Bernuy, Jeanette; Gonzales, Gustavo F.(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2015)
La enfermedad mineral ósea (EMO) es un término amplio que incluye a las alteraciones séricas del calcio, fósforo, vitamina D, paratohormona, anormalidades en el crecimiento, mineralización ósea y/o a las calcificaciones ...
Menezess, Paulo R.; Araya, Ricardo; Miranda, Jaime; Mohr, David C.; Price, Le Shanundra N.(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2015)
Over the past 60 years Latin American countries have been experiencing noticeable demographic and socioeconomic changes, with marked impact on the population health in the region. There is growing recognition of the ...
PURPOSE: To explore perceptions and experiences of Peruvian medical students about observed, preferred, and feasible decision-making approaches. METHODS: We surveyed senior medical students from 19 teaching hospitals in 4 ...
Guinea pigs are important reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi , the causative parasite of Chagas disease, and in the Southern Cone of South America, transmission is mediated mainly by the vector Triatoma infestans . Interestingly, ...
Vizcarra, Joaquin A.; Lang, Anthony E.; Sethi, Kapil D.; Espay, Alberto J.(Wiley, 2015)
Progressive ambulatory impairment and abnormal white matter (WM) signal on neuroimaging come together under the diagnostic umbrella of vascular parkinsonism (VaP). A critical appraisal of the literature, however, suggests ...
McFarland, Adam P.; Sanchez, Juan F.; Mercado, Alejandro; Ventocilla, Julio A.; Cavalcanti, Sofia; Gonzalez, Sofia; Lescano, Andres G.(BMC, 2015)
Two Plasmodium vivax recurrences in a Peruvian sailor with weight above the 60 kg (cap for primaquine dosage) highlight the importance of adequate radical cure weight dosage for patient treatment and control efforts, ...
Meneses Quiroz, Luis Jean Pierre; Gonzales, Isidro; Pretell, Edwin Javier; Saavedra, Herbert; Garcia, Hector H.(American Academy of Neurology, 2015)
Neurocysticercosis is the infection of the CNS by cysts (larvae) of Taenia solium, a worldwide tropical disease. Cysticercosis lesions frequently locate in the gray-white matter border of the cerebral hemispheres but also ...
Pesantes, M. Amalia; Lazo-Porras, Maria; Abu Dabrh, Abd Moain; Avila-Ramirez, Jaime R.; Caycho, Maria; Villamonte, Georgina Y.; Sanchez-Perez, Grecia P.; Malaga, German; Bernabe-Ortiz, Antonio; Miranda, J. Jaime(Elsevier, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic conditions and limited access to health care experience stressful challenges resulting from the burden of managing both their conditions and their daily life demands. Resilience provides ...
Gomez, Luis F.; Sarmiento, Rodrigo; Ordonez, Maria Fernanda; Pardo, Carlos Felipe; de Sa, Thiago Herick; Mallarino, Christina H.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Mosquera, Janeth; Parra, Diana C.; Reis, Rodrigo; Quistberg, D. Alex(Elsevier, 2015)
This study summarizes the evidence from quantitative systematic reviews that assessed the association between urban environment attributes and physical activity. It also documents sociopolitical barriers and facilitators ...
Pathogens adapt and evolve in response to pressures exerted by host environments, leading to generation of genetically diverse variants. Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum displays a substantial amount of interstrain ...