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Coropciuc R, Moreno-Rabié C, De Vos W, Van de Casteele E, Marks L, Lenaerts V, Coppejans E, Lenssen O, Coopman R, Walschap J, Nadjmi N, Jacobs R, Politis C, Van den Wyngaert T. Navigating the complexities and controversies of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ): a critical update and consensus statement. Acta Chir Belg 2024; 124:1-11. [PMID: 38059301 DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2023.2291295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To provide a critical update identifying the knowledge gaps and controversies in medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) within the Belgian healthcare context and outline opportunities for improvement and research in these areas. METHODS A literature review was performed to identify guidelines from international clinical societies in oncology or oral and maxillofacial surgery on diagnosing, preventing, and treating MRONJ. The recommendations were critically assessed in light of recent developments in the field and confronted with the clinical experience of experts. RESULTS Despite progress in the diagnostic criteria of MRONJ, the continued need for an 8-week timeout period should be reconsidered. Furthermore, 3D imaging techniques should be introduced to improve diagnosis and staging. The staging system remains ambiguous regarding Stage 0 MRONJ, and ongoing confusion exists regarding the term non-exposed MRONJ. The prevention of MRONJ should be tailored, considering the individual patient's risk of MRONJ, frailty, and life expectancy. More research seems needed into the efficacy and safety of drug holidays, considering the risks of rebound remodeling on fractures. With renewed interest in surgical and adjunct management techniques, adequately designed clinical studies are needed to help translate trial outcomes into universally applicable treatment guidelines taking into account individual patient characteristics. CONCLUSIONS Important knowledge gaps remain and hamper the development of clinical guidelines. Several controversies were identified where consensus is lacking, and further harmonization between stakeholders is necessary. Finally, the need for randomized controlled comparative clinical trials in MRONJ resonates harder than ever to identify the best treatment for individual patients.
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- Ruxandra Coropciuc
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Imaging and Pathology, OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Special Care Dentistry, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VITAZ, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VITAZ, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, ZNA Middelheim, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Imaging and Pathology, OMFS-IMPATH Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
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Baerts B, De Belie B, De Vos W, Van de Casteele E. Silicosis as an unusual cause of symptomatic cervical adenopathy. J Stomatol Oral Maxillofac Surg 2023; 124:101493. [PMID: 37172780 DOI: 10.1016/j.jormas.2023.101493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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A case of symptomatic cervical adenopathy is reported as a presentation of silicosis. Silicosis is one of the most important occupational health diseases worldwide caused by the inhalation of airborne silica particles. The presence of thoracic adenopathies is a common clinical feature of silicosis, cervical silicotic adenopathies on the other hand are rare and unknown to most clinicians and can therefore lead to a differential diagnostic problem. Awareness of the clinical, radiological, and histological features is key for the diagnosis.
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- Bjorn Baerts
- Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, Antwerp 2610, Belgium.
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- Department of Pneumology, AZ Rivierenland Rumst, 's Herenbaan 172, Rumst 2840, Belgium
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- Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, ZMACK, AZ MONICA Antwerp, Harmoniestraat 68, Antwerp 2018, Belgium
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- Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Drie Eikenstraat 655, Edegem 2650, Belgium; Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteits-plein 1, Antwerp 2610, Belgium; All for Research VZW, Harmoniestraat 68, Antwerp 2018, Belgium
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Vandepoele K, De Vos W, Taylor JS, Meyer A, Van de Peer Y. Major events in the genome evolution of vertebrates: paranome age and size differ considerably between ray-finned fishes and land vertebrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:1638-43. [PMID: 14757817 PMCID: PMC341801 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0307968100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 427] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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It has been suggested that fish have more genes than humans. Whether most of these additional genes originated through a complete (fish-specific) genome duplication or through many lineage-specific tandem gene or smaller block duplications and family expansions continues to be debated. We analyzed the complete genome of the pufferfish Takifugu rubripes (Fugu) and compared it with the paranome of humans. We show that most paralogous genes of Fugu are the result of three complete genome duplications. Both relative and absolute dating of the complete predicted set of protein-coding genes suggest that initial genome duplications, estimated to have occurred at least 600 million years ago, shaped the genome of all vertebrates. In addition, analysis of >150 block duplications in the Fugu genome clearly supports a fish-specific genome duplication (approximately equal to 320 million years ago) that coincided with the vast radiation of most modern ray-finned fishes. Unlike the human genome, Fugu contains very few recently duplicated genes; hence, many human genes are much younger than fish genes. This lack of recent gene duplication, or, alternatively, the accelerated rate of gene loss, is possibly one reason for the drastic reduction of the genome size of Fugu observed during the past 100 million years or so, subsequent to the additional genome duplication that ray-finned fishes but not land vertebrates experienced.
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- Klaas Vandepoele
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium
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