Medicina clinica
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Pulmonary ultrasound is becoming very important for the diagnosis and monitoring of respiratory diseases in different areas, such as emergency departments, outpatient clinics, inpatient areas, etc. This review attempts to encompass most of the applications and utilities of thoracic ultrasound in daily clinical practice. For this, the review focuses on how the ultrasound image would be visualized in each of the pleuro-pulmonary pathologies to which it has access and its use in interventional pulmonology. In addition, a schematic illustration with the most frequent pathologies and their ultrasound representation is presented, in order to better understand what we are seeing with this complementary test of great diagnostic value.
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Case Reports
Impact of the new criteria of the ACC/AHA on the diagnostic prevalence of hypertension.
To study the impact on the prevalence of hypertension with the criteria (2017) of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA). ⋯ The ACC/AHA criteria would represent an increase of 25.9% in the prevalence of hypertension, considering 2 out of 3 adults hypertensive.