Identifying low-risk in patients with worsening heart failure with short hospital stay: A comparison of risk scores in predicting 30-day risk events.

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of hospitalization worldwide, with high mortality rates and significant economic burden. To address the issue outpatient strategies (day-care diuretics) to avoid unplanned ED visits and reduce HF hospitalizations. However, the identification of low risk patients worsening heart failure (WHF) who could benefit from outpatient treatment remains poorly documented.

[Blood pressure patterns in pressurometry and their ralationship with cardiovascular events in follow-up].

IntroducciÓn: Nuestro objetivo fue determinar en una cohorte de pacientes de un hospital de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, cómo fue la distribución de ritmo circadiano y el impacto según el tipo de comportamiento circadiano en la tasa de eventos cardiovasculares en el seguimiento. Material y métodos: Estudio de cohorte retrospectiva que incluyó pacientes adultos que se realizaron una presurometría ambulatoria en un hospital de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, incorporados a un registro propio entre marzo de 2017 y julio de 2020, con seguimiento de hasta 36 meses de la presurometría índice.

Resultados: De 522 sujetos, se incluyeron 494 en el análisis final.

[Assisted fertilization with at term pregnancies in two patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis while in treatment with etanercept.].

Introduction: There are numerous reports of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who became pregnant while on treatment with etanercept. In spite of being formally contraindicated during pregnancy and lactation its discontinuation in cases of women with severe RA is no longer recommended since an increase in congenital malformations nor perinatal complications has not been reported. There are few data on the success or failure of pregnancies achieved by assisted fertilization in patients with RA treated with etanercept.