• Development, equivalence study, and normative data of version B of the Spanish-language Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test

  Grau-Guinea, L.; Pérez Enríquez, Carmen; García Escobar, Greta; Arrondo-Elizarána, C.; Pereira-Cutiño, B.; Florido-Santiago, Mercedes; Piqué-Candini, J.; Planas, Albert; Paez, M.; Peña Casanova, Jordi; Sánchez Benavides, Gonzalo (Elsevier, 2021)

  Introduction: The Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) is widely used for the assessment of verbal episodic memory, mainly in patients with Alzheimer disease. A Spanish-language version of the FCSRT and normative ...
• Covid-19 in Parkinson’s Disease treated by drugs or brain stimulation

  Salari, Mehri; Etemadifar, Masoud; Zali, Alireza; Aminzade, Zahra; Navalpotro-Gómez, Irene; Fateh, Sepand Tehrani (Elsevier, 2021)

  Purpose: Covid-19 has affected all people, especially those with chronic diseases, including Parkinson's Disease (PD). Covid-19 may affect both motor and neuropsychiatric symptoms of PD patients. We intend to evaluate ...
• Functional correlates of response inhibition in impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease

  Esteban-Peñalba, Teresa; Paz-Alonso, Pedro M.; Navalpotro-Gómez, Irene; Rodríguez-Oroz, María C. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Impulse control disorder is a prevalent side-effect of Parkinson's disease (PD) medication, with a strong negative impact on the quality of life of those affected. Although impulsivity has classically been associated with ...
• Uncertainty analysis of MR-PET image registration for precision neuro-PET imaging

  Markiewicz, Pawel J.; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Barkhof, Frederik (Elsevier, 2021)

  Accurate regional brain quantitative PET measurements, particularly when using partial volume correction, rely on robust image registration between PET and MR images. We argue here that the precision, and hence the ...
• Long-term risks after kidney donation: how do we inform potential donors? A survey from DESCARTES and EKITA transplantation working groups

  Mjøen, Geir; Crespo Barrio, Marta; Abramowicz, Daniel (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Background: Publications from the last decade have increased knowledge regarding long-term risks after kidney donation. We wanted to perform a survey to assess how transplant professionals in Europe inform potential kidney ...
• Trasplante renal de donante vivo: análisis de situación y hoja de ruta

  Valentín, María de la Oliva; Crespo Barrio, Marta; Domínguez-Gil, Beatriz (Elsevier, 2022)

  El trasplante renal de donante vivo (TRDV) es la opción terapéutica con las mejores expectativas de supervivencia para el injerto y para el paciente con insuficiencia renal terminal; sin embargo, este tipo de trasplantes ...
• Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

  Min, Josine L.; Soriano Tarraga, Carolina; Giralt-Steinhauer, Eva; Ruiz Arenas, Carlos, 1990-; Jiménez Conde, Jordi; Roquer, Jaume; González, Juan Ramón; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Relton, Caroline (Nature Research, 2021)

  Characterizing genetic influences on DNA methylation (DNAm) provides an opportunity to understand mechanisms underpinning gene regulation and disease. In the present study, we describe results of DNAm quantitative trait ...
• Molecular and functional profiling identifies therapeutically targetable vulnerabilities in plasmablastic lymphoma

  Frontzek, Fabian; Salar Silvestre, Antonio; Lenz, Georg (Nature Research, 2021)

  Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) represents a rare and aggressive lymphoma subtype frequently associated with immunosuppression. Clinically, patients with PBL are characterized by poor outcome. The current understanding of the ...
• Curcumin and resveratrol improve muscle function and structure through attenuation of proteolytic markers in experimental cancer-induced cachexia

  Penedo Vázquez, Antonio; Durán, Xavier; Mateu de Antonio, Francisco Javier; López Postigo, Adrián; Barreiro Portela, Esther (MDPI, 2021)

  Muscle wasting and cachexia are prominent comorbidities in cancer. Treatment with polyphenolic compounds may partly revert muscle wasting. We hypothesized that treatment with curcumin or resveratrol in cancer cachectic ...
• Congenericity of claimed compounds in patent applications

  Falaguera Mata, Maria José, 1994-; Mestres i López, Jordi (MDPI, 2021)

  A method is presented to analyze quantitatively the degree of congenericity of claimed compounds in patent applications. The approach successfully differentiates patents exemplified with highly congeneric compounds of a ...
• The association between diabetes and gastric cancer: results from the Stomach Cancer Pooling Project Consortium

  Dabo, Bashir; Kogevinas, Manolis; Luu, Hung N. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022)

