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Objectives: Malnutrition is a prevalent condition in cancer patients that significantly impacts patients' clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). The outcome was to characterize the nutritional status by describing the prevalence of malnutrition (mild, moderate, or severe) and its risk in outpatient cancer patients.

Methods: Multicenter, prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, two-cohort study conducted on consecutive adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors (stages III-IV).

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Background: Oral Food Challenges (OFC) are essential for the diagnosis and follow-up of acute Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome (FPIES) because no diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers are available. However, the optimal OFC procedure remains unclear.

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to assess OFC procedures' design and clinical outcomes in patients with FPIES.

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Introduction: The complications associated with the chronic pathophysiological process of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have a significant impact on the affected population. The Diabetes Knowledge Questionnaire (DKQ-24) determines the level of knowledge about diabetes, providing health professionals with information to carry out useful educational interventions and prevent both acute and chronic complications of the disease

Objective: To assess the long-term effect of implementing a hospital-based therapeutic diabetes education model (self-care and knowledge) on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in a population from southern Colombia.

Materials And Methods: Longitudinal study, prospective type, conducted on 60 hospitalized T2DM patients.

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Immunome profiling in prostate cancer: a guide for clinicians.

Front Immunol

December 2024

Personalized Precision Medicine Chair, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

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  • - Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) significantly influences how prostate cancer (PC) responds to treatments and understanding mechanisms of resistance is crucial.
  • - Research indicates that certain genomic changes, like microsatellite instability (MSI) and CDK12 bi-allelic loss, may increase response rates to immune therapies, but patient responses vary widely.
  • - The review explores how immune cell interactions within tumors affect PC progression, how standard therapies impact immune responses, and the challenges in analyzing the immune landscape related to tumors.
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The impact of prior unsuccessful debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR) procedures on subsequent revisions is uncertain, with conflicting evidence. Despite 85% consensus against the second DAIR procedure following the 2018 International Consensus Meeting, a 2020 study reported high success rates for the aforementioned second DAIR procedure. We conducted a multicenter observational study reviewing data from patients with failed DAIR procedures between 2005 and 2021.

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Background: There is a long-standing need for a noninvasive biomarker that allows monitoring of cardiac allograft rejection, avoiding the need for periodic endomyocardial biopsies (EMB).

Methods: Multicenter, observational, prospective study, performed between 2019 and 2023 (NCT04973943). All patients underwent 7 per-protocol surveillance EMB during the first postheart transplantation year.

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The minor in Spanish legislation: an ethics perspective.

An Pediatr (Engl Ed)

November 2024

Instituto Borja de Bioética, Universidad de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.

Introduction: Legislation embodies and regulates the common values by which a society is governed. Today's society is multicultural and dynamic, a consensus must be reached and values consolidated on which different ideological groups can agree, an approach known as the ethics of minima. The concept of the minor has also been changing over the years; from being perceived as passive to being considered an autonomous individual engaged in the development of his or her life project and the bearer of duties and rights to be progressively exercised according to his or her capacity.

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Activities of the clinical pharmacist in the intensive care units.

Farm Hosp

October 2024

Servicio de Farmacia, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, España.

The main objective of the activity carried out in an intensive care unit and in general in all hospitalization units, is to provide all the human and material resources to offer the best therapeutic care to admitted patients. Work in multidisciplinary teams, made up of specialists in Intensive Care Medicine as those responsible for the patients, doctors from other specialties, specialized nursing, physiotherapists, nutritionists and clinical pharmacists is an optimal approach to achieve the proposed objective. The activities of the clinical pharmacist can be developed at different levels (basic, intermediate and excellent) depending on the degree of involvement, the time dedicated, the training and the available resources.

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Objective: Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a rare metabolic disorder caused by haploinsufficiency of hepatic porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD), the third enzyme of the heme biosynthesis. Individuals with AIP experience neurovisceral attacks closely associated with hepatic overproduction of potentially neurotoxic heme precursors.

Design: We replicated AIP in non-human primates (NHPs) through selective knockdown of the hepatic gene and evaluated the safety and therapeutic efficacy of human PBGD (hPBGD) mRNA rescue.

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  • Self-care and empowerment in heart failure (HF) patients are crucial for better health outcomes, but there is limited information on their understanding of the condition and satisfaction with care.
  • A study involving 281 patients from 14 heart failure units revealed that patients had a good grasp of their condition, with an average knowledge score of 80.7%, although some gaps remain.
  • Despite these knowledge gaps, the majority of participants expressed high satisfaction with their care, with 98.2% likely to recommend the heart failure units to others.
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Cognitive processing speed improvement after cochlear implantation.

Front Aging Neurosci

September 2024

Greenham Research Consulting Ltd., Ashbury, United Kingdom.

Background: Untreated hearing loss has an effect on cognition. It is hypothesized that the additional processing required to compensate for the sensory loss affects the cognitive resources available for other tasks and that this could be mitigated by a hearing device.

