15 results match your criteria: "Servicio de Microbiología y Parasitología. Hospital La Paz. Madrid.[Affiliation]"
Medical and surgical priorities have changed dramatically following the COVID-19 pandemic declaration. The rapid spread of the virus and the high number of cases has saturated the health system in our country and has forced many hospitals to redistribute resources to care for infected patients. This has led to asignificant reduction in surgical activity, in some cases reaching the point of delaying all elective interventions by performing only urgent interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Transl Oncol
June 2018
Department of Cardiology, Hospital La Paz Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Correction to: Clin Transl Oncol https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-017-1801-4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Transl Oncol
June 2018
Department of Cardiology, Hospital La Paz Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
The increased incidence and decreased mortality of breast cancer have produced an increased number of breast cancer survivors. The type of sequelae and comorbidities that these patients present call for a collaborative follow-up by hospital-based specialized care and primary care. In this document, we present a guideline drafted and agreed among scientific societies whose members care for breast cancer survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Esp Salud Publica
May 2016
Unidad Docente de Medicina de Familia. Departamento de Medicina. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid. España.
Background: Ageing of the Spanish population results in an increase in health services required. Therefore, determine the frequency of the health services utilization in this age group and analyze their determinants has a great interest.The aim was to analyze the utilization of health services among older people living in two urban neighborhoods of northern Madrid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacogenomics J
April 2016
Laboratorio de Investigacion 10 and Rheumatology Unit, Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria-Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Genetic biomarkers could be useful for orienting treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but none has been convincingly validated yet. Putative biomarkers include 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms that have shown association with response to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) in candidate gene studies and that we assayed here in 755 RA patients. Three of them, in the PTPRC, IL10 and CHUK genes, were significantly associated with response to TNFi.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeliveries with forceps or vacuum-extraction increase the incidence of perinatal craneoencephalic lesions, for which reason cesarean sections are performed more frequently. We report 3 cases of cranial lesions due to forceps deliveries, 2 with depressed skull fractures and 1 with a depressed fracture and an associated epidural hematoma. Diagnosis is made on clinical and radiological founds with CT scan or MRI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) is a serious disease with a very high mortality after variable periods of time. Early diagnosis of CTEPH is critical because thromboendarterectomy can improve survival, hemodimamics and functional capacity. Based on our experience we have performed a review of diagnostic techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND. Toxoplasmosis is an opportunistic infection reported in several groups of inmunosupressed patients. It is considered uncommon in patients with lymphoproliferative disorders and in bone marrow transplant recipiets (BMT).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Percutaneous device occlusion of atrial septal defects (ASD) is, although with some limitations, an alternative to surgical closure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous ASD closure using the Amplatz device.
Patients And Methods: From October 1999 to March 2000, 25 children underwent transcatheter closure of ASD at a mean +/- SD age of 8.
We present the case of a 23 year old patient with Kawasaki syndrome which resolved without sequelae after salicylate treatment. An peculiar finding was that of typical symptoms and signs of bilateral sacroiliitis demonstrated by symmetrically increased articular uptake of technetium 99 diphosphonate. This sacroiliitis disappeared completely after resolution of the syndrome.
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