Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Schistosomiasis, caused by Schistosoma mansoni, is a public health concern in Brazil. However, the most popular diagnostic method, the Kato-Katz technique, exhibits low sensitivity in low-endemicity areas. We aimed to compare the performance of an immunological assay, the point-...
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: The genus Flavivirus includes several pathogenic species that cause severe illness in humans. Therefore, a rapid and accurate molecular method for diagnosis and surveillance of these viruses would be of great importance. Here, we evaluate and optimize a quantitative real-time rev...
Brasil,
Cartilla de ADN,
Flavivirus/clasificación,
Flavivirus/genética,
Flavivirus/aislamiento & purificación,
Infecciones por Flavivirus/diagnóstico,
Infecciones por Flavivirus/virología,
Colorantes Fluorescentes,
Compuestos Orgánicos,
ARN Viral/genética,
Juego de Reactivos para Diagnóstico,
Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa de Transcriptasa Inversa/métodos,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad
Abstract: INTRODUCTION With the globalization of Chagas disease, unexperienced health care providers may have difficulties in identifying which patients should be examined for this condition. This study aimed to develop and validate a diagnostic clinical prediction model for chronic Chagas disease. ME...
Introducción La grasa abdominal, especialmente la visceral, está asociada con un riesgo alto de complicaciones metabólicas. El índice cintura-estatura es usado para evaluar grasa abdominal en individuos de todas las edades. Objetivo Identificar la capacidad del índice cintura-estatura (ICE) para det...
Grasa Abdominal/patología,
Estatura,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Hipercolesterolemia/epidemiología,
Hiperglucemia/epidemiología,
Hipertrigliceridemia/epidemiología,
Enfermedades Metabólicas/epidemiología,
Enfermedades Metabólicas/etiología,
México/epidemiología,
Obesidad/epidemiología,
Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas,
Factores de Riesgo,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad,
Circunferencia de la Cintura
Abstract Objective: To determine risk factors during neonatal hospital stay and follow-up associated with failure to thrive in the first year of life of very low birth weight newborns. Methods: Study of preterm very low birth weight newborns followed from 2006 to 2013 in a public institutional hospital...
INTRODUÇÃO: O Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE) é responsável por incapacidades na vida do sujeito e pode muitas vezes provocar o seu óbito. Nos indivíduos acometidos, o equilíbrio é um dos principais componentes prejudicados, resultando em incapacidade. A Escala de Berg (EB) é um instrumento ...
RESUMO Objetivo avaliar a acurácia do Preterm Oral Feeding Readiness Scale - POFRAS para iniciar a alimentação oral de recém-nascidos pré-termo e verificar a concordância entre este instrumento e o instrumento de avaliação do Nível de Habilidade Oral. Métodos Foram avaliados 82 recém-nascido...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Risk Adjustment for Congenital Heart Surgery 1 (RACHS-1) score is a simple model that can be easily applied and has been widely used for mortality comparison among pediatric cardiovascular services. It is based on the categorization of several surgical palliative or corrective pro...
Brasil,
Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Cardíacos/mortalidad,
Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Cardíacos/estadística & datos numéricos,
Cardiopatías Congénitas/mortalidad,
Cardiopatías Congénitas/cirugía,
Mortalidad Hospitalaria,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Ajuste de Riesgo/métodos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad,
Centros de Atención Terciaria/estadística & datos numéricos
ABSTRACT Background - Helicobacter pylori infection is the gram negative bacillus with the close association with chronic antral gastritis. Objective - In this study, we evaluate the accuracy of urea breath test (UBT) with carbon isotope 13 in comparison with histopathology of gastric antrum for dete...
Biopsia,
Pruebas Respiratorias,
Estudios Transversales,
Dispepsia/diagnóstico,
Dispepsia/microbiología,
Dispepsia/patología,
Endoscopía,
Infecciones por Helicobacter/diagnóstico,
Infecciones por Helicobacter/patología,
Helicobacter pylori,
Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad,
Urea/análisis
