The highest risks were observed for bladder cancer, leukemia, nonmelanoma skin cancer, and kidney cancer. Patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) have a ...

Patients with AATD had a 1.6-fold higher risk of any type of middle ear surgery, even after adjusting for age, sex, COPD, and liver cirrhosis. Patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) are ...

Intercept, the developer of the PBC drug, suggested that the company's view on the drug's benefit and risk profile differed from that of the US Food and Drug Administration. Obeticholic acid, marketed ...

The short-supervised group used CPAP fewer hours per night and had lower adherence adjusted for age-specific sleep needs. Two different strategies for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ...

There were significant associations between echocardiographic parameters, such as increased left ventricular mass and greater interventricular septal thickness at end-diastole, and positive 99mTc-PYP ...

The registry’s primary outcome measure is the prevalence of the systemic form of mastocytosis in the studied population. A new single-center longitudinal registry of patients with cutaneous and ...

At the time of diagnosis, patients with different types of [cardiac amyloidosis] had distinct echocardiographic presentation and survival differed in the first 3 years. Differences in ...

Tetrabenazine and olanzapine treatment led to significant improvements in chorea but olanzapine also increased rigidity. Olanzapine improves chorea, irritability, and behavior in patients with ...

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CLL-related immune dysfunction, along with therapy-associated immunosuppression, contributes to impaired tumor surveillance. Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are at increased risk for ...

From left: Chelsea Miller, her sons Levee and Kassian, and their father, Jon Rock, at Seattle Children’s Hospital (Photo by Stephene Gaitan) Children with TK2d often stop achieving milestones like ...

Seladelpar treatment was significantly associated with an increased normalization in the levels of alkaline phosphatase, a biomarker of cholestasis, in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC).