Adverse effect (medicine)

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Adverse effects of medical procedures
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Other non-surgical physical procedures such as high intensity x-rays for radiotherapy may cause burns and alterations in the skin. In general, these therapies try to avoid damage to healthy biological tissue while maximizing the therapeutic effect.

Vaccination is a medical procedure which is particularly prone to adverse effects, due to the nature of its biological preparation (sometimes using attenuated pathogens and toxins). Common adverse effects may be fever, malaise and local reactions in the vaccination site, such as eczema vaccinatum, a severe, sometimes fatal complication which may result in persons who have eczema or atopic dermatitis, and, as such, should not be vaccinated, even if the condition is currently not active.

Diagnostic procedures may also have adverse effects, depending much on whether they are invasive (medical)/invasive, non-invasive (medical)/non-invasive or minimally invasive. For example, allergy/allergic reactions to x-ray contrasting material occur often, a colonoscopy may cause the perforation of the intestine wall, etc.

Adverse effects of drugs
Adverse effects can occur as a collateral or side effect of many interventions, but they are particularly important in pharmacology, due to its wider, and sometimes uncontrollable, use by way of self-medication. Thus, responsible drug use becomes an important issue here.

Adverse effects, like intended effects of drugs, are a function of dosage or drug levels at the target organs, so they may be avoided or decreased by means of careful and precise pharmacodynamics (the change of drug levels in the organism in function of time after administration).

Adverse effects may also be caused by drug interaction, i.e., when physicians fail to check for all medicaments a patient is taking and prescribe new ones which interact agonistically or antagonistically (potentiate or decrease the intended therapeutic effect). Significant morbidity and mortality is caused around the world because of this. Drug-drug and food-drug interactions may occur, and even so-called "natural drugs" used in alternative medicine may have dangerous adverse effects. For example, extracts of St. John's wort (''Hypericum perforatum''), a phytotherapic used for treating mild depression is known to cause an increase in the cytochrome P450 enzymes which are responsible for the metabolism and elimination of many drugs, so that patients taking it are likely to experience a reduction in blood levels of drugs that they are taking for other purposes, such as cancer chemotherapy/chemotherapeutic drugs, protease inhibitors for HIV and oral contraceptives.

The scientific field of activity associated with drug safety is increasingly government-regulated and is of major concern for the public as well as to drug manufacturers. The distinction between adverse and non-adverse effects is a major undertaking when a new drug is developed and tested before marketing it. This is done in toxicity studies to determine the non-adverse effect level (NOAEL). This studies are used to define the dosage to be used in human testing (phase I) as well as to calculate the maximum admissible daily intake. Imperfect clinical trials, such as insufficient number of patients or short duration, sometimes lead to public health disasters such as those of fenfluramine (the so-called fen-phen episode), thalidomide and, more recently, of cerivastatin (US trademarked Baycol) and rofecoxib (US trademarked Vioxx), where drastic adverse effects were observed, like teratogenesis, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, heart disease, neuropathy, etc., and a significant number of deaths. causing the forced or voluntary List of withdrawn drugs/withdrawal of the drug from the market.

Most drugs have a large list of non-severe or mild adverse effects which do not rule out the interruption of usage. These effects have widely variable incidence, according to individual sensitivity. They comprise nausea, dizziness, diarrhea, malaise, vomit, headache, dermatitis, dry mouth, etc.

Controversies

Sometimes, putative medical adverse effects are regarded as controversial and generate heated discussions in society and lawsuits against drug manufacturers. One exemple is the current controversy whether controversies in autism/autism may be caused by thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines for infants. No significative link has been found so far, but this has not prevented lawsuits. Another instance is that of the potential adverse effects of silicone breast implants, which lead to hundreds of thousands of litigations against manufacturers of gel-based implants, supposedly because of allegations of damage to the immune system, which were never conclusively proved.

Unfortunately, due to the exceedingly high impact on public health of widely used medications, such as oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy, which may affect millions of users, even marginal probabilities of adverse effects of a severe nature, such as breast cancer, have led to public outcry and changes in medical therapy, although its benefits largely surpassed the statistical risks.

Examples of adverse effects
* Headache following spinal anesthesia
* Dementia associated with heart bypass surgery
* Intestinal bleeding associated with aspirin therapy
* Diarrhea cause by the use of orlistat (Xenical)
* Hypertension in ephedrine users, which prompted FDA to remove the status of dietary supplement of ephedra extracts
* Hair loss and anemia may be caused by chemotherapy against cancer, leukemia, etc.
* Glaucoma associated with corticosteroid-based eye drops
* Sleepiness and increase in appetite associated to antihistamines
* Rhabdomyolysis associated with anti-cholesterol drug cerivastatin (Baycol)
* Seizures by abrupt withdrawal of benzodiazepines
* Fever associated with vaccination (in the past, imperfectly manufactured vaccines, such as BCG and poliomyelitis, have caused the very disease they intended to fight).
* Deafness and kidney failure associated with gentamicin (an antibiotic)
* Melasma and blood coagulation disorders associated with the use of oral contraceptives
* Addiction to many sedatives and analgesics such as Valium, morphine, etc.
* Increase in suicide tendency associated to the use of fluoxetine and other SSRI antidepressants
* Erectile dysfunction associated with many drugs, such as antidepressants
* Strokes and heart attacks associated with sildenafil (Viagra) when used with nitroglycerine
* Lactic acidosis associated with the use of stavudine (Zerit), for anti-HIV therapy
* Cirrhosis/Hepatic injury and depression caused by interferon
* Tardive dyskinesia associated with long-term use of metoclopramide and antipsychotic medications
* Deaths following sedation in children using propofol (Diprivan)
* Abortions and severe vaginal or uterine hemorrhage associated with misoprostol (Cytotec), a labor-inducing drug (this is a case where the adverse effect has been used legally and ilegally for performing abortions).

Related topics
* Iatrogenesis
* Medical prescription
* Toxicology
* List of withdrawn drugs
* Drug interaction
* Adverse drug reaction
* Responsible drug use
* Evidence-based medicine
* Contraindication
* Complication (medicine)
* FDA

External links
* http://www.drugintel.com/drugs/. A site for tort lawyers with complete and up-to-date information on drugs which are have severe adverse effects.
* http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/drugandmedicaldevicesafety.html. A site of the National Library of Medicine (Medline Plus), lists many useful reliable and scientifically sound articles and sites.
* http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety.htm. MedWatch, a very useful page from US Food and Drugs Administration, listing safety alerts for drugs, biologics, devices and dietary supplements, recalls, market withdrawals, public health advisories, links to the VAERS and MAUDE databases, etc.
* http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/MedErrors/default.htm. FDA site.

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