Myasthenia Gravis : Drugs
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Marked improvement or complete relief of symptoms occurs in more than 75% of people treated with prednisone, and some improvement occurs in most of the rest. Much of the improvement occurs in the first six to eight weeks of therapy, but strength m...
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Azathioprine lowers your body's immune system. The immune system helps your body
fight infections. The immune system can also fight or "reject" a transplanted organ such as a
liver or kidney. This is because the immune system treats the new organ as an invader.
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Azathioprine is a non-specific immunosuppressant antimetabolite that can be used as a chemotherapeutic agent to inhibit lymphocyte purine metabolism. In the United States, azathioprine is also known by the brand name Imuran.
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Immunosuppressive antimetabolite.
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Cyclophosphamide is a cancer (chemotherapeutic) medication. Cyclophosphamide interferes
with the growth of cancer cells and slows their growth and spread in the body.
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Antineoplastic agent and immunosuppressant; nitrogen mustard-derivative alkylating agent.
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Cyclophosphamide is an anticancer (antineoplastic) agent. It also acts as a suppressor of the immune system.
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Cyclosporine lowers your body's immune system. The immune system helps your body
fight infections. The immune system can also fight or "reject" a transplanted organ such as a
liver or kidney. This is because the immune system treats the new organ as an invader.
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Immunosuppressive agent and disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD); cyclic polypeptide.
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Cylosporine is an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection of kidney, liver, and heart transplants, to prevent graft-versus-host disease in patients receiving allogeneic bone marrow transplants, and for severe autoimmune diseases that are resistant to corticosteroids and other therapy. Cyclosporine, also spelled as cyclosporin and ciclosporin, takes several brand names in the United States, including Neoral, Sandimmun, Sandimmune, and Sang Cya.
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Immune globulin is a concentrated solution of antibodies, pooled from donated blood, which is sometimes given to cancer patients whose own immune systems are either not working or are suppressed as a side effect of treatment. Immune globulin can also be called gamma globulin; in the United States some of the brand names are Gamimune, Gammagard, Gammar-P, Iveegam, Polygam, Sandoglobulin, and Venoglobulin.
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Prednisone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Prednisone prevents the release of
substances in the body that cause inflammation.
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Synthetic glucocorticoid; minimal mineralocorticoid activity.
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Neostigmine affects chemicals in the body that are involved in the communciation
between nerve impulses and muscle movement.
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Pyridostigmine affects chemicals in the body that are involved in the communciation
between nerve impulses and muscle movement.
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