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Upper-to-lower body segment ratio decreased significantly from baseline relative to untreated comparators in both age groups. Continuous treatment with vosoritide in children with achondroplasia shows ...
A decision tree integrating left ventricular ejection fraction, global longitudinal strain, and cardiac index identified 4 prognostic groups with hazard ratios for 4-year mortality ranging between 1.6 ...
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated neuromuscular disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. CIDP is characterized by gradual sensory loss and muscle ...
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Kine Sciences advanced KINE-101 to the phase 1b/2a study following the successful completion of a phase 1 study in the United States. The first patient in a new phase 1b/2a clinical trial to ...
Baseline hemoglobin at diagnosis and patient age independently predict transfusion density, whereas other hematologic factors do not. A higher cumulative red blood cell (RBC) transfusion burden is ...
Sickle cell disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means that a child is born with SCD only when they inherit 2 defective copies of the sickle cell gene (1 from each parent). If ...
The Stride Velocity 95th Centile (SV95C) showed sensitivity to a decline in the ability to walk over short intervals in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a new study ...
The whole body production, plasma concentrations, and intra- and extracellular compartmental analyses of various amino acids were attenuated in DMD dogs given beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB).
Belinda Moser of ExamOne takes a blood sample from Marie Bedirlian, whose 14-year-old son, Brayden, has Duchenne. Bedirlian is a DMD carrier. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Pradeep Mammen, MD, an expert on ...
In a nonhuman primate model of acquired hemophilia A, treatment with PS-siRNA 40031 restored thrombin generation to normal levels. Reducing protein S (PS) levels can increase thrombin generation and ...