ReviewClinical rheumatology2018
Anti-fibrotic nintedanib-a new opportunity for systemic sclerosis patients?
Review in Clinical rheumatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Nintedanib in the Treatment of Interstitial Lung Disease Among Patients With Systemic Sclerosis: Systematic Review.Canadian respiratory journal · 2025Pooled it
- Current and Emerging Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Crohn's Disease Strictures.Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2022Article
- Systemic Sclerosis Associated Interstitial Lung Disease and Nintedanib: A Rare Disease and a Promising Drug.Cureus · 2021Review
- Lipid Alterations in Systemic Sclerosis.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021Review
- Pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease.Journal of scleroderma and related disorders · 2020Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue disease characterized by progressive skin thickening and a wide spectrum of internal organ involvement. Pathogenesis includes vasculopathy, inflammation, and fibrosis. Although immunosuppressants such as cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil have shown some benefit in interstitial lung disease management, it is still a major cause of morbi-mortality in these patients. Therefore, there is a current need for new therapies. Here, we report a 65-year-old female patient with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis, anti-topoisomerase-positive and extensive lung disease. The patient developed progressive lung fibrosis under several immunosuppressants and was started on nintedanib, with clinical and functional stabilization. Nintedanib is a tyrosine-kinase inhibitor that blocks several profibrotic pathways, inhibiting proliferation and migration of fibroblasts and decreasing the synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins. It is approved for idiopathic lung fibrosis and has demonstrated good results in inhibiting migration and proliferation of systemic sclerosis dermal fibroblasts, constituting a promising agent for systemic sclerosis-associated lung fibrosis.
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