Immunlogy Flashcards
IBD treatments
Azathioprine, ciclosporin, mercaptopurine, and methotrexate
Folic and MTX
Used to reduce MTX toxicity , given weekly on different day to MTX
Antiproliferative drugs
Azathioprine or mycophenolate
Calcineurin inhibitors
Ciclosporin or tacrolimus
Other immunosupressantas
Sirolimus or corticosteroids
Corticosteroid immunosuppresent side effect
Suppress clinical signs of infection and allow diseases such as septicaemia or tuberculosis
What to give after severe chicken pox exposure
Varicella–zoster immunoglobulin (VZIG)
What to give after measles exposure
Immunoglobulin
What is azathioprine metabolised to
Mercaptopurine
When should azathioprine dose be reduced
Allopurinol
What antiproliferative drug has a more selective mode of action
Azathioprine
What corticosteroid has an antitumour effect
Prednisolone
Ciclosporin side effects
Nephrotixic
Ciclosporin indication
Organ and tissue transplantation, for prevention of graft rejection following bone marrow, kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung, and heart-lung transplantation, and for prophylaxis and treatment of graft-versus-host disease
What calcineurin inhibitor is more neurotoxic
Tacrolimus
Sirolimus inhibitor
Renal transplant
Tacrolimus side effects
Neurotoxic, cardiomyopathy, affects glucose metabolism, liver toxicity jaundice
What is MS
Chronic, immune-mediated, demyelinating inflammatory condition of the central nervous system, which affects the brain, optic nerves and spinal cord, and leads to progressive severe disability
Relapsing-remitting MS
Periods of exacerbation of symptoms and remission/stability
What is secondary progressive MS
Progressive disability unrelated to relapses occurs 6-10 years after onset, steadily worsens
Active MS disease definition
2 clinically significant releases in last 2 years
Treating active MS disease
Interferon beta, teriflunomide, dimethyl fumarate
Drug MS treatment
Interferon beta, glatiramer acetate, fingolimod and natalizumab, vit D
Very active disease treatment
Natalizumab alemtuzumab
Secondary progressive MS treatment
Interferon beta
Chronic MS symptoms
Neurological dysfunction, fatigue, spasticity, visual problems, and emotional lability
Treating MS symptoms
Stop smoking, methylprednisolone
Treating MS fatigue/ impaired mobility
Amantadine, exercise
MS spasticity treatment
Baclofen, gabapentin, dantrolene, tizanidine, cannabis
MS emotional lability treatment
Amitryptyline
MS oscilopsia is/treatment
Feeling like always moving, gabapentin, memantine
Prostate cancer risk factors
> 70 afro caribbean, obesity, family
Prostate cancer symptoms
Urinary outflow obstruction, or, pelvic or back pain due to bone metastases
How is severity/treatment decided
Baseline prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, tumour grade (Gleason score), the stage of the tumour, the patient’s life expectancy (based on age and comorbid conditions), treatment morbidity, and patient preference.
Prostate cancer treatment
Watchful waiting, active surveillance, prostatectomy, radiotherapy (such as external beam), brachytherapy, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy
Prostate hormone therapy
Anti-androgen or LHRH or gonadorelin antagonist or bilateral ochidectomy
What should be given in conjunction to radical radiotherapy
Androgen deprivation therapy
Treating metastatic prostate cancer
Chemo with docetaxel
What to give to those hoping to maintain sexual function
Bicalutamide
Preventing skeletal events in metastatic prostate cancer
Zoledronic acid