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Assessing Dextenza Insert After SMILE Procedure

This three-month prospective, open-label, single-center, randomized investigator initiated clinical study seeks to investigate the efficacy of DEXTENZA when placed in the lower canaliculus (study eye) compared to topical corticosteroids (control eye) following bilateral SMILE surgery. In addition, the study will evaluate physician assessment of ease of DEXTENZA insertion

IVIG With Rituximab vs Rituximab as First Line Treatment of Pemphigus

Traditionally, treatment of pemphigus included high dose systemic corticosteroids with or without adjuvant immunosuppressants. However; the prolonged use of high dose steroids carries significant side effects. A recent randomized trial has proved the efficacy of Rituximab, a monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody against B-lymphocytes, as an efficacious therapy for pemphigus.

TPM Regimen (Thalidomide Prednisone and Methotrexate) in LGLL

Large granular lymphocytic leukemia (LGLL) is a lymphoproliferative disease, with LGL infiltration in peripheral blood and bone marrow, hepatosplenomegaly, and cytopenia. Both T-LGLL and CLPD-NK are indolent disease and share similar biology and clinical course, and treated under the same strategy. So the investigators put them together as LGLL. The …