Publications by authors named "Laura Gracia-Sanchez"
Objective: Incidental gallbladder lesions are common in imaging studies, although it is not always easy to discriminate benign lesions from gallbladder cancer with conventional imaging procedures. The present study aims to assess the capacity of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with 2-[ 18 F]FDG to distinguish between benign and malignant pathology of the gallbladder, compared with conventional imaging techniques (contrast-enhanced CT or magnetic resonance imaging).
Methods: Positron emission tomography/CT and conventional imaging studies of 53 patients with gallbladder lesions were evaluated and visually classified as benign, malignant, or inconclusive.
Non-Normality as a Predictor of Participation in Bullying: Valuation in Victims and Aggressors.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
May 2022
Bullying is related to several variables, including diversity and variables that place the victim outside of normality. However, it is not easy to find a single meaning of normality. The present study has two main objectives: to find out whether victims are evaluated as non-normal and to find out whether aggressors are evaluated as non-normal.
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- Rosai-Dorfman-Destombes disease (RDD) is a rare condition characterized by painless swollen lymph nodes, fever, and weight loss, often affecting other organs such as skin and bones.
- The disease may mimic relapsing polychondritis and can sometimes go into spontaneous remission, but severe cases often require treatment with medications like prednisone or methotrexate.
- A case study of a 37-year-old woman showed that the MEK inhibitor cobimetinib led to a rapid and complete response in her extensive RDD, suggesting targeted therapies could be a promising treatment option for severe cases.
Domino liver transplantation (DLT) has been used widely in patients with hereditary amyloid transthyretin (ATTR) amyloidosis. New-onset polyneuropathy in recipients of DLT has been reported, but there are few cases of cardiac involvement reported. We aimed to perform a cross-sectional study for ATTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) in DLT recipients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to analyze the secular trends of infective endocarditis in a teaching hospital between January 1996 and December 2015.
Methods: We report on a single-center retrospective study of patients with left-side valve infective endocarditis. We performed an analysis of secular trends in the main epidemiological and etiological aspects, as well as clinical outcomes, in 5 successive 4-year periods (P1 to P5).
Background: The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) in prosthetic valves and intracardiac devices is challenging because both the modified Duke criteria (DC) and echocardiography have limitations in this population. The added value of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) and (18)F-FDG PET/CT angiography (PET/CTA) was evaluated in this complex scenario at a referral center with a multidisciplinary IE unit.
Methods And Results: Ninety-two patients admitted to our hospital with suspected prosthetic valve or cardiac device IE between November 2012 and November 2014 were prospectively included.