• Identifying thoracic malignancies through pleural fluid biomarkers: a predictive multivariate model 

  Porcel Pérez, José Manuel; Esquerda, Aureli; Martínez Alonso, Montserrat; Bielsa Martín, Silvia; Salud Salvia, Maria Antonieta (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016-03-01)

  The diagnosis of malignant pleural effusions may be challenging when cytological examination of aspirated pleural fluid is equivocal or noncontributory. The purpose of this study was to identify protein candidate biomarkers ...

• Ganancia de peso durante el confinamiento por la COVID-19; encuesta de la Sociedad Española de Obesidad 

  López de la Torre, Martín; Bellido, Diego; Monereo, Susana; Lecube Torelló, Albert; Sánchez Peña, Enric; Tinahones, Francisco José (Sociedad Española de Cirugía de Obesidad y Metabólica y Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Obesidad, 2020-11-01)

  La obesidad, después de la edad, es el principal factor de mal pronóstico durante la infección por la COVID-19. El confinamiento al que la población española ha sido expuesta durante varias semanas puede ser una causa de ...

• Revisión sistemática del síndrome de Münchhausen por poderes o trastorno facticio impuesto a otro: psicobiografía de la perpertradora, el proceso de peregrinación hospitalaria y signos de alarma en la víctima 

  Baena Marí, I.; Beltrán Mallén, D.; Pifarré Paredero, Josep (Sociedad Española de Medicina Psicosomática, 2020-10)

  INTRODUCCIÓN: En 1977, Roy Medow acuña y describe el síndrome de Münchhausen por poderes como una enfermedad mental en la que una cuidadora miente al doctor sobre la salud de su hijo mediante la fabricación de signos ...

• Effect of CPAP Therapy on 24-Hour Intraocular Pressure-Related Pattern From Contact Lens Sensors in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome 

  Muniesa Royo, Ma. Jesús; Benítez, Iván; Ezpeleta, Juan Antonio; Sánchez de la Torre, Manuel; Pazos, Marta; Millà, Elena; Barbé Illa, Ferran (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2021-04-01)

  Purpose: To evaluate the effect of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy on 24-hour intraocular pressure (IOP)-related pattern from contact lens sensors (CLS) in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Methods: ...

• Influence of thromboembolic events in the prognosis of COVID-19 hospitalized patients. Results from a cross sectional study 

  Purroy Garcia, Francisco; Arqué, G. (Public Library of Science, 2021)

  Background COVID-19 may predispose to both venous and arterial thromboembolism event (TEE). Reports on the prevalence and prognosis of thrombotic complications are still emerging. Objective To describe the rate of TEE ...

• Clinical Usefulness of Anthropometric Indices to Predict the Presence of Prediabetes. Data from the ILERVAS Cohort 

  Sánchez, Marta; Sánchez Peña, Enric; Bermúdez López, Marcelino; Torres, Gerard; Farràs-Sallés, Cristina; Pamplona Gras, Reinald; Castro-Boqué, Eva; Valdivielso Revilla, José Manuel; Purroy Garcia, Francisco; Martínez Alonso, Montserrat; Godoy i García, Pere; Mauricio Puente, Dídac; Fernández i Giráldez, Elvira; Hernández García, Marta; Rius, Ferran; Lecube Torelló, Albert (MDPI, 2021-03-23)

  Prediabetes is closely related to excess body weight and adipose distribution. For this reason, we aimed to assess and compare the diagnostic usefulness of ten anthropometric adiposity indices to predict prediabetes. ...

• Prognostic value of symptoms at lung cancer diagnosis: a three-year observational study 

  Polanco, Dinora; Pinilla, Lucía; Gracia-Lavedan, Esther; Mas, Anna; Bertran, Sandra; Fierro, Gemma; Seminario, Asunción; Gómez Falguera, Silvia; Barbé Illa, Ferran (AME Publishing, 2021-03)

  Background: Lung cancer is mainly diagnosed at advanced or locally advanced stages, usually when symptoms become evident. However, sometimes it may be diagnosed incidentally during routine care, while patients are still ...

