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BACKGROUND: In vivo reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) enables the study of architectural and cytological aspects in horizontal sections, which closely correlate with histologic features. However, traditional histopathological vertical sections cannot totally reproduce the image of the in vivo RCM horizontal section. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the concordance between in vivo RCM and histopathologic transverse sections for melanocytic lesions, basal cell carcinoma and seborrheic keratoses. METHODS: Prospectively collected benign melanocytic and non-melanocytic tumours diagnosed by dermoscopy were evaluated for common RCM features and compared to histopathology in horizontal sections with haematoxylin and eosin staining. RESULTS: A total of 44 skin tumours including 19 melanocytic lesions (nine compound, five junctional and five intradermal nevi), 12 basal cell carcinomas and 13 seborrheic keratoses were collected in the Department of Dermatology of Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. The RCM features that had statistically significant agreement with the histopathological horizontal sections were the preserved and visible honeycomb pattern, well defined DEJ, small bright particles, dermal nests, tumour islands and dark silhouettes, clefting, collagen bundles, thickened collagen bundles and cytologic atypia. CONCLUSIONS: Histopathology evaluation of horizontal sections of skin tumours can be correlated with main RCM findings. The results of this study have improved the understanding and interpretation of RCM features in relation to skin tumours, thus reinforcing the utility of RCM as a diagnostic tool.
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Carcinoma Basocelular , Ceratose Seborreica , Melanoma , Nevo Pigmentado , Neoplasias Cutâneas , Humanos , Melanoma/patologia , Ceratose Seborreica/diagnóstico por imagem , Nevo Pigmentado/patologia , Dermoscopia/métodos , Microscopia Confocal/métodos , Neoplasias Cutâneas/patologia , Carcinoma Basocelular/diagnóstico por imagem , ColágenoRESUMO
Therapeutic options for bacteremia caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) OXA-48-type are limited. The objective of this study was to analyze clinical success of CAZ-AVI compared with best available therapy (BAT) in patients with Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing OXA-48-type bacteremia (CRKp-OXA-48). We conducted a retrospective, single-center observational study in adult patients with CRKp-OXA-48 between December 2015 and May 2019. We collected the patients' clinical and epidemiological characteristics, antibiotic treatment (CAZ-AVI vs. BAT), and evolution. Factors associated with clinical success were analyzed using binary logistic regression. The study included 76 patients with CRKp-OXA-48-type bacteremia 33 received CAZ-AVI and 43 BAT. CAZ-AVI was mainly used in monotherapy (91%). Clinical success was more common in patients < 70-year-old (OR 4.79, 95% CI [1.435-16.002], p = 0.011) and CAZ-AVI treatment (OR 6.69, 95% CI [1.68-26.604], p = 0.007). Kaplan-Meier survival curve of 14-day mortality showed a lower mortality in patients who received CAZ-AVI (log rank 0.013). However, CAZ-AVI did not achieve statistical difference in IPTW for 14- and 30-day mortality (aOR 0.1, 95% CI [0.02-1.22], p = 0.076 and aOR 1.7, 95% CI [0.48-5.98], p = 0.413, respectively). CAZ-AVI treatment might be associated with a greater clinical success in CRKp-OXA-48 bacteremia.
