Fonaments Clínics: Recent submissions
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Proteomic profiling of the plasma of Gambian children with cerebral malaria
Background Cerebral malaria (CM) is a severe neurological complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection. A number of pathological findings have been correlated with pediatric CM including sequestration, platelet accumulation, ...
A biomarker approach to syndrome-based treatment of severe childhood illness in malaria-endemic areas
This opinion article deals with the diagnostic clinical challenges faced by clinicians or health care workers in malaria-endemic areas when a severely sick child presents to the clinic with fever, coma or respiratory ...
Plasma homocysteine and vitamin B12 serum levels, red blood cell folate concentrations, C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene mutation and risk of recurrent miscarriage: a case-control study in Spain.
Background: Hyperhomocysteinemia and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene mutation have been postulated as a possible cause of recurrent miscarriage (RM). There is a wide variation in the prevalence of MTHFR ...
Persistence of tracer in the application site -a potential confounding factor in nerve regeneration studies
Selective reinnervation of peripheral targets after nerve injury might be assessed by injecting a first tracer in a target before nerve injury to label the original neuronal population, and applying a second tracer after ...
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Quantitative Ultrasound Image Analysis of Axillary Lymph Nodes to Diagnose Metastatic Involvement in Breast Cancer
This study aimed to assess the potential of state-of-the-art ultrasound analysis techniques to non-invasively diagnose axillary lymph nodes involvement in breast cancer. After exclusion criteria, 105 patients were selected ...
Impact of in vivo reflectance confocal microscopy on the number needed to treat melanoma in doubtful lesions
Background The number needed to treat ratio is an effective method for measuring accuracy in melanoma detection. Dermoscopy reduces the number of false positives and subsequently unnecessary excisions. In vivo confocal ...
Let-7 Represses Carcinogenesis and a Stem Cell Phenotype in the Intestine via Regulation of Hmga2
Let-7 miRNAs comprise one of the largest and most highly expressed family of miRNAs among vertebrates, and is critical for promoting differentiation, regulating metabolism, inhibiting cellular proliferation, and repressing ...
Progenitor cell mobilisation and recruitment in pulmonary arteries in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary vascular abnormalities are a characteristic feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor for COPD. It is believed that its constant ...
Reanimación Cardiopulmonar
Características de la Reanimación Cardiopulmonar en Pediatría La Reanimación Cardiopulmonar (RCP) es un tema que clásicamente se había reservado a la formación del pediatra durante los años de su residencia. Salvo contadas ...
Changed expression of cytoskeleton proteins during lung injury in a mouse model of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection
Infections by Streptococcus pneumoniae are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, often causing community-acquired pneumonia, otitis media and also bacteremia and meningitis. Studies on S. pneumoniae are mainly ...
Evaluation of the MagicplexTM sepsis real-time test for the rapid diagnosis of bloodstream infections in adults
Sepsis is a serious health condition worldwide, affecting more than 30 million people globally each year. Blood culture (BC) is generally used to diagnose sepsis because of the low quantity of microbes occurring in the ...
Synovial fluid and amyloidosis
SIR, We read with interest the article on dialysis related arthropathy, published in the Annals, by Hurst et al,' with whom we agree in general...
Guía Visual para Anestesia Espinal
Guía visual para facilitar la práctica de anestesias espinales/epidurales no publicada, que hemos generado a partir de los datos de un artículo previo (Puigdellívol-Sanchez, A., Reina, M.A., Sala-Blanch, X., Pomés-Talló, ...
Obesidad, diagnóstico etiológico
I. CONCEPTO Y DEFINICION La obesidad es un problema frecuente en pediatría, con una prevalencia superior al 5 % en la mayoria de series españolas y extranjeras. En muchas ocasiones no constituye de por sí el motivo de ...
Escherichia coli ST131 clones harbouring AggR and AAF/V fimbriae causing bacteremia in Mozambican children: Emergence of new variant of fimH27subclone
Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli ST131 fimH30 responsible for extra-intestinal pathogenic (ExPEC) infections is globally distributed. However, the occurrence of a subclone fimH27 of ST131 harboring both ExPEC and ...
Quick detection of nonmelanoma skin cancer by histopathology: feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of immediate cutaneous diagnosis
Background: Dermoscopy, diagnostic cytology, confocal microscopy are used to improve diagnostic accuracy. Frozen section techniques have been used to control margins but not for diagnosis. Objectives: We used a new frozen ...
miR-143 Interferes with ERK5 Signaling, and Abrogates Prostate Cancer Progression in Mice
Abstract Background: Micro RNAs are small, non-coding, single-stranded RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Since miR-143 was found to be down-regulated in prostate cancer cells, ...
Sistemas informatizados de historia clínica
Cualquiera que pregunte a un médico qué desea de una historia clínica informatizada recibirá la misma respuesta:'poder obtener información actualizada y útil del paciente cuando quiera, dónde quiera y cómo quiera'. Para ...
The prognostic impact of minimal residual disease in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia requiring first-line therapy.
A proportion of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia achieve a minimal residual disease negative status after therapy. We retrospectively evaluated the impact of minimal residual disease on the outcome of 255 consecutive ...
