January 2018

Editorial Board
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Contents
Published in issue: January 2018
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Narrative Reviews

Primary biliary cholangitis: Old and novel therapy
• Annarosa Floreani,
• Chiara Mangini
Published online: June 29, 2017
p1-5

Cancer immunotherapy-induced endocrinopathies: Clinical behavior and therapeutic approach
• Pedro Iglesias
Published online: August 19, 2017
p6-13
Basal insulin for the management of diabetic ketoacidosis
• Leonid Barski,
• Evgenia Brandstaetter,
• Iftach Sagy,
• Alan Jotkowitz
Published online: August 30, 2017
p14-16
Exercise training in patients with pulmonary and systemic hypertension: A unique therapy for two different diseases
• Massimo Leggio,
• Augusto Fusco,
• Giorgio Limongelli,
• Luca Sgorbini
Published online: September 11, 2017
p17-24

Original Articles

General Internal Medicine


Good adherence to therapy with statins reduces the risk of adverse clinical outcomes even among very elderly. Evidence from an Italian real-life investigation
• Giovanni Corrao,
• Matteo Monzio Compagnoni,
• Matteo Franchi,
• ...
• Luca Merlino,
• Alberico L. Catapano,
• Giuseppe Mancia
Published online: September 25, 2017
p25-31
The association between bouted and non-bouted physical activity on retinopathy prevalence
• Emily Frith,
• Paul D. Loprinzi
Published online: August 14, 2017
p32-35

Pulse wave velocity differs between ulcerative colitis and chronic kidney disease
• Luca Zanoli,
• Paolo Lentini,
• Pierre Boutouyrie,
• ...
• Stephane Laurent,
• Lorenzo S. Malatino,
• Pietro Castellino
Published online: August 19, 2017
p36-42

Derivation and validation model for hospital hypoglycemia
• Javier Ena,
• Antonio Zapatero Gaviria,
• Marta Romero-Sánchez,
• ...
• Concepción González-Becerra,
• Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas
• on behalf of the Diabetes and Obesity Working Group of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
Published online: September 04, 2017
p43-48

Cardiovascular Medicine


Long-term outcomes in older patients with hyperglycemia on admission for ischemic stroke
• Alexander Gorshtein,
• Ilan Shimon,
• Tzipora Shochat,
• Oren Amitai,
• Amit Akirov
Published online: September 30, 2017
p49-54

Prospective study of metabolic syndrome as a mortality marker in chronic coronary heart disease patients
• Otto Mayer Jr,
• Jan Bruthans,
• Jitka Seidlerová,
• ...
• Peter Wohlfahrt,
• Renata Cífková,
• Jan Filipovský
Published online: July 26, 2017
p55-61

Medication use in long-term survivors from the MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry
• Ute Amann,
• Inge Kirchberger,
• Margit Heier,
• Christian Thilo,
• Bernhard Kuch,
• Christa Meisinger
Published online: August 18, 2017
p62-68

Baseline functional status as the strongest predictor of in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: Results of the NONAVASC registry
• A. Gullón,
• F. Formiga,
• M. Camafort,
• ...
• A. Pose,
• C. Suárez Fernández
• on behalf of the NONAVASC study group. Vascular Risk Group of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
Published online: September 24, 2017
p69-74
Comparing associations of different metabolic syndrome definitions with ischemic stroke in Chinese elderly population
• Qian Liu,
• Yan-xun Li,
• Zhi-hao Hu,
• Xiao-yan Jiang,
• Shu-juan Li,
• Xiao-feng Wang
Published online: October 29, 2017
p75-81

Pneumology


Inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting bronchodilator treatment mitigates STEMI clinical presentation in COPD patients
• Marco Contoli,
• Gianluca Campo,
• Rita Pavasini,
• ...
• Antonio Spanevello,
• Roberto Ferrari,
• Alberto Papi
Published online: August 15, 2017
p82-86

Internal Medicine Flashcards

When the diagnosis is written on the forehead
• Federico Pasin,
• Simone Bonardi,
• Antonio Modoni
Published online: May 06, 2017
e1-e2


A young woman with fever and low visual acuity
• Leticia Urbina Soto,
• Alicia López de Eguileta Rodríguez,
• Santiago Echevarria Vierna
Published online: May 13, 2017
e3-e4


Asteroid Hyalosis
• Daniel Gologorsky,
• Oriel Spierer
Published online: May 13, 2017
e5-e6


A 33 year-old woman with calciphylaxis, diabetic kidney disease and abdominal pain
• Denise Sanchez,
• Anh Phan,
• Emil Lesho
Published online: May 13, 2017
e7-e8

Letters to the Editor

Gadolinium depositions after the application of the hepatospecific gadolinium-based contrast agent gadoxetate disodium
• Soung Y. Kim,
• Martin H. Maurer,
• Johannes K. Richter,
• Johannes T. Heverhagen,
• Ingrid B. Boehm
Published online: September 29, 2017
e9-e11

What are nonspecific complaints and what are their causes and outcomes? The common unknown unknowns of medicine
• John Kellett,
• Christian H. Nickel
Published online: September 27, 2017
e12-e13


Deaths and medical admissions in the UK show an unexplained and sustained peak after 2011
• Rodney P. Jones
Published online: September 25, 2017
e14-e16

Eye problem in Zika virus infection
• Viroj Wiwanitkit
Published online: June 13, 2017
e17

Effect of ZIKA virus on adult eyes
• Dhrubajyoti Bandyopadhyay,
• Arshna Qureshi,
• Kumar Ashish,
• Adrija Hajra,
• Sandipan Chakraborty
Published online: June 20, 2017
e18-e19

Triple therapy with dual antiplatelet treatment and direct oral anticoagulants
• Marc Sorigue,
• Edurne Sarrate,
• Javier Delcastillo
Published online: July 11, 2017
e20

Triple therapy with dual antiplatelet treatment and direct oral anticoagulants. Author's reply
• Csaba András Dézsi,
• Balázs Bence Dézsi,
• Döme András Dézsi
Published online: September 08, 2017
e21-e22

Should a scientist be prevented from publishing in a journal for which he works?
• Petros Ioannou
Published online: July 21, 2017
e23

Peer (and brothers) review? Ethical challenges in author-proposed peer-reviewers
• P. Charlier,
• E.D. Al-Chaer,
• F. Bou Abdallah,
• C. Massaad,
• C. Hervé
Published online: August 18, 2017
e24-e25

The diagnostic trial of iron replacement therapy even in normocytic anaemia
• Oscar M.P. Jolobe
Published online: August 09, 2017
e26

Body mass index and all-cause mortality among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: Methodological issues
• Saeid Safiri,
• Erfan Ayubi
Published online: August 17, 2017
e27

Body mass index and all-cause mortality among type 2 diabetes mellitus patients
• Miguel Ángel Salinero-Fort,
• Francisco Javier San-Andrés-Rebollo,
• Rodrigo Jiménez-García,
• José M. de Miguel-Yanes
Published online: September 08, 2017
e28