8,202 results match your criteria: "L'Hospitalet DE Llobregat[Affiliation]"

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  • The study investigates whether early intensive lipid-lowering therapy can help achieve lower LDL cholesterol levels in patients who have suffered an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
  • It evaluates the effectiveness of a combination therapy (high-potency statin, bempedoic acid, and ezetimibe) compared to standard guideline-recommended treatment on patients at risk for high LDL levels.
  • The primary goal is to see if this intensive treatment can lead to at least 33% of patients reaching LDL levels below 55 mg/dL within 8 weeks after their AMI.
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De novo depression following temporal lobe epilepsy surgery.

Seizure

October 2024

Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 08097, Spain. Electronic address:

Surgical removal of the mesial temporal lobe can effectively treat drug-resistant epilepsy but may lead to mood disorders. This fact is of particular interest in patients without a prior psychiatric history. The study investigates the relationship between Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE), mood disorders, and the functional connectivity of the Hippocampus (Hipp) and Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc).

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  • A study analyzed the management and mortality outcomes of nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, focusing on data from 2008 to 2018.
  • Out of 85 patients with NTM infections and 169 matched controls, one-year mortality was significantly higher in the infected group (20%) compared to controls (3%), particularly among those who had lung transplants.
  • Factors like time to treatment and changes in immunosuppression levels did not show a direct correlation with mortality rates among the patients.
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Can the knight capture the queen? The role of supramarginal gyrus in chess rule-retrieval as evidenced by a novel combined awake brain mapping and fMRI protocol.

Cortex

September 2024

Department of Cognition, Development, and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition & Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Spain; Institute of Neurosciences (UBNeuro), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:

Brain tumours represent a burden for society, not only due to the risks they entail but also because of the possibility of losing relevant cognitive functions for the patient's life after their resection. In the present study, we report how we monitored chess performance through a multimodal Electrical Stimulation Mapping (ESM) - functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) combined protocol. The ESM was performed under a left parietal lobe tumour resection surgery on a patient that expressed the desire to preserve his chess playing ability post-operative.

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Phenotypes of obstructive sleep apnea in women: A real-life cohort study.

Sleep Med

September 2024

Sleep Unit. Respiratory Department, Bellvitge University Hospital, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Section of Respiratory Medicine, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. Electronic address:

Objective: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a complex, heterogeneous disease. Categorizing the disorder into phenotypes can help us better understand its pathology and guide us toward more personalized treatment approaches. Nevertheless, most of the previous cluster analysis (CA) studies in OSA predominantly included middle-aged to older men and may not adequately represent the heterogeneity of OSA phenotypes in women.

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Decoding ribosome complexity: role of ribosomal proteins in cancer and disease.

NAR Cancer

September 2024

Laboratory of Cancer Metabolism, ONCOBELL Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), 08908, L'Hospitalet de Llpbregat, Barcelona, Spain.

The ribosome is a remarkably complex machinery, at the interface with diverse cellular functions and processes. Evolutionarily conserved, yet intricately regulated, ribosomes play pivotal roles in decoding genetic information into the synthesis of proteins and in the generation of biomass critical for cellular physiological functions. Recent insights have revealed the existence of ribosome heterogeneity at multiple levels.

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  • Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is common in elderly patients with heart failure (HF), but its prognosis compared to other HF causes is unclear.
  • A study of 484 patients aged 65 and older found that 23.8% had CA; those with CA showed higher one-year mortality (33% vs. 14.9%) despite similar rates of emergency visits and readmissions.
  • CA presence, alongside factors like chronic kidney disease and NT-proBNP levels, predicts worse outcomes, highlighting the need for early diagnosis and multidisciplinary care to improve patient prognosis.
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Introduction And Objectives: Our aim was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of heart transplants in Spain.

Methods: We analyzed trends in recipient and donor characteristics, recipient-donor interaction, surgical procedures, immunosuppression, and outcomes of patients included in the Spanish heart transplant registry from 2014 to 2023. Changes in survival were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method.

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  • The study investigates the effectiveness of hand acceleration time (HAT) as a diagnostic tool for chronic upper limb ischemia, addressing the lack of standardized noninvasive diagnostic methods for this condition.
  • The research involved comparing HAT measurements using duplex ultrasound in patients with chronic ischemia against healthy volunteers, focusing on various artery locations in the hand.
  • Results showed significant differences in HAT measurements between patients and healthy individuals, suggesting HAT's potential as a sensitive diagnostic indicator for chronic upper limb ischemia.
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Occupational lung/thoracic diseases are a major global public health issue. They comprise a diverse spectrum of health conditions with complex pathology, most of which arise following chronic heavy workplace exposures to various mineral dusts, metal fumes, or following inhaled organic particulate reactions. Many occupational lung diseases could become irreversible; thus accurate diagnosis is mandatory to minimize dust exposure and consequently reduce damage to the respiratory system.

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Paraneoplastic hyperthyroidism secondary to chorionic gonadotrophin-producing testicular tumor.

Med Clin (Barc)

November 2024

Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España; Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España; CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud CarlosIII, Madrid, España.

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Folate intake and colorectal cancer risk according to genetic subtypes defined by targeted tumor sequencing.

Am J Clin Nutr

September 2024

Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, United States; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.

