Publications by authors named "M Teresa Chicote"
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- Menstrually related mood disorder (MRMD) is characterized by severe emotional symptoms occurring in the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, which may be linked to low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone due to lesser conversion from progesterone.
- In a study with nine women with MRMD and fourteen healthy controls, MRMD was diagnosed using the DSM-5 criteria, and symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as plasma neuroactive steroid levels, were assessed at different phases of the menstrual cycle.
- Results showed that while women with MRMD had higher allopregnanolone levels in the mid-follicular phase, they experienced greater depression severity only in the late luteal phase, suggesting a
Introduction: Identifying the complexity of palliative care needs is a key aspect of referral to specialized multidisciplinary early palliative care (EPC) teams. The PALCOM scale is an instrument consisting of five multidimensional assessment domains developed in 2018 and validated in 2023 to identify the level of complexity in patients with advanced cancer. (1) Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine the degree of instability (likelihood of level change or death), health resource consumption and the survival of patients according to the level of palliative complexity assigned at the baseline visit during a 6-month follow-up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the increasing number of ICU admissions among patients with solid tumours, there is a lack of tools with which to identify patients who may benefit from critical support. We aim to characterize the clinical profile and outcomes of patients with solid malignancies admitted to the ICU.
Methods: Retrospective observational study of patients with cancer non-electively admitted to the ICU of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain) between January 2019 and December 2019.
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- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a prevalent liver condition, and the study aimed to differentiate between simpler steatosis and the more severe nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) using CT texture analysis.
- Sixteen NAFLD patients underwent liver biopsies and CT scans to analyze gray-level texture features, finding that those with NASH had distinct CT texture results compared to those with simple steatosis.
- The results indicated that lower entropy and mean pixel values could reliably predict NASH, suggesting that CT texture analysis could be an innovative tool for assessing liver disease progression.
Background: In a patient-centred model of care, referral to early palliative care (EPC) depends on both the prognosis and the complexity of care needs. The PALCOM scale is a 5-domain multidimensional assessment tool developed to identify the level of complexity of palliative care needs of cancer patients. The aim of this study was to validate the PALCOM scale.
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