Enteral nutrition in intensive care has been a great advance in medicine, due to its benefit, cost-effectiveness and few complications. Bronchoaspiration, diarrhea, regurgitation or mechanical problems are the main adverse effects. Esophageal obstruction by bezoar is a very infrequent complication, and there are only a few cases described in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: immigrants from areas of high endemicity for hepatitis C represent a relevant risk group. The goal of this study was to analyze the characteristics of these patients in a high-immigration health care area, and to analyze the impact of promoting diagnosis and referral by means of training sessions in the primary care setting.
Materials And Methods: a retrospective study in immigrant patients with HCV monoinfection treated with direct-acting antiviral agents in Almería between 2015 and 2020.
In relation to the article published in this journal by Guzmán describing a case of ampulla of Vater carcinosarcoma, we present a case of extrahepatic bile duct carcinosarcoma. A neoplasm described in different anatomical locations with an exceptional origin in the bile duct.
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