[2,070 simultaneous determinations of blood glucose, glucosylated hemoglobin and fructosamine as index of metabolic control in 519 diabetic patients].

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the cost-effectiveness of a nucleic acid amplification test (FluoroType MTB®) in pleural fluid (PF) and sputum to diagnose tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE). We also analysed the increase in diagnostic yield of a second FluoroType MTB® test, obtained through a new thoracentesis, when the first had...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Bielsa S,Bernet A,Civit C,Acosta C,Manonelles A,Porcel JM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients admitted in an ICU after OH-CRA before and after the implementation of a MMICU were evaluated. During a period of 11 years, divided into a pre-MMICU period (1988-1993) and a post-MMICU period (1994-1998), 39 patients were admitted in the pre period and 64 patients in the post period. The basal characteristics...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Alvarez González M,Cambronero Galache JA,Nevado Losada E,Trascasa Muñoz de la Peña M,de la Fuente O'Connor ME,Sánchez García M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The increase in intraabdominal pressure (IAP) has been correlated with increased creatinine levels in patients with heart failure with severely reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF). However, IAP has not been examined in more stable patients or those with heart failure with preserved ejection fr...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Rubio Gracia J,Giménez López I,Josa Laorden C,Sánchez Marteles M,Garcés Horna V,de la Rica Escuín ML,Pérez Calvo JI

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the main characteristics in patients with COPD exacerbation, capables to predict the short-term COPD mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This is a case-control retrospective study of admitted patients with COPD to identify risk factors of mortality. The control group was constituted by alive patient...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Cervera MP,Damiá Ade D,Fábregas ML,Gutiérrez FJ,Torrego LC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Quantification of stroke risk is not always performed in hypertensive patients in Primary Care. METHODS:This was an epidemiological study in hypertensive patients aged 55 years and older attending primary care centres in Spain. The D'Agostino Stroke Risk Scale, using data from the Framingham ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Roca-Cusachs Coll A,Muñoz Lloret A,de Castellar R,Garrido Costa C,ICTUS study.

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of clinical studies are contradictories, with different results in adults and children. Some studies detected a beneficial effect of Omega 3 (w3) fatty acid dietary intake in the risk of asthma and other studies have demonstrated a beneficial effect on clinical symptoms. In our area, a low intake of w3 fatty a...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： de Luis DA,León R,Izaola O

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with severe and complicated falciparum malaria (6.7 +/- 2.7 WHO criteria) were admitted to our Intensive Care Unit. All patients acquired the disease while travelling in tropical Africa without appropriate chemoprophylaxis. The clinical manifestations included hyperpyrexia (all patients), chills (4), swea...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Botella de Maglia J,Espacio Casanovas A

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The role of glucose elevation above levels considered normal in non- diabetic patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is not adequately defined. The aim of this study was to determine the association between serum glucose at admission and 1-year mortality in this type of patients. METHODS:We studied ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Fácila L,Bertomeu-González V,Sanchís J,Bodí V,Núñez J,Llácer A,Bellido V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute renal insufficiency associated to cocaine consumption is well known, and normally secondary to rhabdomyolisis. The possibility that renal failure is related to hypertension and to renal histopathological findings indistinguishable of other malignant hypertension conditions is a not as well known fact. Certain de...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： de Mendoza Asensi D,Rodríguez Jornet A,Carvajal Díaz A,Andreu Navarro FJ,Sala Rodó M,Cervantes García M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Usually, there is a physiological fall in nocturnal blood pressure among all individuals, both hypertensive and normotensive individuals. The lack of nocturnal blood pressure (BP) fall may be associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular complications in hypertensive patients. Cardiovascular and horm...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： González Quijada S,Grande Sáez MC,Dueñas Gutiérrez C,Ceballos Barón MI,Martín Ezquerro A,Sevil Puras M,Blanco García M

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the exposure of children and their parents to cigarette smoke by measuring cotinine levels in saliva. PATIENTS:A total of 151 children (84 males and 67 females) aged 15 days to 17 years from hospital and extrahospital practices. METHOD:Questionnaire on exposure to cigarette smoke from their pare...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Suárez López de Vergara RG,Galván Fernández C,Oliva Hernández C,Domenech Martínez E,Barroso Guerrero F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Wolfram's syndrome (SW): diabetes mellitus (DM), diabetes insipidus (DI), blindness and deafness, is multiorganic, hereditary and uncommon. Mitochondrial dysfunction damages the oxidative pathway. OBJECTIVE:To analyze the clinical characteristics, diagnostic delay in constituent diseases and early diagnosti...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Esteban Bueno G,Gómez Trujillo FM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaucher's disease is a rare condition caused by a deficiency in the lysosomal enzyme called beta-glucocerebrosidase (GBA). The objective of our work was to analyse the clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic characteristics in a group of four patients with Gaucher's disease type 1. The advantages of the new diagnostic an...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Adarraga Cansino MD,Fernández de la Puebla R,Jiménez Perepérez JA,Pocoví Mieras M,Zambrana García JL,Pérez Jiménez F

