Evaluation of nutritional support in a regional hospital.

Introduction: Disease-related malnutrition (DRM) is highly prevalent in Spanish hospitals (occurring in 1 out of every 4 patients). The 'Más Nutridos' Alliance has developed an action plan to detect and treat DRM. In Extremadura (Spain), the public health system has included nutritional screening as the only mechanism to fight malnutrition.

[Effect of abdominal obesity on size of myocardial infarction].

Objective: Metabolic syndrome consists of a group of factors that predict the risk of having an acute cardiovascular event. Some of these factors increase the risk of myocardial infarction and are also associated with the severity of cardiovascular events. The objective was to determine the influence of factors associated with metabolic syndrome, and especially abdominal obesity, on the size of coronary events, estimated by the concentration of total creatine phosphokinase (CPK) and CPK-MB isoenzyme (CPK-MB).

Panhypopituitarism due to craniopharyngioma associated with hyperthyroidism caused by graves' disease.

Craniopharyngiomas are unusual tumors that are mainly located in the sella turcica or parasellar structures. These tumors can produce multiple neurological and visual symptoms or manifestations due to involvement of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. Pituitary manifestations can be produced by involvement of the anterior or posterior pituitary and contribute to the substantial morbidity and mortality associated with these tumors, despite their benign histology.

Sellar xanthogranuloma.

We report the case of a 16-year-old girl with a history of idiopathic precocious puberty and normal results on pituitary imaging scan. Ten years later, a new cranial magnetic resonance imaging scan was performed due to worsening of episodes resembling Horton's headache and a lesion suggestive of pituitary bleeding was detected. The headaches diminished with glucocorticoid administration but a severe complication, steroid psychosis, occurred.