Hospital General Universitario de Alicante Doctor Balmis

Incidence, Causes, and Outcomes of Conversion to Open Surgery During Minimally Invasive Left Pancreatectomy: A Prospective Multicenter Study

ABSTRACT Background Minimally invasive left pancreatectomy (MILP) has become the preferred approach to treat lesions of the pancreatic body and tail. However, the procedure may require conversion to open surgery, with reported conversion rates varying widely in the literature. Th...

Sex differences in epidemiology and clinical presentation of glomerular diseases in a nationwide Spanish biopsy registry

Sex differences influence the epidemiology and clinical expression of kidney diseases. Most primary glomerulonephritis shows male predominance, whereas lupus nephritis remains strongly female-biased. Large national cohorts with sex-stratified analyses are limited. We analysed all...

Prevalence and incidence of dementia with Lewy bodies using current McKeith diagnostic criteria (2017–2020): a population-based study

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is one of the most common neurodegenerative dementias in older adults but remains frequently underdiagnosed in routine clinical practice. Epidemiological data are limited and heterogeneous, and only a small number of population-based studies have a...

Development and reproducible description of a multimodal physiotherapy intervention for pelvic floor health: a methodological report

Female pelvic floor disorders are frequently managed through interventions focused on pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT). However, pelvic floor function is increasingly recognised as being influenced by the interaction between breathing, posture, movement, and lumboabdominopelvi...