Hospital Universitario Austral -HUA-: Recent submissions
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Supporting Families After Traumatic Brain Injury, Is This a Way of Improving Results?
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-07-01)Supporting Families After Traumatic Brain Injury, Is This a Way of Improving Results? -
Risk factors for advanced resuscitation in term and near-term infants: a case-control study.
(BMJ Publishing Group Limited, 2016-06-06)OBJECTIVE: (1) To determine which antepartum and/or intrapartum factors are associated with the need for advanced neonatal resuscitation (ANR) at birth in infants with gestational age (GA) ≥34 weeks. (2) To develop a risk ... -
Minimally invasive Akin osteotomy and lateral release: Anatomical structures at risk—A cadaveric study
(Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect, 2016-06-01)BACKGROUND: Among the many surgical techniques used for hallux valgus correction, different osteotomies may be performed in the proximal phalanx as well as lateral release as associated procedures. The aim of this study ... -
The Relationship Between Parental Variables, Empathy and Prosocial-Flow with Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family
(Springer Science+Business Media Dordrech, 2016-05-12)The goal of this study was to explore the relationship between two different aspects of the parent–child relationship (parental challenge and authoritative parental style) and empathy as well as prosocial flow with ... -
A systematic review of faculty development initiatives designed to enhance teaching effectiveness: A 10-year update: BEME Guide No. 40.
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-15)BACKGROUND: This review, which focused on faculty development initiatives designed to improve teaching effectiveness, synthesized findings related to intervention types, study characteristics, individual and organizational ... -
Hepatitis C virus infection in Argentina: Burden of chronic disease.
(Baishideng Publishing Group, 2016-05-28)AIM: To estimate the progression of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic and measure the burden of HCV-related morbidity and mortality. METHODS: Age- and gender-defined cohorts were used to follow the viremic population ... -
VALIDATION AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A SURVEY ON DECISION OF TREATMENT IN NEONATAL CRITICAL INFANTS ADMINISTERED TO NEONATOLOGISTS IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
(Medicina e Morale, 2015-02-28)Therapeutic decision in critically ill infants with neurological damage and poor future quality of life has raised a profound ethical discussion. Validation of surveys is a useful tool to strengthen the results obtained ... -
Treatment of Fabry's Disease with the Pharmacologic Chaperone Migalastat.
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2016-08-11)BACKGROUND: Fabry's disease, an X-linked disorder of lysosomal α-galactosidase deficiency, leads to substrate accumulation in multiple organs. Migalastat, an oral pharmacologic chaperone, stabilizes specific mutant forms ... -
Sympathetic predominance is associated with impaired endothelial progenitor cells and tunneling nanotubes in controlled-hypertensive patients.
(American Physiological Society, 2014-05-23)Early endothelial progenitor cells (early EPC) and late EPC are involved in endothelial repair and can rescue damaged endothelial cells by transferring organelles through tunneling nanotubes (TNT). In rodents, EPC mobilization ... -
The early onset of type 1 autoimmune hepatitis has a strong genetic influence: role of HLA and KIR genes.
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Springer is part of Springer Nature, 2016-02-18)We have previously reported a strong association between HLA-DRB1*1301 and type 1 pediatric autoimmune hepatitis (PAH) and between HLA-DR*0405 and adult autoimmune hepatitis (AAH). Because human killer cell immunoglobulin-like ... -
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy: A new concept of disease pathogenesis and practical consequences.
(Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect, 2016-03-01)During the last four decades, proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) has defied the efforts of many researchers to prevent its occurrence or development. Thus, PVR is still the major complication following retinal detachment ... -
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition).
(Taylor & Francis Group's, 2016-01-21)Many researchers, especially those new to the field, need to determine which criteria are essential for demonstrating autophagy, either for the purposes of their own research, or in the capacity of a manuscript or grant ... -
Repair of the Left Pulmonary Artery After Bilateral Banding in Hybrid Procedures: Results Using "Sutureless" Repair Technique.
(SAGE Publications, 2016-01-07)We describe the use of the so-called "sutureless" technique for repair of stenosis of the left pulmonary artery after bilateral banding in the management of two patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome who had undergone ... -
Prevalencia de prescripción potencialmente inapropiada de medicamentos en adultos mayores
(Elsevier España, 2016-03-10)Introducción: Una de las causas prevenibles de los eventos adversos a medicamentos (EAM) en los adultos mayores lo constituye la prescripción inapropiada (PIM), es decir, aquella prescripción donde los riesgos superan los ... -
Neuroactive steroids, nociception and neuropathic pain: A flashback to go forward.
(Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved., 2016-04-11)The present review discusses the potential role of neurosteroids / neuroactive steroids in the regulation of nociceptive and neuropathic pain, and recapitulates the current knowledge on the main mechanisms involved in ... -
Succinate-CoA ligase deficiency due to mutations in SUCLA2 and SUCLG1: phenotype and genotype correlations in 71 patients.
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved, 2016-03-01)BACKGROUND: The encephalomyopathic mtDNA depletion syndrome with methylmalonic aciduria is associated with deficiency of succinate-CoA ligase, caused by mutations in SUCLA2 or SUCLG1. We report here 25 new patients with ... -
High-Velocity Jet in the Right Atrium: What Is the Diagnosis?
(International Anesthesia Research Society, 2016-03-01)A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with palpitations and was found to have paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Auscultation of the chest revealed ... -
Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: evaluation of the alpha-fetoprotein model in a multicenter cohort from Latin America.
(John Wiley & Sons A/S, 2016-05-05)BACKGROUND & AIMS: The French alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) model has recently shown superior results compared to Milan criteria (MC) for prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) ... -
SPARC gene deletion protects against toxic liver injury and is associated to an enhanced proliferative capacity and reduced oxidative stress response.
(Oncotarget, 2016-06-25)SPARC, also known as osteonectin and BM-40, is a matricellular protein with a number of biological functions. Hepatic SPARC expression is induced in response to thioacetamide, bile-duct ligation, and acute injuries such ... -
Oxidative stress-induced premature senescence dysregulates VEGF and CFH expression in retinal pigment epithelial cells: Implications for Age-related Macular Degeneration
(Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect, 2016-04-01)Oxidative stress has a critical role in the pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a multifactorial disease that includes age, gene variants of complement regulatory proteins and smoking as the main risk ...