[Nutrition in palliative care: guidelines from the Working Group on Bioethics, Spanish Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SENPE)].

Palliative care provides a holistic approach and care for patients with a terminal illness and their families. In palliative care physical complaints as well as emotional, social and spiritual aspects are considered. Nutritional care should be also considered within palliative support.

Impact of COVID-19 in nutritional and functional status of survivors admitted in intensive care units during the first outbreak. Preliminary results of the NUTRICOVID study.

Background & Aims: COVID-19 patients present a high hospitalization rate with a high mortality risk for those requiring intensive care. When these patients have other comorbid conditions and older age, the risk for severe disease and poor outcomes after ICU admission are increased. The present work aims to describe the preliminary results of the ongoing NUTRICOVID study about the nutritional and functional status and the quality of life of adult COVID-19 survivors after ICU discharge, emphasizing the in-hospital and discharge situation of this population.

[Nutritional management of advanced dementia: summary of recommendations of the SENPE Ethic Group].

This paper from the ethics Working Group presents a summary of the recommendations of the nutritional management of patients with advanced dementia.

[HOME AND AMBULATORY ARTIFICIAL NUTRITION (NADYA) GROUP REPORT, HOME PARENTERAL NUTRITION IN SPAIN, 2014].

Aim: to communicate the results of the Spanish Home Parenteral Nutrition (HEN) registry of the NADYASENPE group for the year 2014.

Material And Methods: data was recorded online by NADYA group collaborators that were responsible of the HPN follow-up from 1st January to 31st December 2014.

Results: a total of 220 patients and 229 episodes of HPN were registered from 37 hospitals that represents a rate of 4.

[ACTH-dependent Cushing syndrome, a diagnostic challenge].

ACTH dependent Cushing syndrome accounts for approximately 80% of all Cushing syndrome. Distinguishing the pituitary origin from ectopic one is still a diagnosis problem in some cases, especially in bronchial carcinoids, because approximately 50% show cortisol suppresion after dexametasone and may be small and, therefore, difficult to detect in chest radiography. We present a case of a patient with ACTH dependent Cushing syndrome of difficult localization with usual diagnosis tests.

(123)I-mibg scintigraphy uptake in a hepatic lesion.

Pheochromocytoma is a tumor derived from the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. When this type of tumor involves the sympathetic ganglia it is called paraganglioma. Although infrequent, paraganglioma should be considered in the evaluation of hypertension, arrhythmias, and panic disorder.