214 results match your criteria: "IMIBIC Reina Sofia University Hospital[Affiliation]"

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  • - Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune condition that leads to hair loss, influenced by genetic and environmental factors, with recent studies suggesting that scalp microbiota may affect its progression through inflammatory responses.
  • - A study with 24 participants analyzed the scalp microbiomes of those with varying severities of AA and healthy individuals, finding significant differences in microbial communities and their correlation with inflammation and AA severity.
  • - Results showed that patients with severe AA had more pro-inflammatory bacteria, while those with milder forms had beneficial bacteria, indicating that scalp microbiota might be linked to AA inflammation, though further research is needed to understand the exact relationship.
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Background: Cross-reactivity between nonspecific lipid transfer proteins could cause anaphylaxis, further influencing food avoidance and nutrient deficiencies. The one affecting olive pollen (Ole e 7) and peach (Pru p 3) may underlie a variety of pollen-food syndromes, though a deep molecular analysis is necessary.

Methods: Three Ole e 7-monosensitised patients (MON_OLE), three Pru p 3-monosensitised patients (MON_PRU) and three bisensitised patients (BI) were selected.

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  • * Analysis showed that while LDL-cholesterol reductions over time were similar for both sexes, a higher percentage of males had existing cardiovascular disease both at enrollment and during follow-up compared to females.
  • * Notably, males experienced their first ASCVD event at a median age of 50.6 years, significantly earlier than females, who had their first event at a median age of 61.6 years, highlighting important sex-related differences in
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Background: Treatment optimization may require dosing flexibility. The Phase 3 JADE REGIMEN trial (NCT03627767) evaluated maintenance of abrocitinib 200 mg-induced response in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) randomly assigned to subsequent maintenance with continuous-dose abrocitinib (200 mg), reduced-dose abrocitinib (100 mg) or placebo. Maintenance with continuous-dose abrocitinib was associated with a stronger prevention of disease flares, but also with a higher occurrence of adverse events, compared with the reduced dose.

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Transdiagnostic group cognitive behavioural therapy (TD-GCBT) is more effective in improving symptoms and severity of emotional disorders (EDs) than treatment as usual (TAU; usually pharmacological treatment). However, there is little research that has examined the effects of these treatments on specific symptoms. This study used Network Intervention Analysis (NIA) to investigate the direct and differential effects of TD-GCBT + TAU and TAU on specific symptoms of anxiety and depression.

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  • The study investigated the inflammatory profiles of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients to identify those at higher risk for cardiovascular (CV) issues and evaluated the effects of specific medications.
  • Researchers analyzed data from 387 RA patients, dividing them into groups based on prior CV events and treatment with disease-modifying drugs, while examining various inflammatory biomarkers.
  • Findings revealed three distinct RA patient groups with varying inflammatory levels and CV risks, highlighting that certain treatments effectively lowered disease activity and improved inflammatory markers associated with CV risk, suggesting a pathway for personalized management in RA care.
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QuantiFERON-CMV assay by chemiluminescence immunoassay: Is it more suitable for real-live monitoring of transplant patients?

J Clin Virol

April 2024

Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC)/Reina Sofía University Hospital/University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Immunology Department, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain; Infectious Diseases Unit, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.

Background: The QuantiFERONCMV (QF-CMV) assay is an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) used to monitor CMV-specific cell-mediated immunity (CMV-CMI) by ELISA in transplant patients. However, a chemiluminescent immunoassay (CLIA) has been developed to quantify IFNG in the QuantiFERON-Tuberculosis (TB) to detect latent TB infection.

Objectives: The aim of this work is to compare the results of QF-CMV by ELISA with those obtained by CLIA in an automated Liaison XL analyzer using the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus reagents.

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Introduction: This scoping review explores the effectiveness of IL-1 pathway inhibitors in managing PSTPIP1-associated inflammatory diseases (PAID). These diseases are marked by abnormal IL-1 pathway activation due to genetic mutations.

Methods: Our methodology adhered to a pre-published protocol and involved a thorough search of MEDLINE and EMBASE databases up to February 2022, following the Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewer's Manual and the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews.

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Objective: Two profiles of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can be discerned: those with ischemic and those with diabetic cardiomyopathy (DMC). We aim to analyze clinical differences and prognosis between patients of these two profiles.

Material And Methods: This cohort study analyzes data from the Spanish Heart Failure Registry, a multicenter, prospective registry that enrolled patients admitted for decompensated heart failure and followed them for one year.

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Objectives: This research-on-research substudy uses a data-driven approach to investigate the range of appraisal tools in non-Cochrane systematic reviews and meta-analyses registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO).

Study Design And Setting: A comprehensive web scraping of all completed non-Cochrane registrations in PROSPERO from February 2011 to December 2017 was performed. The focus was classifying the appraisal tools based on study type, assessment aspects, and research topics.

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The 2023 International CMV Symposium took place in Barcelona in May 2023. During the 2-day meeting, delegates and faculty discussed the ongoing challenge of managing the risk of cytomegalovirus infection (the Troll of Transplantation) after solid organ or hematopoietic cell transplantation. Opportunities to improve outcomes of transplant recipients by applying advances in antiviral prophylaxis or pre-emptive therapy, immunotherapy, and monitoring of cell-mediated immunity to routine clinical practice were debated and relevant educational clinical cases presented.

