Publications by authors named "F Molina Rueda"
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- The Shock-CAT study aimed to assess in-hospital mortality and prognosis in cardiogenic shock (CS) patients, comparing those with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to those without it.
- Out of 382 patients studied, AMI-CS exhibited higher in-hospital mortality rates (37.1%) compared to non-AMI-CS (26.7%), with AMI-CS patients requiring more mechanical circulatory support.
- The IABP-SHOCK II score was found to be more accurate than the CardShock score in predicting 90-day mortality for AMI-CS patients, while both scores performed similarly for non-AMI-CS patients.
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis has characteristic features in neuronal dendrites and presynapses, but how membrane proteins are internalized along the axon shaft remains unclear. We focused on clathrin-coated structures and endocytosis along the axon initial segment (AIS) and their relationship to the periodic actin-spectrin scaffold that lines the axonal plasma membrane. A combination of super-resolution microscopy and platinum-replica electron microscopy on cultured neurons revealed that AIS clathrin-coated pits form within "clearings", circular areas devoid of actin-spectrin mesh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Infrared thermography (IT) is a non-invasive real-time imaging technique with potential application in different areas of neurosurgery. Despite technological advances in the field, intraoperative IT (IIT) has been an underestimated tool with scarce reports on its usefulness during intracranial tumor resection. We aimed to evaluate the usefulness of high-resolution IIT with static and dynamic thermographic maps for transdural lesion localization, and diagnosis, to assess the extent of resection, and the occurrence of perioperative acute ischemia.
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- Atrial fibrillation (AF) commonly complicates ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), increasing the risks of heart failure and mortality, making treatment strategies controversial.
- A study analyzed 4,184 STEMI patients, finding that 6.4% developed AF in the first 48 hours, leading to a comparison between AF-STEMI patients and a matched control group.
- Results showed that AF-STEMI patients had worse outcomes, including higher in-hospital mortality (11.9% vs 7.2%) and greater 10-year mortality (50.5% vs 36.2%), alongside a higher recurrence of AF, but no significant difference in stroke rates.
The main objective of the study was to verify whether levels of procalcitonin (PCT) could guide us toward determining the type of bacteria causing the sepsis and to identify the discriminatory cut-off point in the first urgent laboratory test. This study is a single center retrospective analysis that includes 371 patients with a mean age of 71.7 ± 15.
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