Maximal Admission Core Lesion Compatible With Favorable Outcome in Acute Stroke Patients Undergoing Endovascular Procedures.

Background And Purpose: Multiparametric imaging is meant to identify nonreversible lesions and predict on admission the minimum final infarct volume, a strong predictor of outcome. We aimed to confirm this hypothesis and define the maximal admission lesion volume compatible with favorable outcome (MALCOM).

Methods: We studied patients with internal carotid artery/middle cerebral artery occlusion selected with multiparametric computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging, who underwent endovascular procedures.

[Vascular risk in outpatient from Internal Medicine departments. MICARE Study].

Background And Objectives: The population attended in the Spanish Internal Medicine departments is of increasing age, but the prevalence of vascular risk factors and its degree of control are unknown, as well as the differences by type of hospital or consulting room.

Patients And Methods: Epidemiologic, transversal and metacentric study in patients ≥ 18 years treated in outpatient Internal Medicine hospital. Two-hundred and ninety physicians from 17 Autonomic Communities participated in the study.

Multifactorial control and treatment intensity of type-2 diabetes in primary care settings in Catalonia.

Background: Many studies on diabetes have demonstrated that an intensive control of glycaemia and the main associated risk factors (hypertension, dislipidaemia, obesity and smoking) reduce cardiovascular morbi-mortality. Different scientific societies have proposed a multifactorial approach to type 2 diabetes.The objective of this study was to identify the degree of control of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and of cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetic patients, using the GedapS 2004 guidelines, and to analyse the type and intensity of drug treatment.