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State-of-the-Art Drug Cardio-Respiratory Discovery and Development in Europe
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State-of-the-Art Drug Cardio-Respiratory Discovery and Development in Europe

A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2022) | Viewed by 3584

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Prof. Dr. Alice M Turner

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Centre for Translational Inflammation Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Interests: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency; clinical trials
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Dear Colleagues,

This issue will focus on articles which describe all phases of drug discovery, from molecular work and early in vitro or animal studies, to clinical trials with diseases of the cardiovascular and/or respiratory system. This could include airways disease, pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory infection, ischaemic heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac failure, atrial fibrillation or other cardiorespiratory problems. Review articles about the current situation in a specific disease or disease area, which describe the landscape for treatment in the future, based on current themes in drug development, would also be of interest.

This Special Issue aims at collecting original research or review articles on Drug Cardio-respiratory Discovery and Development in Europe.

Prof. Dr. Alice M Turner
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • airways disease
  • pulmonary fibrosis
  • respiratory infection
  • ischaemic heart disease
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • cardiac failure
  • atrial fibrillation or other cardiorespiratory problems

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The Effectiveness of Nintedanib in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis and Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases: A Real-World Study
by Paolo Cameli, Valerio Alonzi, Miriana d’Alessandro, Laura Bergantini, Elena Pordon, Marco Guerrieri, Rosa Metella Refini, Piersante Sestini and Elena Bargagli
Biomedicines 2022, 10(8), 1973; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines10081973 - 15 Aug 2022
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Background: Nintedanib is an oral multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Recent evidence demonstrated that nintedanib reduced functional disease progression also in subjects with non-IPF progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD). However, real-life data [...] Read more.
Background: Nintedanib is an oral multitarget tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Recent evidence demonstrated that nintedanib reduced functional disease progression also in subjects with non-IPF progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (PF-ILD). However, real-life data on the effectiveness of nintedanib in PF-ILD and familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF) are lacking. Methods: this retrospective monocentric study enrolled 197 patients affected with IPF, PF-ILD and FPF treated with nintedanib at the Referral Centre of Siena from 2014 to 2021. Pulmonary functional tests and survival data were collected throughout the observation period for the evaluation of mortality and disease progression outcomes. Results: nintedanib treatment significantly reduced the FVC decline rate in IPF and PF-ILD subgroups, but not in FPF subjects. No significant differences were observed among the subgroups in terms of survival, which appeared to be influenced by gender and impaired lung function (FVC < 70% of predicted value). Concerning disease progression rate, a diagnosis of FPF is associated with more pronounced FVC decline despite nintedanib treatment. Conclusions: our research studies the effectiveness and safety of nintedanib in reducing functional disease progression of IPF and PF-ILD. FPF appeared to be less responsive to nintedanib, even though no differences were observed in terms of survival. Full article
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