Maria Camprodon Gómez

Maria Camprodon Gómez

Internal Medicine, General Hospital

Albert Selva O'Callaghan

Albert Selva O'Callaghan

Internal Medicine, General Hospital

Maria Urquizu Padilla

Maria Urquizu Padilla

Internal Medicine, General Hospital

Sjögren's Syndrome

Sjögren's Syndrome is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease, the cause of which is unknown. Its main symptoms are a dry mouth (xerostomia) and dry eyes (xerophthalmia). In this disease, the cells making up our defence system (immune system) attack parts of the body itself, such as the glands that keep the eyes and mouth moist, and glands in other parts of the body, altering their function. Symptoms in other organs, such as the lungs, joints or nervous system, may also occur.

Sindrome Sjogren
Authorship: Helena Borrell Paños
Creation date: 04.04.2022, 13:37
Modification date: 01.12.2022, 11:23
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1/3 proximal femoral fracture or hip fracture

Hip fractures involve a change in the autonomy of elderly patients, negatively affecting their quality of life and altering their family and social environment, as it causes a change in their prior functional capacities, with a high risk of complications.

Fractura maluc
Authorship: Vall d'Hebron
Creation date: 03.05.2022, 15:56
Modification date: 23.05.2022, 12:40
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Auto-immune diseases

The failure of our immune system to recognise structures, cells or proteins in the body is responsible for the development of systemic autoimmune diseases. We call them ‘autoimmune’ because our immune response mistakenly targets our own body; and ‘systemic’ because they affect different organs and systems such as the lung, kidney or nervous system, in addition to the well-known effects on the musculoskeletal system.

Authorship: Vall d'Hebron
Creation date: 06.04.2022, 09:56
Modification date: 22.04.2022, 12:06
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Inflammatory myopathies

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies are a heterogeneous group of illnesses whose main feature is muscular weakness and identification of an underlying inflammation in the muscular biopsy. The group includes dermatomyositis, polymyositis and, recently, inclusion body myosotis, which is most probably the least inflammatory, as well being the myopathy most frequently acquired by the over 50s. Although the main target organ is muscle, the skin and lungs, amongst other internal organs, are frequently affected, for which reason inflammatory myopathies are considered to be systemic illnesses.

Miopatia Inflamatoria
Authorship: Mireia Lopez Corbeto
Creation date: 04.04.2022, 09:58
Modification date: 30.11.2022, 16:36
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)

SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease. Under normal conditions, the immune system produces proteins (antibodies) to protect us from bacteria, viruses, and other foreign substances (what we call antigens). In autoimmune diseases like SLE, the immune system gets "confused" and cannot distinguish between foreign particles and our own cells, so it produces antibodies against our own body, which causes inflammation and damage to different organs.

It being a systemic disease means that it can affect most parts/organs of our body: skin, joints, kidney, lungs, etc.  It is a chronic disease that has flares or flare-ups, meaning that it goes through periods where it is more active (flare-ups) and periods of inactivity.

Antiphospholipid syndrome is characterized by the appearance of thrombosis (blood clots) in any area of the body, complications during pregnancy (especially recurring miscarriages and premature births), and the presence of antibodies against phospholipids. Half of the cases of APS are associated with SLE.

Lupus eritematos
Authorship: Helena Borrell Paños
Creation date: 14.03.2022, 08:55
Modification date: 01.12.2022, 11:20
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Ana Elena Ruiz Alcaraz

Ana Elena Ruiz Alcaraz

Internal Medicine, General Hospital

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