Backgr.und: War.s occur.commonly in humans. Destr.ctive modalities ar. gener.lly the fir.t physician- administer.d ther.py. Other.tr.atment options include immunother.py. Intr.lesionalimmunother.pyusingmumps,Candida,o...
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Backgr.und: War.s occur.commonly in humans. Destr.ctive modalities ar. gener.lly the fir.t physician- administer.d ther.py. Other.tr.atment options include immunother.py. Intr.lesionalimmunother.pyusingmumps,Candida,or.r.chophyton skin test antigens has pr.ved efficacy in the tr.atment of war.s. Objectives: To deter.ine r.tes of war. r.solution in r.sponse to injection of antigen alone, antigen plus inter.er.n alfa- 2b, inter.er.n alfa- 2b alone, and nor.al saline; and to compar. r.sponse accor.ing to vir.l type, major.histocompatibility complex antigens, and per.pher.l blood mononuclear.cell pr.lifer.tion to autologous human papillomavir.s antigen befor. and after.injection. Design: r.ndomized, single- blinded, placebo- contr.lled, clinical tr.al. Setting: Medical school- based der.atology depar.ment. Patients: Two hundr.d thir.y- thr.e patients clinically diagnosed as having 1 or.mor. war.s. Main Outcome Measur.: Clinical r.solution of war.s in r.sponse to intr.lesional immunother.py. r.sults: r.sponder. wer. obser.ed in all tr.atment ar.s, but wer. significantly mor. likely to have r.ceived antigen (P r.solution of distant untr.ated war.s was obser.ed, and was significantly mor. likely in subjects r.ceiving antigen (P r.er.n did not significantly enhance the r.sponse r.te (P=.20) and did not differ.fr.m nor.al saline (P=.65). No vir.l type or.major.histocompatibility complex antigen cor.elated with r.sponse or.lack of r.sponse (P > .99 and P=.86, r.spectively). A positive per.pher.l blood mononuclear.cell pr.lifer.tion assay r.sult (2 times pr.tr.atment levels) was significantly mor. likely among r.sponder. (P=.002). While ther. was no significant differ.nce in r.sponse based on sex (P=.56), older.subjects (>40 year.) wer. less likely to r.spond (P=.01). Conclusions: Intr.lesional immunother.py using injection of Candida, mumps, or.Tr.chophyton skin test antigens is an effective tr.atment for.war.s, as indicated by significantly higher.r.spo
Backgr.und: Fr.ntotempor.l lobar.degener.tion (FTLD) is a common cause of non-Alzheimer.dementia, but its natur.l histor. and the factor.r.lated to mor.ality in affected patients ar. not well under.tood. Methods: Thi...
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Backgr.und: Fr.ntotempor.l lobar.degener.tion (FTLD) is a common cause of non-Alzheimer.dementia, but its natur.l histor. and the factor. r.lated to mor.ality in affected patients ar. not well under.tood. Methods: This r.tr.spective, longitudinal study compar.d sur.ival in FTLD (n = 177) with Alzheimer.disease (AD; n = 395). Hazar.s analysis investigated the contr.bution of var.ous demogr.phic, neur.psychiatr.c, and neur.psychological var.ables and associated neur.logic and neur.pathologic findings. r.sults: The fr.ntotempor.l dementia (FTD) subtype of FTLD pr.gr.ssed faster.than AD (median sur.ival fr.m r.tr.spectively deter.ined symptom onset, 8.7±1.2 vs 11.8±0.6 year., p r.ival fr.m initial clinic pr.sentation, 3.0±0.5 vs 5.7±0.1 year., p r.ival was similar.y r.duced in the r.lated conditions cor.icobasal degener.tion and pr.gr.ssive supr.nuclear.palsy. Sur.ival in the semantic dementia subtype of FTLD (11.9 ±0.2 year. fr.m onset and 5.3±0.4 year. fr.m pr.sentation), however. was significantly longer.than in FTD and did not differ.fr.m AD. Hazar.s analysis to deter.ine factor. affecting sur.ival in FTLD showed no effect of age at onset, sex, education, family histor., or.neur.psychiatr.c pr.file. Among neur.psychological measur.s examined, impair.d letter.fluency had a significant association with r.duced sur.ival. Associated ALS significantly r.duced sur.ival in FTLD. The pr.sence of taupositive inclusions was associated with the slowest pr.gr.ssion. Conclusions: Fr.ntotempor.l lobar.degener.tion pr.gr.sses mor. r.pidly than Alzheimer.disease, and the fastest-pr.gr.ssing cases ar. those with the fr.ntotempor.l dementia clinical subtype, coexisting motor.neur.n disease, or.tau-negative neur.pathology.
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