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Medications
… This medication may rarely make your blood sugar rise, which can cause or worsen diabetes. Tell your doctor right away if you have symptoms of high blood sugar such as increased thirst/urination. If you already have diabetes, check your blood sugar regularly as directed and share the results with …
Medications
… is higher if you have kidney problems, diabetes, a serious blood infection (sepsis), a certain blood problem (paraproteinemia), or a severe loss of body … gentamicin). This medication may also rarely cause serious blood clots (such as pulmonary embolism, stroke, heart …
Health topics
… Dialysis removes urea and other waste products from the blood. To find out how well dialysis is working, you will have blood tests that look at the level of urea in your blood. Usually these tests are done once a month, at the …
Health topics
… to join two veins in a damaged liver. One vein carries blood to the liver (portal vein). The other vein goes from … vein). TIPS forms a channel that allows some of the blood to bypass the liver. What To Expect You may go home … you go home. Why It Is Done TIPS is used to reduce high blood pressure in the portal vein that carries blood from …
Medications
… (including antiplatelet drugs such as clopidogrel, "blood thinners" such as warfarin/rivaroxaban, nonsteroidal … (incontinence). Uses Fondaparinux is used to treat serious blood clots in the legs and/or lungs. It is usually used with another "blood thinner" medication (warfarin). If untreated, blood …
Medications
… your doctor right away. Uses Losartan is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and to help protect the … used to lower the risk of strokes in patients with high blood pressure and an enlarged heart. Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and …
Medications
… right away. Uses This medication is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). Lowering high blood pressure helps prevent strokes, heart attacks, and … angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). It works by relaxing blood vessels so blood can flow more easily. Other Uses This …
Medical tests
… the doctor inserts flexible tubes called catheters into blood vessels. These blood vessels are typically in the groin or neck. Then the … and how soon to do it. If you take a medicine that prevents blood clots, your doctor may tell you to stop taking it …
Health topics
… 2 diabetes and other medicines are not controlling your blood sugar. If you have gestational diabetes, you may need … insulin if diet and exercise have not helped to keep your blood sugar levels within your target range. With little or no insulin, sugar (glucose) in the blood can't enter your cells to be used for energy. This …
Medical tests
… How To Prepare If you take a medicine that prevents blood clots, your doctor may tell you to stop taking it … keep taking it. (These medicines include aspirin and other blood thinners.) Make sure that you understand exactly what your doctor wants you to do. Other blood tests may be done before a paracentesis to make sure …
