Policlinico San Matteo Fondazione

Exploring the potential benefits of allergen immunotherapy beyond respiratory allergy

INTRODUCTION: Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is the only disease-modifying treatment for IgE-mediated allergic disorders, including allergic rhinitis and asthma, with established long-term clinical efficacy and immunological tolerance induction. AREAS COVERED: This review synthesiz...

Visceral-to-subcutaneous fat ratio is a time-stable predictor of survival and toxicity in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

Abstract Purpose Nutritional status significantly impacts the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Computed tomography (CT) has become a key tool for assessing body composition (BC), with abnormal patterns increasingly linked to reduced survival. However, BC...

Rationale and Design of ACO-REAL: A Real-World Non-Interventional Study of Acoramidis in Routine Clinical Practice

Acoramidis, an oral transthyretin stabilizer that achieves near-complete stabilization, is approved for the treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) based on the phase 3 study, ATTRibute-CM (NCT03860935). To complement trial data, ACO-REAL (NCT07235462) was des...