Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.05.008
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.05.025
Background
During the COVID-19 pandemic individuals with all blood cancers were classified as clinically vulnerable and at high risk of complications and death. Our study sought to determine if individuals with specific blood cancers were at a heightened risk of longer term organ impairment, secondary to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Methods
We set up a prospective observational study, utilising quantitative multi-parametric MRI to determine organ health over time in patients with specific blood cancers who had recovered from COVID-19.
Results
Multi-organ abnormality was more prevalent in blood cancer patients than in healthy controls (42 % vs 6 % p < 0.001) but comparable to the long COVID controls (42 % vs 33 %, p > 0.05). At 6 month follow up scans, organ abnormalities persisted in most individuals with blood cancer (71 % ≥1 organ and 52 % multi-organ).
Conclusion
A multi-organ MRI platform offers the capacity to accurately evaluate organ health dynamically in blood cancers and detect asymptomatic organ impairment. The application of multi-organ MRI could aid early detection and longitudinal monitoring of organ impairment, potentially guiding more personalised treatment strategies and improving clinical outcomes in many rare diseases.
背景在 COVID-19 大流行期间,患有所有血癌的人都被列为临床易感人群,并面临并发症和死亡的高风险。我们的研究旨在确定特定血癌患者是否因感染 SARS-CoV-2 而面临更高的器官长期受损风险。方法我们建立了一项前瞻性观察研究,利用定量多参数磁共振成像来确定从 COVID-19 中康复的特定血癌患者的器官健康状况。结果与健康对照组相比,血癌患者的多器官异常发生率更高(42% vs 6% p <0.001),但与长期COVID对照组相当(42% vs 33%, p >0.05)。在 6 个月的随访扫描中,大多数血癌患者的器官仍存在异常(≥1 个器官的占 71%,多个器官的占 52%)。多器官磁共振成像的应用有助于早期检测和纵向监测器官损伤,有可能指导更个性化的治疗策略,改善许多罕见病的临床预后。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.06.007
Aims
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is – along with acute pancreatitis - the most frequent cause of diabetes of the exocrine pancreas (DEP). Although insulin deficiency is widely accepted as the major feature of DEP, it is still unclear whether diabetes associated with CP is characterized by additional or different functional defects of the insulin secretory machinery. To identify possible functional defects specifically induced by CP, we performed a cross-sectional study in individuals with normal glucose tolerance (NGT), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and diabetes mellitus (DM) comparing patients with and without CP (CP vs. NCP).
Methods
We administered an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to all participants and, according to their glucose tolerance, classified them as NGT, IGT and DM. Insulin sensitivity and beta-cell functional parameters were derived from OGTT, hyperglycemic clamp and hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp.
Results
Studying 146 subjects, we found that beta-cell function and insulin secretion were significantly lower in CP compared to NCP patients. However, when we classified the subjects according to OGTT-derived glucose tolerance, we found no differences in beta-cell function or in insulin sensitivity between CP and NCP with the same glucose tolerance status. Of note, we found that arginine-stimulated insulin secretion is reduced only in subjects with CP and DM compared to NCP subjects with DM.
Conclusions
Patients with CP had no specific alterations in insulin secretion and beta-cell function. However, in patients diagnosed with diabetes, we found a lower arginine-stimulated insulin secretion, a marker of reduced functional mass.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.07.038
Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas , George N. Dalekos , Dror Dicker , Nicola Montano
Healthcare systems face multiple challenges arising from demographic factors (population aging) and epidemiological factors (rise of chronic diseases and patients with multimorbidity) as well as threats to their financial sustainability when maintaining equitable access to medical and technological advances. Current healthcare models, based on specialized medical care, lead to fragmented care that can be harmful to the patient and is inefficient for the system due to the overuse of redundant, low-value medical acts. Internal medicine is the hospital-centered general medical specialty par excellence, providing a comprehensive and holistic vision that is centered on the patient and not on the disease. Internists should be the leading physicians in the hospital setting for complex patients with or those with an uncertain diagnosis. Internists must play a key role, as hospitalists do, in the continued care of acute patients hospitalized for medical or surgical diseases, establishing shared care models in multidisciplinary teams. Likewise, to guarantee continuity of care for chronic patients, internists must establish mechanisms for collaboration with primary care and nursing, participating in the development of new out-of-hospital care models that use the available technological resources. Internal medicine should play a leading role in graduate and postgraduate medical education to promote a holistic vision among medical students and residents in medical subspecialties.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.07.022
Fullana Martin , Aliaga Leandro , Verni Giuliana
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.07.016
Alexandros A. Drosos, Aliki A. Venetsanopoulou, Eleftherios Pelechas, Paraskevi V. Voulgari
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease mainly affecting the peripheral diarthrodial joints symmetrically and also presenting many extra-articular manifestations. Morbidity and mortality in RA patients are higher compared to the general population. Cardiovascular (CV) disease is one of the most common causes of death in these patients. Classical or traditional risk factors for atherosclerosis development occur more frequently in RA patients compared to those without this condition. Studies have showed that RA patients often present comorbidities such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus and obesity. However, the high incidence of CV events occurring in RA patients is not explained by the presence of traditional risk factors. Systemic inflammation, as it is expressed with the presence of proinflammatory cytokines and increased acute phase reactants, may contribute to the development of premature atherosclerosis in these patients. In this review, we explore the risk factors for CV disease, the generation of dyslipidemia, the lipid paradox and the role of systemic inflammation in the atherosclerotic process in RA. We discuss also the role of early therapeutic intervention that suppresses inflammation which may have beneficial effects on CV disease in RA patients.
类风湿性关节炎(RA)是一种慢性炎症性疾病,主要累及对称性外周二关节,也有许多关节外表现。与普通人群相比,RA 患者的发病率和死亡率较高。心血管疾病是这些患者最常见的死因之一。与无动脉粥样硬化的患者相比,RA 患者更容易出现动脉粥样硬化的经典或传统风险因素。研究表明,RA 患者通常伴有高血压、血脂异常、糖尿病和肥胖等合并症。然而,传统风险因素的存在并不能解释 RA 患者心血管事件高发的原因。全身炎症表现为促炎细胞因子的存在和急性期反应物的增加,这可能会导致这些患者过早发生动脉粥样硬化。在这篇综述中,我们探讨了心血管疾病的危险因素、血脂异常的产生、血脂悖论以及全身炎症在 RA 动脉粥样硬化过程中的作用。我们还讨论了抑制炎症的早期治疗干预的作用,这可能会对 RA 患者的心血管疾病产生有益的影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.09.019
Giuseppe Barilaro, Ricard Cervera
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Pub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.05.022
{"title":"The association between long-acting muscarinic antagonist-based therapy and the risk of urinary tract infection in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ejim.2024.05.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ejim.2024.05.022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50485,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Internal Medicine","volume":"128 ","pages":"Pages 145-147"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}