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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

Early Effects of Elexacaftor-Tezacaftor-Ivacaftor Therapy on Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and Advanced Lung Disease.

Letizia Macconi, Valeria Galici, Marco Di Maurizio, Enrica Rossi, Giovanni Taccetti, Vito Terlizzi

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Letizia MacconiDepartment of Radiology, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.
Valeria GaliciDepartment of Paediatric Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis Regional Reference Center, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.
Marco Di MaurizioDepartment of Radiology, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4266-0918
Enrica RossiDepartment of Radiology, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.
Giovanni TaccettiDepartment of Paediatric Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis Regional Reference Center, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.
Vito TerlizziDepartment of Paediatric Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis Regional Reference Center, Meyer Children's Hospital, 50139 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1106-4424
Meyer Children's Hospital · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is a prospective, observational study involving three Cystic Fibrosis (CF) adult patients, evaluating the changes in chest magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) three months after the start of elexacaftor/tezacaftor and ivacaftor therapy. MRI showed a drastic reduction in mucus plugging and bronchial wall thickening, with an improvement in the diffusion-weighted MRI score. Similarly, a marked improvement in spirometric parameters, nutritional status, and sweat chloride was observed. Our preliminary data confirm that chest MRI could be a useful tool to assess disease progression in CF patients on modulatory drug therapy.

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CFTR modulatorsdiffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imagingscore

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PMID35893365
PMCPMC9331995
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