Browsing by Subject "Latin America"

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    • Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of HIV infection in Latin-American immigrants. Comparative ... 
      Rodríguez, María Fernanda; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo; Cortés, Claudia (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All Rights Reserved.Background: There has been an increasing number of immigrants to Chile in the last years, especially from South American countries. The phenomenon of immigration ...
    • Clinical and Virologic Outcomes After Changes in First Antiretroviral Regimen at 7 Sites in the Caribbean, ... 
      Wolff Reyes, Marcelo; Shepherd, Bryan E.; Cortés, Claudia; Rebeiro, Peter F.; César, Carina; Wagner Cardoso, Sandra; Pape, Jean W.; Padgett, Denis; Sierra Madero, Juan; Echevarría, Juan; McGowan, Catherine C. (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
      Background:HIV-infected persons in resource-limited settings may experience high rates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) change, particularly because of toxicity or other nonfailure reasons. Few reports address patient ...
    • Clinical nursing and midwifery research in Latin American and Caribbean countries: a scoping review 
      Iribarren, Sarah; Stonbraker, Samantha; Larsen, Brandon; Santos, Islane; Faria, Renata; Goes, Fernanda S. N.; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Larson, Elaine (Wiley, 2018)
      AimTo identify and describe published, nursing-led and midwifery-led, clinical research that has been conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean. BackgroundPeer-reviewed published research may correspond to and ...
    • Clinical presentations and surgical outcomes of intraocular foreignbody presenting to an ocular trauma unit 
      Anguita Henríquez, Rodrigo; Moya Behrens, René; Sáez Vergara, Víctor; Bhardwaj, Gaurav; Salinas Chau, Alejandro; Kobus Rivera, Rudolf; Nazar, Cristóbal; Manríquez Ortega, Rodolfo; Charteris, David G. (Springer, 2020)
      Objectives To describe, evaluate, and identify the characteristics, prognostic factors, and visual outcomes in patients with intraocular foreign body (IOFB) in a Latin American population. Methods A retrospective, observational ...
    • Colorectal cancer risk factors in asymptomatic Chilean population: a survey of international collaboration ... 
      Okada, Takuya; Odagaki, Tomoyuki; Lopez Kostner, Francisco; Zarate, Alejandro; Ponce, Alejandra; Kronberg, Udo; Karelovic, Stanko; Flores, Sergio; Ito, Takashi; Yasuno, Masamichi; Uetake, Hiroyuki; Kojima, Kazuyuki; Kitagawa, Masanobu (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2020)
      In Chile, the mortality from colorectal cancer has been on the rise. A national screening program based on a fecal immunochemical test was started in 2012 as an international collaboration with Japan. This case-control ...
    • Comparison of ixekizumab with etanercept or placebo in moderate-to-severe psoriasis: Subgroup analysis of ... 
      Valenzuela Ahumada, Fernando; Cruz Fernandez, C. de la; Galimberti, R. L.; Gurbuz, S.; McKean Matthews, M.; Goncalves, L.; Romiti, R. (Elsevier, 2017)
      Background and objectives: Ixekizumab demonstrated greater efficacy than placebo and etanercept in UNCOVER-3. Subgroup analysis of Latin American patients was performed. We report 12-week and 60-week data. Patients and ...
    • Conocimiento y uso de mecanismos de coordinación clínica de servicios de salud de Latinoamérica 
      Miranda Mendizábal, Andrea; Vargas, Ingrid; Mogollón Pérez, Amparo Susana; Eguiguren Bravo, Pamela; Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes, Marina; López, Julieta; Bertolotto, Fernando; Amarilla, Delia; Vázquez Navarretea, María Luisa (Elsevier, 2020)
      Objetivo: Analizar el nivel de conocimiento y uso, y las características del uso, de los mecanismos de coordinación clínica entre niveles de atención en redes de servicios de salud de seis países de Latinoamérica.Método: ...
    • Contested and interdependent appropriation of space in a multicultural commercial neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile 
      Ramírez, Carolina; Stefoni, Carolina (Routledge, 2019)
      © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This article examines experiences of making, inhabiting and appropriating space, in relation to the transformations of the political economy in an ...
    • Control of type 2 diabetes mellitus among general practitioners in private practice in nine countries of ... 
      Stewart, Gloria Lopez; Tambascia, Marcos; Guzmán, Juan Rosas; Etchegoyen, Federico; Carrion, Jorge Ortega; Artemenko, Sofia (2007)
      Objectives. To better understand how diabetes care and control are being administered by general practitioners/nonspecialists in private practice in nine countries of Latin America, and to identify the most significant ...
    • Current situation of pediatric endoscopy in Latin America: Report of the endoscopy and procedures committee ... 
