Octreotide
Octreotide is a gastroenterology drug.
Dr. Jeffrey Pollard reviewed this
23 year experience in ENT and Head and Neck Surgery
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How does octreotide work?
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What is sandostatin (octreotide) lar?
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How does sandostatin (octreotide) react with medications?
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Is there an alternative cheaper medicine to octreotide injections ?
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What is an octreotide scan?
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A 50-year old asked:
Please help! what is the chemo drug octreotide?
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What are the effects of the chemo drug octreotide?
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What is the chemo drug octreotide? How does it work?
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A 48-year old asked:
Would there be any side effects from sandostatin (octreotide)?
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A 35-year old asked:
How can sandostatin (octreotide) react with hypertensive medications?
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A 47-year old asked:
How safe is it to give sandostatin (octreotide) lar after only 1 subcutaneous 'test dose'?
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How healthy or unsafe is it to give sandostatin (octreotide) lar after only 1 subcutaneous 'test dose'?
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A 48-year old asked:
How does octreotide help fight cancer?
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A 66-year old female asked:
Pls describe an allergic reaction to a sandostatin (octreotide) shot...
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A 46-year old asked:
Can you tell me about lar on essentially the 1st day of sandostatin (octreotide) treatment?
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A 30-year old asked:
Would there be any side effects if alcohol was consumed before taking sandostatin (octreotide)?
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A 41-year old asked:
What is octreotide; is it related to growth hormone?
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A 61-year old female asked:
How effective is sandostatin (octreotide) on carcinoid tumor?
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A 40-year old male asked:
Can Sandostatin (octreotide) LAR be used as treatment of elevated 5-HIAA in aggressive type of systemic mastocytosis? Thank you.
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Can Sandostatin (octreotide) LAR be used as treatment of elevated 5-HIAA in aggressive type of systemic mastocytosis? Thank you. (repeated question)
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A 41-year old female asked:
Can a octreotide scan be able to detect any abnormality of the structure of the heart or any heart disease?
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A 31-year old male asked:
How does glucagon increase splanchnic blood flow? Paramedic here, trying to wrap my head around octreotide.
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A 43-year old asked:
My wife has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic nueroendocrine cancer, it is inoperable. Can octreotide treatments extend her survival?
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A 33-year old asked:
My wife has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer, it is inoperable. Can octreotide treatments extend her survival ?
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A 40-year old female asked:
Can neuroendocrine tumors occur outside of the colon in setting of CT & Octreotide scan showing in cecum but colonoscopy shows nothing in this area?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Chromogranin a 3000, no zollinger-ellison syndrome or men 1. ideas? egd, colonoscopy, sandostatin, (octreotide) ct. Contrast. mystery
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A 31-year old male asked:
Is it possible to have metastasis Neuroendocrine Carcinoma , does not show in CT but show on octreotide scan, area like Small intestine , Liver ?
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Am I dying?
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Am I dying?
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Im a nurse?
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