Propranolol, infantile haemangiomas, and serendipity: new use for an old drug

Capillary haemangiomas are benign lesions that may occur anywhere on the skin, may grow rapidly in the first two years of life and may impair vital organs. Propranolol has been recently discovered to shrink these lesions effectively. We report the first such patient treated in Malta with this drug.

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Autores principales: Grech, Victor, Scerri, Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2011
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28156195
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v6i0.5826
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spelling pubmed-60805882018-08-08 Propranolol, infantile haemangiomas, and serendipity: new use for an old drug Grech, Victor Scerri, Carmen Libyan J Med Case Reports Capillary haemangiomas are benign lesions that may occur anywhere on the skin, may grow rapidly in the first two years of life and may impair vital organs. Propranolol has been recently discovered to shrink these lesions effectively. We report the first such patient treated in Malta with this drug. Taylor & Francis 2011-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6080588/ /pubmed/28156195 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v6i0.5826 Text en © 2011 Victor Grech and Carmen Scerri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Propranolol, infantile haemangiomas, and serendipity: new use for an old drug
title_full Propranolol, infantile haemangiomas, and serendipity: new use for an old drug
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080588/
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