Background The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori has long been a global health issue. Triple therapy, being the first-line treatment, has caused dysbiosis of the gastrointestinal tract that led to various complications. A novel nanomedicine - liposomal linolenic acid (LipoLLA) - has been proven to have great potential in eradicating H. pylori. However, the possible side effects of LipoLLA due t...

The detection of molecular targeted agents is a milestone in cancer treatment. Despite the achievements, the efficacy of single targeted agents in combination with radiotherapy is limited by putative treatment resistance. We therefore tested a rationally designed triple therapy consisting of an agonistic antibody against either TRAIL-R1 (mapatumumab/HGS-ETR1) or TRAIL-R2 (lexatumumab/HGS-ETR2) ...

A pproximately 8% patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention are on anticoagulation, which creates difficult choices regarding stent type and antiplatelet use. Drug eluting stents (DES) are usually preferred over bare metal stents (BMS) because of less restenosis and fewer repeat revascularization procedures. However, DES require a longer duration of dual antiplatelet therapy to min...

background: triple therapy with a proton pump inhibitor and two antibiotics in helicobacter pylori (hp) eradication is widely accepted, but this combination fails in a considerable number of cases. the aim of this study was to assess the effect of clidinium-c addition on hp eradication and to investigate the efficacy and safety of clidinium-c in prevention of drugs' side effects. methods: ...

METHODS A total of 102 patients were randomized to either mono-therapy with simvastatin (40 mg daily) or triple-therapy with simvastatin (40 mg daily), extended-release niacin (1500 mg daily), and ezetimibe (10 mg daily). MRI was performed at baseline and 6, 12, and 24 months. SFA wall, lumen, and total vessel volumes were quantified. MRI-derived SFA parameters and lipids were analyzed with mul...

Studies have shown that adjunctive cilostazol to dual ntiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous oronary intervention (PCI) may decrease late restenosis nd enhance inhibition of adenosine diphosphate (ADP)nduced platelet aggregation, providing a rationale for triple ntiplatelet therapy (3–5). The appealing hypothesis that riple antiplatelet therapy may provide more profound latelet...

Despite wide interindividual variability in response to clopidogrel, platelet P2Y(12) ADP receptor inhibition in Japanese patients has not been fully studied using specific methodology. This study compared platelet P2Y(12) ADP receptor inhibition during treatment with clopidogrel versus clopidogrel plus cilostazol in patients undergoing coronary stenting. Forty-two patients in whom platelet fun...

BACKGROUND Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AFib) recommend antithromboembolic treatment strategies for patients with AFib and acute coronary syndrome (AFibACS). Our study assessed how current guidelines are implemented in the metropolitan area of Berlin and which therapeutic options were chosen in light of stroke and bleeding riskin everyday practice. METHODS AND RESULTS...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Sequential therapy is one of the recent answers given to the problem of increasing antibiotic resistance and decreasing eradication rates of Helicobacter pylori infection. The aim of this study is to compare the ornidazole-based sequentialtherapy with the standard triple therapy in Helicobacter pylori eradication. MATERIALS AND METHODS Children aged 4-18 years diagnosed with H...

BACKGROUND In previous studies in virologically suppressed patients, protease inhibitor monotherapy has shown trends for more low-level elevations in HIV-1 RNA compared with triple therapy, but no increase in the risk of drug resistance. METHODS A total of 273 patients with HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/ml on first-line antiretrovirals switched to darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) 800/100 mg once d...