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I-164. A 64-year-old man presents to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath and facial swelling. He smokes 1 pack of cigarettes daily and has done so since the age of 16 years. On physical examination, he has dyspnea at an angle of 45 degrees or less. 6°F), and oxygen saturation of 89% on room air. Pulsus paradoxus is not present. His neck veins are dilated and do not collapse with inspiration. Collateral venous dilation is noted on the upper chest wall. There is facial edema and 1+ edema of the upper extremities bilaterally.
5) Bioavailability is the amount of the drug that is available to the systemic circulation when administered by routes other than the intravenous route. In this setting, bioavailability may be much less than 100%. The primary factors affecting bioavailability are the amount of drug that is absorbed and metabolism of the drug before entering the systemic circulation (the first-pass effect). Oral itraconazole is the recommended treatment for mild blastomycosis, but a problem with use of this drug is its bioavailability, which is estimated at about 55%.
Although the disease most often presents with a symmetric inflammatory arthritis of the larger joints, the acute presentation of this patient makes this diagnosis less likely. I-26. The answer is A. (Chap. 5) In population surveys of noninstitutionalized elderly adults, up to 10% had at least one adverse drug reaction in the prior year. Adverse drug reactions are common in elderly adults and are related to altered drug sensitivity, impaired renal or hepatic clearance, impaired homeostatic mechanisms, and drug interactions.