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There are a considerable number of pediatric patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS); however, SS is generally considered rare among children. Pediatric patients with SS report fewer sicca symptoms; therefore, many are under-diagnosed and cannot access appropriate medical management. Therefore, we propose a newly developed guidance for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of pediatric SS, including epidemiology, clinical features, and diagnostic examination methodology. The aim of this guidance was to standardize the medical care of pediatric SS in Japan, and we published the Japanese version by YODOSHA in 2018. This article is the English version, which is summarized and updated. This guidance will need to be revised in the near future as additional clinical data become available.
In some studies comparing triple with dual combination therapies in COPD there might be a possible effect of inhaler bias resulting from different inhaler devices being used in comparator arms. The aim of this study was a quantitative synthesis by considering the studies that directly compared triple ICS/LABA/LAMA vs. either dual LABA/LAMA or ICS/LABA therapies administered at fixed-dose combination (FDC) via the same inhaler device.
A network meta-analysis was performed to assess the efficacy/safety impact of triple ICS/LABA/LAMA FDC compared with dual LABA/LAMA and ICS/LBA FDCs administered via the same inhaler device in COPD patients. The treatment ranking was reported via the surface under the cumulative ranking curve analysis (SUCRA).
Data obtained from 21,909 COPD patients were extracted from the ETHOS, KRONOS, IMPACT, and TRILOGY studies, the only that fulfilled the strict inclusion criteria of this research. The weighted efficacy/safety profile resulting from SUCRA provided the following ranking in patients with low eosinophil count ICS/LABA/LAMA>LABA/LAMA≫ICS/LABA; whereas in patients with high eosinophil count the ranking was as follows ICS/LABA/LAMA>LABA/LAMA>ICS/LABA FDC.
Triple ICS/LABA/LAMA FDC and dual LABA/LAMA or ICS/LABA FDCs are characterized by specific efficacy/safety profiles in agreement with the level of blood eosinophil count at baseline.
Triple ICS/LABA/LAMA FDC and dual LABA/LAMA or ICS/LABA FDCs are characterized by specific efficacy/safety profiles in agreement with the level of blood eosinophil count at baseline.
The most attractive features of Auger electrons (AEs) in cancer therapy are their extremely short range and sufficiently high linear energy transfer (LET) for a majority of them. The cytotoxic effects of AE emitters can be realized only in close vicinity to sensitive cellular targets and they are negligible if the emitters are located outside the cell. The nucleus is considered the compartment most sensitive to high LET particles. Therefore, the use of AE emitters could be most useful in specific recognition of a cancer cell and delivery of AE emitters into its nucleus.
This review describes the studies aimed at developing effective anticancer agents for the delivery of AE emitters to the nuclei of target cancer cells. MLN7243 The use of peptide-based conjugates, nanoparticles, recombinant proteins, and other constructs for AE emitter targeted intranuclear delivery as well as their advantages and limitations are discussed.
Transport from the cytoplasm to the nucleus along with binding to the cancer cell is one ore, the effectiveness of NLS-containing delivery constructs designed to provide energy-dependent transport of AE emitter into the nuclei of cancer cells also depends on their efficient entry into the cytosol of the target cell.
Androgen deprivation therapy is a standard therapy for some patients with localized and almost all patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Although several clinical cohort studies have identified an impact of androgen deprivation therapy on cognitive function, the previous reviews were not able to perform a well designed quantitative synthesis to summarize the risk of dementia and/or Alzheimer disease. Consequently there is still a lack of systematic review and meta-analysis regarding the impact of this risk including more recent studies.
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature assessing the differential incidence of dementia and/or Alzheimer disease as outcomes in patients with prostate cancer who did vs did not receive androgen deprivation therapy. We queried PubMed® and Web of Science™ databases from January 1 to 3, 2020. We used random or fixed effects meta-analytic models in the presence or absence of heterogeneity per the I
statistic. We performed 6 meta-analyses fortically significant 1.06 (95% CI 0.77-1.28). There was no association between the androgen deprivation therapy duration and the risk of Alzheimer disease (HR 1.21, 95% CI 0.97-1.51 for exposure up to 12 months and HR 1.39, 95% CI 0.69-2.79 for exposure greater than 12 months).
Men who receive androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer have an increased risk of dementia and/or Alzheimer disease compared to men who do not receive androgen deprivation therapy; this was more pronounced when androgen deprivation therapy was given longer than 12 months.
Men who receive androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer have an increased risk of dementia and/or Alzheimer disease compared to men who do not receive androgen deprivation therapy; this was more pronounced when androgen deprivation therapy was given longer than 12 months.
We investigate the clinical significance of European Society for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis (ESSIC) bladder histopathological classification and its impact on treatment outcomes among patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome.
Bladder biopsy specimens obtained from severe, treatment refractory interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome cases were analyzed by a single pathologist blinded to clinical data. Inflammatory cell infiltration and urothelium denudation, eosinophil infiltration, plasma cell infiltration, lamina propria hemorrhage and granulation in specimens were evaluated separately. Patients with at least 1 histopathological finding were classified as ESSIC type C, with the rest being classified as ESSIC type A. Current overall treatment outcomes were determined via telephone interview.
Bladder specimens were obtained from 352 patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. Bladder inflammation, urothelium denudation, eosinophil and plasma cell infiltration, lamina propria hemorrhage and granulation were present in 69.