Short-term foot complications in Charcot neuroarthropathy: A retrospective study in tertiary care centres in Spain.

Objectives: To assess the clinical characteristics of patients with Charcot neuroarthropathy (CN) in Spain and to identify predictors for CN-related complications.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at five tertiary hospitals with diabetic foot care units in Spain. Data were collected from 83 patients, including demographic profiles, foot factors, diabetes characteristics, and presence of microvascular and macrovascular comorbidity, and a podiatric examination was also performed.

A descriptive study of the characteristics of differentiated thyroid cancer in Catalonia during the period 1998-2012. The CECaT registry.

Introduction: The consortium for the study of thyroid cancer (CECaT), including 20 hospitals and one research institute, was recently created in Catalonia (Spain). One of the first initiatives of the group was to perform a descriptive analysis of the characteristics of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC).

Patients And Methods: The cohort included 1,855 patients from 11 hospitals treated over a period of 15 years (1998-2012).

DNA methylation profiling of well-differentiated thyroid cancer uncovers markers of recurrence free survival.

Thyroid cancer is a heterogeneous disease with several subtypes characterized by cytological, histological and genetic alterations, but the involvement of epigenetics is not well understood. Here, we investigated the role of aberrant DNA methylation in the development of well-differentiated thyroid tumors. We performed genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in the largest well-differentiated thyroid tumor series reported to date, comprising 83 primary tumors as well as 8 samples of adjacent normal tissue.

Low prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic patients with type 1 diabetes in a European Mediterranean population.

Objective: To evaluate the presence of early carotid and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic patients with type 1 diabetes with no history of ischemic heart disease.

Research Design And Methods: One hundred and fifty patients with type 1 diabetes (58% males; 38.6 ± 8.