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Semin Arthritis Rheum
October 2024
Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China. Electronic address:
Background: Immunosuppressants, biologic agents, antifibrotic drugs, and other drugs can be used to treat autoimmune disease-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD), but the preferred treatment is uncertain. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of multiple drugs in the treatment of autoimmune disease-associated ILD.
Methods: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and ClinicalTrials.
ARP Rheumatol
July 2022
Serviço de Reumatologia e Doenças Ósseas Metabólicas, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte.
Introduction: Vasculopathy is a crucial feature of systemic sclerosis (SSc). It occurs in almost every patient with SSc, with Raynaud's phenomenon (RP) and digital ulcers (DU) having a great impact on the quality of patients' lives. Intravenous (IV) iloprost, a synthetic analogue of prostacyclin, is broadly used to treat RP and DU secondary to SSc.
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May 2021
Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
The consequences of most hernias can be immediately corrected by surgical repair. However, this isn't always the case for children born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The derangements in physiology encountered immediately after birth result from pulmonary hypoplasia and hypertension caused by herniation of abdominal contents into the chest early in lung development.
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March 2021
Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to identify if long-term bosentan is an effective and safe treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) regardless of type, including idiopathic PAH (IPAH), and PAH associated with congenital heart disease (APAH-CHD), connective tissue disease (APAH-CTD), and human immunodeficiency virus (APAH-HIV).
Methods: All relevant observations were systematically searched by two independent investigators and obtained from three databases, including PubMed, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library, from the inception of each database to February 2020. Currently, long-term administration was defined as no less than 12 months.
Medicine (Baltimore)
August 2020
Intensive Care Unit, Hunan Children's Hospital, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Introduction: Patent ductus venosus (PDV) is a rare and critical disease, and the majority of patients present with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) or hepatopulmonary syndrome due to congenital portosystemic shunt. We reported that both PAH and hypersplenism were major complications of PDV in this case. This case report can assist the treatment and recovery of the patients with similar symptoms.
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