J G Gums, L M Lopez, G P Quay, G H Stein, D L McCarley
{"title":"Comparative evaluation of enalapril and hydrochlorothiazide in elderly patients with mild to moderate hypertension.","authors":"J G Gums, L M Lopez, G P Quay, G H Stein, D L McCarley","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200905","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Initial treatment of elderly hypertensive patients with an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor is currently discouraged due to such patients' typical low-renin profile. To validate this principle, we studied 38 elderly males (aged greater than or equal to 65 years) with mild to moderate hypertension, comparing hemodynamic responses to and subjective impressions of enalapril or hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ). After gradual withdrawal of existing antihypertensive therapy and a four-week, single-blind placebo period, each patient was randomized in a double-blind fashion to receive either enalapril 10-20 mg/d or HCTZ 12.5-25 mg/d for two to four weeks. Combination therapy with both agents was employed if either alone failed to reduce seated diastolic BP to less than or equal to 90 mm Hg. Equivalent proportions of patients receiving enalapril or HCTZ (8 of 19 and 10 of 19, respectively; p = ns) responded with significant reductions in systolic and diastolic BP in seated and standing positions. Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril. In patients receiving enalapril before HCTZ, BP changes were minimal. No adverse effects were observed in the enalapril group but occurred in an equivalent fraction of patients in the other groups (4 of 10 HCTZ alone, 6 of 20 enalapril + HCTZ; p = ns). We conclude that enalapril may be considered a reasonable monotherapeutic antihypertensive agent in some elderly patients. Combination with HCTZ is beneficial in patients who fail to respond adequately to HCTZ alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"680-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13988827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estrogen priming in advanced breast cancer.","authors":"M Maghsoodnia, W M Holleran, M W DeGregorio","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200903","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The successful treatment of advanced breast cancer has reached a plateau in recent years. Estrogen priming is a new combination therapy involving estrogens, antiestrogens, and chemotherapy that may result in the improvement of treatment responses. This investigational therapy is designed to synchronize cell cycles with estrogens and antiestrogens in order to enhance the activity of cell cycle-specific anticancer drugs. The pharmacological manipulation of cell growth coupled with appropriate antineoplastic agents could result in a new treatment approach for advanced breast cancer. The rationale and current status of estrogen priming are reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"672-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200903","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14196174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Pucino, B D Danielson, J D Carlson, G L Strommen, P R Walker, C L Beck, D J Thiege, D S Gill
{"title":"Patient tolerance to intravenous potassium chloride with and without lidocaine.","authors":"F Pucino, B D Danielson, J D Carlson, G L Strommen, P R Walker, C L Beck, D J Thiege, D S Gill","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200904","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypokalemia is a common electrolyte abnormality. Intravenous repletion therapy with potassium chloride (KCl) in concentrations greater than 80-100 mEq/L is not recommended due to patient intolerance. Since this guideline at times may be clinically impractical, this study was designed to examine use of peripheral vein infusions of high concentration KCl therapy. Tolerance to KCl 20 mEq/65 ml iv with and without lidocaine 50 mg was evaluated in 18 hypokalemic subjects in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study. Subjective and objective assessments of adverse effects were determined throughout the infusion period. Pain was assessed by both verbal descriptor and visual analog scales and correlated significantly following infusion of KCl with or without lidocaine. Multivariant analysis demonstrated differences in pain perception between solutions, with significantly less pain following KCl with lidocaine versus KCl infusions. Transient adverse effects occurred in both groups, but the incidence was not statistically different. Use of concentrated iv KCl infusions may benefit hypokalemic patients with hypervolemia and/or severe potassium deficits. Addition of lidocaine clearly improves patient tolerance to intravenous KCl replacement.</p>","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"676-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200904","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14196175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug package information in India.","authors":"M C Nahata","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"719"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14342977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Midazolam disinhibition reaction.","authors":"B L Lobo, L J Miwa","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200924","url":null,"abstract":"five to ten days to symptomatic patients; all patients responded to treatment. Nine asymptomatic patients with bacteriuria in group B did not require antibiotics. These data suggest that CONS can be isolated from the urine in children < 10 years of age, but these are unlikely to be pathogenic; and when CONS bacteriuria is associated with symptoms of UTI in patients > II years old, antibiotic treatment is indicated for optimal outcome. MILAP C. NAHATA, Pharm.D. DWIGHTA. POWELL, M.D. LORI DARIELLO-YODER, B.S. MARIO J. MARCON, Ph.D. Colleges ofPharmacy and Medicine Ohio State University Departments ofPediatrics and Microbiology Children's Hospital Columbus, Ohio 43210","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200924","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14342980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extreme warfarin intoxication secondary to possible covert drug ingestion.","authors":"R G Richmond, W T Sawyer, P D Aiello, C M Lindley","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200910","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A young adult male patient presented with an excessively prolonged prothrombin time (greater than 90 sec) following approximately two weeks of therapy with oral warfarin sodium, in doses between 2.5 and 5 mg/d. Repeated administration of vitamin K and fresh frozen plasma was required to reverse the anticoagulation and maintain a normalized prothrombin time. Serial warfarin plasma concentration measurements were used to interpret the apparently unusual prothrombin time response profile and to detect the possibility of covert drug ingestion.