Medicina clinica
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The treatment of non-functioning pituitary adenomas raises two questions: when should they be treated and what role does each available treatment play. We review the usefulness of the different treatments and propose a therapeutic scheme based on the existing literature. ⋯ Medical treatment is reserved for situations in which surgical and radiotherapy treatments have been exhausted. The most advisable surgical treatment is endoscopic, although experienced neurosurgeons achieve results with microsurgery that are only slightly inferior.
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Case Reports Observational Study
Patient characterization and adverse health care-related events in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who died in a tertiary hospital.
To characterize health care-related adverse events in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who died in a tertiary hospital. ⋯ Although the case fatality rate associated with the adverse events detected was very low, close monitoring of potential health care-related adverse events, especially drug reactions, as the therapeutic management of the disease remains unclear.