Objective Mepolizumab proved to be an efficacious treatment for eosinophilic granulomatosis
with polyangiitis (EGPA) at a dose of 300 mg every 4 weeks in the randomized, controlled …

Autoimmune diseases include more than 70 different disorders affecting over 5% of the
population of the Western countries. They are mainly characterized by female predominance and …

Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) has been regarded as female-predominant without evidence
of gender difference in survival. We aimed to compare the overall survival, incidence and …

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic disease characterised by
autoimmunity and increased susceptibility to infections. COVID-19 is a systemic viral disease …

Giltelman syndrome (GS) is a recessive salt-losing tubulopathy of children or young adults
caused by a mutation of genes encoding the human sodium chloride cotransporters and …

Turner Syndrome (TS) is a common genetic disorder, affecting female individuals, resulting
from the partial or complete absence of one sex chromosome, and occurring in …

Epidemiology is expected to provide important clues to our understanding of the enigmatic
etiopathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). First, a systematic review of population …

In the last decade, interest has been growing in the relationship between obesity and several
other clinical conditions, besides the well-established links between body mass index (BMI…

Flow-mediated dilation (FMD) represents a non-invasive marker of endothelial function to
evaluate vascular homeostasis, which reflects the effects of several mechanisms, including …

Context Few studies regarding palliative sedation (PS) have been carried out in home care (HC)
setting. A comparison of PS rate and practices between hospice (HS) and HC is also …