Enhancing physicians' radiology diagnostics of COVID-19's effects on lung health by leveraging artificial intelligence.

This study aimed to develop an individualized artificial intelligence model to help radiologists assess the severity of COVID-19's effects on patients' lung health. Data was collected from medical records of 1103 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 using RT- qPCR between March and June 2020, in Hospital Madrid-Group (HM-Group, Spain). By using Convolutional Neural Networks, we determine the effects of COVID-19 in terms of lung area, opacities, and pulmonary air density.

Timing of implant-removal in late acute periprosthetic joint infection: A multicenter observational study.

Objectives: We evaluated the treatment outcome in late acute (LA) periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) treated with debridement and implant retention (DAIR) versus implant removal.

Methods: In a large multicenter study, LA PJIs of the hip and knee were retrospectively evaluated. Failure was defined as: PJI related death, prosthesis removal or the need for suppressive antibiotic therapy.

Dual prophylaxis with teicoplanin and cefazolin in the prevention of prosthetic joint infection.

Introduction: There is a growing increase in prosthetic joint infection (PJI) incidence due to cephalosporin-resistant bacteria, used in surgical prophylaxis. The replacement of these with glycopeptides has not been shown to improve the results, but they have been shown to improve with their combination.

Methods: Comparative study of combination of teicoplanin and cefazolin before arthroplasty surgery against cefazolin alone from a previous control group.

Effect of comanagement with internal medicine on hospital stay of patients admitted to the Service of Otolaryngology.

Introduction And Objectives: Patients admitted to the Department of Otolaryngology (ENT) are increasing in age, comorbidity and complexity, leading to increased consultations/referrals to Internal Medicine (IM). An alternative to consultations/referrals is co-management. We studied the effect of co-management on length of stay (LoS) in hospital for patients admitted to ENT.

DoSurgeons Have More Difficulties in the Hospital Care of Non-surgery Patients Than With Surgery Patients?

Objective: A variable percentage of patients admitted to surgical departments are not operated on for several reasons. Our goal is to check if surgeons have more problems in caring for non-operated hospitalized patients than operated ones.

Material And Methods: We included all patients aged ≥ 14 years discharged in 2010 from General Surgery, Gynaecology, Urology, and Otolaryngology.

[Factors that influence interdepartmental referrals between Surgical Departments and Internal Medicine].

Introduction: To analyse the long term outcome of the age and comorbidity of patients admitted to Surgical Departments, the number of referrals to Internal Medicine made by these Departments, and to assess whether there are seasonal variations and the call/reject effect.

Material And Methods: We compared the age, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), and the number of referrals made by Traumatology, General Surgery and Urology of patients discharged in 2000, with those discharged in 2007. Seasonal variations and the call/reject effect were studied by analysing all the interdepartmental referrals made by all the surgical departments from the year 2000 to 2007.

[Intestinal leishmaniasis and Sézary syndrome: endoscopic diagnosis].

Sézary syndrome is a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of cutaneous origin that provokes severe cellular immunosuppression leading to greater susceptibility to opportunistic infections. We present the case of a male patient with a diagnosis of Sézary syndrome complicated by visceral leishmaniasis and Mycobacterium avium complex coinfection, with intestinal involvement of both pathogens -an exceptional finding in the absence of HIV infection. The diagnosis was confirmed by bone marrow biopsy and oral endoscopy with intestinal biopsy.