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Surgery CasesSESSION TYPE: Case ReportsPRESENTED ON: Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 09:00 AM - 10:00 AMINTRODUCTION: We present a case of a patient diagnosed with synovial sarcoma of the left arm with pulmonary metastasis. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Gemma Gonzalez Velasco, María Teresa Gómez Hernández, Maria Rodríguez, Nuria María Novoa Valentín, Marcelo Fernando Jiménez López, Jose Luis Aranda Alcaide, Gonzalo Varela SimóNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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DVT/PE PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: Our goal has been to study long-term survival and main causes of mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (APE). ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Hernando Chávez Roldán, Jacinto Hernández Borge, María del Carmen García García, Pedro Pires Goncalves, María Teresa Gómez Vizcaíno, Amparo Sanz Cabrera, María José Antona Rodríguez, Pilar Cordero Montero, Ana Castañar Jover, Ignacio Rodríguez BlancoNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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BronchiectasisSESSION TYPE: Slide PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 09:00 AM - 10:00 AMPURPOSE: Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis is a multicomponent disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Using data from 608 patients attending a specialist bronchiectasis clinic in Edinburgh, UK, the Bronchiectasis Severity Index (BSI) has recently been developed as a composite clinical prediction tool in bronchiectasis. The score consists of 8 commonly measured clinical parameters reflecting age, BMI, MRC dyspnoea score, FEV1%, bacterial colonisation, radiological extent, exacerbation frequency and prior hospitalization with subsequent classification into low, intermediate and high risk groups. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Melissa McDonnell, James Chalmers, Pieter Goemmine, Stefano Aliberti, Sara Lonni, John Davison, Lucy Poppelwell, Walid Salih, Alberto Pesci, Lieven Dupont, Thomas Fardon, Adam Hill, Anthony De SoyzaNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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Pleural Disease/Pneumothorax PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: Pneumothorax continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality among the respiratory patients but there is paucity of data regarding aetiology, clinical profile, management and outcome of Spontaneous Pneumothorax (SP) from this part of the world. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the aetiology, clinical presentation, management and outcomes of Spontaneous pneumothorax in a tertiary care Hospital from eastern India. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Aparup Dhua, Sourin Bhuniya, Arunabha Datta Chaudhuri, Sumit Raytapadar, Tapan Das BairagyaNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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Tuberculosis Case Report PostersSESSION TYPE: Case Report PosterPRESENTED ON: Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMINTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis (TB) treatment faces many challenges because of adverse drug reactions (ADR) that can result in significant morbidity, leading to the withdrawal of first-line medication and its substitution for a less effective and often more poorly tolerated second-line medication. This case report is about a patient with active TB sensitive to all first-line drugs but with severe ADRs to all of them, and to ethionamide. A case of ADRs to all first-line anti-TB drugs and to ethionamide is, to the best of our knowledge, not reported. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: João Cordeiro da Costa, Daniela Malheiro, Susana Cadinha, Raquel DuarteNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.