Cost Analysis of the Automated Examination of Urine with the Sysmex UN-Series™ in a Spanish Population.

Background: Current practice for urinalysis mainly entails different manual or semi-automated procedures that generate substantial financial costs, as well as a high and time-consuming workload for laboratory personnel.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess whether the availability of integrated and fully automated urinalysis systems such as the UN-Series™ from Sysmex could resolve such concerns.

Methods: The target population was established based on 92,459 urine samples, which is the total average number of urine samples collected in the clinical and microbiology laboratory department of La Mancha Centro Hospital over a 10-year period (2008-2018).

[Inflammatory state in patients with atrial fibrillation before and after electrical cardioversion].

Objective: To assess the inflammatory state in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation and to determine the predictive value in the success of cardioversion and recurrence at 30 days.

Design: Prospective observational case-control study.

Patients: We included consecutively 49 patients with atrial fibrillation previously to scheduled electrical cardioversion in Coronary Care Unit.

Levels of C3 in patients with severe, morbid and extreme obesity: its relationship to insulin resistance and different cardiovascular risk factors.

Objective: Increased C3 has been related to body mass index (BMI) and insulin resistance, although there are not sufficient studies in subjects with morbid obesity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the levels of C3 as a function of the BMI in subjects of both sexes, with severe, morbid and extreme obesity, and their possible relationship to insulin resistance or associated diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia.

Subjects: The study included a total of 316 patients (110 men and 206 women) with severe obesity (17.