[Prognostic factors after cardiac arrest. Usefulness of early video-electroencephalogram].

Background And Objective: Predictors of unfavorable outcome in patients after cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) are important to make decisions about the limitation of therapeutic efforts. The aim was to analyze the clinical variables in the prognosis of patients recovered after CPA.

Material And Method: Retrospective study on comatose patients with recovered CPA.

[Ingestion of anabolic steroids and ischaemic stroke. A clinical case report and review of the literature].

INTRODUCTION. Anabolic-androgenic steroids are synthetic substances derived from testosterone that are employed for their trophic effect on muscle tissue, among other uses. Their consumption can give trigger a series of adverse side effects on the body, including the suppression of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis as well as liver, psychiatric and cardiovascular disorders.