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After recognizing smoking habit as a relevant problem in our media, the complex implications of this type of lifestyle are commented. After revising the main obstacles for achieving primary health care preventive measures not only for the patient, who frequently looks for a "treatment", but also for the professional w...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Nebot Adell M,Soler Vila M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the scientific output in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in Andalusia in the context of the published works on the national scientific output in the last few years. MATERIAL:Descriptive study with seven different information sources: a) final Report of the Experts Committee on Documentation from...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Soriguer Escofet FJ,González-Valentín A,Miranda J,Doblas S,Vallejo J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:AL amyloidosis is a rare condition whose management is undergoing changes due to recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. We describe a contemporary series of patients with AL amyloidosis to analyze the features that enable early diagnosis and optimal management. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We re...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Krsnik I,Cabero M,Morillo D,Segovia J,García-Pavía P,Gómez-Bueno M,Salas C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheters are essential in modern-day medical practice, particularly in intensive care units. Although such catheters provide necessary vascular access, their use puts patients at risk of mechanical and infectious complications. Unfortunately, these complications are associated with an increase of the m...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Hernández Hernández MA,Alvarez Antoñan C,Pérez-Ceballos MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychology shows that what is free is poorly valued. Free of cost national health systems may become blocked due to misuse and may even become unfeasible. Copayment already exist in Spain. It was introduced in pharmaceutical prescriptions as a solidarity measure. This copayment has generated abuses. Its introduction h...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Sánchez-Sagrado T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The socio-economic cost of human brucellosis is analyzed. One hundred and seven patients are included in this study, 75 males (70.09%) and 32 females (29.91), diagnosed of brucellosis in the Internal Medicine Department of the Regional Hospital "Carlos Haya" in Málaga from the 1st of October 1984 to the 31st of Decemb...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Colmenero Castillo JD,Cabrera Franquelo FP,Hernández Márquez S,Reguera Iglesias JM,Pinedo Sánchez A,Castillo Clavero AM

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate the validity of diurnal polysomnography for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). METHODS:Twenty-five patients with suspect of OSAS were studied with two serial polysomnographic recordings: one during nighttime-nocturnal polysomnography (NPLS) and then a second polysomnogra...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Cordero Montero P,Márquez Pérez FL,Rodŕiguez Blanco I,Iñigo Naranjo P,Antona Gómez JM,Fuentes Otero F

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system compromise is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in SLE. The clinical picture of cerebral cryptococcosis is non-specific and can be mistaken for lupic activity. A retrospective study was undertaken with 10 patients with SLE and cryptococcal meningitis compiled in a 23-year period. The most...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Díaz Coto JF,Alpizar Campos R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM) is a frequent dermal disease in travelers, caused by larvae of nonhuman ancylostoma. We describe 34 outside cases of CLM diagnosed since January 1991 to June 2002. Nineteen male and female. Age: 35.7 years (20-60). The total number of CLM infestations was 73, 83.5% in feet. In five cases ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Puente Puente S,Bru Gorraiz F,Azuara Solís M,Colomo Gómez C,González Lahoz JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND. In 1997, The Fourth International Workshop-Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) recommended the use of Carpenter and Coustan diagnostic criteria instead of those of Sullivan and Mahan used until then. The objective of this work was to study the incidence of GDM in the southeast Madrid area by ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Gorgojo Martínez JJ,Almodóvar Ruiz F,López Hernández E,Donnay Candil S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Celiac disease is a chronic immune-mediated disease of the small intestine. It has been known that dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic coronary artery disease have become more frequent in patients with celiac disease. The aim of the study was to assess Tp-e interval and Tp-e/QT ratio in patients with celiac ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Demirtaş K,Yayla Ç,Yüksel M,Açar B,Ünal S,Ertem AG,Kaplan M,Akpinar MY,Kiliç ZMY,Kayaçetin E

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral trunk infection by Listeria monocytogenes is a very rare process, with only 24 described cases and only 2 in immunodepressed patients. We present a new case of cerebral trunk encephalitis caused by Listeria in a patient diagnosed of Polyarteritis nodosa on steroids and cyclophosamide treatment and fatal e...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Villar Rodríguez JL,Jiménez Mejías ME,Andreu Alvarez J,Cuello Contreras JA,Andrada Becerra E,Fernández Alonso J

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the case of a patient with fluoxetine and selegiline induced serotonin syndrome, which presented as encephalopathy, generalized myoclonias, fever, stiffness and sweating, complicated with acute renal failure, rhabdomyolysis and disseminated intravascular coagulation findings. The patient died 6 days aft...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Bilbao Garay J,Mesa Plaza N,Castilla Castellano V,Dhimes Tejada P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effect of captopril in treating mild to moderate arterial hypertension has been evaluated in 20 patients. During 15 days patients underwent a washout period. Patients then received a single dose of 50 mg of captopril by mouth per day during 4 weeks. Before and after treatment, blood pressure (BP) was c...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Hergueta G,Estruch J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer of unknown primary site (CUPS) is a heterogeneous entity defined by the presence of a histologically-proven metastatic neoplasm, in which the original tumor cannot be identified after a targeted study. The current guidelines for CUPS focus is not based on the search for the primary neoplasm but rather on the id...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Fernández Cotarelo MJ,Guerra Vales JM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to review the epidemiological aspects and the characteristics of the thyroid disfunction produced by amiodarone in Catalonia, an area with type I endemic goiter. For this purpose, three groups of patients have been studied: 1) 102 patients with prolonged amiodarone treatment, out of whom ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Gómez JM,Virgili N,Montaña E,Gausi C,Soler J

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of cardiovascular disease is advancing at a vertiginous pace. Cardiology has always been one of the most scientifically dynamic specialties. Indeed, no other medical specialty presents such a large number of randomized studies aiming to determine the efficacy of distinct therapeutic interventions each year. ...

journal_title：Revista clinica espanola

authors： Aguiar-Souto P,Raposeiras-Roubín S,González-Juanatey JR

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00