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<p>Adherence to Benzathine Penicillin G Secondary Prophylaxis and Its Determinants in Patients with Rheumatic Heart Disease at a Cardiac Center of an Ethiopian Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital</p>
... of secondary prophylaxis to RHD patients 16 by mentioning lack of money (38%), far distance from hospital (26%), fear of medication side effects and painful injection (23%), and lack of knowledge about the ...
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Adherence to secondary prophylaxis for acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a systematic review
... the secondary prophylaxis program, conflicting health priorities, and no effective strategy for dealing with absent patients leading to staff frustration and ...
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Adherence to secondary prophylaxis and disease recurrence in 536 Brazilian children with rheumatic fever
... and secondary prophylaxis, which lead to recur- rent episodes of RF, we recommend implementation of a registry, and a system of active search of missing patients in every service responsible for the ...
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Severe Hyponatraemia under Carbamazepine for Secondary Prophylaxis of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy
... This case shows that treatment of early PTE with CBZ may result in severe hyponatraemia causing cerebral edema and deterioration of pre-existing TBI. Replacement of CBZ by levetiracetame resolves side effects of CBZ. CBZ ...
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Sharing success - understanding barriers and enablers to secondary prophylaxis delivery for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
... of secondary prophylaxis for RF/RHD has been identified as a public health priority in Australia ...of secondary prophylaxis ...of secondary prophylaxis by Aboriginal and Torres ...
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Throat culture positivity rate and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of beta hemolytic streptococci in children on secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease
... is secondary prophylaxis with penicillin injection every 3 or 4-weeks ...of secondary antibiotic preven- tion is challenged by missed opportunities for treatment, poor access to health care and ...
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Discontinuation of secondary prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with HIV infection who have a response to antiretroviral therapy
... received secondary prophylaxis against recurrent pneumonia, which was discontinued between October 1996 and January 2000, during highly active antiretroviral treatment after their CD4 cell counts had risen ...
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Approaches to improving adherence to secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a literature review with a global perspective
... ARF/RHD, secondary prophylaxis providers could be rewarded for each dose delivered or when uptake targets are ...for secondary prophylaxis there is evidence relating to other elements of ...
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Are the Currently Recommended Doses of Benzathine Penicillin G Adequate for Secondary Prophylaxis of Rheumatic Fever?
... Some previous studies have used penicillin levels of 20 ng/mL as indicative of a protective level.9”0 How- ever it does remain uncertain as to how to define a truly protective level of p[r] ...
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Visceral leishmaniasis and HIV coinfection: current perspectives
... Abstract: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum. The burden of VL is concentrated in tropical and subtropical areas; however, HIV infection has spread VL over a hyperendemic ...
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Risk of pneumocystosis after early discontinuation of prophylaxis among HIV infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy
... Other than pneumocystosis, we also assessed the inci- dence of bacterial infection and parasitic infection after discontinuation of primary or secondary prophylaxis. A diagnosis of bacterial infection was ...
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A Trial of a 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in HIV-Infected Adults
... such a study would have required a large sample and a costly, complex, multisite design. We chose to conduct a secondary-prophylaxis study, since it could be performed with a smaller sample and more rapid ...
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Cost–utility analysis of prophylaxis versus treatment on demand in severe hemophilia A
... and secondary prophylaxis is cost-effective compared both with treatment on demand and with a hybrid ...and secondary prophylaxis were €40,229 to €40,236 versus an on-demand ...
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Abstract
... and secondary prophylaxis of cutaneous malignant ...is prophylaxis. Primary prophylaxis consists of minimizing UV radiation exposure, achieved by reducing exposure to the sun, wearing proper ...
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Primary or secondary antifungal prophylaxis in patients with hematological maligancies: efficacy and damage
... treating six episodes experienced by three patients who had experienced at least two persistent candidemia attacks. POS was discontinued because of diarrhea (n = 2, 10%) or elevated liver enzymes (n = 1, 5%) in 19 ...
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Fast breakthrough of resistant cytomegalovirus during secondary letermovir prophylaxis in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient
... Case presentation: A 44-year-old male patient with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) experienced a CMV-reactivation within the first 4 weeks of allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation. Administration of LMV was ...
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Prophylaxis in older Canadian adults with hemophilia A: lessons and more questions
... for prophylaxis over on-demand therapy by both patients and health care professionals may be the reason for this observation in a country with unlimited ac- cess to factor ...while prophylaxis in children ...
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Cutting to the Core of the Issue: Emerging Strategies To Reduce Prostate Biopsy Related Infections
... ST131 has disseminated globally and is responsible for much of the increase in antimicrobial-resistant extraintestinal E. coli infec- tions (34). Fluoroquinolone resistance in E. coli, including ST131, is most commonly ...
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VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM PROPHYLAXIS IN MEDICAL INPATIENTS AND ADHERENCE TO GUIDELINE RECOMMENDATIONS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
... VTE prophylaxis in medical inpatients at a large teaching ...VTE prophylaxis were evaluated and the data were recorded during October 2014 to March 2015 in medical wards of “Alzahra” hospital, Isfahan, ...
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Anaesthetists’ knowledge of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis: a prospective descriptive study
... for prophylaxis, duration of pro- phylaxis and re-dosing ...of prophylaxis was found to be good, while the data on spectrum of bacterial cover appear to indicate acceptable ...
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