Intrathecal

Drugs given in this location and in this way are called intrathecal medications. ❋ Penny Simkin (2010)

8 When carrying out high-risk procedures, such as intrathecal chemotherapy, it is essential to ask a colleague to provide an independent check and to follow any hospital protocol in this regard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Receiving treatment by way of intravenous, intraperitoneal or intrathecal chemotherapy;” ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fellow will gain experience in the use of patient controlled analgesia, continuous epidural analgesia, peripheral nerve blocks, intrathecal morphine, and oral analgesic therapy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If your child is felt to be a candidate for intrathecal (pump) Baclofen, we first will carry out a drug trial. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The epidural needle is inserted, then the smaller spinal needle is inserted through it and into the intrathecal space for the administration of a spinal narcotic. ❋ Penny Simkin (2010)

This would increase intrathecal pressure, i.e. compress the internal organs. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

I'm scaring the wits out of myself by looking at photos of other people's intrathecal baclofen pumps which is what people with what I've got end up with. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I favour a high-velocity intrathecal lead injection, personally. ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

The same needle can be used to insert medicines to prevent or treat leukemia in the brain or spinal cord (intrathecal chemotherapy). ❋ Unknown (2005)

It's working wonders when we combine it with intrathecal methotrexate and radiation. ❋ Kellerman, Jonathan (1986)

Talk to your neurologist about having an intrathecal baclofen pump surgically implanted to dispense the baclofen directly to the affected areas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This study reports on the feasibility of using intrathecal methotrexate (ITMTX) in treatment unresponsive multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with progressive forms of the disease. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, importantly Sanfilippo A, which is a disease of the central system for which there are no available therapies at all, also is meant to be administered through an intrathecal port, the same port that is being used in the Hunter CNS program, and patient studies will start in the first half of this year for that population. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed successful MCAO and intrathecal administration. ❋ Sophia L Goericke (2010)

Intensive systemic and intrathecal chemotherapy have decreased the overall CNS relapse rates and changed the patterns of recurrence. ❋ S Krishnan (2010)