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Bacteriemia , Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos , Adulto , Idoso , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Compostos Azabicíclicos , Bacteriemia/tratamento farmacológico , Proteínas de Bactérias , Ceftazidima/uso terapêutico , Cefalosporinas , Combinação de Medicamentos , Humanos , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Estudos Retrospectivos , beta-LactamasesRESUMO
In Spain the average temperature has increased by 1.7 °C since pre-industrial times. There has been an increase in heat waves both in terms of frequency and intensity, with a clear impact in terms of population health. The effect of heat waves on daily mortality presents important territorial differences. Gender also affects these impacts, as a determinant that conditions social inequalities in health. There is evidence that women may be more susceptible to extreme heat than men, although there are relatively few studies that analyze differences in the vulnerability and adaptation to heat by sex. This could be related to physiological causes. On the other hand, one of the indicators used to measure vulnerability to heat in a population and its adaptation is the minimum mortality temperature (MMT) and its temporal evolution. The aim of this study was to analyze the values of MMT in men and women and its temporal evolution during the 1983-2018 period in Spain's provinces. An ecological, longitudinal retrospective study was carried out of time series data, based on maximum daily temperature and daily mortality data corresponding to the study period. Using cubic and quadratic fits between daily mortality rates and the temperature, the minimum values of these functions were determined, which allowed for determining MMT values. Furthermore, we used an improved methodology that provided for the estimation of missing MMT values when polynomial fits were inexistent. This analysis was carried out for each year. Later, based on the annual values of MMT, a linear fit was carried out to determine the rate of evolution of MMT for men and for women at the province level. Average MMT for all of Spain's provinces was 29.4 °C in the case of men and 28.7 °C in the case of women. The MMT for men was greater than that of women in 86 percent of the total provinces analyzed, which indicates greater vulnerability among women. In terms of the rate of variation in MMT during the period analyzed, that of men was 0.39 °C/decade, compared to 0.53 °C/decade for women, indicating greater adaptation to heat among women, compared to men. The differences found between men and women were statistically significant. At the province level, the results show great heterogeneity. Studies carried out at the local level are needed to provide knowledge about those factors that can explain these differences at the province level, and to allow for incorporating a gender perspective in the implementation of measures for adaptation to high temperatures.
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Temperatura Alta , Mortalidade , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores Sexuais , Espanha/epidemiologiaRESUMO
The recent pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 has brought to light the need for strategies to mitigate contagion between human beings. Apart from hygiene measures and social distancing, air ventilation highly prevents airborne transmission within enclosed spaces. Among others, educational environments become critical in strategic planning to control the spread of pathogens and viruses amongst the population, mainly in cold conditions. In the event of a virus outbreak - such as COVID or influenza - many school classrooms still lack the means to guarantee secure and healthy environments. The present review examines school contexts that implement air ventilation strategies to reduce the risk of contagion between students. The analysed articles present past experiences that use either natural or mechanical systems assessed through mathematical models, numerical models, or full-scale experiments. For naturally ventilated classrooms, the studies highlight the importance of the architectural design of educational spaces and propose strategies for aeration control such as CO2-based control and risk-infection control. When it comes to implementing mechanical ventilation in classrooms, different systems with different airflow patterns are assessed based on their ability to remove airborne pathogens considering parameters like the age of air and the generation of airflow streamlines. Moreover, studies report that programmed mechanical ventilation systems can reduce risk-infection during pandemic events. In addition to providing a systematic picture of scientific studies in the field, the findings of this review can be a valuable reference for school administrators and policymakers to implement the best strategies in their classroom settings towards reducing infection risks.
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Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS) or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a new acute-onset systemic inflammatory disease, which mainly affects children. Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is characterized by the presence of immune sensitization to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in the absence of any clinical or radiological evidence of active disease. We present a child with MIS-C related to COVID-19, with latent TB in the bone marrow, and satisfactory response to tocilizumab. It is important to pay attention in the investigation of TB cases in countries with a high prevalence of tuberculosis, especially when opting for immunusuppression.
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Tratamento Farmacológico da COVID-19 , COVID-19 , Tuberculose Latente , Anticorpos Monoclonais Humanizados , Medula Óssea , COVID-19/complicações , Criança , Humanos , Tuberculose Latente/complicações , Tuberculose Latente/diagnóstico , Tuberculose Latente/tratamento farmacológico , Masculino , SARS-CoV-2 , Síndrome de Resposta Inflamatória SistêmicaRESUMO
Several national regulations and good international practices promote the existence of a central register with the results of individual radiological monitoring. In the majority of countries (in the Latin American region), dosimetry data were neither harmonised nor managed by a unique database, and therefore the possibility of using such data for proper characterisation of the radiological conditions, integrally at national level, in a territory or sector, and by practice or occupational category, was very limited. All these considerations justified the need for developing a prototype of a National Dose Register (NDR) for Latin America. The main objectives were the strengthening of safety supervision in nuclear applications and the provision of a surveillance system for occupational exposure as well as the centralisation of personal dosimetry data, compiling all doses evaluated by the different dosimetric service providers. The experience of Cuba and Brazil in the implementation of their national registers was well known, and was accordingly used as the basis for designing this software. The first version of the NDR prototype, developed in the Spanish language, has been designed, developed and validated. So far, 16 countries have started to implement the NDR. The present work describes aspects such as the technical bases of the NDR design, its characteristics and its functionalities. Experience gained during implementation in Latin America is also addressed. Having a common system of dosimetric information management in the region has opened an important space for scientific exchanges between the countries and their competent authorities. The NDR implementation has provided regulatory authorities with a tool that permits the verification of the level of compliance with dose limits and restrictions, as well as allowing them to carry out statistical assessments of the results of individual radiological surveillance that may permit evaluation of the appropriateness and effectiveness of workplace radiation protection programmes, contributing to their optimisation.
