[Cardiovascular disease: a view from global health perspective]. / Enfermedad cardiovascular: una visión desde la salud global.

Globalization has facilitated the movement of large number of people around the world, leading modern clinicians to attend patients with rare or forgotten diseases. In the last few years many doctors are working in developing countries as volunteers or expatriates. The aim of this article is to summarize the basic epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic knowledge of the main cardiovascular diseases that a medical doctor from a developed country may attend in a tropical rural hospital, or with challenging diseases in patients coming from developing countries.

[Bacterial, mycobacterial and fungal opportunistic infections in HIV-infected immigrants: diagnosis and treatment]. / Infecciones bacterianas, micobacterianas y micóticas oportunistas en el inmigrante infectado por el VIH: diagnóstico y tratamiento.

The number of HIV infected immigrants has increased sharply in Spain. These patients are prone to contracting several different types of opportunistic infections, including bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal and parasitic infections. The present article provides an in-depth review of bacterial and fungal infections, with particular emphasis on those not endemic in our country.