Outcomes and patterns of use of Radium-223 in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Introduction: Radium-223 dichloride (Ra-223) is recommended as a treatment option for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients with symptomatic bone metastases and no visceral disease, after docetaxel failure, or in patients who are not candidates to receive it. In this study, we aimed to ambispectively analyze overall survival (OS) and prognostic features in mCRPC in patients receiving Ra-223 as per clinical routine practice and identify the most suitable treatment sequence.

Patients And Methods: This study is observational, multicentric, and ambispective.

Analysis of the Efficiency and Prognostic Value of the Sentinel Node Technique in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma after Seven Years.

: The purpose of this study was to analyse the diagnostic and prognostic efficiency of the sentinel lymph node biopsy technique (SLNB). : This is a prospective observational study performed by the Hospital Complex in Santiago de Compostela (CHUS) in Spain, between February 2013 and June 2020. The study included 60 patients, who had been diagnosed with OSCC in stage T1/T2N0M0.

Evaluation of Lu-Dotatate treatment in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors and prognostic factors.

Background: Lu peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) is a recently approved therapy in Spain that has been demonstrated to be a well-tolerated therapy for positive somatostatin receptor advanced gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

Aim: To determine the impact of PRRT on quality of life, radiologic and metabolic response, overall survival, prognostic factors and toxicity.

Methods: Thirty-six patients treated with Lu-PRRT from 2016 to 2019 were included.

Novel Variant Associated to Bilateral Phaeochromocytoma with an Uncommon Clinical Presentation.

Phaeochromocytomas and paragangliomas are rare catecholamine-secreting tumours arising from the adrenal medulla or sympathetic paraganglia. It is known that 20-30% of all cases occur as a result of germline variants in several well known genes. The gene was recently identified as a new phaeochromocytoma susceptibility gene.

Advantages and limitations of 18-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

Introduction: The early diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) is a medical challenge and a multidisciplinary approach is essential to improve its frequently fatal prognosis. Our goal was to evaluate the usefulness of [F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron emission tomography (F-FDG PET) in the diagnosis of this disease.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively assessed 43 patients (five female and 38 male) with clinical suspicion of IE between 2014 and 2017.

Celia's encephalopathy and c.974dupG in BSCL2 gene: a hidden change in a known variant.

Celia's encephalopathy (progressive encephalopathy with/without lipodystrophy (PELD)) is a childhood neurodegenerative disorder with a fatal prognosis before the age of 10, due to the variant c.985C>T in the BSCL2 gene that causes a cryptic splicing site leading to skipping of exon 7. For years, different authors have reported cases of congenital generalized lipodystrophy due to the variant c.

Association of metreleptin treatment and dietary intervention with neurological outcomes in Celia's encephalopathy.

Celia's encephalopathy (progressive encephalopathy with/without lipodystrophy, PELD) is a recessive neurodegenerative disease that is fatal in childhood. It is caused by a c.985C>T variant in the BSCL2/seipin gene that results in an aberrant seipin protein.

Discrepancy between stress electrocardiographic changes and nuclear myocardial perfusion defects in the prognostic assessment of patients with chest pain.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to determine the long-term prognostic value provided by the exercise electrocardiographic (ECG) response to nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in the evaluation of patients with chest pain, focusing on patients with a discrepancy between the two tests.

Methods: A total of 1460 consecutive patients (777 female; 62.6 ± 11.

A new seipin-associated neurodegenerative syndrome.

Background: Seipin/BSCL2 mutations can cause type 2 congenital generalised lipodystrophy (BSCL) or dominant motor neurone diseases. Type 2 BSCL is frequently associated with some degree of intellectual impairment, but not to fatal neurodegeneration. In order to unveil the aetiology and pathogenetic mechanisms of a new neurodegenerative syndrome associated with a novel BSCL2 mutation, six children, four of them showing the BSCL features, were studied.