Background: Cardiovascular prognostic models guide treatment allocation and support clinical decisions. Whether there are valid models for Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) populations is unknown. Objective: This study ...
Altez-Fernandez, Carlos; Ortiz, Victor; Mirzazadeh, Majid; Zegarra, Luis; Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael; Ugarte Gil, Cesar Augusto(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Genitourinary tuberculosis is the third most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Diagnosis is difficult because of unspecific clinical manifestations and low accuracy of conventional tests. Unfortunately, ...
Altez-Fernandez, Carlos; Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael; Zegarra, Luis; Ugarte Gil, Cesar Augusto(SAGE Publications, 2016)
We read with interest the article by Kulchavenya and Kholtobin on urogenital tuberculosis (UGTB) [Kulchavenya and Kholtobin, 2015], in which the authors provide information about unusual UGTB cases. While the authors claim ...
Carrillo Larco, Rodrigo Martín; Altez-Fernandez, Carlos; Acevedo-Rodriguez, J. Gonzalo; Ortiz-Acha, Karol; Ugarte Gil, Cesar Augusto(Public Library of Science, 2019)
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is a worldwide prevalent zoonosis and chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading global disease burden. Because of pathophysiological changes in the kidney, it has been suggested that these conditions ...
