BackgroundThose affected by advanced fibrotic interstitial lung diseases have limited treatment options and in the terminal stages, the focus of care is on symptom management. However, quantitatively, little is known about symptom prevalence. We aimed to determine the prevalence of symptoms in Progressive Idiopathic Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease (PIF-ILD).MethodsSearches on eight electronic databases including MEDLINE for clinical studies between 1966 and 2015 where the target population was adults with PIF-ILD and for whom the prevalence of symptoms had been calculated.ResultsA total of 4086 titles were screened for eligibility criteria; 23 studies were included for analysis. The highest prevalence was that for breathlessness (54–98%) and cough (59–100%) followed by heartburn (25–65%) and depression (10–49%). The heterogeneity of studies limited their comparability, but many of the symptoms present in patients with other end-stage disease were also seen in PIF-ILD.ConclusionsThis is the first quantitative review of symptoms in people with Progressive Idiopathic Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Diseases. Symptoms are common, often multiple and have a comparable prevalence to those experienced in other advanced diseases. Quantification of these data provides valuable information to inform the allocation of resources.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12890-018-0651-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Cytoreductive surgery plus HIPEC in well-selected patients presenting with tumors that affect the peritoneum is a procedure that can be carried out in Colombia with an adequate safety and effectiveness profile. Mortality was similar to that reported in the international literature.
El pseudomixoma peritoneal (PMP) es una condición patológica pobremente entendida, caracterizada por la presencia de ascitis mucinosa relacionada a siembras peritoneales multifocales. Múltiples estudios histopatológicos que incluyeron inmunohistoquímica han sugerido que la mayoría de los PMP, si no todos los casos, derivan de adenomas mucinosos del apéndice más que de lesiones primarias del ovario. Pocos estudios que han evaluado la biología molecular y la genética del PMP se han reportado recientemente; sin embargo, estos trabajos solo han analizado un pequeño número de casos, incluyendo muestras heterogéneas de tumores mucinosos de comportamiento benigno y maligno, originados del apéndice y de los ovarios. Reportes previos han demostrado mutaciones en el KRAS y pérdidas alélicas en los cromosomas 18q, 17p, 5q y 6q, en una cantidad de casos de PMP morfológicamente uniformes que presentan afectación sincrónica del ovario y del apéndice, así como en adenomas mucinosos apendiculares y en tumores ováricos productores de moco que tienen un bajo potencial de malignidad y que no están asociados al PMP. Nuestra revisión soporta ampliamente la conclusión de que los tumores mucinosos que involucran el apéndice y los ovarios en el PMP tienen como origen clonal un solo sitio, siendo el más probable el apéndice cecal.
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