Pérez-Pedrero Sánchez-Belmonte, María Jo... Sánchez-Casado, Marcelino Moran Gallego, Francisco Javier Piza Pinilla, Roman Gomez Hernando, Cesar Paredes Borrachero, Irene
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Medicina clinica
Herpes simplex virus type1 (HSV-1) reactivation have been described in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation and recently in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to COVID-19 with higher rates of reactivation than were detected previously in critical care, and although the diagnosis of HSV-1 pneumonia is not eas...
Barge-Caballero, Eduardo Marcos-Rodríguez, Pedro J Domenech-García, Nieves Bou-Arévalo, Germán Cid-Fernández, Javier Iglesias-Reinoso, Raquel López-Vázquez, Paula Muñiz, Javier Vázquez-Rodríguez, José M Crespo-Leiro, María G
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Statin therapy might have a beneficial prognostic effect in patients with COVID-19, given its immunomodulative, anti-inflammatory and anti-atherosclerotic properties. Our purpose was to test this hypothesis by using the COVID-19 registry of a Spanish university hospital. We conducted a single-center, observational and retrospective study in which h...
Qutob, Haitham M H Saad, Ramadan A Bali, Hamza Osailan, Abdulaziz Jaber, Jumana Alzahrani, Emad Alyami, Jamilah Elsayed, Hani Alserihi, Raed Shaikhomar, Osama A
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Medicina clinica
The most effective way to control severity and mortality rate of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is through sensitive diagnostic approaches and an appropriate treatment protocol. We aimed to identify the effect of adding corticosteroid and Tocilizumab to a standard treatment protocol in treating COVID-19 patients with chronic disease throu...
Zeng, Yiqian Zeng, Weizhong Yang, Bihui Liu, Zhao
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Medicina clinica
Currently, corticosteroids are widely used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms. However, the therapeutic role of corticosteroids remains highly controversial. To that end, we aimed to assess the efficacy of corticosteroids in treating COVID-19 patients. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library to select suitable studies. O...
Sarriá-Landete, Antonio J Crespo-Matas, José A Domínguez-Quesada, Inmaculada Castellanos-Monedero, Jesús J Marte-Acosta, Dinés Arias-Arias, Ángel J
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Medicina clinica
Treating systemic inflammation caused by SARS-COV 2 (COVID-19) has become a challenge for the clinician. Corticosteroids have been the turning point in the treatment of this disease. Preliminary data from Recovery clinical trial raises hope by showing that treatment with dexamethasone at doses of 6mg/day shows a reduction on morbidity in patients r...
Melero, Rosa Mijaylova, Antonia Rodríguez-Benítez, Patrocinio García-Prieto, Ana Cedeño, Jamil Goicoechea, Marian
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There are limited data describing the long-term renal outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and invasive mechanical ventilation. In this retrospective observational study we analyzed the long-term clinical course and outcomes of 30 critically ill patients hospital...
Rubio-Gracia, Jorge Ibáñez-Muñoz, David Giménez-López, Ignacio Garcés-Horna, Vanesa López-Delgado, Daniel Sierra-Monzón, José Luis Crespo-Aznarez, Silvia Peña-Fresneda, Natacha Pérez-Calvo, Juan Ignacio Sánchez-Marteles, Marta
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Medicina clinica
Point of care lung ultrasound (POCUS) has been recently used to assess prognosis in COVID-19 patients. However, there are no data comparing POCUS and chest-X ray, a technique widely used. Retrospective analysis in stable COVID-19 patients. Schalekamp radiological lung scale and LUZ-Score ultrasound scale were compared. Primary end-point was in-hosp...
Azaña Gómez, Javier Pérez-Belmonte, Luis M Rubio-Rivas, Manuel Bascuñana, José Quirós-López, Raúl Taboada Martínez, María Luisa Montero Hernandez, Esther Roque-Rojas, Fernando Méndez-Bailón, Manuel Gómez-Huelgas, Ricardo
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Atrial fibrillation and associated comorbidities pose a risk factor for mortality, morbidity and development of complications in patients admitted for COVID-19. To describe the clinical, epidemiological, radiological and analytical characteristics of patients with atrial fibrillation admitted for COVID-19 in Spain. Secondarily, we aim to identify t...
González-Castro, Alejandro Fajardo Campoverde, Aurio Roncalli, Angello
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Mateo Rodríguez, Eva Puchades Gimeno, Francesc Ezzeddine Angulo, Aida Asensio Samper, Juan Saiz Ruiz, Cristina López Alarcón, María Dolores
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Postintensive care syndrome (PICS) is the physical, cognitive or psychiatric deterioration that appears after a critical illness and persists beyond hospital admission. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of PICS in the patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) admitted to the intensive care unit of the Consorcio Hosp...
