Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari

Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2

Trastuzumab increases the clinical benefit of first-line chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer that overexpresses HER2.

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria

Abstract New evidence and consensus has led to further revision of the McDonald Criteria for diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The use of imaging for demonstration of disseminati...

The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic

An expert panel was convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) to discuss the field of probiotics. It is now 13 y...

Pembrolizumab versus docetaxel for previously treated, PD-L1-positive, advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-010): a randomised controlled trial

The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers

Multi-Institutional Randomized Phase II Trial of Gefitinib for Previously Treated Patients With Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of two doses of gefitinib (Iressa [ZD1839]; AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE), a novel epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine ki...

Differential diagnosis of suspected multiple sclerosis: a consensus approach

Background and objectives Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) requires exclusion of diseases that could better explain the clinical and paraclinical findings. A systematic proc...

Gender-Related Differences in Acute Aortic Dissection

Background— Few data exist on gender-related differences in clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, management, and outcomes in acute aortic dissection (AAD). Methods and Re...

Diagnostic criteria for primary progressive multiple sclerosis: a position paper.

The unique clinical characteristics of primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) pose particular diagnostic difficulties, both in excluding other causes of progressive syndr...