Clinical and subclinical arteriosclerotic disease in octagenarians with hip fracture. A case-control study.

Background And Objectives: Evaluate clinical and subclinical arteriosclerotic disease in older patients with hip fracture compared with patients without fracture in order to increase knowledge about the relation between both diseases in older individuals.

Patients And Methods: Age- and sex-matched case-control study of octogenarians with and without recent hip fracture. Vascular risk factors, subclinical vascular diseases (assessed by carotid plaques, carotid intima media thickness and arterial stiffness) as well as cardiovascular diseases were analyzed.

Clinical characteristics and outcome of patients aged over 80 years with covid-19.

To investigate the clinical characteristics and outcome of octogenarians with covid-19.This is a observational, retrospective, descriptive study.Consecutive patients aged >80 years who were admitted for covid-19 pneumonia during a 6 weeks period (March 20-April 30, 2020).

Localised granulomatosis with polyangiitis in an older patient with rheumatoid arthritis.

New onset of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) occurring in patients previously diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is very uncommon. In older individuals, this condition is associated with high mortality, especially in those with renal involvement. We describe the first case of GPA in a patient older than 65 years diagnosed with RA without exposure to biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs, presenting with pulmonary nodules due to a limited form of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-negative GPA.

Vertebral fracture assessment in patients presenting with a non-hip non-vertebral fragility fracture: experience of a UK Fracture Liaison Service.

Unlabelled: Twenty-five percent of patients with a non-hip non-vertebral fragility fracture have an undiagnosed vertebral fracture detected by vertebral fracture assessment during bone densitometric assessment. The prevalence of an undiagnosed vertebral fracture is higher in older people, and they are more likely to have multiple vertebral fractures.

Purpose: Most vertebral fragility fractures (VFF) have no history of trauma.

[Management of severe sepsis and septic shock in a tertiary care urban hospital emergency department: opportunities for improvement].

Objectives: To describe the characteristics of early management of severe sepsis and septic shock in a hospital emergency department that does not have a specific triage category to identify patients in these states. To determine opportunities for improvement.

Material And Methods: Prospective cohort study from March 2014 to March 2015.