treatment for systemic cancer (Fig. 1). Other brain diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and cerebral injuries can be also investigated by contrast-enhanced MRI. 

Head trauma, meningitis, childhood fevers, brain tumors, and degenerative diseases of the cerebral circulation are conditions often associated with the appearance of recurrent seizures that may require treatment with anticonvulsant drugs. Seizures also may be a toxic manifestation of the action of central nervous system (CNS) stimulants and certain other drugs. Seizures often occur in hyperthermia (febrile seizures are very common in infants) sometimes in eclampsia, uremia, hypoglycemia, or pyridoxine deficiency and frequently as a part of the abstinence syn-... 

Malignant neoplasms of the nervous system occur with an incidence of 5-6/ 100,000 inhabitants/year [197], Besides meningeomas cerebral gliomas are the most frequent primary brain tumors. Primary treatment comprises surgical resection, irradiation and chemotherapy. However, survival and quality of life are still limited. For the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of brain tumors. 

For pharmacologic research, - and K2-adrenoceptor antagonist drugs have been very useful in the experimental exploration of autonomic nervous system function. In clinical therapeutics, nonselective antagonists are used in the treatment of pheochromocytoma (tumors that secrete catecholamines), and -selective antagonists are used in primary hypertension and... 

IL-2 has been approved for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma and also has shown good activity in malignant melanoma. Both of these tumors are refractory to chemotherapy. IL-2 has also been used investigationally, both alone and in combination with LAK cells, with chemotherapy and with other biological response modifier s (BRM s) to treat a variety of different cancers (e.g., head and neck carcinoma, colorectal cancer, central nervous system cancer etc). In addition to cancer therapy, IL-2 has been used to treat patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus and it has been used ex vivo to generate antiviral T cells which were reinfused into patients (Lewko and Oldham, 2003 Dorr, 1993). 

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