Idiopathic External Jugular Vein Thrombosis.

Unlabelled: External jugular vein thrombosis is a rare complication that, when it occurs, is usually secondary to cervical trauma, infection, venous cannulation or malignancy. By contrast, spontaneous external jugular thrombosis is extremely uncommon. We report the case of a 69-year-old woman presenting to the Emergency Department with a 3 centimetre neck lump, which had suddenly appeared on the same day.

The obesity paradox in stroke: impact on mortality and short-term readmission.

Background: The aim of the present study was to assess the association of obesity with the mortality of hospitalized patients with acute stroke and the risk of readmission in less than 30 days.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of a cohort of consecutive patients admitted with stroke as the primary reason for discharge in Spain between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2011, was performed. Patients with a diagnosis of obesity were identified.

The influence of nursing homes in the functioning of internal medicine services.

Background: Some hospitals attend to great number of patients who come from nursing homes whose median age, seriousness of illness and comorbidity differ of these patients from those of non-institutionalized patients. This can partly modify and thereby affect some of the parameters used to measure "assistance quality".

Materials And Methods: The data related to the demographic, clinical factors, severity criteria and mortality, were studied in patients hospitalized in two Internal Medicine Services during 2005-6 on the basis of whether they arrived from a nursing home or not.