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Neoplasias extra-colónicas en pacientes con enfermedad inflamatoria intestinal

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 28 (supl.1), 2017
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have shown to be at increased risk of developing extraintestinal malignancies. Immunomodulators (immunosuppressant and anti-tumor necrosis factor) diminish the mucosal inflammatory response changing the evolution of the disease, especially when these strateg...

Treatment of post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders after kidney transplant with rituximab and conversion to m-TOR inhibitor

Colomb. med; 47 (4), 2016
Abstract Background: Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders are serious complications of organ transplantation which treatment is not yet standardized. Objective: To describe the clinical response, overall and graft survival of patients in our center with this complication after kidney tran...

Sirolimus on Gorham-Stout disease. Case report

Colomb. med; 47 (4), 2016
Abstract Background: Gorham-Stout disease (GSD) is a rare disease of unknown etiology characterized by vascular proliferation that produces destruction of bone matrix. Case description: This case is about 43 year old woman who begins with pain in sternum, dyspnea, abdominal mass and, serous-hematic p...

Mycophenolate mofetil as an immunomodulator in refractory noninfectious uveitis

Arq. bras. oftalmol; 79 (6), 2016
ABSTRACT Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerance of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) for the treatment of noninfectious uveitis using the methods advocated by the Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Working Group and to compare this with other studies of immunosuppression in ocular inflamma...

Miopatías inflamatorias con evolución recidivante
Relapses in inflammatory myopathies

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (6), 2016
La mayoría de los estudios de tratamiento de las miopatías inflamatorias son de corte y no permiten establecer su eficacia en largo plazo. En este trabajo, describimos el seguimiento de siete pacientes con miopatías inflamatorias, 5 polimiositis y 2 dermatomiositis. Determinamos su presentación, su s...

Enfermedad por citomegalovirus en pacientes receptores de trasplante de corazón en un centro de referencia nacional

Rev. chil. infectol; 33 (6), 2016
Introduction: Heart transplantation remains as the treatment of choice when the heart failure is refractory to the medical or surgical therapy. Therefore, cytomegalovirus disease is an important post-heart-transplant infectious complication. Aims: To describe the prevalence and clinical characteristics o...

Remote ischemic preconditioning and tacrolimus in the fetal small bowel transplant in mice

Acta cir. bras; 31 (10), 2016
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of remote ischemic preconditioning (IPC-R) in the fetal small bowel transplantation model. METHODS: Two groups were constituted: The Isogenic transplant (ISO, C57BL/6 mice, n=24) and the allogenic transplant (ALO, BALB/c mice, n=24). In each group, the animals w...

Periorbital discoid lupus: a rare localization in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

An. bras. dermatol; 91 (5,supl.1), 2016
Abstract A 40-year-old female patient with a 5-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus was referred to our policlinic with complaints of erythema, atrophy, and telangiectasia on the upper eyelids for 8 months. No associated mucocutaneous lesion was present. Biopsy taken by our ophthalmology departme...

Therapies for crohn's disease: a clinical update

Arq. gastroenterol; 53 (3), 2016
ABSTRACT The main objectives of clinical therapy in Crohn's disease are clinical and endoscopic remission without the use of corticosteroids for long periods of time, prevention of hospitalization and surgery, and improvement of quality of life. The main limitation of drug therapy is the loss of response...

Morfea o esclerodermia localizada juvenil: caso clínico

Rev. chil. pediatr; 87 (4), 2016
Introducción: La morfea o esclerodermia localizada juvenil (ELJ) es una enfermedad autoinmune, inflamatoria, crónica, lenta y progresiva del tejido conectivo, de causa desconocida, que afecta preferentemente la piel y los tejidos subyacentes. Objetivos: Comunicar un caso de esclerodermia localizada juv...