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Pharmaceuticals (Basel)
April 2024
Independent Researcher, 25266 Helsingborg, Sweden.
The introduction of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) changed over a few decades the treatment focus of mild-to-moderate asthma from bronchodilation to reduction in inflammation. This was achieved by inhaling a suitable corticosteroid (CS), giving a high, protracted airway concentration at a low total dose, thereby better combining efficacy and tolerance than oral therapy. Successful trials with the potent, lipophilic "skin" CS beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) paved the way, suggesting that ICSs require a very low water solubility, prolonging their intraluminal dissolution within airways.
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September 2023
Pulmonology Service, Son Espasses, Universitary Hospital, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Background: Tobacco smoking directly affects the airway, where it triggers a very strong local inflammatory response.
Objective: To determine the predictors of improvement or worsening of asthma control in asthmatic smokers.
Methods: Observational, prospective, multicenter, single cohort study, carried out in the outpatient pulmonology departments with a follow-up period of 6 months.
Medicine (Baltimore)
March 2022
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan,Department of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan,Department of Pharmacy, University of Yamanashi Hospital, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan.
Rationale: The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is a common target organ of graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients, and GI tract GVHD is often resistant to standard treatments such as corticosteroids. Moreover, longterm use of systemic corticosteroids sometimes induces adverse events such as infection. Beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP) is a potent, topically active corticosteroid, which is metabolized to an active derivative in the intestinal mucosa.
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June 2021
Department of Neonatology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Importance: The safety of postnatal corticosteroids used for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm neonates is a controversial matter, and a risk-benefit balance needs to be struck.
Objective: To evaluate 14 corticosteroid regimens used to prevent BPD: moderately early-initiated, low cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (MoLdDX); moderately early-initiated, medium cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (MoMdDX); moderately early-initiated, high cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (MoHdDX); late-initiated, low cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (LaLdDX); late-initiated, medium cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (LaMdDX); late-initiated, high cumulative dose of systemic dexamethasone (LaHdDX); early-initiated systemic hydrocortisone (EHC); late-initiated systemic hydrocortisone (LHC); early-initiated inhaled budesonide (EIBUD); early-initiated inhaled beclomethasone (EIBEC); early-initiated inhaled fluticasone (EIFLUT); late-initiated inhaled budesonide (LIBUD); late-initiated inhaled beclomethasone (LIBEC); and intratracheal budesonide (ITBUD).
Data Sources: PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Embase, World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), and CINAHL were searched from inception through August 25, 2020.
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
June 2021
Chiesi Italia S.p.a., Parma, Italy.
Background: The fixed triple combination Beclometasone dipropionate/Formoterol fumarate/Glycopyrronium (BDP/FF/G, Trimbow), an extrafine formulation in a unique pressurized metered dose inhaler, is indicated for the maintenance treatment in adult patients with moderate to severe COPD, not adequately treated by ICS/LABA or LABA/LAMA. Besides the evidence from three randomized controlled trials, the impact of fixed triple therapy has not been extensively evaluated in a real-world population of COPD patients. TRITRIAL (TRIple Therapy in Real life: Impact on Adherence and HeaLth status) is a non-interventional study to assess the effect of BDP/FF/G in a real world setting in Italy.
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