</p>","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"696-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14344968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Therapeutic drug interchange: the battle heats up.","authors":"D C McLeod","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200917","url":null,"abstract":"THERAPEUTIC INTERCHANGE! The battlelines have been reconnoitered and the major protagonists and antagonists are headed for the front. The old nemesis \"substitution\" has been dressed up as \"interchange:' ~hey are in fact equivalent terms in this therapeutic field of battle. As health professionals we are so used to making war on cancer, battling AIDS, holding the line ?~ arthritis, ,and bombarding malaria-infested jungles, It IS no surpnse that we struggle tenaciously for a limited health care turf and love to do a little interprofessional skull-bashing on Saturday nights. Therapeutic interchange is a far more explosive issue than generic interchange, which still causes propaganda ~arfare after almost 20 years of enabling state legislanon encouraged by the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA). Generic interchange occurs only after patent expiration. Therapeutic interchange can result in the substitution of another chemical entity, on or off patent, for a substance still under patent protection, even a newdrug just reaching the market after costly research and development. Expensive sales forces, clever and extensive marketing strategies, and decades of company image-building can be thwarted overnight, the pharmaceutical industry fears, if therapeutic substitution is carried to its possible conclusion. The debate has suddenly escalated an order of magnitude due to a position taken by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), a respected organization representing academic pharmacy, many of who~e memb~r~ are generally pro-industry and supportive of positrons taken by the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA). The following is from the AACP News:","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"716-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14342976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J A Karboski, P J Godley, P A Frohna, M W Horton, W J Reitmeyer
{"title":"Marked digoxin-like immunoreactive factor interference with an enzyme immunoassay.","authors":"J A Karboski, P J Godley, P A Frohna, M W Horton, W J Reitmeyer","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200913","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case in which digoxin-like immunoreactive factors (DLIF) interfered with an enzyme immunoassay in a patient with renal insufficiency is reported. A 79-year-old woman was found to have a serum digoxin concentration (SDC) determined by enzyme immunoassay of 5.0 ng/ml. Although all subsequent SDC determined by the enzyme immunoassay system were elevated, identical samples run on a fluorescence polarization immunoassay revealed SDC within the therapeutic range. Marked DLIF-related assay interference has been reported to occur with some digoxin assays; however, the enzyme immunoassay methods have never been reported to cross-react to the magnitude seen in this case.</p>","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"703-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200913","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14196176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soft-tissue damage and intravenous phenytoin.","authors":"D Grinder, C P Guastella, M Pellegrino","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200925","url":null,"abstract":"five to ten days to symptomatic patients; all patients responded to treatment. Nine asymptomatic patients with bacteriuria in group B did not require antibiotics. These data suggest that CONS can be isolated from the urine in children < 10 years of age, but these are unlikely to be pathogenic; and when CONS bacteriuria is associated with symptoms of UTI in patients > II years old, antibiotic treatment is indicated for optimal outcome. MILAP C. NAHATA, Pharm.D. DWIGHTA. POWELL, M.D. LORI DARIELLO-YODER, B.S. MARIO J. MARCON, Ph.D. Colleges ofPharmacy and Medicine Ohio State University Departments ofPediatrics and Microbiology Children's Hospital Columbus, Ohio 43210","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"725-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200925","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14342981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unique two-stage intervention to modify prescribing trends.","authors":"S Gupta, R L Bachand, P J Jewesson","doi":"10.1177/106002808802200926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106002808802200926","url":null,"abstract":"withgoodpalpablepulses.The maintenance ivwasflowing wellin her leftarm. In theevening, loosebilateralwristrestraintswereplacedbecauseof continued seizure activity. At 9 pm the left hand wasalso found to be cyanotic,but with poor pulses on palpation. The next morning, pulseswere poor in both hands and a subclavian catheter was placed for venous access. Her platelet counts were normal, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Both C-3 and C-4 serum concentrations werenormal. The patient's righthand healedwithno residuallossof function. Duringthe three weeks of healing,cyanosis graduallyresolvedafter extensive desquamation. The left hand had persistent cyanosis,and gangrenous changesin the left hand resulted in amputation above the wrist three and one-half weeks after admission.","PeriodicalId":77709,"journal":{"name":"Drug intelligence & clinical pharmacy","volume":"22 9","pages":"726-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/106002808802200926","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14342982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}