Centro Académico de Salud (CAS): Recent submissions
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When prevention is a risk. More is not always better.
(Via Medica, 2015-07-06)In spite of complex interactions between drugs and dietary supplements, which increase with the number of them taken, the medical, or on occasions, the patient’s judgment tends to be fast and dichotomous. Many contexts ... -
Características de las residencias de terapia intensiva pediátrica de la República Argentina. Encuesta nacional
(Arch Argent Pediatr., 2015-10-01)INTRODUCTION: Pediatric intensive care residency programs have been in place in Argentina for just a few years. Knowing their status offers the possibility to establish strategies to help with professional development and ... -
Considerations about the infant safe sleep: Executive summary
(Arch Argent Pediatr., 2015-06-01)Arch Argent Pediatr. 2015 Jun;113(3):285-7. doi: 10.5546/aap.2015.285. [Considerations about the infant safe sleep: Executive summary]. [Article in Spanish] Grupo de Trabajo en Muerte Súbita e Inesperada del Lactante, ... -
Latin America: the next region for haematopoietic transplant progress.
(Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], 2017-05-01)Haematopoietic cell transplant activity in the 28 countries comprising Latin America is poorly defined. We conducted a voluntary survey of members of the Latin American Bone Marrow Transplantation Group regarding transplant ... -
Ombitasvir / paritaprevir / ritonavir / dasabuvir ± ribavirina es segura y efectiva en el HCV - infectados pacientes en una vida real cohorte de América Latina .
(Wiley, 2017-03-29)Information about the use of ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir/dasabuvir ± ribavirin (OBV/PTV/r/DSV ± RBV) in real-clinical practice in Latin America is scarce. We aimed to confirm safety and effectiveness of OBV/PTV/r/DSV ± RBV ... -
Response to "Comments on 'The Effects of Fat Harvesting and Preparation, Air Exposure, Obesity, and Stem Cell Enrichment on Adipocyte Viability Prior to Graft Transplantation'".
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-01)Response to “Comments on ‘The Effects of Fat Harvesting and Preparation, Air Exposure, Obesity, and Stem Cell Enrichment on Adipocyte Viability Prior to Graft Transplantation’” -
Loss of dystrophin is associated with increased myocardial stiffness in a model of left ventricular hypertrophy.
(Springer, 2017-03-18)Transition from compensated to decompensated left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is accompanied by functional and structural changes. Here, the aim was to evaluate dystrophin expression in murine models and human subjects ... -
American Confederation of Urology (CAU) experience in minimally invasive partial nephrectomy.
(Springer, 2017-01-01)PURPOSE: To describe the perioperative and oncology outcomes in a series of laparoscopic or robotic partial nephrectomies (PN) for renal tumors treated in diverse institutions of Hispanic America from the beginning of ... -
Spectrum and visual outcomes of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in Argentina.
(Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017-01-01)AIM: To review all cases of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease in an Inflammatory Eye Disease Service in Argentina and to describe the clinical profile and outcomes of treatment. METHODS: The records from patients ... -
Pluripotent Nontumorigenic Adipose Tissue-Derived Muse Cells have Immunomodulatory Capacity Mediated by Transforming Growth Factor-β1
(Wiley Open Access, 2017-01-01)Adult mesenchymal stromal cell-based interventions have shown promising results in a broad range of diseases. However, their use has faced limited effectiveness owing to the low survival rates and susceptibility to ... -
Chronic hepatitis C and chronic kidney disease: Advances, limitations and unchartered territories.
(Wiley, 2017-06-01)Over the past few years, treatment options for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have evolved dramatically. The current approved interferon-free direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens have been shown to be safe and ... -
International variations in application of the best-interest standard across the age spectrum.
(Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], 2017-02-01)OBJECTIVE: Ethically and legally, assertions that resuscitation is in a patient's best interest should be inversely correlated with willingness to forego intensive care (and accept comfort care) at the surrogate's request. ... -
Educational intervention to improve effectiveness in treatment and control of patients with high cardiovascular risk in low-resource settings in Argentina: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-01-31)INTRODUCTION: Hypercholesterolaemia is estimated to cause 2.6 million deaths annually and one-third of the cases of ischaemic heart disease. In Argentina, the prevalence of hypercholesterolaemia increased between 2005 and ... -
The Latin American experience of allografting patients with severe aplastic anaemia: real-world data on the impact of stem cell source and ATG administration in HLA-identical sibling transplants
(Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], 2017-01-01)We studied 298 patients with severe aplastic anaemia (SAA) allografted in four Latin American countries. The source of cells was bone marrow (BM) in 94 patients and PBSCs in 204 patients. Engraftment failed in 8.1% of ... -
Immunology of Bee Venom
(Humana Press, 2017-03-01)Introduction Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is ... -
Acute effect of coffee consumption on arterial stiffness, evaluated using an oscillometric method
(Elsevier, 2017-03-01)Introduction Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is ... -
Enfermedad de Fabry y síndrome de piernas inquietas: certificación
(Elsevier, 2017-01-01)La observación de un síntoma, signo o síndrome aún no descrito en una entidad, e indagando en los buscadores bibliográficos más conocidos, originan pensamientos de autocrítica, que con frecuencia determinan que esa experiencia ... -
Clinical epidemiology of acute hepatitis C in South America.
(Wiley, 2016-06)There is scarce data pertaining to acute hepatitis C (aHC) infection in South America. We aimed to describe clinical characteristics and evolution of aHC in a South American cohort. A retrospective survey was conducted at ... -
Electrical approach to improve left ventricular activation during right ventricle stimulation.
(Fundación Revista Medicina, 2017-01-01)Coronary sinus mapping is commonly used to evaluate left atrial activation. Herein, we propose to use it to assess which right ventricular pacing modality produces the shortest left ventricular activation times (R-LVtime) ... -
Transforming growth factor-β1 functional polymorphisms in myeloablative sibling hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
(Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com], 2017-05-01)Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with sibling donors (s.d.) is a life-saving intervention for patients with hematological malignancies. Numerous genetic factors have a role in transplant outcome. Several ...