Publications by authors named "Graciana Bandeira Salgado de Vasconcelos"
Anti-TNF therapy for ulcerative colitis in Brazil: a comparative real-world national retrospective multicentric study from the Brazilian study group of IBD (GEDIIB).
Ligia Yukie Sassaki Daniela Oliveira Magro Rogerio Saad-Hossne Julio Pinheiro Baima Cristina Flores Graciana Bandeira Salgado De Vasconcelos
BMC Gastroenterol
May 2022
Article Synopsis
- Anti-TNF therapy has proven effective in treating ulcerative colitis (UC), but there's limited data on its impact on Brazilian patients; this study compares the efficacy of adalimumab (ADA) and infliximab (IFX) in achieving clinical and endoscopic remission after one year of treatment.
- Conducted across 24 centers, the study included 393 UC patients and utilized various statistical methods to analyze treatment outcomes, finding that IFX showed better clinical remission rates compared to ADA at 26 and 52 weeks.
- Results indicated a clinical remission rate of 82.82% at week 52, with IFX patients experiencing fewer instances of loss of response, although endoscopic remission rates did not significantly differ between the
Liver dysfunction in patients with hyperthyroidism includes abnormalities associated with the effects of thyroid hormone excess, those secondary to drug-induced liver injury, and changes resulting from concomitant liver disease. Our goal was to describe clinical, biochemical, and histopathological patterns in patients suffering from hyperthyroidism and concomitant liver dysfunction and to propose an algorithm of procedures to facilitate diagnosis and management of such cases. This study describes seven patients with liver biochemistry abnormalities detected after diagnosis of hyperthyroidism and one with undiagnosed decompensated hyperthyroidism and acute hepatitis.
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