A case of Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia treated using clarithromycin and prednisolone
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Introduction Macrolides have been considered as potential antineoplastic and immunomodulatory agents. As antineoplastic agents, macrolides show anti-lymphoproliferative effects.[1] Various lymphoid malignancies, such as mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma,[2] follicular B-cell lymphoma,[3] diffuse large B-cell lymphoma,[4] Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia (WM),[5] multiple myeloma (MM),[6] and angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma,[7] have been successfully treated using clarithromycin (CAM), a macrolide. Here, we present a patient with WM accompanied by lymphoma successfully treated using CAM and prednisolone (PSL).
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1institute of Molecular and cellular Biology (iBMc), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 2ceSPU, institute for Research and advanced training in Health Sciences and technologies, Gandra-PRD, Portugal. 3Department of Biological Sciences, Biochemistry laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. 4Santo antónio General Hospital, centro Hospitalar of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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