The evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes is critical for the correct staging of patients with lung cancer (LC). Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally ...
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Guidelines recommend individuals with familial colorectal cancer (FCC) to undergo colonoscopy surveillance instead of average-risk screening. However, these recommendations vary widely. ...
Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...
Objective: Patients who undergo endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVR) remain at risk for reintervention and rupture. We sought to define the 5-year rate of reintervention and rupture after ...
Objectives: To identify patterns (clusters)of damage manifestation within a large cohort of juvenile SLE (jSLE)patients and evaluate their possible association with mortality. Methods: This is a multicentre, ...
Objectives: Estimate the frequency of erectile dysfunction in patients with essential hypertension and associated variables, degree of control, cardiovascular risk and the impact on quality of life. Material ...
Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...
Background/Objectives: Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is a mesenchymal neoplasm of unknown incidence. It has been determined that AFX is a tumour with low aggressiveness as long as it is properly diagnosed. ...
Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...
Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...
Accurate diagnosis of disease is of fundamental importance in clinical practice and medical research. Before a medical diagnostic test is routinely used in practice, its ability to distinguish between ...
Background/Purpose: To identify patterns (clusters) of damage manifestation within a large cohort of juvenile SLE (jSLE) patients and evaluate their possible association with mortality.
Methods: This ...
OBJECTIVES: Estimate the frequency of erectile dysfunction in patients with essential hypertension and associated variables, degree of control, cardiovascular risk and the impact on quality of life.
MATERIAL ...
Aims and objectives: To analyse quality of life and satisfaction after immediate breast reconstruction due to cancer and its determining factors.
Background: Studying breast reconstruction is important ...
In this paper we introduce Simplify ITS, a novel approach to an adaptive and Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) aimed to support teachers in enhancing the student know ledge and skills. Unlike other approaches, ...
Lamin A/C gene (LMNA)-related familial dilated cardiomyopathy (fDCM) is an aggressive heart disease that often leads to transplantation and sudden death. The aim of our study was to evaluate the circulating ...
Peritoneal infection is a common problem that has a negative impact on the survival of patients and the technique. The early administration of peritoneal infection treatment reduces complications.
The ...
Objectives: to determine the quality of life and anxiety in patients with breast cancer and the changes they experience after treatments. Method: prospective study. Breast cancer statistics (n=339, confidence=95%, ...
Objective: To determine the prevalence of onychocryptosis and onychomycosis confirmed by culture in subjects attending a Podiatric University Hospital and to describe their podiatric habits.
Method: ...
While evidence for lung cancer screening implementation in Europe is awaited, Rapid Diagnostic Units have been established in many hospitals to accelerate the early diagnosis of lung cancer. We seek to ...
To investigate the adequacy of the widely used Cobb-Douglas and transcendental logarithmic (translog) models of the production functions of hospital inpatient services, the authors fitted these and additive ...
Introduction and aims: Peritoneal infection (PI) is very frecuent and negatively impacts on survival of peritoneal dialysis technique. Currently, the gold standard for the diagnosis of ""typical"" bacterial ...
In this work, we present direct regression analysis for the transition probabilities in the possibly non-Markov progressive illness–death model. The method is based on binomial regression, where the response ...
Introduction: Flat foot is a common deformity in adults. It is characterized by medial rotation and plantar flexion of the talus, eversion of the calcaneus, collapsed medial arch and abduction of the forefoot.
Aim: ...
Aims: To determine risk factors for active tuberculosis in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Methods: Retrospective, case-control study at 4 referral hospitals in Spain. Cases developed tuberculosis ...
Objectives: To analyze the survival of treatment lines with different biologics in a cohort of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (AP), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and ...
Objectives: To analyze the reasons for discontinuation the biological treatment in a cohort of patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic arthritis (PA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and ...
Objectives: To identify patterns (clusters) of damage manifestations within a large cohort of SLE patients and evaluate the potential association of these clusters with a higher risk of mortality.
Methods: ...
Background Differential diagnosis between tachycardia mediated by septal accessory pathways (AP) and atypical atrioventricular nodal reentry can be challenging. We hypothesized that an immediate versus ...
IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of malignant and tuberculous pleural effusion is frequently difficult.
ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to determine the discrimination value of demographic ...
Background: Excluding the tropics, exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more frequent in winter. However, studies that directly relate hospitalizations for exacerbation of ...
Doubly truncated data are often encountered in the analysis of survival times, when the sample reduces to those individuals with terminating event falling on a given observational window. In this paper ...