Variable Response to Propranolol Therapy for Infantile Hemangiomas

Since propranolol was accidentally discovered to induce involution of hemangiomas, it is being used by many clinicians with a favourable response. We present our experience with use of propranolol and report three infants with hemangiomas who were treated with propranolol. First infant had a marked...

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Autores principales: Jain, Vishesh, Roychoudhury, Subhasis, Chadha, Rajiv, Puri, Archana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Therapeutic Round
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615510
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.94281
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description Since propranolol was accidentally discovered to induce involution of hemangiomas, it is being used by many clinicians with a favourable response. We present our experience with use of propranolol and report three infants with hemangiomas who were treated with propranolol. First infant had a marked involution of the lesion; second infant had a appreciable response while the third infant had a initial minimal response with progressive increase in size of the lesion.
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spelling pubmed-33526352012-05-21 Variable Response to Propranolol Therapy for Infantile Hemangiomas Jain, Vishesh Roychoudhury, Subhasis Chadha, Rajiv Puri, Archana Indian J Dermatol Therapeutic Round Since propranolol was accidentally discovered to induce involution of hemangiomas, it is being used by many clinicians with a favourable response. We present our experience with use of propranolol and report three infants with hemangiomas who were treated with propranolol. First infant had a marked involution of the lesion; second infant had a appreciable response while the third infant had a initial minimal response with progressive increase in size of the lesion. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3352635/ /pubmed/22615510 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.94281 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Variable Response to Propranolol Therapy for Infantile Hemangiomas
title_sort variable response to propranolol therapy for infantile hemangiomas
topic Therapeutic Round
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