Comparative therapeutic efficacy of interferon alfa-2b and combination lopinavir/ritonavir plus interferon alfa-2b against SARS-CoV-2 [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed an enormous threat to public health. The use of antiviral drugs in patients with this disease have triggered people’s attentions.
Jingyuan Liu +7 more
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Management of common autoimmune diseases in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms treated with pegylated interferon alfa—case report, review of the literature and multidisciplinary clinical practice recommendations [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in HematologyPegylated interferons alfa are increasingly used in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) due to their potential disease-modifying effect. Ropeginterferon alfa-2b has been approved for patients with polycythemia vera (PV) with no symptomatic ...
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Episcleritis in a patient with mucosal melanoma treated with interferon alfa-2b and radiotherapy: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018 Background Mucosal melanoma of the head and neck is a rare malignant tumor associated with a poor prognosis. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and biotherapy are common strategies for treating mucosal melanoma of the head and neck.
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Interferon-alpha induced obsessivecompulsive disorder in a patient with Hepatitis-C
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 Interferon alpha (IFN- α) is commonly used in the treatment of viral hepatitis because of its stimulating effects on the immune response. While psychiatric adverse effects such as depression, mania or psychosis that arise during interferon alpha ...
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Economic evaluation of first-line treatments for metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a cost-effectiveness analysis in a health resource-limited setting. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: To estimate, from the perspective of the Chinese healthcare system, the economic outcomes of five different first-line strategies among patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).
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Interferon-alfa in the management of cystic craniopharyngioma in children under 5 years of age
Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2021 Introduction: the best therapeutic option for the management of craniopharyngioma in younger children remains controversial, ranging from complete surgical resection, partial surgical resection associated with radiotherapy and application of ...
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Importance of adherence for efficacy of hepatitis C combined therapy [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2013 Introduction. Dual antiviral therapy with pegylated interferon alfa-2a and ribavirin leads do sustained elimination of hepatitis C virus infection in over 50% patients with genotypes 1 and 4 and in over 80% with genotypes 2 and 3.
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JGH Open, 2022 Background and Aim Ropeginterferon alfa‐2b is a novel mono‐pegylated, extra‐long‐acting interferon. It is administered infrequently and showed good tolerability and clinical activity for the chronic hepatitis B or C treatment in our previous Phase 2 ...
Chi‐Yi Chen +22 more
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Modern opportunities of interferons in treatment of children with COVID-19
Медицинский совет, 2021 Introduction. In 2020, most doctors were at the frontlines in the fight against the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). In the process of searching for effective etiotropic drugs, news came in that type I interferons had been successfully used for ...
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