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  • Folate intake plays a crucial role in genetic and metabolic processes, and low levels are linked to higher cancer risk, specifically colorectal cancer (CRC).
  • The study analyzed dietary and supplemental folate intake among participants with CRC, investigating how this intake relates to specific genetic mutations using advanced sequencing techniques.
  • Results indicated that higher total folate intake generally reduced CRC risk, but the impact varied when considering mutation status in tumors, with a few specific gene mutations showing different associations with folate intake.
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  • The study aimed to evaluate how the diagnostic process and time to treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients changed from 2011 to 2019, in relation to updates in clinical practice guidelines.
  • A total of 929 out of 1064 patients from a registry were analyzed, revealing that diagnosis methods evolved over time, with a shift from surgical biopsies to non-invasive imaging like chest CT scans.
  • Key findings showed that the average time from symptom onset to diagnosis was 360 days, and many patients experienced delays in receiving antifibrotic treatment, indicating a need for improved diagnostic efficiency.
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Introduction: Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with ring sideroblasts (RS) or mutation (MDS-RS/) differ in many clinical features, but share others, such as anemia. RS and mutation can also be found in CMML.

Methods: We compared CMML with and without RS/ and MDS-RS/ considering the criteria established by the 2022 World Health Organization classification.

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The healthy lifestyle index (HLI), defined as the unweighted sum of individual lifestyle components, was used to investigate the combined role of lifestyle factors on health-related outcomes. We introduced weighted outcome-specific versions of the HLI, where individual lifestyle components were weighted according to their associations with disease outcomes. Within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), we examined the association between the standard and the outcome-specific HLIs and the risk of T2D, CVD, cancer, and all-cause premature mortality.

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Background: The coexistence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is uncommon. Data on the impact of HIV on IBD course and its management is scarce.

Aim: To describe the IBD phenotype, therapeutic requirements and prevalence of opportunistic infections (OI) in IBD patients with a coexistent HIV infection.

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Lessons from the physiological role of guanosine in neurodegeneration and cancer: Toward a multimodal mechanism of action?

Purinergic Signal

July 2024

Pharmacology Unit, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.

Neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumours represent important health challenges due to their severe nature and debilitating consequences that require substantial medical care. Interestingly, these conditions share common physiological characteristics, namely increased glutamate, and adenosine transmission, which are often associated with cellular dysregulation and damage. Guanosine, an endogenous nucleoside, is safe and exerts neuroprotective effects in preclinical models of excitotoxicity, along with cytotoxic effects on tumour cells.

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Design and construct of an assessment tool for the handover of critical patient the in urgent care and emergency setting.

Int Emerg Nurs

August 2024

Hospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, Catalan Health Institute, Pere Virgili Health Research Institute, Carretera Esplanetes, 14, 43500 Tortosa, Spain; Nursing Department, Campus Terres de l'Ebre, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avenue Remolins, 13-15, 43500 Tortosa, Spain. Electronic address:

Objectives: To design and construct an assessment tool for the handover of critical patients in the urgent care and emergency setting.

Research Methodology: This metric and descriptive study comprised two phases in accordance with the Clinical practice guidelines for A Reporting Tool for Adapted Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT-Ad@pt Checklist. In the first phase, the identification and selection of items related to the handover of critical patients were performed by consensus of a group of experts.

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International External Validation of Risk Prediction Model of 90-Day Mortality after Gastrectomy for Cancer Using Machine Learning.

Cancers (Basel)

July 2024

Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM), Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hospital del Mar, Department of Surgery, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.

Background: Radical gastrectomy remains the main treatment for gastric cancer, despite its high mortality. A clinical predictive model of 90-day mortality (90DM) risk after gastric cancer surgery based on the Spanish EURECCA registry database was developed using a matching learning algorithm. We performed an external validation of this model based on data from an international multicenter cohort of patients.

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: Maxillary sinus lift is a well-documented and accepted technique in the rehabilitation of the posterior maxilla. Schneiderian membrane perforation is the most common complication and may occur in between 7% and 56% of cases. Different materials and techniques have been described to achieve reparation of the perforation.

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Background: The process of tailored implementation is ill-defined and under-explored. The ItFits-toolkit was developed and subsequently tested as a self-guided online platform to facilitate implementation of tailored strategies for internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) services. In ImpleMentAll, ItFits-toolkit had a small but positive effect on the primary outcome of iCBT normalisation.

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Altered activation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during oddball performance in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Span J Psychiatry Ment Health

July 2024

Psychiatry and Mental Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Network Center for Biomedical Research on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain; Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:

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  • Scientists studied how brain changes in older people could cause problems with thinking and feeling, particularly in those with mild cognitive issues and depression.
  • They looked at 12 people with mild cognitive impairment, 24 people with late-life depression, and 26 healthy individuals using brain scans and tests over 2 years.
  • The results showed that specific brain activity patterns could help doctors understand and spot early signs of thinking and mood problems that might lead to Alzheimer's disease.
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Patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd) exhibits promising efficacy in breast cancer, with its activity not directly correlated to baseline ERBB3/HER3 levels. This research investigates the genetic factors affecting HER3-DXd's response in women with early-stage hormone receptor-positive and HER2-negative (HR+/HER2-) breast cancer. In the SOLTI-1805 TOT-HER3 trial, a single HER3-DXd dose was administered to 98 patients across two parts: 78 patients received 6.

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