Clinical Characteristics and Management of Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Feasibility Analysis of Electronic Health Records Using Natural Language Processing.

Introduction: This study aimed to assess the feasibility of applying natural language processing (NLP) to analyze real-world data (RWD) and resolve clinical problems in patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism and chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis (SHPT/CKD-HD). The primary objective was to evaluate how well the guideline-recommended analytical goals are achieved in a Spanish cohort of SHPT/CKD-HD patients based on RWD.

Methods: Unstructured data in the electronic health records (EHRs) from 8 hospitals were retrospectively analyzed using the technology, based on NLP and machine learning.

[Characterization of hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19 in Spain: Renal replacement therapy and mortality. FRA-COVID SEN Registry Data].

Background And Objectives: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and associated with worse prognosis. The Spanish Society of Nephrology created the AKI-COVID Registry to characterize the population admitted for COVID-19 that developed AKI in Spanish hospitals. The need of renal replacement therapy (RRT) therapeutic modalities, and mortality in these patients were assessed.

Advantages of the use of citrate over acetate as a stabilizer in hemodialysis fluid: A randomized ABC-treat study.

Hemodialysis (HD) with bicarbonate dialysis fluid (DF) requires the presence of an acid to prevent the precipitation of calcium and magnesium carbonate. The most used acid is acetic acid, with it several complications have been described. In a previous work we described the acute changes during an HD session with a DF with citrate instead of acetate.

Advantages of the use of citrate over acetate as a stabilizer in hemodialysis fluid: A randomized ABC-treat study.

Hemodialysis (HD) with bicarbonate dialysis fluid (DF) requires the presence of an acid to prevent the precipitation of calcium and magnesium carbonate. The most used acid is acetic acid, with it several complications have been described. In a previous work, we described the acute changes during an HD session with a DF with citrate instead of acetate.

Emerging drug combinations to optimize renovascular protection and blood pressure goals.

Hypertension and renal disease are closely related. In fact, there is an inverse linear relationship between renal function and prevalence of hypertension. Hypertensive patients with renal dysfunction exhibit a poor clinical profile, which markedly increases their risk for cardiovascular outcomes.

Surgical complications of submandibular gland excision.

Introduction And Objectives: Submandibular gland excision is the treatment of choice in chronic pathology resistant to medical treatments or in oncological cases. The aim of this study was to analyse its current postoperative complications.

Material & Methods: Retrospective study on submandibular gland excisions performed at our University Hospital between 2004 and 2010.

Determination of nongeometric effects: equivalence between Artmann's and Tamir's generalized methods.

This work shows that all first- and second-order nongeometric effects on propagation, total or partial reflection, and transmission can be understood and evaluated considering the superposition of two plane waves. It also shows that this description yields results that are qualitatively and quantitatively compatible with those obtained by Fourier analysis of beams with Gaussian intensity distribution in any type of interface. In order to show this equivalence, we start by describing the first- and second-order nongeometric effects, and we calculate them analytically by superposing two plane waves.

Renal dysfunction and heart failure.

The cardiorenal syndrome is a relative frequent complication in patients with advanced heart failure (HF) and left ventricular dysfunction. Its presence is associated with a worse prognosis. The pathophysiology of cardiorenal syndrome may vary according to the specific clinical circumstances and conditions of the patients.

Gender differences in the diagnosis and treatment of left ventricular hypertrophy detected by different electrocardiographic criteria. Findings from the SARA study.

This study examines the influence of gender on the detection of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by different electrocardiographic (ECG) criteria and the potential changes induced by antihypertensive therapy from the SARA study ("eStudio del trAtamiento con candesaRtan en pacientes con hipertensión Arterial según criterios electrocardiográficos") database. The SARA study was aimed to determine the effect of a 12-month candesartan-based regimen on ECG-LVH. Overall, 264 patients were included.

[Surgical management of salivary gland tumours].

Introduction And Objectives: Salivary gland tumours account for 3% of head and neck tumours. The aim of this study is to analyze our series of tumours of the salivary glands requiring surgical treatment at our centre from 2004 to 2007.

Material And Methods: This study is a retrospective review of 49 patients diagnosed as having tumours of the major and minor salivary glands or ectopic salivary tumours, and surgically treated at our hospital between 2004 and 2007.

Electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy regression induced by an angiotensin receptor blocker-based regimen in hypertensive patients with diabetes: data from the SARA study.

Introduction: This study examined the influence of diabetes on left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) detected by different electrocardiographic (ECG) criteria and its changes induced by a 12-month candesartan-based regimen.

Methods: The patients were treated for a 12-month period with a candesartan-based regimen (8/16 mg + hydrochlorothiazide12.5 mg + additional drugs to target blood pressure < 140/90 mmHg [< 130/80 in diabetics]).

Pulse pressure and the metabolic syndrome in patients with hypertension.

The authors examined the clinical profile of the hypertensive population with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and elevated pulse pressure (PP) in a sample of 5866 patients (3291 women and 2575 men) included in a large hypertension survey performed in primary care setting. Elevated PP was defined as >or=80 mm Hg in women and >or=75 mm Hg in men; 92.7% of women and 87.

Renal function and coronary disease: not only in clinical trials.

Renal impairment is an important complication in patients with coronary disease, acute or chronic. First because it is frequent and secondly because it implies a worse prognosis. Unfortunately, some physicians do not perceive the real risk that renal dysfunction implies.