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Although the cardiovascular (CV) polypill concept is not new and several guidelines state that a CV polypill should be considered an integral part of a comprehensive CV disease (CVD) prevention strategy, there are still some barriers to its implementation in the real-world setting, mainly in secondary CV prevention. As the CNIC-polypill is the only one approved for secondary CV prevention in patients with atherosclerotic CVD in 27 countries worldwide, a panel of four discussants and 30 participants from 18 countries conveyed in a virtual meeting on April 21, 2022, to discuss key clinical questions regarding the practical use of the CNIC-Polypill and barriers to its implementation.Data presented showed that, although the use of the CV polypill is not explicitly mentioned in the current 2021 European Society of Cardiology guidelines on CVD prevention, it may be used in any patient for secondary CVD prevention tolerating all their components to improve outcomes through different aspects.

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Background: Computerized clinical decision support systems are used by clinicians at the point of care to improve quality of healthcare processes (prescribing error prevention, adherence to clinical guidelines, etc.) and clinical outcomes (preventive, therapeutic, and diagnostics). Attempts to summarize results of computerized clinical decision support systems to support prescription in primary care have been challenging, and most systematic reviews and meta-analyses failed due to an extremely high degree of heterogeneity present among the included primary studies.

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  • The CMV Symposium in September 2021 was a big meeting where experts talked about cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections in people who had organ transplants.
  • They covered important topics like how CMV spreads, how to diagnose it, and how it affects patients after their transplants.
  • Recent improvements in preventing and treating CMV are helping patients feel better, and in the future, treatments could be tailored to each patient’s specific immune system needs.
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Background Dietary polyphenol intake has been associated with a decreased risk of hyperuricemia, but most of this knowledge comes from preclinical studies. The aim of the present study was to assess the association of the intake of different classes of polyphenols with serum uric acid and hyperuricemia. Methods and Results This cross-sectional analysis involved baseline data of 6332 participants.

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Background: Describe the profile of patients with obesity in internal medicine to determine the role of adiposity and related inflammation on the metabolic risk profile and, identify various “high-risk obesity” phenotypes by means of a cluster analysis. This study aimed to identify different profiles of patients with high-risk obesity based on a cluster analysis. Methods: Cross-sectional, multicenter project that included outpatients attended to in internal medicine.

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Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Severe Obesity Restores Adaptive Responses Leading to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Int J Mol Sci

July 2022

Unitat de Recerca Biomèdica, Department of Surgery, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili, Hospital Universitari de Sant Joan, Universitat Rovira i Vigili, 43204 Reus, Spain.

The surgically induced remission of liver disease represents a model to investigate the signalling processes that trigger the development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with the aim of identifying novel therapeutic targets. We recruited patients with severe obesity with or without nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and obtained liver and plasma samples before and after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for immunoblotting, immunocytochemical, metabolomic, transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses. Functional studies were performed in HepG2 cells and primary hepatocytes.

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Purpose Of Review: The basis for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD) inevitably involves lifestyle modification, including dietary pattern (DP). The aim of this review is to address the different models of healthy DP with their peculiarities and nutritional components as well as their importance in the management of CVD.

Recent Findings: Classical cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes are strongly influenced by diet and physical activity.

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Sporotrichosis is a cosmopolitan mycosis caused by pathogenic species of Sporothrix genus, that in Brazil is often acquired by zoonotic transmission involved infected cats with S. brasiliensis. Previous studies showed that the Sporothrix spp.

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Proof‑of‑concept study to quantify changes in intestinal loads of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in colonised patients following selective digestive decontamination with oral gentamicin.

J Glob Antimicrob Resist

September 2022

CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain; Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain; Infectious Diseases (GC-03), Clinical and Molecular Microbiology (GC-24), and Lifestyles, Innovation and Health (GA-16) Groups, Maimonides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (IMIBIC/Reina Sofía University Hospital/University of Córdoba), Cordoba, Spain; Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Edaphology and Microbiology and Department of Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Clinical Units of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain.

Objectives: To monitor quantitatively the extent of intestinal colonisation by KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) in colonised patients who receive selective digestive decontamination (SDD) with oral gentamicin.

Methods: We developed a real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) method for determination of the relative load of bla (RL) within the gut microbiota. Clinical validation was performed using a culture method as the gold standard and receiver operating curve (ROC) analysis.

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Understanding the adipose tissue acetylome in obesity and insulin resistance.

Transl Res

August 2022

Department of Cell Biology, Physiology, and Immunology, Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba/Reina Sofia University Hospital, Córdoba, Spain; CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain. Electronic address:

Obesity is a widely prevalent pathology with a high exponential growth worldwide. Altered lipid accumulation by adipose tissue is one of the main causes of obesity and exploring lipid homeostasis in this tissue may represent a source for the identification of possible therapeutic targets. The study of the proteome and the post-translational modifications of proteins, specifically acetylation due to its involvement in energy metabolism, may be of great interest to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity.

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Background: Emotional disorders are highly prevalent in primary care. Transdiagnostic cognitive behavior therapy (TD-CBT) is a promising treatment of emotional disorders. In this study, we evaluated several emotion regulation strategies as potential mediators of treatment outcomes in a clinical sample of primary care.

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Accessibility to more precise diagnostic techniques such as component resolved diagnostics (CRD), provides us with an important advance in diagnostic aspects as well as treatment. The subject of this study aims to better understand the profiles of sensitization to Der p 1, Der p 2 and Der p 23 and to know to what extent their use could help us in optimizing the decision-making for their treatment with Specific Immunotherapy. Cross-sectional study of subjects older than 5 years, diagnosed with allergy to HDM using skin prick test and sIgE, with symptoms of rhinitis and/or asthma.

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COVID-19 is a major worldwide health problem because of acute respiratory distress syndrome, and mortality. Several lines of evidence have suggested a relationship between the vitamin D endocrine system and severity of COVID-19. We present a survival study on a retrospective cohort of 15,968 patients, comprising all COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Andalusia between January and November 2020.

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