Immunosuppressive therapy
Immunosuppressive therapy in idiopathic multifocal fibrosis A case report
... in 9 (82%) patients 8. Although larger studies are miss- ing, steroid administration alone or in conjunction with surgery are currently thought to be the best way of treat- ment for retroperitoneal fibrosis 1,8]. As ...
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Progressive cutaneous Cryptococcosis complicated with meningitis in a myasthenia gravis patient on long term immunosuppressive therapy – a case report
... Here, our patient has multiple risk factors. He has been on prolonged immunosuppressive therapy and had a low CD4 + cell count (236 cells/mL). Additionally, he had also been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus ...
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High-dose immunosuppressive therapy and autologous HCT for relapsing-remitting MS
... disease-modifying therapy; EDSS 5 Expanded Disability Status Scale; EFS 5 event-free survival; FDA 5 Food and Drug Administration; HALT-MS 5 High-Dose Immunosuppression and Autologous Trans- plantation for ...
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High frequency of corticosteroid and immunosuppressive therapy in patients with systemic sclerosis despite limited evidence for efficacy
... and immunosuppressive therapy in a large, well- defined cohort of SSc ...and immunosuppressive ther- apy of SSc patients in clinical practice and a marked therapeutic difference between disease ...
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Immunosuppressive therapy related adherence, beliefs and self-management in kidney transplant outpatients
... correlated with higher age at the time of KTx ( τ= 0.19, r = 0.20, P,0.001), whereas concerns increased significantly with time after KTx ( τ= 0.10, r = 0.15, P = 0.035) (Table 2). Patients expressed their concerns most ...
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Graft outcomes following immunosuppressive therapy with different combinations in kidney transplant recipients: a nationwide cohort study
... mono- therapy with corticosteroid as a reference because it is the most commonly used immunosuppressant ...Most immunosuppressive protocols for KTRs usually include a large dosage of steroid as the ...
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Cortical Laminar Necrosis Caused by Immunosuppressive Therapy and Chemotherapy
... Summary: We report three patients in whom neurologic symptoms and cortical laminar necrosis developed after immunosuppressive treatment (cyclosporin A and FK 506) and polychemotherapy (vincristine and ...
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Immunosuppressive therapy with rituximab in common variable immunodeficiency
... replacement therapy (IgRT). Although immunoglobulin therapy is also used at higher dosage in a wide range of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions for its immunomodulatory effects [47], the main indication ...
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Immunosuppressive Therapy Versus Bone Marrow Transplantation for Children With Aplastic Anemia
... * Abbreviations: ATG, antithymocyte globulin; H-BMT, haploidentical bone marrow transplant; CR, complete re- sponse; GR, good response; NR, no response... Response to therapy in 15 patie[r] ...
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Recent Topics on the Mechanisms of Immunosuppressive Therapy-Related Neurotoxicities
... of apoptosis in mouse brain capillary endothelial cells by cyclosporin A and tacrolimus. Nitric oxide mediates cyclosporine-induced impairment of[r] ...
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Successful management of visceral disseminated varicella zoster virus infection during treatment of membranous nephropathy: a case report
... undergoing immunosuppressive therapy for blood diseases, kidney transplant recipients, patients with un- controlled diabetes, and patients with collagen and/or kidney ...of immunosuppressive ther- ...
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Disseminated Exophiala dermatitidis causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis
... Case presentation: A 28-year-old female originally from India presented with fevers, chills, weight loss and increasing back pain. She had a recent diffuse maculopapular rash that resulted in skin biopsy and a tentative ...
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Treatment Strategies for Childhood Steroid- Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome
... prednisone therapy, also after initiation of the first and second lines of immunosuppressive therapy, but values did not show significant change after the 3rd line of ...after therapy were not ...
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Original Article Expression patterns of podocyte-associated mRNAs in patients with proliferative or non-proliferative glomerulopathies
... conventional immunosuppressive therapy, such as steroids, cytotoxics, and calcineurin inhibitors, reduced the urinary mRNA levels of podocin, podocalyx- in, and alpha actinin-4 concomitantly with the ...
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Brazilian recommendations on the safety and effectiveness of the yellow fever vaccination in patients with chronic immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
... on immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents to control chronic ...under immunosuppressive therapy; this being the reason why these vaccines are generally contraindicated in this population [31, ...
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Nanomedicines in renal transplant rejection – focus on sirolimus
... of immunosuppressive therapy is to prevent and treat organ rejection as well as prolong graft and patient ...of immunosuppressive agents (Table 1), kidney transplantation has become one of the most ...
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Outcome of rapamycin therapy for post-transplant-lymphoproliferative disorder after kidney transplantation: case series.
... transplant. Immunosuppressive therapy for the kidney transplant recipients included combinations of cyclosporine or tacrolimus, azathioprine, prednisone and mycophenolate ...
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Behcet’s disease in budd-chiari syndrome
... Two (15.4%) of the 13 patients who received anti- coagulation and corticosteroids and/or immunosup- pressants died; immunosuppressive therapy was started more than 2 years after the diagnosis of BCS in 1 of ...
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Efficacy and safety of mycophenolate mofetil in patients with IgA nephropathy: an update meta-analysis
... Immunosuppressive therapy like corticosteroid mono- therapy and corticosteroid plus immunosuppressive agent therapy were well accepted in progressive IgAN treatment [32, ...which ...
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Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System: Neurologic Deterioration Despite Treatment
... despite immunosuppressive therapy, which supports the relevance of monitoring clinical, laboratory, and radiologic re- sponses to treatment and of long-term follow-up of patients with SV ...
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