Publications by authors named "S Munoz-Fernandez"
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- The study aimed to analyze the characteristics and treatment responses of patients with uveitis related to immunologic or idiopathic diseases needing immunosuppressive therapy.* -
- A total of 356 patients were reviewed; 12% received systemic corticosteroids, while 18.5% required immunosuppressive or biological treatments, mostly with methotrexate and adalimumab.* -
- Findings concluded that many patients needed immunosuppressive therapy, and while several drugs were used, tocilizumab showed notable effectiveness in resolving macular edema.*
Objective: Malnutrition is one of the most threatening conditions in geriatric populations. The gut microbiota has an important role in the host's metabolic and muscular health: however, its interplay with disease-related malnutrition is not well understood. We aimed to identify the association of malnutrition with the gut microbiota and predict clinical outcomes in hospitalized acutely ill older adults.
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- The study aimed to assess the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID) who are receiving biologic or synthetic therapies.
- Conducted from October 2020 to May 2021, researchers evaluated 550 patients and found an overall seroprevalence rate of 16%, with higher rates in those treated with tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors (TNFi).
- The findings also indicated that concurrent treatment with methotrexate reduced the seroprevalence in patients taking TNFi, suggesting a complex interaction between therapies affecting immune response.
Post-COVID-19 interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a new entity that frequently causes pulmonary fibrosis and can become chronic. We performed a single-center parallel-group open-label pilot randomized clinical trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of cyclosporine A (CsA) in the development of ILD in the medium term among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia. Patients were randomized 1:1 to receive CsA plus standard of care or standard of care alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing natural language processing to explore characteristics and management of patients with axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis treated under real-world conditions in Spain: SpAINET study.
Ther Adv Musculoskelet Dis
December 2023
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- Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a group of related diseases, including axSpA and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), but there isn't much real-world information about them.
- The study aimed to look into the characteristics and treatment of axSpA and PsA patients using data from hospitals and fancy computer technology.
- Out of 887,735 patients, 758 were chosen for the study, revealing that many didn't have clear disease activity scores, which are important for understanding how serious their condition is.