Complicacions Mèdiques de l’Abús de Drogues
Robert Muga Bustamante
This is a clinical research group focussed on the complications that arise from alcohol and drug abuse, particularly opiates and cocaine. The group is financed by public agencies and Themes networked funding by the Ministry of Health (RETICS-ISCIII), in this case the Addictive Disorders Network (RTA).
Líneas de investigación
Medical Complications of alcohol use disorder
To characterize medical comorbidity of patients requesting treatment for alcohol use disorder: Alcoholic liver disease, immunological alterations, malnutrition, cardiovascular risk, neurological risk and viral infections, amongst other pathologies being studied.
Monitoring viral infections in patients with substance use disorder
- To establish diagnostics, clinical evaluation and access to treatment of common viral infections (i.e., HIV, Hepatitis B and C) in patients with substance use disorder
- To analyze the risk of developing disease such as AIDS, liver cirrhosis or cancer and death
Mortality and substance use disorders
To describe the long-term evolution and outcomes of patients who abuse drugs or alcohol and knowing the causes of death as a function of comorbidity.
Intestinal permeability, systemic inflammation and cardiometabolic alterations
To study markers of inflammation, intestinal permeability and oxidative stress in a cohort of patients with alcohol use disorder.
Immune alterations associated with alcohol use disorder
To characterize the alterations of cellular immunity subsets in patients with alcohol use disorder according to the severity of alcoholic liver disease and to determine the molecular mechanisms that make alcohol use disorder at risk of immunodeficiency.
Members of the group
The members of this group are all based at the Germans Trias University Hospital. They are employed by the hospital, or by the Catalan Health Institute and are affiliated to the IGTP.
Robert Muga Bustamante(ELIMINAR) (Group Leader and PI)
Daniel fuster Martí,(ELIMINAR) (PI)
Xavier García-Calvo
Anna Hernandez
Jordi Tor Aguiler(ELIMINAR)
Arantza Sanvisens Bergé(ELIMINAR)
Paola Zuluaga Blanco(ELIMINAR)
Collaborations
The Medical Complications of Substance Abuse group works with researchers from other institutions. The group has a long collaboration with Dr. Ferran Bolao of the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge (Department of Internal Medicine/Addiction Unit), who provides samples, collects data and has worked for years on the cohort of drug users admitted to hospital detoxification.
Dr. Inmaculada Rivas of the Municipal Center of Substance Abuse Treatment (Centro Delta) at Badalona Serveis Assistencials is also a long term collaborator on the projects related to Methadone Treatment Programs.
Notícies
La tercera edició del PERIS torna a finançar un projecte de Germans Trias i Pujol
El Departament de Salut ha lliurat aquest dimarts els ajuts de les convocatòries 2018 i 2019 del Pla Estratègic de Recerca i Innovació en Salut (PERIS). En l'edició d'enguany, la neuròloga de Germans Trias Natalia Pérez de la Ossa ha obtingut un ajut pel projecte d'atenció prehospitalària de pacients amb ictus agut. També el metge Daniel Fuster, que va rebre un ajut en la segona edició del PERIS, ha recollit aquest dimarts el guardó.
Revisió sobre les recomanacions de consum d’alcohol en pacients amb malalties hepàtiques
El Dr. Daniel Fuster de la Unitat d'Addiccions, al Servei de Medicina Interna de l'Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol i l'Institut de Recerca (IGTP), és coautor d'un article de revisió històrica sobre l'ús d'alcohol amb pacients amb malalties hepàtiques cròniques, juntament amb el Dr. Jeffrey H Samet, al Boston Medical Center i University School of Medicine. L'article s'ha publicat a la revista New England Journal of Medicine.
Més informació
Contacte
Prof. Robert Muga Bustamante, Specialist Physician in Internal Medicine, Room 801, General Buildling, HUGTiP
(+34) 93 4651200 ext. 3582
rmuga.germanstrias(ELIMINAR)@gencat.cat