      Álvarez, Reinaldo Pierre; González, Beatriz; Toca, María Del Carmen; Ninomiya, Inés; Targa, Cristina; Medina, Fernando; Oviedo, César; González, Mónica; Harris, Paul; Ramírez, Nélson; Mejía, Milton; Angulo, Diana; Rivera, Juan; Guzmán, Celina; Zablah, Roberto; Iglesias, (Sociedad Argentina de Gastroenterologia, 2017)
      © 2017, Sociedad Argentina de Gastroenterologia. All rights reserved. The Latinamerican Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (LASPGHAN), through its Endoscopy and Procedures Committee, has performed ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: Epidemiological Evidence and Implications for Public Policy 
      Custodio, Nilton; Wheelock, Ana; Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Population aging is among the most important global transformations. Today, 12% of the world population is of age 60 and over and by the middle of this century this segment will represent 21.5%. The increase in population ...
    • Dementia in Latin America: paving the way toward a regional action plan 
      Parra, Mario Alfredo; Báez, Sandra; Sedeño, Lucas; González Campo, Cecilia; Santamaría García, Hernando; Aprahamian, Iván; Bertolucci, Paulo H. F.; Bustin, Julián; Camargos Bicalho, María Aparecida; Cano Gutiérrez, Carlos; Caramelli, Paulo; Chaves, Marcia L. F.; Cogram, Patricia; Costa Beber, Bárbara; Court, Felipe A.; Cruz de Souza, Leonardo; Custodio, Nilton; Damián, Andrés; Cruz, Myriam de la; Rodríguez, Roberta Diehl; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia María; Fajersztajn, Lais; Farías Gontupil, Gonzalo Andrés; Felice, Fernanda G. de; Ferrari, Raffaele; Ferreira de Oliveira, Fabricio; Ferreira, Sergio T.; Ferretti, Ceres; Figueredo Balthazar, Marcio Luiz; Ferreira Frota, Norberto Anizio; Fuentes, Patricio; García, Adolfo A.; García, Patricia J.; De Gobbi Porto, Fábio Henrique; Duque Peñailillo, Lissette; Engler, HenryWilly; Maier, Irene; Mata, Ignacio F.; González Billault, Christian; López, Oscar L.; Morelli, Laura; Nitrini, Ricardo; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Guerrero Barragán, Alejandra; Huepe, David; Pio, Fabricio Joao; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Kochhann, Renata; Kochen, Silvia; Kumfor, Fiona; Lanata, Serggio; Miller, Bruce; Mansur, Leticia Lessa; Hosogi, Mirna Lie; Lillo, Patricia; Guerra, Jorge Llibre; Lira, David; Lopera, Francisco; Comas, Adelina; Ávila Funes, José Alberto; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Ramos, Claudia; França Resende, Elisa de Paula; Snyder, Heather M.; Tarnanas, Ioannis; Yokoyama, Jenifer; Llibre, Juan; Cardona, Juan Felipe; Possin, Kate; Kosik, Kenneth S.; Montesinos, Rosa; Moguilner, Sebastián; Solís, Patricia Cristina Lourdes; Ferretti Rebustini, Renata Eloah de Lucena; Ramírez, Jerónimo Martin; Matallana, Diana; Mbakile Mahlanza, Lingani; Marques Ton, Alyne Mendonça; Tavares, Ronnielly Melo; Miotto, Eliane C.; Muniz Terrera, Graciela; Muñoz Nevárez, Luis Arnoldo; Orozco, David; De Oliveira, Maira Okada; Piguet, Olivier; Caipa, Maritza Pintado; Piña Escudero, Stefanie Danielle; Schilling, Lucas Porcello; Rodrigues Palmeira, André Luiz; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Santacruz Escudero, José Manuel; Serafim, Rodrigo Bernardo; Smid, Jerusa; Slachevsky, Andrea; Serrano, Cecilia; Soto Añari, Marcio; Takada, Leonel Tadao; Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz; Teixeira, Antonio Lucio; Barbosa, Maira Tonidandel; Trépel, Dominic; Ibáñez, Agustín (Wiley, 2021)
      Across Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs), the fight against dementia faces pressing challenges, such as heterogeneity, diversity, political instability, and socioeconomic disparities. These can be addressed ...
    • Diet and respiratory health in children from 11 Latin American countries: evidence from ISAAC phase III 
      Cepeda, Alfonso Mario; Thawer, Sumaiyya; Boyle, Robert J.; Villalba, Sara; Jaller, Rodolfo; Tapias, Elmy; Segura, Ana María; Villegas Ríos, Rodrigo Luis; García Larsen, Vanessa (Springer, 2017)
      The burden of childhood asthma and its risk factors is an important but neglected public health challenge in Latin America. We investigated the association between allergic symptoms and dietary intake in children from this ...
