Types, behaviour and therapeutic requirements of inflammatory pouch disorders: Results from the RESERVO study of GETECCU.

Background And Aims: Inflammatory pouch disorders exhibit a heterogeneous clinical spectrum and therapeutic requirements have not been properly studied.

Methods: This retrospective, multicentre study included ulcerative colitis patients with ileal pouch construction and were later diagnosed with an inflammatory pouch disorder between 1995 and 2020. Classifications, behaviour and therapies applied were recorded and compared in the long-term.

[Evaluation of the Dunning Kruger effect in relation to vaccination: a study of messages on the social network LinkedIn.].

Objective: The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to an excess of confidence regarding one's abilities and knowledge; trust leads to transmitting information in an assertive manner, regardless of its validity or veracity, of experts, but of great impact on public opinion. This study evaluated the existence of the Dunning-Kruger effect in messages related to vaccination against COVID-19 on LinkedIn.

Methods: 448 messages were evaluated and the authors' knowledge and training on the subject were related.

Psychogeriatric care in times of COVID. Lessons learned and proposals for similar situations.

The objective is to describe the problems related to outpatient psychogeriatric care in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, as well as the proposed and implemented solutions for optimizing care for elderly people with mental disorders during the pandemic, that can also be applied in emerging similar situations in the future.

An integrated prognostic model for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with immunochemotherapy.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most frequent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma subtype, is characterized by strong biological, morphological, and clinical heterogeneity, but patients are treated with immunochemotherapy in a relatively homogeneous way. Here, we have used a customized NanoString platform to analyze a series of 197 homogeneously treated DLBCL cases. The platform includes the most relevant genes or signatures known to be useful for predicting response to R-CHOP (Rituximab, Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Vincristine, and Prednisone) in DLBCL cases.

The importance of association of comorbidities on COVID-19 outcomes: a machine learning approach.

Background: The individual influence of a variety of comorbidities on COVID-19 patient outcomes has already been analyzed in previous works in an isolated way. We aim to determine if different associations of diseases influence the outcomes of inpatients with COVID-19.

Methods: Retrospective cohort multicenter study based on clinical practice.

Frequency, Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Adults With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and COVID 19 Infection in the First vs. Second Pandemic Wave in Spain.

Background And Objective: SARS-CoV-2 infection has bimodal distribution in Europe with a first wave in March to June 2020 and a second in September 2020 to February 2021. We compared the frequency, clinical characteristics and outcomes of adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and infection in the first vs. second pandemic waves in Spain.

Cerebellar gangliocytoma as a cause of fluctuating hearing loss.

Cerebellar lesions could be a cause of fluctuating hearing loss, due to the increase of intracranial pressure by partially or complete blocking of the Foramen of Luschka. Patients with intracranial hypertension may present audio-vestibular symptoms. Fluctuating sensorineural hearing loss may be the manifestation of different inner ear disorders such as Meniere's disease (MD), immune-mediated inner ear disease (IMIED), otosyphilis, and labyrinthine fistula including semicircular canal dehiscence.

Changes in the requirement for early surgery in inflammatory bowel disease in the era of biological agents.

Background And Aim: Biological therapies may be changing the natural history of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), reducing the need for surgical intervention. We aimed to assess whether the availability of anti-TNF agents impacts the need for early surgery in Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).

Methods: Retrospective, cohort study of patients diagnosed within a 6-year period before and after the licensing of anti-TNFs (1990-1995 and 2007-2012 for CD; 1995-2000 and 2007-2012 for UC) were identified in the ENEIDA Registry.

POT1 and Damage Response Malfunction Trigger Acquisition of Somatic Activating Mutations in the VEGF Pathway in Cardiac Angiosarcomas.

Background Mutations in the gene explain abnormally long telomeres and multiple tumors including cardiac angiosarcomas (CAS). However, the link between long telomeres and tumorigenesis is poorly understood. Methods and Results Here, we have studied the somatic landscape of 3 different angiosarcoma patients with mutations in the gene to further investigate this tumorigenesis process.

