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Pharmaceutics
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70125 Bari, Italy.
: Since 2008, following clinical studies conducted on children that revealed the ability of the β-adrenergic antagonist propranolol to inhibit capillary growth in infantile hemangiomas (IHs), its oral administration has become the first-line treatment for IHs. Although oral propranolol therapy at a dosage of 3 mg/kg/die is effective, it can cause systemic adverse reactions. This therapy is not necessarily applicable to all patients.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Unlabelled: Numerous studies have shown that topical timolol is effective in treating infantile hemangioma (IH) with minimal adverse events. However, consensus is lacking on optimal timing, dosage, frequency, and safety parameters for this treatment. This study aims to explore the timing and safety of topical timolol treatment for superficial IH.
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January 2025
Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
Hemangiomas are common benign vascular tumors that often present in childhood. The 595 nm pulsed dye laser (PDL) is now being widely used to treat vascular skin lesions. This case series was performed to review the therapeutic efficacy and safety of PDL in the treatment of hemangiomas among Vietnamese patients.
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January 2025
Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan250021, China.
The epidemiological characteristics and surgical treatment of inpatients with superficial hemangioma in Shandong province were investigated and analyzed. The first-page medical records of hospitalized patients with superficial hemangioma from 2019 to 2020 reported by all secondary and above medical institutions in Shandong province were selected from the National Health Information Platform of Shandong province to analyze their population characteristics and surgical treatment. A total of 3 775 patients with superficial hemangioma were included, with the age of [(, )] 3.
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January 2025
Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy.
Background: Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is a rare, sporadic neurocutaneous disorder affecting the skin, brain, and eyes, due to somatic activating mutations in GNAQ or, less commonly, GNA11 gene. It is characterized by at least two of the following features: a facial capillary malformation, leptomeningeal vascular malformation, and ocular involvement. The spectrum of clinical manifestations includes headache, seizures, stroke-like events, intellectual disability, glaucoma, facial asymmetry, gingival hyperplasia, etc.
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