Saro Arakelians, PharmD

Immune Globulins are injections that are used to treat immunodeficiency disorders.

After chickenpox, the virus stays inactive in nerve tissue near the spinal cord.

IBS can be caused by muscle contractions in the intestines, nervous system, severe infections, early life stress, and changes in the gut microbes.

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When direct oral anticoagulants are taken, especially for the first time, patients may be at risk of bleeding.

Vitamin K works against warfarin and can be used as an antagonist for it.

The lower the glomerular filtration rate, the lower the stage, the worse kidney disease is.

Severe persistent asthma is the worse type of asthma.

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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is the most severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Physicians may ask for either or both of comprehensive metabolic panel or complete blood count tests every 3 to 6 months, based on the conditions patients have.

Daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj (Darzalex Faspro, Janssen) was approved in July in combination with pomalidomide and dexamethasone for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma following their first or subsequent relapse.

Vitamin D promotes calcium absorption in the gut and maintains adequate serum calcium and phosphate concentrations to enable normal bone mineralization and to prevent hypocalcemic tetany.

The lower a person’s T-score, the lower the bone density.

Both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cause swelling in the airways that makes it difficult to breathe.

The goal of treating heart failure is to reduce symptoms, improve heart function, and increase ejection fraction.

A number of prescription medications are indicated for the treatment of this aggressive disease.

Octagam 10% is indicated for the treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura in adults and dermatomyositis (DM) in adults

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Depending on the patient needs, the prescriber can prescribe one or both types of insulin.

Truvada is a medicine people at risk for HIV should take to prevent infection with the virus from various ways, such as sex or injection drug use.

Forced exhalation volume in one second and forced vital capacity can determine the stage severity for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Study examines whether dapagliflozin is cost-effective when added to standard of care for patients who have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Its important for the patients with heart failure to know how much their ejection fraction is.

Patients on metformin should check their vitamin B12 levels on regular basis to make sure it is at normal range.

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Patients at risk for diabetes should try to focus on adhering to their medications, diet and exercise to reduce their blood sugars, which will decrease their A1C levels.

Vviloxazine (Qelbree) is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor that provides a new treatment option for patients aged 6 to 17 years with ADHD.

Reducing blood pressure is the major determinant of reduction in cardiovascular risk in both young and older patients with hypertension.

Lipophilic statins for dyslipidemia penetrate muscle more easily than hydrophilic statins and are associated with a higher incidence of adverse effects.