The discovery marks the first effective therapy scientists have ever found for the lung disease known as lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, a rare condition in women often discovered during pregnancy, said Dr. Mark Brantly, a University of Florida professor of medicine and one of the co-authors of the paper.
Repurposed transplant drug gives hope to women with fatal lung disease
Thursday, March 17, 2011
A drug typically used to prevent organ rejection in transplant
patients has been shown to reverse the progress of an often fatal lung
disease in women, according to findings published March 16 in the online
edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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