Abstract Objective: To determine the internal consistency and content validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS) in dental students from Cartagena, Colombia. Materials and methods: Scale validation study in 886 dental students from Cartagena, Colombia. Factor structure was determ...
Resumen Antecedentes: la mortalidad en diálisis es uno de los principales indicadores de gestión clínica y se ve influenciada por diversos factores sociodemográficos y clínicos. Objetivos: calcular la mortalidad observada versus la esperada en las unidades de diálisis de la red de RTS en Colombia...
Abstract Introduction: There is a wide variety of gastrointestinal clinical manifestations that may increase the deterioration of the quality of life in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which are manageable if properly detected. Objective: The objective of this work is to perform an updated ...
Abstract Treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at all levels of healthcare, is a frequent challenge that deserves the best expertise and the best professional team. Phosphorus ingest in the diet and its implications for kidney function have been widely depicted in the literature. Howeve...
Abstract In recent years, several new antidiabetic drugs have been developed, among which only two have demonstrated superiority in cardiovascular protection. They are liraglutide and empagliflozine, which belong, respectively, to GLP-1 RA and SGLT-2Í. These medications have also shown benefits in kidne...
Abstract Haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a clinical entity characterized by the appearance of non-immune hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure. It is a disease belonging to the group of thrombotic microangiopathy (MAT) which are part of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura also (P...
Abstract Hemophagocytic syndrome is an entity caused by hypercytokinemia and impaired immune system, may be hereditary or acquired and generates high mortality despite treatment. Among the etiologies, infections occupy an important place, one of them disseminated histoplasmosis, an opportunistic infectio...
Absctrat Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is characterized by small vessel vasculitis that affects the upper respiratory tract, lungs and kidneys. Renal involvement may occur between 40 and 100% of cases. The disease varies from asymptomatic to fulminant rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis forms, leading...
Colombia fue el primer país del mundo en desarrollar una guía basada en la evidencia para la toxoplasmosis. El proyecto se presentó en 2010, se inició en 2011 y se publicó en español en Infectio en diciembre de 20121. Esta guía forma parte de las guías basadas en la evidencia para la complicació...
Notificamos un caso de infección por Escherichia coli productora de Nueva Delhi metalo-b-lactamasa (NDM) en un paciente que desarrolló un absceso subcapsular hepático como complicación de una colecistectomía laparoscópica. La NDM es una carbapenemasa adquirida tipo Ambler B, que confiere resistenci...
