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Re: Combination Drug Treatment From The Beginning

Posted by SLS on December 17, 2009, at 16:21:44

In reply to Re: Combination Drug Treatment From The Beginning » SLS, posted by Phidippus on December 17, 2009, at 15:15:01

> >Under what conditions should doctors begin to treat a drug naive patient with combination drug therapy?
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> When there is evidence of partial response to a first medication, but never from the get go.
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> Also, a patient should be tried on all drugs in a class before an augmentation strategy is planned.
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> P


This is a very interesting topic. As simple an idea as it is to start a patient with a de novo drug treatment using a combination of agents, it doesn't seem to be something that has been suggested very often. I imagine combination treatments will become widespread once tests are available to identify an individual's physiological abnormalities. For now, though, I think treatment algorithms can be improved to suggest when to combine drugs and which ones to combine given a patient's response pattern.


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