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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2017

Treatment of Vasodilator-resistant Mixed Connective Tissue Disease-associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension with Glucocorticoid and Cyclophosphamide.

Eri Sugawara, Masaru Kato, Ryo Hisada, Kenji Oku, Toshiyuki Bohgaki, Tetsuya Horita, Shinsuke Yasuda, Tatsuya Atsumi

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eri SugawaraDivision of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
Masaru Kato
Ryo Hisada
Kenji Oku
Toshiyuki Bohgaki
Tetsuya Horita
Shinsuke Yasuda
Tatsuya Atsumi
Hokkaido University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or mixed connective tissue disease (MTCD), in contrast to other types of PAH, may respond to immunosuppressive therapy. Most PAH cases with an immunosuppressant response were in the early stages of the disease (WHO functional class III or less). The present case was a 34-year-old woman with MCTD-associated PAH (WHO functional class IV) who was resistant to a combination of three vasodilators. Afterwards, she was treated with glucocorticoid and cyclophosphamide. This case suggested the potential benefit of immunosuppressants in patients with severe MCTD-associated PAH.

Indexed as

AdultCyclophosphamideDrug ResistanceDrug Therapy, CombinationFemaleGlucocorticoidsHumansHypertension, PulmonaryImmunosuppressive AgentsMixed Connective Tissue DiseaseRadiography, ThoracicVasodilator AgentsCyclophosphamideGlucocorticoidsImmunosuppressive AgentsVasodilator Agents

Identifiers

PMID28202869
PMCPMC5364200
OpenAlexW2589095950

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