Publications by authors named "Cruz-Caparros G"
Purpose: To investigate the phenotype of sarcoidosis according to the time when a malignancy is diagnosed (preexisting to the diagnosis of sarcoidosis, concomitant, or sequential) and to identify prognostic factors associated with malignancies in a large cohort of patients with sarcoidosis.
Methods: We searched for malignancies in the SARCOGEAS cohort, a multicenter nationwide database of consecutive patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis according to the ATS/ESC/WASOG criteria. Solid malignancies were classified using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) nomenclature, and hematological malignancies using the 2016 WHO classification.
To analyze the frequency and clinical phenotype of neurosarcoidosis (NS) in one of the largest nationwide cohorts of patients with sarcoidosis reported from southern Europe. NS was evaluated according to the Diagnostic Criteria for Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System Sarcoidosis recently proposed by Stern et al. Pathologic confirmation of granulomatous disease was used to subclassify NS into definite (confirmation in neurological tissue), probable (confirmation in extraneurological tissue) and possible (no histopathological confirmation of the disease).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To analyze whether immune-mediated diseases (IMDs) occurs in sarcoidosis more commonly than expected in the general population, and how concomitant IMDs influence the clinical presentation of the disease.
Methods: We searched for coexisting IMDs in patients included in the SARCOGEAS-cohort, a multicenter nationwide database of consecutive patients diagnosed according to the ATS/ESC/WASOG criteria. Comparisons were made considering the presence or absence of IMD clustering, and odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated as the ratio of observed cases of every IMD in the sarcoidosis cohort to the observed cases in the general population.
Introduction: Know what proportion of patients hospitalized in the Internal Medicine services have multiple diseases.
Material And Methods: We analyzed 400 clinical histories of a random sample of patients admitted to 24 Internal Medicine services of Andalusia. We assessed the diagnostic categories present that make it possible to classify patients as having multiple diseases.
Basis: To know the proportion of medical interventions carried out in the Services of Internal Medicine of the public hospitals of Andalusia based on randomized clinical trials.
Patients And Methods: We have analyzed the primary treatments prescribed in a random sample of 326 patients admitted to these Internal Medicine services during 1998.
Results: One hundred and forty-three of the 326 treatments analyzed (43.
Background: We aimed to know which factors are associated with inappropriate stays in an internal medicine department.
Subjects And Method: We included 1,046 hospitalisations and evaluated the justification of the admission using the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol.
Results: 176 (16.
Background: To determine the factors associated with inappropriate admissions in an Internal medicine department.
Subjects And Method: We included 1,993 admissions. The justification for the admissions was evaluated using the Appropriateness Evalutation Protocol.
Background: To know the opinion of andalusian Internal Medicine (IM) residents about different subjects of their specialty, and their biomedical investigation activities.
Patients And Methods: A questionnaire with codified answers, facilitated to 64 IM residents of Andalusia.
Results: 69% of residents referred that IM was the specialty they wished to adhere at first choice.