Publications by authors named "M-E Fuentes-Ferrer"
Purpose: Current COPD management recommendations indicate that pharmacological treatment can be stepped up or down, but there are no recommendations on how to make this adjustment. We aimed to describe pharmacological prescriptions during a routine clinical visit for COPD and study the determinants of changing therapy.
Methods: EPOCONSUL is a Spanish nationwide observational cross-sectional clinical audit with prospective case recruitment including 4,508 COPD patients from outpatient respiratory clinics for a period of 12 months (May 2014-May 2015).
Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of F-FDG PET/CT in prosthetic infective endocarditis and cardiac implantable electronic device infection: comparison of different interpretation criteria.
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
December 2016
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of F-FDG PET/CT imaging in diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE) in patients with prosthetic valves and cardiac implantable electronic devices.
- Researchers analyzed data from 41 patients using various interpretation criteria, discovering that visual evaluation combining different types of PET images improved diagnostic accuracy significantly.
- The study found that higher FDG uptake in certain areas was strongly associated with confirmed IE, highlighting a specific SUVmax threshold as a potential diagnostic tool.
Background: Neurobehçet disease (NBD) is a rare complication of Behçet disease (BD) but with important burdens of morbidity and mortality. Little is known about this complication because there are no validated diagnostic criteria, and all the studies have small number of patients. The prevalence reported normally ranges between 5% and 15% and it is more frequent amongst men between 20 and 40 years old.
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