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Clinical evolution of sacral stress fractures: influence of additional pelvic fractures
To evaluate the clinical evolution of sacral stress fractures in relation to the scintigraphic pattern and the presence of additional pelvic fractures. METHODS--This was a retrospective study of 14 patients with sacral ...
Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Does clinical stratification or steroid treatment matter?
Acute exacerbation (AE) of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is defined as a sudden acceleration of the disease with the appearance of pulmonary infiltrates superimposed on the characteristic pattern of IPF that leads ...
Impact of Inflammatory Response Modifiers on the Incidence of Hospital-Acquired Infections in Patients with COVID-19.
The study aim was to assess the influence of inflammatory response modifiers, including anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) biologics and corticosteroids, on the incidence of hospital-acquired infections in patients with coronavirus ...
From recruitment to senescence: food shapes the age-dependent pattern of breeding performance in a long-lived bird
We used a long-term data set (26 years) from Audouin's Gull (Larus audouinii), a long-lived seabird, to address the relationship between the age-dependent pattern of reproductive performance and environmental conditions ...
Informática en Pediatría: aplicaciones prácticas
INFORMACION E INFORMATICA La evolución del ser humano se ha comparado a una espiral ascendente cuyo radio es cada vez menor, queriendo simbolizar con ella el incremento en la velocidad con la que se adquieren nuevas ...
Description and validation of histological patterns and proposal of a dynamic model of inflammatory infiltration in giant-cell arteritis
The extent of inflammatory infiltrates in arteries from patients with giant-cell arteritis (GCA) have been described using different terms and definitions. Studies investigating the relationship between GCA histological ...
Picnodisóstosis
Lactante varón de seis meses de edad que consulta por retraso de crecimiento manifiesto desde los cuatro meses. Antecedentes familiares. Primera gestación de padres jóvenes no consanguíneos. Antecedentes personales.Embarazo ...
In vivo computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal polyps using white light endoscopy
Background and study aims Artificial intelligence is currently able to accurately predict the histology of colorectal polyps. However, systems developed to date use complex optical technologies and have not been tested in ...
Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours
Many primary tumours have low levels of molecular oxygen (hypoxia), and hypoxic tumours respond poorly to therapy. Pan-cancer molecular hallmarks of tumour hypoxia remain poorly understood, with limited comprehension of ...
Los antecedentes de la pedagogía vocal contemporánea: el caso del Dr. Ricardo Botey
En los estudios históricos sobre Pedagogía Vocal suele situarse al año 1950 como inicio del período de la Pedagogía Vocal Contemporánea, pues ese fue el momento histórico en que diferentes profesionales (maestros de canto, ...
Prevalence and Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Young Children in the Absence of a Gold Standard
Introduction For adequate disease control the World Health Organization has proposed the diagnosis and treatment of latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) in groups of risk of developing the disease such as children. There ...
High prevalence and mortality due to Histoplasma capsulatum in the Brazilian Amazon: An autopsy study
Background: Histoplasmosis is acquired by inhalation of spores of the dimorphic fungus Histoplasma spp. Although this pathogen is distributed worldwide, it is more prevalent in the Americas. However, the real burden of ...
Genómica funcional en investigación biomédica (Seminaris Tecnològics 2012)
Seminari enregistrat per UBTV. Disponible a: http://www.ub.edu/ubtv/video/genomica-funcional-en-investigacio-biomedica
Characterization, localization and comparison of c-Kit+ lung cells in never smokers and smokers with and without COPD
Background: c-Kit + lung stem cells have been described in the human healthy lung. Their potential relation with smoking and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unknown. Methods: We characterized and compared ...
Foreign-Medical-School Graduates object to the VISA Qualifiying Examination
To the editor; The Visa Qualifying Examination is a two-day test composed of approximately 950 multiple-choice questions conerneing the basic and clinical sciences....
Sentinel lymph node detection in early-stage ovarian cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: A systematic pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy remains the surgical standard management of early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer. Sentinel lymph node mapping is being investigated as an alternative procedure; ...
Dissemination of NDM-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli high-risk clones in Catalan healthcare institutions
Objectives: To characterize the clonal spread of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli isolates between different healthcare institutions in Catalonia, Spain. Methods: Antimicrobial susceptibility ...
Emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii international clone II and III in Lima, Peru
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is the top-ranked pathogen in the World Health Organization priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It emerged as a global pathogen due to the successful expansion of a ...
Stromal markers of activated tumor associated fibroblasts predict poor survival and are associated with necrosis in non-small cell lung cancer
Objectives: Tumor associated fibroblasts (TAFs) are essential contributors of the progression of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Most lung TAFs exhibit an activated phenotype characterized by the expression of α-SMA ...
Neurotoxic/Neuroprotective Effects of Clozapine and the Positive Allosteric Modulator of mGluR2 JNJ-46356479 in Human Neuroblastoma Cell Cultures
Current antipsychotics (APs) effectively control positive psychotic symptoms, mainly by blocking dopamine (DA) D2 receptors, but have little effect on negative and cognitive symptoms. Increased glutamate (GLU) release would ...
