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- Structured treatment interruptions (STI) in chronic suppressed HIV infection in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Mar-2011
Although antiretroviral treatment (ART) has led to a decline in morbidity and mortality of HIV-infected patients in developed countries, it has also presented challenges. These challenges include increases in pill burden; adherence to treatment; developme
- Structured treatment interruptions (STI) in chronic unsuppressed HIV infection in adults
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Mar-2011
Structured treatment interruptions (STI) of antiretroviral therapy (ART) have been investigated as part of novel treatment strategies, with different aims and objectives depending on the populations involved. These populations include: 1) patients who ini
- Subcutaneous closure versus no subcutaneous closure after non-caesarean surgical procedures
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Jan-2014
Most surgical procedures involve a cut in the skin that allows the surgeon to gain access to the surgical site. Most surgical wounds are closed fully at the end of the procedure, and this review focuses on these. The human body has multiple layers of tiss
- Subcutaneous rapid-acting insulin analogues for diabetic ketoacidosis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Jan-2016
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute, life-threatening complication of uncontrolled diabetes that mainly occurs in individuals with autoimmune type 1 diabetes, but it is not uncommon in some people with type 2 diabetes. The treatment of DKA is traditio
- Subcutaneous unfractionated heparin for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 14-Feb-2017
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a prevalent and serious condition. Its medical treatment requires anticoagulation, usually with either unfractionated or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH). Administration of unfractionated heparin (UFH) is usually intrave
- Subdermal implantable contraceptives versus other forms of reversible contraceptives or other implants as effective methods for preventing pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Mar-2012
Implantable methods of contraception offer long-acting reversible contraception. Their uptake rate in comparison to other contraceptive methods, particularly in developed countries, has historically been low.
- Subintimal angioplasty for chronic lower limb arterial occlusion
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Feb-2013
Subintimal angioplasty (SIA) has become an established percutaneous procedure for the treatment of symptomatic lower limb arterial occlusions in recent years. However, the clinical benefits of this practice remain unclear. The aim of the review was to det
- Subjective barriers to prevent wandering of cognitively impaired people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 29-Mar-2009
People with dementia often wander, at times putting themselves at risk and presenting challenges to carers and institutional staff. Traditional interventions to prevent wandering include restraint, drugs and locked doors. Cognitively impaired people may r
- Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Jan-2011
This is an update of a Cochrane Review first published in The Cochrane Library in Issue 2, 2003.
- Sublingual immunotherapy for asthma
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Aug-2015
Asthma is a common long-term respiratory disease affecting approximately 300 million people worldwide. Approximately half of people with asthma have an important allergic component to their disease, which may provide an opportunity for targeted treatment.
- Sublingual immunotherapy for treating allergic conjunctivitis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Jun-2011
Allergic ocular symptoms, although frequently trivialised, are common and represent an important comorbidity of allergic rhinitis. Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for allergic rhinitis, but its effects on sympt
- Submacular surgery for choroidal neovascularisation secondary to age-related macular degeneration
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 17-Feb-2009
Vitreoretinal surgeons proposed submacular surgery to remove the fibrovascular tissue causing damage to the centre of the retina, in the attempt to limit central visual loss in people affected by neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
- Subpial transection surgery for epilepsy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Nov-2018
Nearly 30% of patients with epilepsy continue to have seizures despite using several antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Such patients are regarded as having refractory, or uncontrolled, epilepsy. While there is no universally accepted definition of uncontrolled,
- Subsidising artemisinin-based combination therapy in the private retail sector
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 8-Mar-2016
Malaria causes ill health and death in Africa. Treating illness promptly with artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) is likely to cure people and avoid the disease progressing to more severe forms and death. In many countries, ACT use remains low. Pa
- Substitution of doctors by nurses in primary care
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Apr-2014
Demand for primary care services has increased in developed countries due to population ageing, rising patient expectations, and reforms that shift care from hospitals to the community. At the same time, the supply of physicians is constrained and there i
- Sub-Tenon's anaesthesia versus topical anaesthesia for cataract surgery
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Aug-2015
Local anaesthesia for cataract surgery can be provided by sub-Tenon's or topical anaesthesia. Both techniques offer possible advantages. This review, which originally was published in 2007 and was updated in 2014, was undertaken to compare these two anaes
- Sucrose for analgesia in newborn infants undergoing painful procedures
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Administration of oral sucrose with and without non-nutritive sucking is the most frequently studied non-pharmacological intervention for procedural pain relief in neonates.
- Sugammadex, a selective reversal medication for preventing postoperative residual neuromuscular blockade
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Aug-2009
Sugammadex is the first selective relaxant binding agent that has been studied for reversal of neuromuscular blockade induced by rocuronium and other steroidal non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs).
- Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate versus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus amodiaquine for treating uncomplicated malaria
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Nov-2008
Artemisinin-based combination treatments are strongly advocated, but supplies are limited. Sulfadoxine combined with amodiaquine is an alternative non-artemisinin combination.
- Sulfasalazine for ankylosing spondylitis
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Nov-2014
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause and affects mainly the spine, but can also affect other joints. Disease progression may result in loss of mobility and function. Sulfasalazine is a disease-modifying antirheuma