Methods: The impact on cognition of cochlear implants (CIs) was tested in 100 subjects, ≥60 years old, with bilateral moderately-severe to profound post linguistic deafness using hearing aids.

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Purpose: Upper airway (UA) surgery is commonly employed in the treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The intricate pathophysiology of OSA, variability in sites and patterns of UA collapse, and the interaction between anatomical and non-anatomical factors in individual patients may contribute to possible surgical failures. This clinical consensus statement aims to identify areas of agreement among a development group comprising international experts in OSA surgery, regarding the appropriate definition, predictive factors in patients, and management of surgical failure in OSA treatment.

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Measurable residual disease by mass spectrometry and next-generation flow to assess treatment response in myeloma.

Blood

December 2024

Hematology Department, IBSAL, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular del Cáncer-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

Quantitative immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry (QIP-MS) allows the identification of the M-protein in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) otherwise in complete response, and could be considered suitable for measurable residual disease (MRD) evaluation in peripheral blood. In the context of the GEM2012MENOS65 and GEM2014MAIN trials, we compared the performance of QIP-MS in serum with next-generation flow (NGF) cytometry in bone marrow to assess MRD in paired samples obtained postinduction, transplant, consolidation and after 24 cycles of maintenance. At each time point, both NGF and QIP-MS were able to segregate 2 groups of patients with significantly different progression-free survival; when the evolution of the results obtained with either method was considered, maintaining or converting to MRD negativity was associated with longer survival, significantly better when compared with sustaining or converting to MRD positivity.

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: In susceptible hosts, SARS-CoV2-induced hyperinflammation accounts for an increased mortality. The search of adjuvant immunomodulatory therapies has been ongoing ever since the pandemic outbreak. Aim: Our purpose was to evaluate the efficacy of cyclosporin A (CsA) as an add-on therapy to the standard of care (SoC) in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia.

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Migraine-related stigma is a pervasive issue impacting nearly half of chronic migraine patients, with significant consequences for their quality of life, disability and mental health. Despite its profound effects, migraine stigma remains under-recognised in both clinical practice and research. This narrative review explores the three primary types of stigmas affecting migraine patients: public, structural and internalised.

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Background: Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a very difficult-to-treat cancer. Chemotherapies are little effective and response to immune checkpoint inhibitors is limited. Therefore, new therapeutic strategies need to be identified.

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  • Tracheal intubations in the ICU face challenges like poor glottic view and higher complication rates; this study compares the efficacy of two videolaryngoscope (VL) types: the standard Macintosh blade versus a hyperangulated blade.
  • The INtubation VIdeolaryngoscopy BLADE-ICU trial is a randomized, controlled study conducted across 29 ICUs in Spain, focusing on first-attempt intubation success as the primary outcome, along with other measures like time to intubation and complication rates.
  • The study has ethical approval and aims to improve airway management outcomes, with patient enrollment starting in May 2024 and anticipated results to be published in 2025.
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The unique biophysical properties of proton therapy (PT), regarding the precise dose distribution, a remarkable better sparing of surrounding normal tissues, and the decreasing costs have promoted the spread of this technique worldwide. In Spain, eleven new PT centers, added to the currently two in function, are expected to be available in the near future. Indications for PT are currently evolving.

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Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may result in great impact on patients' quality of life, social relationships, and work productivity. The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in routine care could help capture disease burden to guide SLE management and optimize disease control. We aimed to explore the current situation, appropriateness, and feasibility of PROMs to monitor patients with SLE in routine care, from healthcare professionals' and patients' perspectives.

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Genetic Characterization of Kidney Failure of Unknown Etiology in Spain: Findings From the GENSEN Study.

Am J Kidney Dis

December 2024

Nephrology Department, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid; RICORS2040, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid. Electronic address:

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  • Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDUE) is a leading global cause of kidney failure, and the GENSEN Study aimed to explore its genetic causes through extensive genetic testing on a large patient population.
  • The study involved 818 patients under 45 with advanced CKDUE, discovering pathogenic gene variants in about 25% of them, with type IV collagen genes being the most commonly affected.
  • The research revealed significant previously undiagnosed genetic kidney diseases, suggesting that genomic testing can be a valuable approach in understanding and treating CKDUE.
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There is no international consensus on the definition of the type of oncological resection that corresponds to each of the colectomies existing in the current literature. The objective is to define for each colectomy described in the literature: embryological dissection plane, vascular pedicles in which to perform central ligation, the extent of the colectomy, and the need for resection of the greater momentum. A consensus of experts is carried out through the Delphi methodology through two rounds from the Coloproctology Section of the Spanish Association of Surgeons.

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  • A multidisciplinary panel from various international medical societies was formed to review literature on imaging techniques for diagnosing pelvic deep endometriosis.
  • They drafted 20 preliminary statements on the topic, which underwent multiple revisions and voting rounds to reach consensus among the panel.
  • Ultimately, the finalized document contains 14 statements with strong agreement, 5 with moderate agreement, and aims to guide clinicians in assessing and treating women suspected of having endometriosis.
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