  Background: Prior epidemiologic studies on the association between diabetes and gastric cancer risk provided inconclusive findings, while traditional, aggregate data meta-analyses were characterized by high between-study ...
• Renin-angiotensin system blockers and the risk of COVID-19-related mortality in patients with kidney failure

  Soler, María José; Noordzij, Marlies; Abramowicz, Daniel; de Arriba, Gabriel; Basile, Carlo; van Buren, Marjolijn; Covic, Adrian; Crespo Barrio, Marta; Duivenvoorden, Raphaël; Massy, Ziad A.; Ortiz, Alberto; Sanchez, J. Emilio; Petridou, Emily; Stevens, Kate; White, Colin; Vart, Priya; Gansevoort, Ron T.; ERACODA Collaborators (American Society of Nephrology, 2021)

  Background and objectives: There is concern about potential deleterious effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEis) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 ...
• The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on European neurosurgery trainees

  Tzerefos, Christos; Meling, Torstein R.; Lafuente Baraza, Jesus; Fountas, Kostas N.; Brotis, Alexandros G.; Demetriades, Andreas K. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has placed tremendous strain on the national health care systems throughout Europe. As a result, there has been a significant influence ...
• How are patients with chronic urticaria interested in using information and communication technologies to guide their healthcare? A UCARE study

  Cherrez-Ojeda, Ivan; Giménez Arnau, Anna Maria; Maurer, Marcus (Elsevier, 2021)

  Background: Patients with chronic urticaria (CU) are increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to manage their health. What CU patients expect from ICTs and which ICTs they prefer remains unknown. ...
• The Retornus-2 study: impact of respiratory muscle training in subacute stroke patients with dysphagia, study protocol of a double-blind randomized controlled trial

  Guillén-Solà, Anna; Messaggi-Sartor, Monique, 1984-; Ramírez-Fuentes, Cindry; Marco Navarro, Ester; Duarte Oller, Esther (BioMed Central, 2021)

  Background: Stroke can lead to varying degrees of oropharyngeal dysphagia, respiratory muscle dysfunction and even increase medical complications such as aspiration, malnutrition and death. Recent studies suggest that ...
• Association between chronic pain medications and the severity and mortality of COVID-19: study protocol for a case-population study

  Serrano Afonso, Andrés Ancor; Montes Pérez, Antonio; Mayoral Rojals, Víctor (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2021)

  In patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection, common drugs may exacerbate symptoms and negatively impact outcomes. However, the role of chronic medications on COVID-19 effects remains poorly understood. ...
• Active humidification in mechanical ventilation is not associated to an increase in respiratory infectious complications in a quasi-experimental pre-post intervention study

  Picazo Moreno, Lucía; Gracia Arnillas, María Pilar; Muñoz-Bermúdez, Rosana; Duran Jordà, Xavier, 1974-; Álvarez Lerma, Francisco; Masclans Enviz, Joan Ramon (Elsevier, 2021)

  Objective: There is controversy regarding the influence of humidification systems upon the incidence of respiratory infections associated to invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). An evaluation was made of the differences ...
• A differential therapeutic consideration for use of corticosteroids according to established COVID-19 clinical phenotypes in critically ill patients

  Moreno, Gerard; Marin Corral, Judith; Rodríguez, Alejandro; COVID-19 SEMICYUC working Group (Elsevier, 2021)

  Objective: To determine if the use of corticosteroids was associated with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) mortality among whole population and pre-specified clinical phenotypes. Design: A secondary analysis derived from multicenter, ...
• Increased posterior translation but similar clinical outcomes using ultracongruent instead of posterior stabilized total knee arthroplasties in a prospective randomized trial

  Hinarejos Gómez, Pedro Angel; Leal Blanquet, Joan; Fraile-Suari, Anna; Sánchez Soler, JF.; Torres Claramunt, Raúl; Monllau García, Juan Carlos (Springer, 2021)

  Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the posterior tibial translation after ultracongruent (UC) and posterior-stabilized (PS) total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with two different UC with different heights in the ...
• Fixed-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty provides a lower failure rate than mobile-bearing unicompartimental knee arthroplasty when used after a failed high tibial osteotomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Morales Avalos, Rodolfo; Perelli, Simone; Raygoza-Cortez, Karina; Padilla-Medina, José Ramón; Peña Martínez, Víctor M.; Guzman Lopez, Santos; Diabb Zavala, José M.; Barrera, Francisco J.; Vilchez-Cavazos, Félix; Monllau García, Juan Carlos (Springer, 2021)

  Despite the fact that the choice of bearing design has been thought to influence the functional outcomes and longevity of unicompartimental knee arthroplasty (UKA), there is a lack of clinical evidence supporting the ...

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