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Exposição Ocupacional , Proteção Radiológica , Brasil , América Latina , Exposição Ocupacional/análise , RadiometriaRESUMO
AIMS: To demonstrate the ability of Bacillus thuringiensis to penetrate as spore-crystal complex to the internal tissues of bean plants, and keep its insecticidal activity. To test the vertical transmission of the spore-crystal complex in Arabidopsis thaliana. METHODS AND RESULTS: The experimental strain was transformed with the pMUTIN-gfp plasmid which labelled the spores of B. thuringiensis HD-73 with the GFP protein. Once the rhizosphere of the bean plants was inoculated with the labelled strain, the bacterium was recovered from leaves, stems, and petioles. Furthermore, toxicity of treated plants was significantly higher than control plants when bio-assayed on cabbage looper larvae. The labelled strain was recovered from the dead insects. When the rhizosphere of A. thaliana plants was inoculated with the labelled strain, mature seeds from these plants were surface-sterilized and grown under in vitro conditions. The labelled strain was recovered from the seedlings. CONCLUSIONS: We showed that B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki (HD-73) in the rhizosphere can translocate to upper tissues of bean plants, and keep its insecticidal activity. Transmission of the labelled B. thuringiensis strain passed to the next generation of A. thaliana. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: The role of B. thuringiensis as a potential facultative endophyte bacterium and the possible biotechnological repercussions are discussed.
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Arabidopsis/microbiologia , Bacillus thuringiensis/fisiologia , Proteínas de Bactérias/toxicidade , Endotoxinas/toxicidade , Proteínas Hemolisinas/toxicidade , Inseticidas , Phaseolus/microbiologia , Animais , Bacillus thuringiensis/genética , Bacillus thuringiensis/isolamento & purificação , Toxinas de Bacillus thuringiensis , Proteínas de Bactérias/análise , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Endotoxinas/análise , Endotoxinas/genética , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/análise , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde/genética , Proteínas Hemolisinas/análise , Proteínas Hemolisinas/genética , Inseticidas/análise , Larva/microbiologia , Mariposas/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Mariposas/microbiologia , RizosferaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Skin problems are among the most frequent reasons for seeking medical attention in primary care. In recent years, as a result of the process of adapting medical curricula to the requirements of the European Higher Education Area, the amount of time students spend learning the concepts of dermatology has been reduced in many universities. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In order to reach a consensus on core content for undergraduate education in dermatology, we sent a survey to the 57 members of the instructors' group of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), asking their opinions on what objectives should be set for a dermatology course in Spain. A total of 131 previously selected objectives were listed. We then applied the Delphi method to achieve consensus on which ones the respondents considered important or very important (score≥4 on a Likert scale). RESULTS: Nineteen responses (33%) were received. On the second round of the Delphi process, 68 objectives achieved average scores of at least 4. The respondents emphasized that graduates should understand the structure and functions of the skin and know about bacterial, viral, and fungal skin infections, the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and the 4 main inflammatory dermatoses. Students should also learn about common complaints, such as itching and bald patches; the management of dermatologic emergencies; purpura and erythema nodosum as signs of internal disease; and the prevention of STDs and skin cancer. During clinical clerkships students should acquire the communication skills they will need to interview patients, write up a patient's medical history, and refer the patient to a specialist. CONCLUSIONS: The AEDV's group of instructors have defined their recommendations on the core content that medical faculties should adopt for the undergraduate subject of dermatology in Spain.
