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conservative therapy

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conservative therapy
Patient care Management of a clinical condition with the least aggressive of available therapeutic options; CT is often equated with 'medical' vs 'surgical' treatment–eg, drug, diet, and lifestyle management of severe, but asymptomatic ASHD, in contrast to management of the same condition with CABG. See Benign neglect, Palliative therapy. Cf 'Heroic' therapy, Radical surgery.


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Arnold said that small studies that examine the outcome of patients who elect conservative therapy over dialysis suggest that mortality and quality-of-life outcomes do not differ very much among selected patients who undergo dialysis and those who do not.
Still, they may be considered in the event that conservative therapy does not bring about sufficient pain relief.
Compared with conservative therapy, androgen deprivation therapy was associated with significantly lower prostate cancer-specific survival (80.
 
 
 
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