The gut microbiota (GM) has attracted attention as a new target to combat several diseases, including metabolic syndrome (MetS), a pathological condition with many factors (diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, ...
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) encompasses a group of inherited cardiomyopathies including arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) whose molecular disease mechanism is associated with dysregulation of ...
Molecular epidemiology of circulating clinical isolates is crucial to improve prevention strategies. The Spanish Working Group on multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a network that monitors the MDR-TB isolates in ...
We present the case of a 69-year-old male ex-smoker, whose medical background included hypertension, chronic renal failure, atrial fibrillation anticoagulation, and chronic lower limb arterial ischemia. He suffered from ...
OBJECTIVE: Describe the medium-term safety of the tension free vaginal tape obturator (TVT-O) procedure in terms of complications, cure and changes in quality of life (QoL) after the surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Descriptive ...
To support the global restart of elective surgery, data from an international prospective cohort study of 8492 patients (69 countries) was analysed using artificial intelligence (machine learning techniques) to develop a ...
A 50-year-old woman with a history of hysterectomy for endometrial cancer in 2015 visited because of abdominal pain for 1 week and fever simultaneous with her third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Physical examination revealed ...
Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the mesenteric veins (IMHMV) is an uncommon cause of intestinal ischemia. It was firstly described by Genta and Haggit in 1991. Only a few cases have been reported and it is difficult ...
Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) or carcinoids represent a small percentage of gastrointestinal neoplasms (2%). The ileum (41.8%), rectum (27.4%) and stomach (8.7%) are the most common locations. We present an unusual case of ...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: there is increasing evidence that proactive therapeutic drug monitoring in induction is useful to improve the control of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), although it remains controversial. The ...
OBJECTIVE: Functional assessment is part of geriatric assessment. How it is performed in hospital Emergency Departments (ED) is poorly understood, let alone its prognostic value. The aim of this paper was to investigate ...