    • Different outcomes for transplant-eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients in Latin America ... 
      Peña, Camila; Riva, Eloisa; Schutz, Natalia; Tarín-Arzaga, Luz; Martínez Cordero, Humberto; Bove, Virginia; Osorio, Rocío; Chandía, Mauricio; Beltrán, Cecilia; Schulz, Javier; Cardemil, Daniela; Aranda Contreras, Carolina Andrea; Vergara, Carmen Gloria; Donoso, Javiera; Espinoza, Marcela; La Rocca, Gabriela; López Vidal, Hernán; León, Pilar; Rojas Hopkins, Christine; Soto, Pablo; Aranda, Sandra; Torres, Vivianne; Roa, Macarena; Ochoa, Paola; Duarte, Patricio; Remaggi, Guillermina; Yantorno, Sebastián; Corzo, Ariel; Zabaljauregui, Soledad; Shanley, Claudia; Lopresti, Sergio; Orlando, Sergio; Verri, Verónica; Quiroga, Luis; GarcÍa, Carlos; Fernández, Vanesa; Ramírez, Jhoanna; Molina, Alicia; Pacheco, María; Mite, Alex; Reyes, Inés; Sabando, Brenner; Ramírez, Francisca; Sossa, Claudia; Abello, Virginia; Idrobo, Henry; Gálvez Cárdenas, Kenny Mauricio; Saavedra, Domingo; Quintero, Guillermo; Gazitúa, Raimundo; Gaviria, Lina; Gómez, Rigoberto; Osuna, Mónica; Henao Uribe, Alicia; Cantú Martínez, Omar; Gómez Almaguer, David; García Navarrete, Yarely Itzayana; Cruz Mora, Antonio; Cantero Fortiz, Yahveth; Ruiz Argüelles, Guillermo J.; Fantl, Dorotea (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      The aim of this study was to describe clinical and survival characteristics of transplant-eligible multiple myeloma (MM) patients in Latin America (LA), with a special focus on differences between public and private ...
    • Durability of efavirenz compared with boosted protease inhibitor based regimens in antiretroviral naive ... 
      Caro Vega, Yanink; Belaunzaran Zamudio, Pablo F.; Crabtree Ramírez, Brenda E.; Shepherd, Bryan E.; Grinsztejn, Beatriz; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo; Pape, Jean W.; Padgett, Denis; Gotuzzo, Eduardo; McGowan, Catherine C.; Sierra Madero, Juan G. (Oxford University Press, 2018)
      Background. Efavirenz (EFV) and boosted protease inhibitors (bPIs) are still the preferred options for firstline antiretroviral regimens (firstline ART) in Latin America and have comparable short-term efficacy. We assessed ...
    • Editorial situation of journals on respiratory diseases published in Latin America Situación editorial de ... 
      Oyarzún Gómez, Manuel (2007)
      To analyze the present situation of respiratory diseases journals published in Latin America, editors of seven of these journals were convoked to a meeting organized by ALAT (Latin American Association of Thoracic Diseases) ...
    • Efecto del nivel educacional en la sobrevida posterior a un infarto agudo de miocardio: Registro Chileno ... 
      Nazzal Nazal, Carolina; Corbalán, Ramón; Díaz, Claudia; Sepúlveda, Pablo; Schacht, Eliana (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)
      Background: Socioeconomic status is associated with cardiovascular mortality. Aim: To evaluate the effect of educational level, on the prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction in Chile. Material and Methods: ...
    • Effect of educational level on the prognosis of acute myocardial infarction Efecto del nivel educacional ... 
      Nazzal, Carolina; Corbalán, Ramón; Díaz, Claudia; Sepúlveda, Pablo; Schacht, Eliana (Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Socioeconomic status is associated with cardiovascular mortality. Aim: To evaluate the effect of educational level, on the prognosis of patients with ...
    • Enterobacteriaceae susceptibility to piperacillin/tazobactam in a Chilean pediatric hospital Susceptibilidad ... 
      De La Vega, Juan Rojas; Benadof, Dona; Veas, Abigail; Acuña, Mirta (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2017)
      © 2018, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved. Introduction: Enterobacteriaceae are a group of gram-negative rods that can cause serious infections in humans. A susceptibility in Klebsiella pneumoniae of ...
    • Evaluating a memory clinic using the RE-AIM model. The experience of the "Memory and neuropsychiatry clinic" ... 
      León, Tomás; Castro, Loreto; Mascayano, Franco; Lawlor, Brian; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea María (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The development of healthcare services for dementia is key to improving access to care and post-diagnostic support for people living with dementia. Memory Units have emerged as a new healthcare service composed of ...