• Implementing Mobile Health–Enabled Integrated Care for Complex Chronic Patients: Intervention Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness Study 

  Batlle Garcia, Jordi de; Massip, Mireia; Vargiu, Eloisa; Nadal Braque, Núria; Fuentes Botargues, Araceli; Ortega Bravo, Marta; Miralles, Felip; Barbé Illa, Ferran; Torres, Gerard (JMIR Publications, 2021)

  Background: Integrated care can generate health and social care efficiencies through the defragmentation of care and adoption of patient-centered preventive models. eHealth can be a key enabling technology for integrated ...

• Dermatological Manifestations in the Intensive Care Unit: A Practical Approach 

  Badia Castello, Mariona; Casanova i Seuma, Josep M. (Josep Manel); Servià Goixart, Lluís; Montserrat, Neus; Codina, Jordi; Trujillano Cabello, Javier (Hindawi, 2020-09-26)

  Dermatological problems are not usually related to intensive medicine because they are considered to have a low impact on the evolution of critical patients. Despite this, dermatological manifestations (DMs) are relatively ...

• Molecular Classification of Grade 3 Endometrioid Endometrial Cancers Identifies Distinct Prognostic Subgroups 

  Bosse, Tjalling; Nout, Remi; McAlpine, Jessica N.; McConechy, Melissa; Britton, Heidi; Hussein, Yaser; Gonzalez, Carlene; Ganesan, Raji; Steele, Jane C.; Harrison, Beth T.; Oliva, Esther; Vidal, August; Matias-Guiu, Xavier; Abu-Rustum, Nadeem R.; Levine, Douglas A.; Gilks, C. Blake; Soslow, Robert A. (Wolters Kluwer Health, 2018)

  Our aim was to investigate whether molecular classification can be used to refine prognosis in grade 3 endometrial endometrioid carcinomas (EECs). Grade 3 EECs were classified into 4 subgroups: p53 abnormal, based on ...

• Redefining Stage I Endometrial Cancer: Incorporating Histology, a Binary Grading System, Myometrial Invasion, and Lymph Node Assessment 

  Barlin, Joyce N.; Soslow, Robert A.; Lutz, Megan; Zhou, Qin C.; St Clair, Caryn M.; Leitao, Mario M.; Iasonos, Alexia; Hensley, Martee L.; Barakat, Richard R.; Matias-Guiu, Xavier; Abu-Rustum, Nadeem R. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)

  Objective: We propose a new staging system for stage I endometrial cancer and compare its performance to the 1988 and 2009 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) systems. Methods: We analyzed patients ...

• Lipid management in patients with chronic kidney disease 

  Ferro, Charles J.; Mark, Patrick B.; Kanbay, Mehmet; Sarafidis, Pantelis; Heine, Gunnar H.; Rossignol, Patrick; Massy, Ziad A.; Mallamaci, Francesca; Valdivielso Revilla, José Manuel; Malyszko, Jolanta; Verhaar, Marianne C.; Ekart, Robert; Vanholder, Raymond; London, Gerard; Ortiz, Alberto; Zoccali, Carmine (Nature Research, 2018)

  An increased risk of cardiovascular disease, independent of conventional risk factors, is present even at minor levels of renal impairment and is highest in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis. ...

• Predictors of associated autoimmune diseases infamilies with type 1 diabetes: results from theType 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium 

  Wägner, Ana María; Hernández García, Marta; Wiebe, Julia C.; Nóvoa, Francisco Javier; Mauricio Puente, Dídac (Wiley, 2011)

  Background—Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a clinically heterogeneous disease. The presence of associated autoimmune diseases (AAID) may represent a distinct form of autoimmune diabetes, with involvement of specific mechanisms. ...

