Publications by authors named "Teresa Garcia-Ballester"
We report the case of a 38-year-old woman with a 10-year history of ulcerative proctosigmoiditis. Two months after traveling to Morocco, she developed gastrointestinal symptoms accompanied by eosinophilia in blood tests. Four months later, she progressed to systemic illness with pulmonary involvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 24-year-old man from Brazil presenting with jaundice and epigastric pain. Abdominal CT and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) revealed a mass in the pancreatic-duodenal groove, intrahepatic duct dilation, and lymphadenopathy, initially suggestive of lymphoproliferative syndrome. However, cytopathological analysis of EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) of the lymph nodes confirmed paracoccidioidomycosis.
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- A study examined the risk of new thrombotic events in patients with non-cirrhotic portal vein thrombosis (NCPVT) linked to local factors after stopping anticoagulation therapy.
- Out of 154 patients assessed, a significant portion had high-risk prothrombotic factors, with new thrombotic events occurring in 17 patients during a median follow-up of 52 months.
- The results suggest that high-risk factors increase the likelihood of new thrombosis, while continuous anticoagulation treatment may reduce these risks effectively.
Background: There are no well-established predictors of recurrent ischemic coronary events after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Higher levels of homocysteine have been reported to be associated with an increased atherosclerotic burden. The primary endpoint was to assess the relationship between homocysteine at discharge and very long-term recurrent myocardial infarction (MI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In established ischemic heart disease, the relationship between lipoprotein(a) and new cardiovascular events showed contradictory results. Our aim was to assess the relationship between lipoprotein(a) and very long-term recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) after an index episode of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Methods: We included 435 consecutive STEMI patients discharged from October 2000 to June 2003 in a single teaching center.