Drug of choice for diarrhea in AIDS is?
Correct Answer: Octreotide
Description: Octreotide REF: Goodman and Gillman 11th ed p. 635 Octreotide inhibits the release of hormones (triggered by rapid passage of food into the small intestine) that are responsible for distressing local and systemic effects. Octreotide has been used, with varying success, in other forms of secretory diarrhea such as Chemotherapy-induced Diarrhea associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Diabetes-associated diarrhea. Its greatest utility is in the "dumping syndrome" seen in some patients after gastric surgery and pyloroplasty
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