Publications by authors named "Lucia Ruiz Gutierrez"
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates the risk factors for severe COVID-19 in patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases, focusing on different types of autoimmune conditions and chronic arthritis.
- Conducted as a multicenter observational study in Madrid, it involved 523 patients diagnosed with severe COVID-19, analyzing their outcomes based on various demographic and clinical factors.
- Key findings revealed that male gender, older age, and certain comorbidities, along with specific medications like corticosteroids and rituximab, were linked to worse COVID-19 outcomes, while treatments like methotrexate showed no negative impact.
Background: Inflammatory idiopathic myositis (IIM) comprises a heterogeneous group of systemic muscular diseases that can occur together with other connective tissue diseases (CTD), named overlap myositis (OM). The question of whether OM is a distinct entity still remains controversial.
Aim: The present study was conducted to assess the clinical and prognostic differences between patients diagnosed with OM, primary polymyositis (PM) and primary dermatomyositis (DM).
Objective: To study prognostic factors in different types of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) associated with interstitial lung disease (ILD).
Patients And Methods: Multicenter retrospective study of a Spanish cohort of patients diagnosed with IIM. Patients were classified into four categories: polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), antisynthetase syndrome (ASS), and overlap myositis (OM).
The present study was undertaken to assess mortality, causes of death, and associated prognostic factors in a large cohort of patients diagnosed with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM) from Spain. A retrospective longitudinal study was carried out in 467 consecutive patients with IIM, identified from 12 medical centers. Patients were classified as primary polymyositis, primary dermatomyositis (DM), overlap myositis, cancer-associated myositis (CAM), and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a malignant vascular tumor widely known as a complication of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) but also related to immunosupression in renal transplants, and less frequently, to other diseases. We describe a case of KS in a patient affected by anti-synthetase syndrome treated with steroids.
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