El uso de moduladores de CFTR en pacientes con fibrosis quística post trasplante pulmonar es un tema todavía controversial. Varias publicaciones reportan los beneficios del modulador elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor en los síntomas extrapulmonares de ...
Se presenta un estudio observacional compasivo de seguimiento de 20 pacientes portadores de Fibrosis Pulmonar Idiopática tratados con Nintedanib, que muestra que Nintedanib es un medicamento en general bien tolerado, sin efectos adversos serios, que otorga una sobrevida más prolongada que la que cabrí...
ABSTRACT Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a form of chronic interstitial lung disease of unknown cause, which predominantly affects elderly men who are current or former smokers. Even though it is an uncommon disease, it is of great importance because of its severity and poor prognosis. In recent d...
La historia natural de la fibrosis pulmonar idiopática (FPI) es heterogénea e impredecible. Aunque el curso de la enfermedad, sin tratamiento, es inevitablemente progresiva y de mal pronóstico. Los tratamientos históricos han variado desde corticosteroides e inmunosupresores (azatioprina, ciclofosfam...
SUMMARY Metastatic pheochromocytomas (PHEOs) and paragangliomas (sPGLs) are rare neural crest-derived tumors with a poor prognosis. About 50% of them are due to germ-line mutations of the SDHB gene. At present, there is no cure for these tumors. Their therapy is palliative and represented by different op...
ABSTRACT Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of sunitinib treatment in a non-screened group of patients with metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) treated by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) at a single reference institution. Material and Methods: Retrospective cohort study, ...
BACKGROUND: Photodynamic therapy is an alternative treatment of muco-cutaneous tumors that uses a light source able to photoactivate a chemical compound that acts as a photosensitizer. The phthalocyanines append to a wide chemical class that encompasses a large range of compounds; out of them aluminium-s...