Publications by authors named "Ricardo Calvo Lopez"
Background: Since May 2022, a new outbreak of monkeypox has been reported in several countries, including Spain. The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the cases in this outbreak may differ from those in earlier reports.
Objectives: To document the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of cases of monkeypox in the current outbreak.
Incidence, clinical characteristics, risk factors and outcomes of meningoencephalitis in patients with COVID-19.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
August 2021
We investigated the incidence, clinical characteristics, risk factors, and outcome of meningoencephalitis (ME) in patients with COVID-19 attending emergency departments (ED), before hospitalization. We retrospectively reviewed all COVID patients diagnosed with ME in 61 Spanish EDs (20% of Spanish EDs, COVID-ME) during the COVID pandemic. We formed two control groups: non-COVID patients with ME (non-COVID-ME) and COVID patients without ME (COVID-non-ME).
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- The study looked into upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGB) in COVID-19 patients visiting emergency departments in Spain during the early COVID-19 outbreak.
- It found that UGB was less common in COVID-19 patients (1.11%) compared to non-COVID-19 patients (1.78%), but certain symptoms like abdominal pain and fever were more frequent in COVID-19 cases.
- COVID-19 patients with UGB had higher all-cause mortality during hospitalization compared to non-COVID-19 patients with UGB, but similar outcomes when compared to COVID-19 patients without UGB.