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Sutimlimab in Patients With Cold Agglutinin Disease (CAD): Results From a Managed Access Program
ABSTRACT Cold agglutinin disease (CAD) is a low‐grade lymphoproliferative disorder accounting for 15%–30% of patients suffering from autoimmune hemolytic anemias. The clonal B cells produce autoantibodies primarily of the IgM‐κ class that cause agglutination of red blood cells (RBCs) at temperatures ≤ 37°C and activate the classical complement pathway ...
Sandra Maria Frey +5 more
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IntroductionEculizumab is a licensed treatment for several rare, complement-mediated diseases. Eculizumab use is associated with an approximately 2,000-fold increased meningococcal disease risk.
Catherine H Bozio +2 more
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Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight- year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. [PDF]
The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African "meningitis belt" where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years.
Julia Leimkugel +8 more
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Prevention of infectious diseases in athletes. [PDF]
The sports medicine physician may face challenging issues regarding infectious diseases when dealing with teams or highly competitive athletes who have difficulties taking time off to recover.
d'Hemecourt, Pierre, Luke, Anthony
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High prevalence of antibodies to human herpesvirus 8 in relatives of patients with classic Kaposi's sarcoma from Sardinia [PDF]
A survey for antibodies to a recombinant small viral capsid antigen (sVCA) of human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV‐8) was conducted in Sardinia, one of the world's highest incidence areas for classic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Prevalence of antibodies to HHV‐8 sVCA
Angeloni, Antonio +11 more
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Age at First RSV Hospitalisation and the Risk of Subsequent Bacterial Pneumonia
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
Samuel Videholm +4 more
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ABSTRACT Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is increasingly used to treat malignant and non‐malignant diseases. Following allogeneic HSCT, patients are particularly vulnerable to vaccine‐preventable diseases (VPD) because conditioning depletes immune cells, including memory cells.
Hélène Buvelot +3 more
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C5‐inhibition may represent an effective adjunctive treatment in therapy‐refractory myasthenic crisis, including thymoma‐associated MG (TAMG). ABSTRACT Introduction Generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) may progress to life‐threatening myasthenic crises (MC) requiring mechanical ventilation.
Lea Gerischer +24 more
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Las vacunas conjugadas contra la enfermedad meningococica causadas por los serogrupos A, C, W-135, Y
Review the current evidence on available and candidate quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines. Methods: A comprehensive overview of data on the currently available A-C-W135-Y meningococcal vaccine and the results of late stage development of novel
Marcos Aurelio P. Sáfadi
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Meningococcal arthritis and myopericarditis: a case report
Background We report the first adult case of Neisseria meningitidis W-135 presenting with meningococcal arthritis and myopericarditis concomitantly, without other classical features of meningococcal disease.
Lloyd Steele +3 more
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