Elucidating allergic reaction mechanisms in response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination in adults.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, novel nanoparticle-based mRNA vaccines were developed. A small number of individuals developed allergic reactions to these vaccines although the mechanisms remain undefined.

Methods: To understand COVID-19 vaccine-mediated allergic reactions, we enrolled 19 participants who developed allergic events within 2 h of vaccination and 13 controls, nonreactors.

Fertility preservation and monitoring in adult patients diagnosed with lymphoma: consensus-based practical recommendations by the Fondazione Italiana Linfomi & Società Italiana della Riproduzione Umana.

Introduction: Fertility preservation (FP) and monitoring has considerable relevance in the multidisciplinary approach to cancer patients. In these consensus-based practical recommendations, the scientific societies Fondazione Italiana Linfomi (FIL) and Società Italiana della Riproduzione Umana (SIRU) reviewed the main aspects and identified the optimal paths which aim to preserve and monitor fertility in patients diagnosed with lymphoma at the different phases of the disease and during long-term survivorship.

Methods: For the Panel, eleven experts were selected for their expertise in research and clinical practice on onco-fertility and lymphoma.

Age-adjusted international prognostic index is a predictor of survival in gastric diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients.

Background: The clinical course of gastric lymphoma is heterogeneous and clinical symptoms and some factors have been related to prognosis.

Objective: The present study aims to identify prognostic factors in gastric diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed and treated in different countries.

Methods: A consecutive series of gastric diffuse B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients diagnosed and treated in Brazil, Portugal and Italy, between February 2008 and December 2014 was evaluated.

Ciclosporin A proof of concept study in patients with active, progressive HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.

Introduction: Patients with HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) become progressively impaired, with chronic pain, immobility and bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction. Tested antiretroviral therapies have not been effective and most patients are offered a short course of corticosteroids or interferon-α, physiotherapy and symptomatic management. Pathogenesis studies implicate activated T-lymphocytes and cytokines in tissue damage.