5 results match your criteria: "AOU "Policlinico - Vittorio Emanuele" University of Catania Catania Italy.[Affiliation]"

Acquired hemophilia should be evaluated in pediatric patients with bleeding and isolated prolonged aPTT. Immunosuppressive treatment should be initiated even in minor bleedings. Bypassing agents like rFVIIa can be used in children with success.

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Acquired factor V inhibitor represents a rare condition, described only in case reports. The use of activated bypassing agents in bleeding control could be of aid and improve the survival in symptomatic patients with acquired factor V inhibitor.

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Pregnant women affected by Alport syndrome often struggle with worsening of renal function during pregnancy. We focused the attention on the optimal management of the kidney disease in these women in order to avoid maternal-fetal complications.

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Serum free light chains and multiple myeloma: Is it time to extend their application?

Clin Case Rep

April 2020

UOC di Ematologia con Trapianto di Midollo Osseo AOU "Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele" Catania Italy.

In nonsecretory, oligo-secretory, and light chain multiple myeloma patients, serial sFLC evaluation could precede biochemical and clinical disease progression, even in extramedullary relapse, thus initiating early treatment with novel anti-MM agents.

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In a minority of relapsed myeloma, patient's disease may spread into extramedullary sites, associated with high degrees of heterogeneity. The breadth of myeloma therapeutic armamentarium allows clinicians to manage its heterogeneous presentation, including intracranial relapses, with fair success resulting in a significant prolongation of survival.

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