Vitamin D is a pleiotropic hormone, widely controversial for its role in the development of chronic diseases and cancers, including haematological malignancies, and also for its impact on overall survival. Observational and interventional studies are being conducted on hypovitaminosis D and haematological malignancies and their subtypes in order to improve the therapeutic management of patients. We carried out a prospective observational study over three years on a population of 251 patients followed up for newly diagnosed haematological malignancies to investigate the impact of vitamin D deficiency on this category of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) have distinct clinical presentation and evolution, with paucity of reports on overlap syndrome. We aimed to better characterize this entity.
Methods: We report four additional cases from the Montpellier university hospital.