Intracorporeal neobladder.

Objective: It is well known that RARC with intracorporeal diversion is being increasingly performed worldwide. In this article, we review the current situation of the intracorporeal neobladder.

Methods: We discuss the principles of intracorporeal orhotopic diversion, focusing on the most relevant: The Karolinska-modified Studer neobladder, the University of Southern California-modified Studer neobladder.

[Infections in immunocompromised patients (II). The transplanted patient].

Recipients of the different types of transplantation are at high risk of infection. Nosocomial infections predominate in patients who have undergone haematopoietic stem cell transplantation during the early post-engraftment period (30-100 days after the infusion); the incidence of infection is higher in graft-versus-host disease. Nodular lesions can appear in the lungs due to invasive fungal infection.

Tumor burden monitoring using cell-free tumor DNA could be limited by tumor heterogeneity in advanced breast cancer and should be evaluated together with radiographic imaging.

Background: Accurate measurement of tumor burden in breast cancer disease is essential to improve the clinical management of patients. In this study, we evaluate whether the fluctuations in the fraction of PIK3CA mutant allele correlates with tumor response according to RECIST criteria and tumor markers quantification.

Methods: Eighty six plasma samples were analyzed by digital PCR using Rare Mutation Assays for E542K, E545K and H1047R.

Reversible transition from a hypertrophic to a dilated cardiomyopathy.

We report the case of a 17-year-old female patient with known hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. She came to our department for further evaluation of a new diagnosed dilated cardiomyopathy characterized by an enlargement of the left ventricle and a fall in ejection fraction. Clinically, she complained about atypical chest pain, arrhythmic episodes with presyncopal events, and dyspnea (NYHA III) during the last 6 months.

[Cost Effectiveness of Treatments of Psoriasis with a PASI 75 and one Period of 12 Weeks].

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the efficiency (relation between the cost and the results in health) of the treatments in psoriasis, seeking a higher quality of economic evaluations, consistency and transparency in these studies.

Methods: We developed a model of economic evaluation in psoriasis collecting all the many direct and indirect costs of each treatment. The effectiveness indicator used was Psoriasis Area Severity Index [PASI 75] which is generally acceptable in studies of psoriasis.

Cost analysis of the adverse reactions of bipolar disorder treatment with aripiprazole and olanzapine in Spain.

Objective: This study investigates the healthcare costs of adverse events (AE) associated with treatment of bipolar disorder with two atypical oral antipsychotics (AOA): aripiprazole (ARI) and olanzapine (OLA).

Methods: A cost analysis using a Markov model considering the following health states was performed: no existence of adverse events (NAE); extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS); weight gain (WG); and sexual dysfunction (SD). Transition probabilities amongst health states were estimated from meta-analyses of clinical trials and from a retrospective Spanish study.

Development of a program for kidney transplants using organs donated from donors awaiting cardiac arrest (type III Maastricht).

Introduction: The availability of organ donors is a limiting factor for kidney transplants. Donations from non-heart-beating donors (NHBD) can provide as many as one-third of all organs. Controlled patients awaiting cardiac arrest following limitation of life support techniques, or type III Maastricht donors, constitute an alternative that still has yet to be systematically developed.

[Endovascular treatment of long-term complications following surgical repair of aortic coarctation].

Surgical treatment of aortic coarctation has a high success rate. However, irrespective of the surgical technique used, a significant percentage of patients develop late complications affecting the aortic wall. Reoperation to repair these complications is a complex procedure and is associated with high mortality.

[Cardiac myxoma: an analysis of 30 patients].

Introduction: Myxomas are the most common type of benign heart tumors. The aim of this study was to correlate the clinical forms of presentation of cardiac myxoma and complementary laboratory results with the morphological features of the tumor.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed retrospectively a total of 30 cardiac myxomas seen in 2 institutions after a period of 22 years.