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Clin Exp Rheumatol ; 33(4): 449-56, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26053285

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of rituximab (RTX) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) refractory to standard therapy in the clinical practice setting. METHODS: 145 SLE patients (ACR criteria) were treated with RTX in 11 Italian Centres: 118 with two infusions (1 g), two weeks apart; 27 with 4 infusions (375 mg/m2), one week apart, followed in 10 cases by two further doses, after 1 and 2 months. Systemic complete response (CR) was defined as European Consensus Lupus Activity Measurement (ECLAM) score ≤1 and partial response (PR) as 1< ECLAM ≤3. Renal CR (RCR) and renal PR (RPR) were defined according to EULAR recommendations for management of lupus nephritis. RESULTS: Data from 134 (92.4%) patients were available. The mean±SD follow-up was 27.3±18.5 months. After the first course of RTX, CR or PR were observed in 85.8% and CR in 45.5% of cases; RCR or RPR in 94.1% and RCR in 30.9% of patients after 12-month follow-up. Disease flares occurred in 35.1% and renal flares in 31.2% of patients during observational period. Among patients retreated, CR or PR were observed in 84.4% and CR in 57.8% of cases. Adverse events, infections, and infusion reactions occurred after first RTX course in 23.8%, 16.4%, and 3.8% of patients and after retreatment in 33.3%, 22.2% and 11.1%, respectively. No severe infusion reactions or deaths occurred. CONCLUSIONS: Data from Italian multicentre RTX Registry confirmed the efficacy and safety of RTX in SLE patients refractory to standard treatment in clinical practice setting.


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Anticuerpos Monoclonales de Origen Murino/administración & dosificación , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/tratamiento farmacológico , Adulto , Antirreumáticos/administración & dosificación , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Monitoreo de Drogas/métodos , Resistencia a Medicamentos , Femenino , Humanos , Terapia de Inmunosupresión/métodos , Italia , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/inmunología , Lupus Eritematoso Sistémico/fisiopatología , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Uso Fuera de lo Indicado , Inducción de Remisión/métodos , Rituximab , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad , Resultado del Tratamiento
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Anal Bioanal Chem ; 407(24): 7503-9, 2015 Sep.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26255294

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In this contribution, we investigated whether surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of serum can be a candidate method for detecting "luminal A" breast cancer (BC) at different stages. We selected three groups of participants aged over 50 years: 20 healthy women, 20 women with early localized small BC, and 20 women affected by BC with lymph node involvement. SERS revealed clear spectral differences between these three groups. A predictive model using principal component analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was developed based on spectral data, and its performance was estimated with cross-validation. PCA-LDA of SERS spectra could distinguish healthy from BC subjects (sensitivity, 92 %; specificity, 85 %), as well as subjects with BC at different stages, with a promising diagnostic performance (sensitivity and specificity, ≥80 %; overall accuracy, 84 %). Our data suggest that SERS spectroscopy of serum, combined with multivariate data analysis, represents a minimally invasive, easy to use, and fast approach to discriminate healthy from BC subjects and even to distinguish BC at different clinical stages.


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Neoplasias de la Mama/diagnóstico , Neoplasias de la Mama/sangre , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Estudios de Cohortes , Femenino , Humanos , Persona de Mediana Edad
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Anal Bioanal Chem ; 407(12): 3271-5, 2015 May.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25791298

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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra were obtained from urine samples from subjects diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as from healthy controls, using Au nanoparticles as substrates. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the spectral data, followed by linear discriminant analysis (LDA), leads to a classification model with a sensitivity of 100 %, a specificity of 89 %, and an overall diagnostic accuracy of 95 %. Even considering the very limited number of samples involved in this report, preliminary results from this approach are extremely promising, encouraging further investigation.


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Neoplasias de la Próstata/orina , Espectrometría Raman/métodos , Anciano , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Análisis Discriminante , Oro/química , Humanos , Hipoxantina/orina , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Nanopartículas/química , Análisis de Componente Principal , Neoplasias de la Próstata/diagnóstico , Sensibilidad y Especificidad
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