Survival in pulmonary hypertension in Spain: insights from the Spanish registry

…, MJ Castillo-Palma, J Segovia… - European …, 2012 - Eur Respiratory Soc
A pulmonary hypertension (PH) registry (Spanish Registry of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension)
was undertaken to analyse prevalence, incidence and survival of pulmonary arterial …

Registry of the Spanish network for systemic sclerosis: clinical pattern according to cutaneous subsets and immunological status

…, MJ Castillo-Palma, J Sánchez-Román… - Seminars in arthritis and …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of clinical and immunological characteristics of a
large cohort of Spanish patients with scleroderma (SSc) and identifying factors associated …

[HTML][HTML] Registry of the Spanish network for systemic sclerosis: survival, prognostic factors, and causes of death

…, MJ Castillo-Palma, J Sánchez-Román… - Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare, multisystem disease showing a large individual variability
in disease progression and prognosis. In the present study, we assess survival, causes of …

Evaluation of the immunomodulatory effect of melatonin on the T‐cell response in peripheral blood from systemic lupus erythematosus patients

…, I Rodríguez‐Prieto, MJ CastilloPalma… - Journal of pineal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic lupus erythematosus ( SLE ) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by the
production of antinuclear autoantibodies. In addition, the involvement of CD 4+ T‐helper (Th) …

IFI44L promoter methylation as a blood biomarker for systemic lupus erythematosus

…, B Zhu, M Wan, T Jiang, Q Tan, Y Liu, J Jiang… - Annals of the …, 2016 - ard.bmj.com
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically heterogeneous disease with
limited reliable diagnostic biomarkers. We investigated whether gene methylation could meet …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of the cytokine BAFF and autoimmunity risk

…, PE Carreira, MJ Castillo-Palma… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Genomewide association studies of autoimmune diseases have mapped hundreds
of susceptibility regions in the genome. However, only for a few association signals has …

[HTML][HTML] Rates of, and risk factors for, severe infections in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases receiving biological agents off-label

…, N Ortego-Centeno, MJ Castillo-Palma… - Arthritis research & …, 2011 - Springer
Introduction The purpose of this observational study was to analyze the rates, characteristics
and associated risk factors of severe infections in patients with systemic autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] HLA and non-HLA genes in Behçet's disease: a multicentric study in the Spanish population

…, N Ortego-Centeno, MJ Castillo-Palma… - Arthritis research & …, 2013 - Springer
Introduction According to genome wide association (GWA) studies as well as candidate
gene approaches, Behçet’s disease (BD) is associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A …

First clinical symptom as a prognostic factor in systemic sclerosis: results of a retrospective nationwide cohort study

…, N Iniesta-Arandia, MJ Castillo-Palma… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
The objective of the study is to determine the importance of the mode of onset as prognostic
factor in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Data were collected from the Spanish Scleroderma …

Experience with imatinib to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension

FJG Hernández, MJC Palma, RG León… - Archivos de …, 2008 - Elsevier
A pesar de los avances en el tratamiento de los pacientes con hipertensión arterial pulmonar
(HAP), su supervivencia sigue estando muy afectada. El imatinib, un antagonista del factor …