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Medical Specialties

2017

Universitas Indonesia

Diagnostic

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Diagnostic Approach And Treatment Of Dieulafoy's Lesion, Anshari Saifuddin, Kaka Renaldi, Indah Situmorang Jun 2017

Diagnostic Approach And Treatment Of Dieulafoy's Lesion, Anshari Saifuddin, Kaka Renaldi, Indah Situmorang

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia

Dieulafoy’s lesion is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding but become an important etiology. Pathogenesis of the disease evolved from earlier of its invention till now. It has been stated in recent study that the etiology of this disease is vary, from age to genetic. Size and arteriol configuration abnormality has been known as the main pathogenesis of the disease. Endoscopic procedure become the primary diagnostic tool, which effectiveness reached more than 90%. However, in some situation, it’s difficult to find the abnormality by endoscopic procedure. Hemostatic procedure via endoscopy is the main therapy of Dieulafoy’s lesion, which has …


Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment Of Drug Allergy, Roy Akur Pandapotan, Iris Rengganis Mar 2017

Approach To Diagnosis And Treatment Of Drug Allergy, Roy Akur Pandapotan, Iris Rengganis

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia

Drug allergy is a serious medical problem. Drug allergy can be defined as an adverse drug reaction involving immunological mechanism. However, it is not easy to decide whether an adverse drug reaction is an allergic reaction, and it requires a systematically diagnostic approach. Beside a thorough history taking and physical examination, there are general and specific laboratory examination to investigate drug allergy which can be done in vivo, in vitro, or biopsy. The management of drug allergy include the avoidance of the precipitating event, and specific methods to reduce the drug reaction which include threating through, dosing test, desensitization, and …