Medicina
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Takotsubo syndrome is a generally reversible cardiomyopathy often related to a stressor trigger, either physical or emotional. It is estimated that this entity represents between 1 and 6% of the cases of suspected acute coronary syndrome without ST segment elevation in women. Coexistence with coronary artery disease has been a matter of long controversy. ⋯ However, due to the strong suspicion of stress cardiomyopathy, a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with gadolinium was performed, which showed an improvement in the ejection fraction prior to revascularization with the presence of myocardial edema and absence of late gadolinium enhancement. The aforementioned characteristics led to the diagnosis of Takotsubo syndrome. The final decision of revascularization was based on the fact that the patient's principal complaint was typical anginal symptoms.
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Review
[Relevance of right ventricle in the clinical management of pulmonary arterial hypertension].
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) requires structured processes of diagnosis and risk stratification, being the function of the right ventricle (RV) a hallmark prognosis determinant. The main therapeutic goals in PAH are to improve and try to revert RV dysfunction and maintaining a low risk. ⋯ In this review, we discuss the role of the RV function in the diagnosis, prognosis, and follow-up of PAH. We recommend the systematic and standardised evaluation of the RV as well as the early initiation of combined treatment in cases of intermediatehigh risk to try to reach and keep the patient with PAH at a low risk and / or avoid the progression of PAH.
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The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of preservation fluids (PF) bacterial positive cultures, identify the germs involved, determine their correlation with infections in recipients during the postoperative period and compare outcomes in terms of morbidity, hospital stay and both patient and graft survival. We describe incidence and etiology of germs developed in PF cultures in our series and evaluate its impact on recipients. A prospective study in deceased donor liver transplants (LT) recipients was carried out from January 2014 to December 2017. ⋯ We found no differences in postoperative infections (p 0.840), ICU and total hospital stay (p 0.374 and 0.427) between both groups. Postoperative infections and hospital stay seem not to be infuenced by PF cultures positivity. Treatment of isolated pathogens could have prevented infections, therefore, those groups that perform PF cultures should consider treatment in these cases and conclude prophylaxis when PF is negative or contaminated.