Routinely providing perioperative chemoprophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE) to all surgical patients is not only unnecessary but also can be risky, as it may increase bleeding complications, a ...

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Clinical outcomes of patients with histologic variants of urothelial carcinoma treated with tetra-modality bladder-sparing protocol incorporating consolidative partial cystectomy. This is an ASCO ...

Prescription pills Researchers evaluated the safety of long-term doxycycline use as chemoprophylaxis against bacterial sexually transmitted infections. Prolonged use of doxycycline as post-exposure ...

THE well established relation between acute rheumatic fever and antecedent infection due to Group A hemolytic streptococci has resulted in the widely accepted use of continuous daily chemoprophylaxis ...

OBJECTIVE: To identify limitations of current strategies for intrapartum prophylaxis of neonatal early-onset group B streptococcal infection. METHODS: Retrospective review of infants with ...

Perhaps the most successful demonstration of the efficacy of mass chemoprophylaxis was the virtual elimination of meningococcal meningitis and meningococcal carriers from certain military ...

Implementation of a risk-based chemoprophylaxis protocol using either aspirin or low-molecular weight heparin decreased the incidence of venous thromboembolism among patients who underwent knee ...

I work in a travel-medicine clinic and prescribe chemoprophylaxis for traveler’s diarrhea (TD) to every patient leaving the country. The 1985 NIH study stating that chemoprophylaxis is not recommended ...

Nursing homes that administered antiviral chemoprophylaxis, or chemoprevention, to at least 70% of residents within the first two days of an influenza outbreak reduced the risk of hospitalization ...