Publications by authors named "S Lluch"
Objectives: To study prehospital care process in relation to hospital outcomes in stroke-code cases first attended by 2 different levels of ambulance. To analyze factors associated with a satisfactory functional outcome at 3 months.
Material And Methods: Prospective multicenter observational cohort study.
Background/aim: In chronic liver disease, various immune cell subsets exert pro or anti-tumour effects by releasing reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS, RNS). Here, we evaluated the oxidative and nitrosative pattern in peripheral blood leukocyte subpopulations of early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients compared with HCC-free cirrhotic patients.
Materials And Methods: Venous blood samples from 18 HCC-free cirrhotic patients and 17 early stage HCC patients were collected to determine ROS, RNS and reduced glutathione levels in isolated leukocytes analyzed by flow cytometry.
Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a very useful tool to study in vivo different ocular structures and to improve differential diagnosis and management of many ocular pathologies. This study aims to identify pterygium alterations that trigger characteristic OCT images, and analyze if this pattern correctly demarcates lesion boundary.
Methods: Thirty-two patients, 22 men, and ten women, aged between 26 and 56 (mean age 40.
Purpose: To analyze conjunctival cytological features 1 month after pterygium excision using limbo-conjunctival autograft (LCA) with and without intraoperative mitomycin C and to assess tissue short-term evolution in both situations.
Methods: Fifty-nine primary nasal pterygia from 59 patients were excised with LCA. Twenty-nine were treated with intraoperative mitomycin C 0.
Aims: In the present study we investigated the intervention of nitric oxide and prostacyclin in the responses to vasopressin of isolated thyroid arteries obtained from multi-organ donors.
Main Methods: Paired artery rings from glandular branches of the superior thyroid artery, one normal and the other deendothelised, were mounted in organ baths for isometric recording of tension. Concentration-response curves to vasopressin were determined in the absence and in the presence of either the vasopressin V1 receptor antagonist d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)AVP (10(-8)M), the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor N(G)-monomethyl-l-arginine (L-NMMA, 10(-4)M), or the inhibitor of prostaglandins indomethacin (10(-6)M).