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Currículo , Dermatologia/educação , Educação de Graduação em Medicina , Venereologia/educação , Humanos , EspanhaRESUMO
The use of graphene in spintronic devices depends, among other things, on its ability to convert a spin excitation into an electric charge signal, a phenomenon that requires a spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here we report the observation of two effects that show the existence of SOC in large-area CVD grown single-layer graphene deposited on a single crystal film of the ferrimagnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG). The first is a magnetoresistance of graphene induced by the magnetic proximity effect with YIG. The second is the detection of a dc voltage along the graphene layer resulting from the conversion of the spin current generated by spin pumping from microwave driven ferromagnetic resonance into a charge current, which is attributed to the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect.
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INTRODUCTION: In biologic therapy, dose modification in carefully selected patients when psoriasis is in remission could reduce treatment costs and the risks associated with drug exposure. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Observational, descriptive, crosssectional study, performed in January 2014, of 112 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis who had been on biologic therapy for at least 6 months. The therapeutic objective in all cases was to achieve and maintain a 75% reduction in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 75). All the patients had started treatment with the standard regimen. During treatment, the dose had been reduced in patients who achieved the therapeutic objective and escalated in those who failed to respond adequately to standard doses. RESULTS: At the time of the study, 42.9% of the patients were receiving the standard dose, 50% were on a reduced dose, and 7.1% were on an escalated regimen. The agent with which the dose was most often reduced was adalimumab (57.7%), and the agents with which therapy was most often escalated were ustekinumab (17.9%) and infliximab (12.5%). Patients who received reduced doses had significantly longer-standing disease (P=.049) and longer treatment duration with the same biologic agent (P=.009). In the group that did not fulfill the criteria for dose reduction, the proportion of patients with psoriatic arthritis was significantly higher (P=.023). Cost savings were as follows: 21.5% with adalimumab, 13.8% with etanercept, .9% with ustekinumab, and .55% with infliximab. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with longer-standing disease and longer treatment duration with the same biologic agent were significantly more likely to be candidates for dose reduction. The proportion of patients with psoriatic arthritis was greater in the group of patients who did not fulfill the conditions for dose reduction. The overall cost saving achieved using the dose modification algorithm described in this study was 13%. Controlled studies are needed to define the profile of the patients best suited for dose reduction strategies without loss of treatment efficacy.
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Adalimumab/uso terapêutico , Terapia Biológica/métodos , Fármacos Dermatológicos/uso terapêutico , Etanercepte/uso terapêutico , Infliximab/uso terapêutico , Psoríase/tratamento farmacológico , Ustekinumab/uso terapêutico , Adalimumab/administração & dosagem , Adalimumab/economia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Algoritmos , Terapia Biológica/economia , Redução de Custos , Fármacos Dermatológicos/administração & dosagem , Fármacos Dermatológicos/economia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Esquema de Medicação , Custos de Medicamentos , Etanercepte/administração & dosagem , Etanercepte/economia , Feminino , Humanos , Infliximab/administração & dosagem , Infliximab/economia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Psoríase/economia , Resultado do Tratamento , Ustekinumab/administração & dosagem , Ustekinumab/economia , Adulto JovemRESUMO
Prosthetic valve obstruction is a rare but potentially lethal complication. The most frequent causes are thrombus and pannus formation, in the absence of infectious data. Diagnosis is not always easy using cardiac CT scanning and in 46%-85% of cases thrombus and pannus coexist, complicating the diagnosis. A rapid diagnosis is essential to avoid a fatal outcome of this pathology whose mortality, despite correct treatment, is high.
