Myocardial Infarction in a 29-Year-Old Woman Leads to Diagnosis and Treatment of a Rare Disease

Case Reports . 2022 Jul; 162 (1): e49-e52. – doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.01.066. – Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Cardiology Department, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Boulogne, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Paris, France; Competence Center for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Disease, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Boulogne, University of … Read more

[What have we missed because of COVID-19? Missed diagnoses and delayed follow-ups. SESPAS Report 2022]

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated public health emergency have affected patients and health services in non-COVID-19 pathologies. Several studies have shown its dissociation from health services, with a decrease in emergency department visits, in hospital admissions for non-COVID-19 pathologies, as well as in the reported weekly incidence of acute illnesses and new diagnoses in … Read more

Erratum to “2022 French Society for Rheumatology (SFR) recommendations on the everyday management of patients with spondyloarthritis, including psoriatic arthritis” [Joint Bone Spine 2022;89:105344]

2022 French Society for Rheumatology (SFR) recommendations on the everyday management of patients with spondyloarthritis, including psoriatic arthritis. Wendling D, Hecquet S, Fogel O, Letarouilly JG, Verhoeven F, Pham T, Prati C, Molto A, Goupille P, Dernis E, Saraux A, Ruyssen-Witrand A, Lukas C, Miceli-Richard C, Hudry C, Richette P , Breban M , Gossec … Read more

[Socioeconomic inequalities and COVID-19 in Spain. SESPAS Report 2022]

Review . 2022;36 Suppl 1:S13-S21. – doi: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2022.01.011. – [Article in Spanish] Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain; Research Group on Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change-OPIK, Leoia, Bizkaia, Spain. Email address: [email protected]. 2 Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of … Read more

Clinical characteristics and mortality associated with COVID-19 at high altitude: a cohort of 5161 patients in Bogotá, Colombia

Background: There are few data on the clinical outcomes of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in cities over 1000 m above sea level (masl). Objectives: To describe the clinical characteristics and mortality of patients with COVID-19 treated at a high complexity hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, at 2640 masl. Methods: This was an observational study … Read more

Hypervirulent Klebsiella Pneumoniae, an Emerging Cause of Endogenous Endophthalmitis in A French Center: A Comparative Cohort Study

Introduction: Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) is the most common cause of endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) in Asia, but data in Europe are scarce. We describe eight cases of KP EE compared to a cohort of EE in a French center. Methods: EE cases were retrospectively studied between January 2014 and January 2021. KP EE cases were analyzed … Read more

An overview of COVID-19 related to fungal infections: what do we know after the first year of pandemic?

Review doi: 10.1007 / s42770-022-00704-6. Online ahead of print. – Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. [email protected]. 2 Parasitology Unit. Mycology Sector. JM Ramos Mejia Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [email protected]. 3 Parasitology Unit. Mycology Sector. JM Ramos Mejia Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4 Microbiology Service, Department … Read more

Critical care echocardiography in prone position patients during COVID-19 pandemic: a feasibility study

Purpose: Critical care echocardiography is a fundamental tool in the hemodynamic evaluation of critically ill patients and prone position ventilation might limit its application. We aim to evaluate the feasibility of transthoracic echocardiography to assess different measurements performed in prone vs supine position in patients during COVID-19 pandemic to answer our research question: What is … Read more

Severe COVID-19 patients have severe vitamin D deficiency in Northeast Mexico

Objective: the association between vitamin D and COVID-19 severity is not consistent. We compared prevalences and analyzed the association between vitamin D deficiency and COVID-19 severity in Northeast Mexico. Methods: this was a cross-sectional study with individuals consecutively included at a referral diagnostic center during March-September 2020 (n = 181). Concurrently, every patient admitted to … Read more

Description of ovine model for testing ventilator prototypes in the COVID-19 pandemic

Case Reports Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed) –. 2021 Nov 12;S2341-1929(21)00153-0. – doi: 10.1016 / j.redare.2020.10.008. Online ahead of print. – Affiliations Expand Affiliations 1 Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, Veterinary Clinic Hospital, Veterinary Faculty, Cardenal Herrera-CEU University, CEU Universities, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected]. 2 Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Treatment Service, Hospital … Read more