Correlating COVID-19 severity with biomarker profiles and patient prognosis.

COVID-19's long-lasting and complex impacts have become a global concern, with diverse clinical outcomes. This study evaluated 226 participants to understand the clinical spectrum of COVID-19/Long COVID (LC), exploring how disease severity correlates with sociodemographic factors and biomarkers. Determinants related to COVID-19 severity included age (P < 0.

The role of Doppler ultrasound in the diagnosis of vasculogenic impotence.

Objective: Many authors have demonstrated that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and their related risk factors can predict erectile dysfunction (ED). The penile Doppler ultrasonography is a method to evaluate the cavernous blood flow in people with suspected vasculogenic impotence. The goal of our study was to evaluate if erectile dysfunction is associated to a vascular disease and which is the role of penile Doppler investigation.

The effect of terror on patients and staff in the dialysis department.

This study aims to explore the influence of national terror on patients and staff in the dialysis department at Haemek Medical Center in Afula, Israel. The staff as well as the served population include Jews and Arabs and until lately the only fight was against sickness. This study employs a qualitative methodology, based on the phenomenological tradition.

Membranous nephropathy associated with hepatitis B in Spanish children.

Aim: To examine retrospectively long-term evolution and treatment of pediatric membranous nephropathy (MN) cases associated with hepatitis B (HB) in the hospital "La Paz".

Material And Methods: The clinical records of 12 children diagnosed with HB-associated MN in our hospital between 1970 and 1996.

Results: All patients were positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg); 6 were tested for hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg) and were also positive.

[Neuropsychological changes in drug addicts infected with human immunodeficiency virus].

The early organic mental disorder, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) in the drug dependents (DD), if it is not taken into account, can disturb the diagnosis of the neuropsychiatric and the toxic disorders. The authors attempt to outline, with several neuropsychological tests (visuo-perceptual, memory, attention) and with the physical and neurologic exploration, if cognitive abnormalities are present in two groups of DD after detoxification period. The first group is infected by the HIV (n: 48), and the second one is not (n: 33).