Association of obesity on the outcome of critically ill patients affected by COVID-19.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of obesity on ICU mortality.

Design: Observational, retrospective, multicentre study.

Setting: Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Methodology of a Large Multicenter Observational Study of Patients with COVID-19 in Spanish Intensive Care Units.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic created tremendous challenges for health-care systems. Intensive care units (ICU) were hit with a large volume of patients requiring ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and other organ support with very high mortality. The Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red-Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), a network of Spanish researchers to investigate in respiratory disease, commissioned the current proposal in response to the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) call.

[Diverticulum of the female urethra. Review of the literature].

Presentation of nine cases of diverticulum of the female urethra, and assessment of their specific features both clinical and diagnostic, as well as the surgical techniques used in their management. Review of the literature with regard to incidence, etiopathogeny and presentation of this condition. Analysis of the different diagnostic procedures available to show the presence of an urethral diverticulum and the various management options currently used in their resolution.