Experience in the treatment of hepatitis C with direct-acting antivirals in a foreign population at a high-immigration area.

Introduction: immigrants from areas of high endemicity for hepatitis C represent a relevant risk group. The goal of this study was to analyze the characteristics of these patients in a high-immigration health care area, and to analyze the impact of promoting diagnosis and referral by means of training sessions in the primary care setting.

Materials And Methods: a retrospective study in immigrant patients with HCV monoinfection treated with direct-acting antiviral agents in Almería between 2015 and 2020.

Abdominal tuberculous abscesses in AIDS patients: percutaneous treatment.

Objective: to analyze certain epidemiological and ultrasonographic features, and the response to percutaneous treatment, of abdominal tuberculous abscesses in patients with human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Methods: we reviewed the clinical records and ultrasonographic findings in 7 patients with abdominal tuberculous abscesses who were treated in our service by ultrasonography-guided percutaneous drainage.

Results: in 5 patients there was a previous diagnosis of AIDS.

Focal splenic lesions in patients with AIDS: sonographic findings.

Background: The purpose of this study was to describe the sonographic features of the focal splenic lesions in patients with AIDS and to know the frequency and etiology of these features.

Methods: Sonographic exams of 278 AIDS patients were reviewed retrospectively. We recorded the clinical indications for sonograms and sonographic findings of those patients with focal splenic lesions.