Medical therapy: Options and uses

Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-81

  Carmichael, John D ^a   Bonert, Vivien S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Dopamine agonists; Growth hormone; Growth hormone receptor antagonists; Medical treatment; Review; Somatostatin receptor ligands

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; PASIREOTIDE; PEGVISOMANT; PLACEBO; RALOXIFENE; SOMATOSTATIN 14; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ACROMEGALY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLOATING; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CONTROL; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLATULENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INSOMNIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NOSE CONGESTION; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ACROMEGALY; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; LIGANDS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN;

EID: 39149126331     PISSN: 13899155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11154-007-9068-7     Document Type: Review

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