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Restaging Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Before Additional Treatment Decisions: A Multicenter Cohort Study
2018
Prognostic assessment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at the time of diagnosis remains controversial and becomes even more complex at the time of restaging when new variables need to be considered. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the prognostic utility of restaging patients before proceeding with additional therapies for HCC. Two independent Italian prospective databases were used to identify 1,196 (training cohort) and 648 (validation cohort) consecutive patients with HCC treated over the same study period (2008-2015) who had complete restaging before decisions about additional therapies. The performance of the Italian Liver Cancer (ITA.LI.CA) prognostic score …
SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF LOCAL TREATMENT WITH ILOPROST, A PROSTACYCLIN ANALOGUE, IN PATIENTS WITH PEYRONIE'S DISEASE. A PHASE I STUDY
2011
Objective. To assess the possibility of intralesional therapy for the treatment of Peyronie's disease, we have verified the safety and tolerability of intralesional injections of Iloprost ( an I 2 Prostacyclin analogue) for its property to suppress the production of CTFG in fibroblasts. CTFG is a connective tissue growth factor that acts in concert with TGF-β to stimulate the fibrotic process. Materials and methods. 38 patients with Peyronie’s disease were preliminarily evaluated by considering the symptoms, the degree of penile curvature, and the size of the plaque. Each patient received weekly intralesional injections of 200 ng of Iloprost in 1 ml normal saline for 5 weeks. If tolerated, …