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Prophylactic surgery (also
known as
preventive surgery or risk-reducing surgery), is a form of
surgery whose purpose is to
minimize or
prevent the risk...
- A
prophylactic rule is a
judicially crafted rule that
overprotects a
constitutional right, and
gives more
protection than such
right might abstractly seem...
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Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is a
technique used to
combat the
occurrence of
metastasis to the
brain in
highly aggressive cancers that commonly...
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Prophylactic salpingectomy is a
preventative surgical technique performed on
patients who are at
higher risk of
having ovarian cancer, such as individuals...
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spreading STIs to partners, and,
specifically for HIV,
regularly taking prophylactic antiretroviral drugs, such as Truvada. Post-exposure prophylaxis, started...
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Antibiotic prophylaxis refers to, for humans, the
prevention of
infection complications using antimicrobial therapy (most
commonly antibiotics). Antibiotic...
- HIV
transmission among hetero****ual men in high-risk po****tions; its
prophylactic efficacy against HIV
transmission in the
developed world or
among men...
- A
preventive mastectomy or
prophylactic mastectomy or risk-reducing
mastectomy (RRM) is an
elective operation to
remove the **** so that the risk of...
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ligation because it
reduces the risk of
developing cancer; this is
called prophylactic salpingectomy. It can be
performed non-electively on
women who are at...
- 19th
century for
nervous disorders and its
possible mood-stabilizing or
prophylactic effect; it was
cheap and
easily produced. As
lithium fell out of favor...