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Smoking is an addictive, chronic and relapsing disease that, due to its high prevalence, morbidity and mortality, has become one of the main public health problems worldwide, affecting both smokers and rest of population involuntarily exposed to smoke tobacco.To overcome this pandemic, it is essential that all health professionals intervene on the problem in a manner adapted to their level of care, from giving brief advice for stop smoking to proposing intensive cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatment.Smoking cessation treatments have proven to be safe and effective, but unfortunately, the personal and economic resources dedicated to smoker care are not proportional to the magnitude of the problem, with few specialized consultations and lack of funding for pharmacological treatments.In addition, we must confront the arguments of the tobacco industry that interferes in the fight against smoking with new products that they pretend to offer as «harm reduction strategies¼ when really it is their way of attracting new addicts to tobacco products.
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Humans , Adult , Contact Tracing , Tuberculosis , Health Expenditures , Prospective Studies , Spain , Tuberculosis/diagnosisABSTRACT
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Humans , Adult , Contact Tracing , Tuberculosis , Health Expenditures , Prospective Studies , Spain , Tuberculosis/diagnosisABSTRACT
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Humans , Male , Aged , Subclavian Artery , Aneurysm/diagnostic imaging , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive , Coal Mining , Ex-SmokersABSTRACT
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Hypoglycemia/etiology , Pleural Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Pleural Neoplasms/drug therapy , Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use , Biomarkers, Tumor , Sleepiness , Blood Glucose/analysis , Radiography, Thoracic/methods , Thorax/diagnostic imaging , Thorax/pathology , Dietary Carbohydrates , Biopsy , Immunohistochemistry/methods , Antigens, CD34 , Diagnosis, DifferentialABSTRACT
La enfermedad de Lemierre, descrita por primera vez en el año 1936 por el médico Francés André Lemierre, es una complicación inusual de una infección orofaríngea, que progresa con tromboflebitis séptica secundaria e infecciones embólicas frecuentes. Es producida por microorganismos anaerobios, siendo el Fusobacterium necrophorum el germen aislado con mayor frecuencia. Para su diagnóstico, además del estudio microbiológico, se emplean los estudios por imágenes como la ecografía Doppler y la tomografía computada (TC). La antibióticoterapia precoz y prolongada, a dosis altas, ha mejorado considerablemente el pronóstico; no obstante, en ocasiones, se hace necesario recurrir a la escisión quirúrgica de las venas yugulares. En la actualidad con la terapia antimicrobiana, casos como éste son cada vez más raros, incluso a veces olvidados, pero dada su gravedad deben sospecharse ante cuadros faríngeos de evolución tórpida
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Ultrasonography, Doppler , Lemierre SyndromeABSTRACT
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