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Cardiac safety and potential efficacy: two reasons for considering minocycline in place of azithromycin in COVID-19 management
2020
Currently, there is no effective therapy for COVID-19, and several approaches are under investigation. Nevertheless, some drugs are used off-label despite the absence of clear data on their effectiveness. Among these, hydroxychloroquine suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro,1 and clinical trials are ongoing to evaluate its use as an anti-COVID-19 agent. To date, the FDA and EMA allow its use only in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 or in those at high risk, in cases where other trials are not feasible. According to a small non-randomized study, hydroxychloroquine’s efficacy might be enhanced by azithromycin, as the combination of these two drugs appeared to accelerate viral c…
Impact of switching from mycophenolate mofetil to enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium on gastrointestinal side effects in patients with autoimmune di…
2015
Bernhard Manger,1 Falk Hiepe,2 Matthias Schneider,3 Margitta Worm,4 Peter Wimmer,5 Eva-Maria Paulus,5 Andreas Schwarting6 1University Hospital Erlangen, Med Clinic III Polyclinic, Erlangen, 2Rheumatology, University Hospital Charité, Campus Mitte, Berlin, 3Policlinic of Rheumatology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 4Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Charité, Campus Mitte, Berlin, 5Novartis Pharma GmbH, Nürnberg, 6Department of Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany Background: The purpose of this study was to assess changes in gastrointestinal symptom severity in pati…
INTESTINAL INFECTION BY CRYPTOSPORIDIUM IN THREE CHILDREN WITH ABDOMINAL PAIN AND CHRONIC DIARRHOEA
1985
Children infection by Cryptosporidium sp. have been communicated since 1976 usually associated to acute diarrohoeal disease. This protozoa has been isolated recently in SIDA patients with serious illness. Three new cases, the first of spanish pediatric literature, are described in this paper. Children were males; two of them twins. Age ranged 24 to 27 m. All lived in Valencia, and went to infant's school with high stand of living and domestic animal relationship. The most frequent symptom was well located colic abdominal pain with day predominance and 2 months of evolution in the twins. The third case began with abdominal pain and discomfort. Three months before had been treated with Metron…
Helicobacter pylori first-line and rescue treatments in patients allergic to penicillin: Experience from the European Registry on H pylori management…
2020
Background Experience in Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment of patients allergic to penicillin is very scarce. A triple combination with a PPI, clarithromycin (C), and metronidazole (M) is often prescribed as the first option, although more recently the use of a quadruple therapy with PPI, bismuth (B), tetracycline (T), and M has been recommended. Aim To evaluate the efficacy and safety of first-line and rescue treatments in patients allergic to penicillin in the "European Registry of H pylori management" (Hp-EuReg). Methods A systematic prospective registry of the clinical practice of European gastroenterologists (27 countries, 300 investigators) on the management of H pylori infect…
Economic evaluation of caspofungin vs liposomal amphotericin B for empirical therapy of suspected systemic fungal infection in the German hospital se…
2007
As antifungal agents are frequently used in hematology and oncology, economic data on the empirical therapy of suspected systemic fungal infection are pivotal. Data were analyzed according to: (1) the rate of nephrotoxicity related to treatment with caspofungin in comparison to liposomal amphotericin B (L-AmB) from a randomized clinical trial, (2) the effect of nephrotoxicity on length of hospital stay from a European observational study, and (3) an example of total bottom-up cost in a department of hematology in Germany. All estimates include 95% confidence intervals (CI) using two-stage Monte Carlo simulation on binominal and Gaussian random variables from separate studies with comparable…
The lipoprotein lipase activity in cultured beating heart cells of the post-natal rat.
1974
Summary The lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity was studied in cultured beating heart cells of the post natal rat as a function of the culture age, from the freshly trypsinized cell suspension up to the 14th day of culture. The LPL activity remains at a practically stationary level during the first four days of culture, and then increases rapidly to reach a plateau, at a level 3–4 times higher at the 21th day of culturing. The significance of this enzymatic activity progression comparing to 3H thymidine incorporation from the point of view of cell differentiation is discussed. Our results suggest that after the 12th day of culture, cells contain their optimal enzymatic apparatus for lipid met…
Emergency Endovascular Treatment of Petrous Carotid Artery False Aneurysm
2015
Abstract Introduction The management of ruptured intracranial false aneurysms (IFAs) might be tricky as any kind of treatment modality, surgical or endovascular, is burdened with significant challenges. A case report of the endovascular treatment of IFA in emergency setting is presented to provide more understanding of its pathophysiology as well as of the best operative work-up for petrous carotid artery reconstruction. Methods Technical notes from a left sided skull base abscess, involving and eroding the carotid canal and petrous carotid artery (PCA) resulting in an IFA are shown and analyzed. Results Balloon-assisted low viscosity Onyx embolization seems an effective method for the emer…
Long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial comparing thermochemotherapy with mitomycin-C alone as adjuvant treatment for non-muscle-invasive…
2010
Study Type – Therapy (RCT) Level of Evidence 1b What’s known on the subject? and What does the study add? Microwave-induced hyperthermia and mitomycin C is a device-assisted approach used to treat non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) either in the adjuvant (prophylactic) set-up or in an ablative regimen. Until recently, around 20 different studies have been published with data on the short term results of treatment. Previous prospective randomized studies showed the superiority of the chemo-hyperthermia regimen when compared to intravesical chemotherapy alone in terms of recurrence-free survival in intermediate and high-risk NMIBC patients at minimum 24-month follow-up. The current st…
Toxisches Schock Syndrom
1990
We report about a one year old girl with toxic shock syndrome (TSS), which was confirmed by a significant rise of TSST-1 titers. In addition to known manifestations of TSS, to our knowledge this is the first report about development of polyserositis in this disease. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was elevated at initial evaluation and fell under treatment with cortisone. This finding is in contrast to in-vitro observations. We believe that the use of cortisone in TSS warrants further investigation.
Role of fungus in eosinophilic sinusitis.
2005
Chronic rhinosinusitis is characterized by a broad diagnostic and etiologic spectrum. It has been postulated that fungal organisms might represent the immunologic target initiating and maintaining the disease process in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis as a common denominator. This review analyzes the available data to describe the current understanding of the role of fungus in the pathophysiology of chronic rhinosinusitis.Recent findings have demonstrated that using highly sensitive methods, the detection rate of fungi in nasal mucin can be increased to approximately 100% in patients and in healthy controls. If this ubiquitous fungal contamination were to be related to a causative mech…