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Próteses Valvulares Cardíacas , Trombose , Humanos , Valva Mitral/diagnóstico por imagem , Valva Mitral/patologia , Pannus , Trombose/diagnóstico por imagem , Trombose/etiologia , Trombose/patologia , Próteses Valvulares Cardíacas/efeitos adversosRESUMO
The importance of building ventilation in avoiding long-distance airborne transmission has been highlighted with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemics. Among others, school environments, in particular classrooms, present criticalities in the implementation of ventilation strategies and their impact on indoor air quality and risk of contagion. In this work, three naturally ventilated school buildings located in northern Italy have undergone monitoring at the end of the heating season. Environmental parameters, such as CO2 concentration and indoor/outdoor air temperature, have been recorded together with the window opening configurations to develop a two-fold analysis: i) the estimation of real air change rates through the transient mass balance equation method, and ii) the individual infection risk via the Wells-Riley equation. A strong statistical correlation has been found between the air change rates and the windows opening configuration by means of a window-to-volume ratio between the total opening area and the volume of the classroom, which has been used to estimate the individual infection risk. Results show that the European Standard recommendation for air renewal could be achieved by a window opening area of at least 1.5 m2, in the most prevailing Italian classrooms. Furthermore, scenarios in which the infector agent is a teacher show higher individual infection risk than those in which the infector is a student. In addition, the outcomes serve school staff as a reference to ensure adequate ventilation in classrooms and keep the risk of infection under control based on the number of the students and the volume of the classroom.
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INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of thyroid function alterations and its associated factors in a group of patients from a university hospital in Colombia. METHODS: From June 2007 through June 2008, 636 HIV patients were followed in order to assess the relation of thyroid function with the use of HAART. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of hypothyroidism (TSH > 4.6 µUI/mL) was 15.5% (100/636). The association of hypothyroidism in the independent analysis showed significant relation only for the use of nevirapine (RR 1.6; CI 95% 1.1- 2.34) and stavudine (RR 1.5; CI 95%, 1 - 2.3). CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of hypothyroidism was surprisingly high among the studied population.
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Fármacos Anti-HIV/efeitos adversos , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Hipotireoidismo/induzido quimicamente , Nevirapina/efeitos adversos , Estavudina/efeitos adversos , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Terapia Antirretroviral de Alta Atividade , Estudos de Coortes , Colômbia , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Hospitais Universitários , Humanos , Hipotireoidismo/diagnóstico , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Tireotropina/sangue , Carga Viral , Adulto JovemRESUMO
The diagnosis of pigmented actinic keratosis can be complicated in clinical practice. The differential diagnosis with lentigo maligna melanoma can be difficult due to common clinical and dermoscopic characteristics. We present 5 cases of pigmented actinic keratosis in 4 patients. The most common dermoscopic finding was a grayish-brown granulation with a perifollicular distribution, present in all lesions, followed by rhomboidal structures in 4 cases, and an annular-granular pattern in 3. In no case were asymmetrical pigmented follicular openings observed. We draw attention to key findings that aid preoperative diagnosis of pigmented actinic keratosis.
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Dermoscopia , Dermatoses Faciais/diagnóstico , Ceratose Actínica/diagnóstico , Nariz/patologia , Pigmentação da Pele , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Epiderme/química , Epiderme/patologia , Dermatoses Faciais/patologia , Dermatoses Faciais/cirurgia , Feminino , Humanos , Sarda Melanótica de Hutchinson/diagnóstico , Queratinócitos/ultraestrutura , Ceratose Actínica/patologia , Ceratose Actínica/cirurgia , Masculino , Melaninas/análise , Pessoa de Meia-IdadeRESUMO
The knowledge of the magnon dispersion relations in antiferromagnetic materials with nontrivial spin textures has considerable interest to the understanding of magnonic and spintronic phenomena involving these materials. One particularly interesting nontrivial spin texture existing in several antiferromagnets has spins at an angle of 120° with the in-plane neighbors and arranged in kagome lattices. Here we present a spin-wave calculation for antiferromagnets with kagome spin lattices considering exchange and single-ion anisotropy interactions between the spins. The theory yields exact analytical expressions for the frequencies of magnons at high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone, that can be readily use to obtain the interaction parameters from experimental data with one-and two-magnon inelastic light scattering. The analytical expressions are used to obtain the field parameters for the kagome lattice antiferromagnet L12-IrMn3from four experimentally measured frequencies. Both exchange field parameters are in reasonable agreement with the values obtained withab initiocalculations, while the anisotropy field is in very good agreement with the one calculated with atomistic spin models and Monte Carlo simulations.
