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Reumatologia
December 2024
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.
Introduction: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is characterized by eosinophilic granulomatous vasculitis. Typical symptoms include late-onset bronchial asthma and blood and tissue eosinophilia. In addition to these characteristic symptoms, EGPA can affect important organs such as the skin, kidneys, heart, sinuses, gastrointestinal tract, and nervous system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: To identify the most effective treatment for juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), considering efficacy, safety, impact on patients and improvement in their quality of life.
Material And Methods: A systematic review was carried out comparing known treatments and immunobiological therapies, evaluating clinical improvement, adverse events and prognosis. The MEDLINE, PubMed, LILACS and Cochrane Library databases were used with children aged 0 to 18 diagnosed with JDM.
Cancers (Basel)
January 2025
Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Cox 308, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
The management of periocular skin malignancies presents a unique challenge. Proton beam therapy, due to its sharp dose fall-off, allows for the delivery of a tumoricidal dose to the tumor while sparing adjacent normal tissues. Thirteen patients with a median age of 76.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pathol
January 2025
SIREDO Oncology Center (Care, Innovation and Research for Children and AYA with Cancer), Institut Curie, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Rhabdoid tumours (RT) are an aggressive malignancy affecting <2-year-old infants, characterised by biallelic loss-of-function alterations in SWI/SNF-related BAF chromatin remodelling complex subunit B1 (SMARCB1) in nearly all cases. Germline SMARCB1 alterations are found in ~30% of patients and define the RT Predisposition Syndrome type 1 (RTPS1). Uveal melanoma (UVM), the most common primary intraocular cancer in adults, does not harbour SMARCB1 alterations.
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