Introduction: Telemedicine is an attractive option for the follow-up of paediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. The aim of this article is to describe the experience with telephone consultations in a tertiary hospital. Patients and methods: Retrospective descriptive study of children with confirmed or probable diagnosis of COVID-19 attended by telephone consultations in Hospital La Paz … Read more
LGBTQ+ people are anywhere from 1.5 to 4 times more likely than heterosexual people to report depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors, substance abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual behaviors, homelessness, and victimization. Objective The purpose is to describe the development of a mobile application for LGBTQ youth and their family. This article is part of a research … Read more
Background: Patients with COVID-19 are follow-up in primary care and long COVID is scarcely defined. The study aim was to describe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and cut-offs for defining long COVID in primary care follow-up patients. Methods: A retrospective observational study in primary care in Madrid, Spain, was conducted. Data was collected during 6 months (April to … Read more
Epicardial and pericardial adiposity without myocardial steatosis in Cushing’s syndrome. Wolf P, Marty B, Bouazizi K, Kachenoura N, Piedvache C, Blanchard A, Salenave S, Prigent M, Jublanc C, Ajzenberg C, Droumaguet C, Young J, Lecoq AL, Kuhn E, Agostini H, Trabado S, Carlier PG , Bean, Redheuil A, Chanson P, Kamenický P. Wolf P, et … Read more
Background: Healthcare workers are among the most exposed and potentially most threatened populations of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Despite some reports on numbers of infections with SARS-CoV‑2 in German healthcare workers, the courses of their clinical presentation when affected by COVID-19 are not well described. Objective: In this contribution, characteristics and progressions of infected cases … Read more
Patients with cancer are at higher risk of severe coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the mechanisms underlying virus-host interactions during cancer therapies remain elusive. When comparing nasopharyngeal swabs from cancer and noncancer patients for RT-qPCR cycle thresholds measuring acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 1063 patients (58% with cancer), we found that malignant disease … Read more
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was declared in 2020. The shortage of diagnostic tests limited monitoring of the first wave of the pandemic. This study estimates and describes the wave in Navarre (Spain). Methods: Enhanced epidemiological surveillance, seroepidemiological survey estimates and mortality registries were used to characterise the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic from February … Read more
Background: Whereas first-line bronchial artery embolisation (BAE) is considered standard of care for the management of severe haemoptysis, it is unknown whether this approach is warranted for non-severe haemoptysis. Research question: To assess the efficacy on bleeding control and the safety of first-line BAE in non-severe haemoptysis of mild abundance. Study design and methods: This … Read more
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness was evaluated in close contacts of cases diagnosed during January-April 2021. Among 20,961 contacts, 7,240 SARS-CoV-2 infections were confirmed, with 5,467 being symptomatic and 559 leading to hospitalisations. Non-brand-specific one and two dose vaccine effectiveness were respectively, 35% (95% confidence interval (CI): 25 to 44) and 66% (95% CI: 57 to 74) … Read more
Seroepidemiology of chronic hepatitis B and C in the French Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe. Gelu-Simeon M, Pillas V, Deloumeaux J, Delacroix-Maillard H, Saint-Georges G, Do Amaral L, Borel M, Laurent M, Gordien E, Saillard E. 1000 ice-Simeon et al. BMC Res Notes. 2014 Jan 21;7:55. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-55. BMC Res Notes. 2014. PMID: 24447457 Free PMC … Read more