Ministry of Interior and Administration

Depressive Symptoms in Adults with Obesity and Their Associations with Sociodemographic, Health and Lifestyle Factors: A Secondary Analysis of a Cross-Sectional Study

Background/Objectives: Research indicates a bidirectional association between obesity and depression. The co-occurrence of both disorders has serious clinical implications. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of self-reported depressive symptoms (DS) in a group of...

Distinct Determinants of Hospitalisation and In-Hospital Mortality After Acute Stroke: Insights into Stroke–Heart Syndrome (SHS-PARTICLES Study)

Background/Objectives: Stroke–heart syndrome (SHS) involves myocardial injury, cardiac dysfunction, and arrhythmias after acute stroke, playing a key role in prognosis. Most evidence comes from acute ischaemic stroke (IS), while cardiac involvement after haemorrhagic stroke (HS)...

Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation During Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: Risk Dependencies and Long-Term Survival

Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common finding among patients with mitral valve disease, with a growing body of evidence showing survival benefits associated with surgical ablation (SA). However, a lack of data persists regarding the safety and survival after SA concomit...

Robot-assisted urologic surgery after kidney transplantation: indications, graft-protection strategies, and outcomes—a scoping review

Kidney transplantation relocates a vascularized graft and ureter into the iliac fossa, changing subsequent urologic surgery. Existing syntheses are procedure-specific. This scoping review mapped indications, graft-protection strategies, outcomes, and evidence gaps across robot-as...