Portal thrombosis in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The digestive manifestations of a SARS-CoV-2 infection are varied and nonspecific. The appearance of portal thrombosis in these patients is very rare. Facing a patient with a diagnosis of acute portal thrombosis, we must rule out that the trigger is an intra-abdominal infectious process.

[Constitutional syndrome: clinical entity or a mixed bag].

Fatigue, anorexia and involuntary weight loss have been included under the term constitutional syndrome. These manifestations accompany many diseases in which the diagnosis is made by specific symptoms and signs. However, these events are generally the main reason for consultation and the patient does not report other specific data.

[Contributions of the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to the values measured at the medical office].

Objective: To communicate our experience with this technique centred in the definition of the patterns and the peculiar characteristics of the rising pattern.

Methods: During a four year period, the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was obtained in 500 hypertensive patients with difficult to control blood pressure or of recent detection, following the guide of the Cardiorisk project.

Results: The most frequent pattern observed was non-dipper (46.