GÁLVEZ-ACEBAL , Juan

Introducción: La endocarditis infecciosa es una enfermedad infecciosa infrecuente pero su mortalidad continua siendo hoy día elevada (15-20%) a pesar de los avances diagnósticos y terapéuticos. Los estudios realizados hasta el momento han identificado diferentes factores pronósticos, entre los que destaca la presencia de insuficiencia cardiaca...

CLa endocarditis infecciosa es infrecuente, pero su mortalidad continúa siendo elevada. En los últimos años esta entidad ha experimentado cambios importantes debido a que sus características clínicas y epidemiológicas han ido modificándose a lo largo del tiempo2,3. Además en los últimos años se han desarrollado nuevos métodos diagnósticos como...

Background: To describe the long term outcome of patients who interrupted highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) once, identify the variables associated with earlier need to re-start HAART, and the response when therapy was resumed. A retrospective observational cohort of 66 adult patients with HIV-1 infection who interrupted HAART with a...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infrequent cause of severe infectious endocarditis (IE). The aim of our study was to describe the epidemiology, clinical and microbiological characteristics, and outcome of a series of cases of S. pneumoniae IE diagnosed in Spain and in a series of cases published since 2000 in the medical literature. We...

Introduction: Statins have pleiotropic effects that could influence the prevention and outcome of some infectious diseases. There is no information about their specific effect on Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). Methods: A prospective cohort study including all SAB diagnosed in patients aged $18 years admitted to a 950-bed...

To evaluate the long-term impact of successive interventions on rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization or infection and MRSA bacteremia in an endemic hospital-wide situation. DESIGN:Quasi-experimental, interrupted time-series analysis. The impact of the interventions was analyzed by use of segmented regression....