Graft Survival in Liver Transplantation: An Artificial Neuronal Network Assisted Analysis of the Importance of Comorbidities.

Objectives: Liver transplant represents a widespread therapeutic option for patients with end-stage liver failure. Up to now, most of the scores describing the probability of liver graft survival have shown poor predictive performance. With this in mind, the present study seeks to analyze the predictive value of recipient comorbidities on liver graft survival within the first year.

Graft Risk Index After Liver Transplant: Internal and External Validation of a New Spanish Indicator.

Objectives: Scarcity of liver grafts has led to the use of marginal donors, consequently increasing the number of complications posttransplant. To prevent this situation, several indicators have been developed. However, important differences remain among countries.

Influence of gender on prognosis of acute coronary syndromes.

Introduction: Ischemic heart disease presents different features in men and women. We analyzed the relation between gender and prognosis in patients who had suffered a high-risk acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods: This was a prospective analytical cohort study performed at Lozano Blesa University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain, of 559 patients diagnosed with high-risk ACS with and without ST-segment elevation according to the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines.

[Features regarding acute coronary syndrome in elderly Spanish patients].

Objective: Elderly patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are poorly represented in research and practice clinical guides. This study was aimed at ascertaining characteristics in patients aged older than seventy years having a high risk of ACS.

Methods: This was a prospective and descriptive study of 161 patients aged older than seventy years suffering ACS with and without ST segment elevation and high risk according to ACC/AHA guidelines.

[Prognosis of cardiorenal syndrome in patients with acute coronary syndrome].

Background And Objective: The cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) includes numerous pathologies affecting the heart and kidney. The objective of this study is to know the characteristics and prognosis of the CRS in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Patients And Method: A prospective study of 87 patients with ACS with and without ST-segment elevation at high risk and heart failure.

Subacute combined spinal cord degeneration and pancytopenia secondary to severe vitamin B12 deficiency.

Context: Decreased vitamin B12 concentration does not usually result in clinical or hematological abnormalities. Subacute combined spinal cord degeneration and pancytopenia are two serious and rarely displayed consequences that appear in severe deficits.

Case Report: We present the case of a patient with subacute combined spinal cord degeneration and pancytopenia secondary to severe and sustained vitamin B12 deficiency.

[Prognostic value of glomerular filtrate in acute coronary syndrome: Cockcroft's index or MDRD equation?].

Background And Objectives: One third of patients with a coronary event show kidney failure. Our aim is to establish the relationship between kidney failure and mortality in patients diagnosed of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) through Cockcroft Index (C-G) and MDRD-4 equation, analyzing which of them is better for prognostic stratification.

Patients And Method: Prospective study of 445 patients admitted consecutively between 2006 and 2007 with a high risk of ACS, dividing the sample depending on his kidney function at admission in < 60 mL/min/1.