(1) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(2) Alizapride (ALZ) is a new benzamide derivative with promising antiemetic activity.
(3) Overall, antiemetic protection was appreciable: complete emetic protection (no emetic episodes) was observed in 71 and 66% of patients receiving MPN 375 and 120 mg, respectively.
(4) This paper identifies important factors in selecting antiemetic therapy, particularly the emetogenic potential of the chemotherapy and the fact that antiemetic drugs have differing sites of action.
(5) Only 2 patients (8%) did not experience an improvement of their symptoms in any of the treatment cycles as measured by a self-conducted grading of nausea and by the frequency of vomiting in comparison to a previous treatment cycle under conventional antiemetic therapy.
(6) Gastrointestinal disturbances--vomiting and diarrhea--were also common, despite a low initial dose of PGE2 and premedication with antiemetic and antidiarrheal agents.
(7) The antiemetic effect and the therapeutic effect of domperidone on complaints by gastrointestinal retention was the result of the influence on gastrointestinal motility, which is similar to that of metoclopramide.
(8) Further, a metabolite of haloperidol seems to be responsible for its effective antiemetic action.
(9) Strategies to support chemotherapy dose intensification include BMT, use of CSFs and antiemetic drug combinations.
(10) The maintenance of the antiemetic efficacy of ondansetron was further studied in 28 patients (13 A, 15 B) in respectively 36 and 48 retreatment courses.
(11) It possesses at the same time potent gastro-intestinal prokinetic and central antiemetic properties, demonstrated on the one hand by the gastro-duodenal transit of barium meal in rats, and on the other hand by apomorphine-induced vomiting in dogs.
(12) Both findings demonstrate that bismuth subsalicylate can provide antiemetic action and that the decreases in the occurrence of emesis in humans and dogs parallels the decrease in nausea found in humans and the nausea suspected to occur prior to emesis in dogs.
(13) A randomized, double blind crossover trial compared the antiemetic effects of alizapride, a benzamide, and prochlorperazine, a phenothiazine, both administered intravenously to 32 patients treated with chemotherapy combinations containing cisplatin.
(14) The results indicate that 5-HT3 recognition sites are present within the area postrema and may afford an antiemetic site of action for zacopride and other 5-HT3 receptor antagonists.
(15) In early clinical trials alizapride showed a better antiemetic activity with fewer side effects than metoclopramide.
(16) The most frequent side effect was vomiting, registered in all patients despite antiemetic treatment.
(17) There were very few and slight adverse effects secondary to antiemetic drugs: Sedation happened in 25% of chemotherapic cycles and hypotension without clinical repercussion in 15%.
(18) The basis of the antiemetic action of other drugs such as dexamethasone and the cannabinoids is still obscure.
(19) Less recognized is that extrapyramidal symptoms are also associated with certain non-antipsychotic agents, including some antidepressants, lithium, various anticonvulsants, antiemetics and, rarely, oral-contraceptive agents.
(20) Diphenhydramine was used because of its possible antiemetic properties and its ability to control acute dystonic reactions.
Vomiting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vomit
(n.) The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
(3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(5) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(6) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(7) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
(9) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
(10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
(11) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(12) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
(13) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
(14) The paper is concerned with analysis of correlation of the time of appearance of vomit in a person and a mean dose rate of prolonged gamma-radiation in the persons affected at the Chernobyl accident.
(15) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
(16) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(17) He had no family history of myopathy, and no diarrhea and vomiting.
(18) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
(19) Twelve patients have been treated in this manner, nine of them living long enough to exhibit the capacity to eat and drink without repetitive vomiting.
(20) Her daughter had had a similar fit of vomiting blood at birth, back in their native Honduras.