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Management of Vocal Fold Leukoplakia

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vocal fold leukoplakia (VFL) is a descriptive term for a white plaque in the true vocal folds (TVF). It is estimated at 10.2 cases per 100,000 males and 2.1 per 100,000 females. The most critical aspect of managing a VLF is achieving an accurate pathological diagnosis, since a white plaque in the TVF can have numerous differential diagnoses ...
Isabela H. Schettini, Thomas L. Carroll
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Aspergillosis: Case Series from the Central Public Health Laboratory–Ministry of Health. Asunción, Paraguay. Period 2000–2019

Iatreia
Introduction: Aspergillosis is an opportunistic mycosis with significant impact on immunocompromised patients; available data in Paraguay are scarce.
Aguilar-Fernández, Gustavo, Araujo-López, Patricia, Lird, Graciela, Arguello-Velaztiqui, Rocío del Carmen, Blasco-Gavilán, Raquel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pulmonary Aspergillosis: An Evolving Challenge for Diagnosis and Treatment

Infectious Disease and Therapy, 2020
Aspergillus is a mold that may lead to different clinical pictures, from allergic to invasive disease, depending on the patient’s immune status and structural lung diseases.
A. Russo, G. Tiseo, M. Falcone, F. Menichetti   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

CT‐P39 Compared With Reference Omalizumab in Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: Results From a Double‐Blind, Randomized, Active‐Controlled, Phase 3 Study

Allergy, EarlyView.
This study investigated the therapeutic equivalence of CT‐P39 (an omalizumab biosimilar) and EU‐approved reference omalizumab (ref‐OMA) in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria. Therapeutic equivalence between CT‐P39 and ref‑OMA (300 mg) was demonstrated by the primary endpoint – confidence intervals of the treatment difference in mean change ...
Sarbjit S. Saini, Marcus Maurer, Yevgeniya Dytyatkovska, Ewa Springer, Maria Ratkova, Borislava Krusheva, Chun Wook Park, Grazyna Pulka, Marta Chełmińska, Adam Reich, Sunghyun Kim, Keumyoung Ahn, Suyoung Kim, Sewon Lee, Jieun Ka, Jongho Kim, Clive Grattan   +16 more
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Germination of Aspergillus fumigatus inside avian respiratory macrophages is associated with cytotoxicity [PDF]

, 2012
Although aspergillosis is one of the most common diseases in captive birds, the pathogenesis of avian aspergillosis is poorly known. We studied the role of avian respiratory macrophages as a first line of defense against avian aspergillosis.
D'Herde, Katharina, Ducatelle, Richard, Favoreel, Herman, Haesebrouck, Freddy, Li, Shaoji, Martel, An, Pasmans, Frank, Van Waeyenberghe, Lieven   +7 more
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Clinical Characteristics of Difficult‐To‐Treat Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis and Its Prediction Score

Allergy, EarlyView.
A retrospective cohort of newly diagnosed treatment‐naive patients with ABPA in Japan who were followed up for up to 3 years after the primary diagnosis was analyzed to explore the clinical remission rate and clinical characteristics of ABPA resistant to standard treatment or prone to exacerbation during/after treatment.
Jun Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Oguma, Takashi Ishiguro, Hirokazu Taniguchi, Teruaki Nishiuma, Hiroki Tateno, Hisako Matsumoto, Naoki Koshimizu, Yutaka Ito, Kazuto Matsunaga, Hidekazu Matsushima, Yoshitaka Uchida, Koshi Yokomura, Hirotaka Yasuba, Junko Suzuki, Shigeaki Hattori, Naoki Okada, Katsuyoshi Tomomatsu, Koichiro Asano, on behalf of ABPM Research Program   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis in critically ill patients : clinical presentation, underlying conditions, and outcome [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a fungal infection that particularly affects immunocompromised hosts. Recently, several studies have indicated a high incidence of IA in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
Blasco-Navalpotro, Miguel, Blot, Stijn I, Bulpa, Pierre, Cardoso, Teresa, De Laere, Emmanuel, Dimopoulos, George, Meersseman, Wouter, Misset, Benoit, Paiva, José-Artur, Rello, Jordi, Taccone, Fabio Silvio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie, Vogelaers, Dirk   +13 more
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Burden of Oral Corticosteroid Use in Severe Asthma: Challenges and Opportunities

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, oral corticosteroids (OCS) have played an important role in the management of acute and chronic asthma; however, their use is associated with an increased incidence of adverse events, chronic diseases such as osteoporosis and diabetes, and mortality, as well as increased healthcare resource utilization and costs ...
G. Walter Canonica, Celeste Porsbjerg, David B. Price, Michael E. Wechsler, Liam G. Heaney, Nicola A. Hanania, Rebecca Gall, Nami Pandit‐Abid, Juby A. Jacob‐Nara, Harry J. Sacks   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Burden of Serious Fungal Infections in Cameroon

Journal of Fungi, 2018
Fungal infections are frequent in Cameroon, and invasive fungal infections are sometimes detected, usually in HIV-infected patients. For these reasons, we have estimated the burden of fungal infections. Using published literature and population estimates
Christine E. Mandengue, David W. Denning
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High prevalence of putative invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in critically ill COVID-19 patients

medRxiv, 2020
We are currently facing a frightening increase in COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU. Aiming at screening for fungal secondary pneumonia, we collected the data of our first 27 ICU patients, who underwent bronchoalveolar lavage or bronchial aspirates ...
A. Alanio, S. Dellière, S. Fodil, S. Bretagne, B. Mégarbane   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source