• Extensive nasal plaque: an unusual presentation of IgG4-related disease 

  Cortés, Camila; Bielsa Martín, Silvia; Fernández, Josep Manel; Vilardell, Felip; Gonzalez-Farré, Blanca; Casanova i Seuma, Josep M. (Josep Manel) (Society for Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2018)

  IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a fibro-inflammatory condition characterized mainly by tissue infiltration by IgG4+ plasma cells with a tendency to mass forming. IgG4-RD can involve any part of the body, including ...

• Factores asociados con la mortalidad en pacientes traumáticos con puntuación de 3 en la escala de coma de Glasgow y midriasis bilateral arreactiva 

  Chico-Fernández, Mario; Barea-Mendoza, Jesús Abelardo; Servià Goixart, Lluís; Ormazabal-Zabala, Txoan; Quintana-Díaz, Manuel; González-Robledo, Javier; Iglesias-Santiago, Alberto; Sánchez-Arguiano, María Juncal; Pérez-Bárcena, Jon; Llompart-Pou, Juan Antonio (Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES), 2021-01-22)

  Objetivo. Comparar los pacientes traumáticos con una puntuación de 3 en la escala de coma de Glasgow (Glasgow Coma Scale, GCS) en función de la reactividad pupilar e investigar los factores asociados a la mortalidad ...

• Diabetic and dyslipidaemic morbidly obese exhibit more liver alterations compared with healthy morbidly obese 

  Pardina, Eva; Ferrer, Roser; Rossell, Joana; Baena-Fustegueras, Juan A; Lecube Torelló, Albert; Fort, José Manuel; Caubet, Enric; González, Óscar; Vilallonga, Ramón; Vargas, Víctor; Balibrea, José María; Peinado-Onsurbe, Julia (Elsevier, 2016)

  Background & aims: To study the origin of fat excess in the livers of morbidly obese (MO) individuals, we analysed lipids and lipases in both plasma and liver and genes involved in lipid transport, or related with, in that ...

• Leading Factors for Weight Gain during COVID-19 Lockdown in a Spanish Population: A Cross-Sectional Study 

  Sánchez Peña, Enric; Lecube Torelló, Albert; Bellido, Diego; Monereo, Susana; Malagón, Maria Mar; Tinahones, Francisco José (MDPI, 2021)

  The increase in sedentary behaviors during the COVID-19-induced lockdown may have led to a significant weight gain. To investigate this hypothesis, a representative sample of the Spanish adult population comprising 1000 ...

• Resistencia a insulina en pequeños para la edad gestacional tratados con hormona de crecimiento. Estudio observacional 

  López Siguero, Juan P.; Martínez-Aedo, Maria J.; Bermúdez de la Vega, José A.; Bosch Muñoz, Jordi; Lechuga-Sancho, Alfonso M.; Fernandez-González, Ana; Villalobos, Triana (Pulso Ediciones, 2020-09)

  Background. In children born small for gestational age (SGA), the relationship between growth hormone (GH) treatment and insulin resistance [IR] has been investigated for a short-term period, being necessary a longer ...

• Informed Consent Procedure in Clinical Trials Promoted by the Hospital: Knowledge and Perceptions of Primary Care Physicians 

  Gómez Arbonés, Javier; Salazar-Alarcon, E.; Solanilla Puertolas, Montserrat; Ortega Bravo, Marta; Vallez-Valero, L.; Schoenenberger, Joan Antoni (SciTech Central, 2020-07-20)

  Objectives: To evaluate Primary Care Physician's (PCP) awareness degree concerning their patient's participation in Clinical Trials (CT) analyze the communication methods used and obtain physicians personal views. Methods: ...

• Clinico-epidemiological characteristics of men and women with a new diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a database (SIDIAP) study 

  Montserrat i Capdevila, Josep; Marsal Mora, Josep Ramon; Ortega Bravo, Marta; Castañ, Maria Teresa; Alsedà Graells, Miquel; Barbé Illa, Ferran; Godoy i García, Pere (BioMed Central, 2021-01-28)

  Background: The risk of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the associated comorbidities and response to bronchodilators might differ in men and women. The objective of this study was to determine the ...

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