A multicenter randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of telemonitoring in patients with advanced heart and lung chronic failure. Study protocol for the ATLAN_TIC project.

Background: Using technologies of information and communication (TICs) is emerging in medical assistance. TICs application for medical assistance is promising. Its applicability in advanced heart and/or respiratory failure is still controversial because studies have shown methodological weakness which could put in danger their conclusions.

Antituberculosis drug resistance in isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in southeast Spain.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine resistance to antituberculosis (anti-TB) drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from patients diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in southeast Spain and to study related epidemiological factors.

Methods: This retrospective study analysed 5-year data (2012-2016) obtained in southeast Spain for a total equivalent population of 1 735 608 inhabitants. Clinical samples were examined from 557 patients with suspected pulmonary TB (n=470; 84.

Patients Admitted to Three Spanish Intensive Care Units for Poisoning: Type of Poisoning, Mortality, and Functioning of Prognostic Scores Commonly Used.

. To evaluate the gravity and mortality of those patients admitted to the intensive care unit for poisoning. Also, the applicability and predicted capacity of prognostic scales most frequently used in ICU must be evaluated.

Relationship between QT Interval Length and Arterial Stiffness in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): A Cross-Sectional Case-Control Study.

Introduction And Objectives: The QT interval on the electrocardiogram has been shown to be longer in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to that of the general population. The clinical significance of this finding is unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between QT interval and subclinical atherosclerosis, measured by carotid-femoral pulse-wave velocity.

Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis, a new idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: A case report.

Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a rare disease, idiopathic in most of the cases described in the literature. We report the case of a 55-year-old patient, non-smoker with tuberculosis treated in his youth, starting with progressive dyspnoea and cough, with radiographic abnormalities consisting of pleural thickening, bronchiectasis and structural distortion predominantly in the upper lobes. Due to functional impairment and persistent radiographic abnormalities, biopsy by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical was decided.