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ABSTRACT: Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales constitute a serious public health threat; however, information on the oxacilinasa (OXA-48)-type is limited. The objective of the study was to evaluate the risk factors associated with 14-day mortality for patients with bacteremia due to OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae.We conducted a retrospective, single-center observational study of adult patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia, classifying the strains as carbapenem-susceptible K. pneumoniae (CSKp) and carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKp). All of the CRKp strains were the OXA-48-type.The study included 202 cases of bacteremia: 114 due to CSKp and 88 due to CRKp. The clinical cure rate was higher for the patients with CSKp (85% vs 69% for CSKp and CRKp, respectively; Pâ=â.010), while the 14-day mortality rate was lower (13% vs 30%, Pâ=â.005). An INCREMENT-CPE score ≥7 (HR 3.05, 95% CI 1.50-6.25, Pâ=â.002) was the only independent factor associated with 14-day mortality for the patients with Klebsiella spp. bacteremia. Other factors related to 14-day mortality were a rapidly fatal prognosis (McCabe) (HR 7.1, 95% CI 2.75-18.37, Pâ<â.001), dementia (HR 5.9, 95% CI 2.0-7.43, Pâ=â.001), and a high-risk source of infection (HR 2.7, 95% CI 1.06-6.82, Pâ=â.038).The most important factors associated with 14-day mortality for the patients with K. pneumoniae bacteremia was an INCREMENT-CPE score ≥7, dementia, a McCabe score indicating a rapidly fatal prognosis and a high-risk source of infection. We found no relationship between a poorer outcome and CRKp isolation or inadequate antibiotic therapy.
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Infecções por Klebsiella/mortalidade , beta-Lactamases/metabolismo , Adulto , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos/efeitos dos fármacos , Carbapenêmicos/uso terapêutico , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos , Feminino , Humanos , Infecções por Klebsiella/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções por Klebsiella/microbiologia , Klebsiella pneumoniae/isolamento & purificação , Masculino , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
Methotrexate (MTX) is one of the most useful drugs for the treatment of various rheumatic diseases in children, mainly juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), and localised scleroderma. MTX is considered the standard treatment of JIA, particularly of those subgroups with polyarticular course. JIA response and remission rates to MTX are the standard for comparison with other drug modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) and biologic agents in clinical trials. On the other hand, short and long-term data suggest that MTX is a safety drug in the paediatric population with rheumatic diseases. Not surprisingly, MTX is the DMARD of choice in JIA either as monotherapeutic drug or in combination with biologic agents.
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Antirreumáticos/uso terapêutico , Artrite Juvenil/tratamento farmacológico , Metotrexato/uso terapêutico , Adolescente , Antirreumáticos/efeitos adversos , Produtos Biológicos/uso terapêutico , Criança , Quimioterapia Combinada , Medicina Baseada em Evidências , Humanos , Metotrexato/efeitos adversos , Medição de Risco , Fatores de Risco , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: In February 2009, the European Medicines Agency suspended the marketing authorization for efalizumab after 3 confirmed cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy were reported. To assess the consequences of this decision, we performed a prospective follow-up study of patients in our department who were being treated with efalizumab at the time and compared clinical outcomes with data from the literature. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Thirty-two patients (28 with plaque psoriasis and 4 with palmoplantar psoriasis) were enrolled between February and March 2009. We recorded psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) scores at the moment of efalizumab discontinuation, at 6 weeks post-discontinuation, and at 3-monthly intervals thereafter. PASI scores prior to treatment with efalizumab were also noted. For patients who experienced rebounds with generalized psoriasis, we noted the time that had elapsed since efalizumab discontinuation and the treatment they were receiving. RESULTS: Even though 92.8% of the patients were considered good responders (>75% reduction in PASI score), 25% of the group (8/32) experienced rebound and 15.7% (5/32) experienced relapse. The percentage of patients in whom rebound was observed on transition therapy was 18% (2/11) for cyclosporin, 50% (1/2) for methotrexate, 50% (1/2) for adalimumab, 50% (1/2) for etanercept, and 27% (3/11) for topical treatment. CONCLUSIONS: We observed a very high rate of rebound and generalized inflammation in patients whose disease had previously been well controlled for several years.