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Agreement between an Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis Risk Calculator and the Colombian Clinical Practice Guideline in Three Tertiary-Care Centers in Bogotá, Colombia
Objective: Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) worldwide help steer the management of early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS). These documents typically discourage the use of risk assessment tools. However, prior work has shown ...2023-01 -
A Patient-level Data Euclidean-matched Analysis Of Reperfusion Therapies In Acute Ischemic Stroke From The Latin American Stroke Registry (lase)
Introduction: As acute stroke therapies expand to less well-resourced regions, it is imperative to study real-world data to assess outcomes and the quality of stroke care. The present study analyzes clinical, and imaging ...2023-02 -
Encuesta colombiana de neurología 2016-2020
INTRODUCCIÓN: La práctica de la neurología como especialidad clínica es relativamente reciente en Colombia, a pesar de que esta área ha mostrado progresos académicos significativos; la información sociodemográfica es ...2023-02 -
Dysautonomia in people with epilepsy: A scoping review
Background Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases and has high morbidity and mortality. Multiple methods for assessing dysautonomia have been reported; however, the patient characteristics and epilepsy ...2023-02 -
Experience of subcutaneous levetiracetam in palliative care
Background: Seizures are common in palliative care. Their control is essential in the management of these patients as it helps to reduce suffering at the end of life. Subcutaneous levetiracetam has been used off-license ...2023-02 -
Surgical mortality in patients in extremis: futility in emergency abdominal surgery
Background: The number of older patients with multiple comorbidities in the emergency service is increasingly frequent, which implies the risk of incurring in futile surgical interventions. Some interventions generate false ...2023-01 -
Survival Outcomes of Hepatectomy in Gastric Cancer Liver Metastasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Gastric cancer liver metastasis (GCLM) is a contraindication for surgical treatment in current guidelines. However, the results of recent studies are questioning this paradigm. We assessed survival outcomes and their ...2023-01 -
Laparoscopic and open gastrectomy for locally advanced gastric cancer: a retrospective analysis in Colombia
Introduction: Radical gastrectomy has traditionally been the pillar treatment with curative intent for malignant tumors of the stomach. The safety of the laparoscopic approach for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) is still ...2023-01 -
Management of pneumothorax with 8.3-French Pigtail Catheter: description of the ultrasound-guided technique and case series
Spontaneous and traumatic pneumothorax are most often treated with chest tube (CT) thoracostomy. However, it appears that small-bore drainage systems have similar success rates with lower complications, pain, and discomfort ...2023-01 -
Gastric adenocarcinoma: A one-of-a-kind etiology of autoimmune paraneoplastic encephalitis
Introduction and importance: Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes are a group of neurologic disorders that can affect any part of the nervous system and are mediated by immune pathogens produced by cancer. These disorders ...2023-01 -
Elective surgery system strengthening: development, measurement, and validation of the surgical preparedness index across 1632 hospitals in 119 countries
Background: The 2015 Lancet Commission on global surgery identified surgery and anaesthesia as indispensable parts of holistic health-care systems. However, COVID-19 exposed the fragility of planned surgical services around ...2022-11 -
Nutrición clínica y gestación
La gestación es un estado fisiológico en el que ocurren profundas adaptaciones morfofisiológicas y en el que la nutrición desempeña un papel fundamental. Con el fin de brindar información actualizada, el presente libro se ...2023 -
The Clinical Impact of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair in the Management of Thoracic Aortic Diseases
Purpose: Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has been described to be superior to an open surgical approach, and previous studies have found superiority in TEVAR by reducing overall morbidity and mortality rates. ...2023-01-07 -
Variables hemodinámicas cardíacas y desenlaces postrasplante hepático en un centro de referencia de trasplantes en Colombia a 2600 metros sobre el nivel del mar
Introducción: la valoración hemodinámica mediante ecocardiografía Doppler tiene importancia en la identificación de alteraciones sistólicas/diastólicas como predictor de desenlaces en el postrasplante hepático desde ...2022 -
Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the AOFAS Scale in Patients with Hallux Valgus in Colombia
The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) scale for hallux metatarsophalangeal (MTP) and interphalangeal (IP) joints is used throughout the world for the clinical assessment of patients with hallux valgus, and ...2022 -
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis: a clinical, radiological, and pathological correlation
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an immune-mediated interstitial lung disease affecting genetically susceptible individuals sensitized to various inhaled antigens. Its manifestations and clinical course are heterogeneous. ...2023-01 -
Prognostic Factors Associated With In-hospital Mortality In Patients With Infective Endocarditis In 4 Colombian Hospitals From 2007 To 2017
Background In Colombia there are few studies on the behavior of this disease, with incidence reports of 8.3 patients per 100,000 inhabitants per year. This study is the first to be carried out in several centers in the ...2022 -
Hepatic artery lymph node relevance in periampullary tumors: A retrospective analysis of survival outcomes
Background: The Periampullary area comprehends a heterogeneous and complex structure with different histological tissues. Surgical standards include the peripancreatic regional lymphadenectomy, and during pancreatoduodenectomy ...2022 -
Hemosuccus pancreaticus as an unusual cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Case report and literature review
Background Hemosuccus pancreaticus is a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding (1/1500) and represents the loss of blood through the main pancreatic duct and its exteriorization through the major duodenal papilla. ...2022 -
Rates of Anastomotic Complications and Their Management Following Esophagectomy: Results of the Oesophago-Gastric Anastomosis Audit (OGAA)
Objective: This study aimed to characterize rates and management of anastomotic leak (AL) and conduit necrosis (CN) after esophagectomy in an international cohort. Background: Outcomes in patients with anastomotic ...2022