Correspondence: Pier Enrico Gallenga University Eye Clinic, G.D’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy Email [email protected] Patients treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide The paper by Kocabora and coworkers (2008) underlines the message that patients treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide are at risk of increased intraocular pressure (IOP) even after the clearance period o...

Seventeen subjects with chronic severe asthma completed a 48 week prospective, double blind study with crossover of treatment at 24 weeks, in which triamcinolone acetonide 80 mg intramuscularly every four weeks was compared with oral prednisolone 10 mg daily. Spirometry, twice daily measurements of peak expiratory flow rate, and self assessment of asthma symptom scores showed significant improv...

conclusions this study showed that topical glycyrrhiza glabra appeared to be a promising alternative in the treatment of olp. further studies should be conducted to assess the long-term effects of glycyrrhiza glabra. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of 1% glycyrrhiza glabra in orabase with 0.1% triamcinolone acetonide paste in treating oral lichen planus (...

A mucoadhesive drug delivery system can improve the effectiveness of a drug by maintaining the drug concentration and allowing targeting and localization of the drug at a specific site. Acrylic-based hydrogels have been used extensively as a mucoadhesive system owing to their flexibility and excellent bioadhesion. In this experiment, poly(acrylic acid) was selected to prepare the bioadhesive hy...

PURPOSE Intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide has been advocated to treat exudative diabetic macular edema. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of an intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide as treatment for diffuse diabetic macular edema. METHODS This study was a retrospective, interventional, clinical case series examining 210 eyes of 174 patie...

The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy and safety of topical Tacrolimus ointment with that of Triamcinolone Acetonide ointment on patients suffering from oral lichen planus. A total of sixty patients (53 females and 07 males, means age 48 years; 30 patients per groups) were treated with Tacrolimus, a calcineurin inhibitor immunosuppresor drug and Triamcinolone acetonide for three mont...

Aim: To evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide on the visual acuity of patients with exudative age related macular degeneration, to assess the duration of a possible effect, and to evaluate clinical side effects of the treatment. Methods: The study included 67 patients (71 eyes) who presented with exudative age related macular degeneration of predominantly or total occult t...

BACKGROUND The treatment of knee osteoarthritis with hyaluronic acid or corticosteroid injection has been widely used. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of hyaluronic acid (hylan G-F 20) with triamcinolone acetonide as a single intra-articular injection for knee osteoarthritis. METHODS This study was a prospective, randomized, double-blind clinical trial. Participants with...

INTRODUCTION We report the impact of canakinumab, a fully human anti-interleukin-1β monoclonal antibody, on inflammation and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with difficult-to-treat Gouty Arthritis. METHODS In this eight-week, single-blind, double-dummy, dose-ranging study, patients with acute Gouty Arthritis flares who were unresponsive or intolerant to--or had contraindica...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the success of masking study participants to treatment allocation using sham intravitreal injections. METHODS Eyes were randomized to receive sham injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus prompt laser, intravitreal ranibizumab injections plus deferred laser, or intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injections plus prompt laser up to every 16 ...