CONCLUSION: Combination therapy with calcium dobesilate and ranibizumab decreased the frequency of intravitreal injections and led to greater improvements in BCVA and CMT compared to ranibizumab alone over 12 months. Both treatments were well-tolerated, with the combination therapy demonstrating a favorable safety profile. →

The KIADEKU project combines datascience and the clinical expertise of wound experts to develop and evaluate an AI-application for incontinence-associated-dermatitis (IAD) and pressure ulcer (PU) wound care. The evaluation study is a controlled, non-randomized clinical trial that investigates the effects of the AI-based system on wound care time, guideline adherence and the task load of… →

Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks substantially impair health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Current World Allergy Organization and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology guidelines goals include complete control and normalization of patients’ lives. Garadacimab (anti-activated factor XII monoclonal antibody) reduced the mean attack rate after first administration in the pivotal phase III (VANGUARD;… →

Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is associated with substantial health-related quality of life (HRQoL) impairments. Complete disease control and life normalization are key treatment goals. In previous studies, garadacimab prevented HAE attacks with a favorable safety profile and HRQoL improvements. Objective: HRQoL was evaluated in patients with HAE receiving garadacimab stratified by attack-free status. Methods: In… →

Background: The cost-effectiveness of school environmental remediation in asthma is not known. The School Inner City Asthma Intervention Study (SICAS2) was a randomized controlled trial that assessed school integrated pest management (IPM) and classroom high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration on asthma morbidity in urban schools. Objective: The objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of… →

CONCLUSIONS: This pilot feasibility trial demonstrates the acceptabity and feasibiity of integrating culturally sensitive strength-based interventions for African American families to promote health promotion behaviors and coping. →

CONCLUSION: The SLE-DAS cut-off for SDA provides an accurate definition of SDA in SLE, with good discriminative power and consistent associations with worse HR-QoL. This SLE-DAS definition enhances disease activity classification and offers a practical tool for guiding treatment decisions in clinical practice, as well as selecting patients with SDA for inclusion in clinical trials. →

BACKGROUND: People with cystic fibrosis can have impaired insulin secretion and hyperglycaemia before meeting the diagnostic criteria for cystic fibrosis-related diabetes during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Insulin therapy given to such patients was associated with improved weight and lung function in several small, uncontrolled trials but might increase treatment burden and cause hypoglycaemia.… →

CONCLUSION: Use of iSupport was associated with reduced health and social care resource use costs for carers compared with care-as-usual. Self-guided e-health interventions for dementia carers may have the potential to reduce health and social care resource use and wider societal costs, but evidence relating to their effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is lacking. →