Abstract Background: Hand osteoarthritis (HOA) is a complex disorder with various subtypes characterized with predominance of different features. It is challenging to estimate the severity of hand disability in HOA, since contribution of different disease components to clinical burden is yet to be clari...
La neumonÃa es la causa de muerte de aproximadamente 4 millones de niños al año en todo el mundo, la gran mayorÃa en paÃses en desarrollo. En el primer año de vida, la incidencia es de 15-20 casos/1.000 niños/año. De 1 a 5 años asciende a 30-40 casos y, de nuevo, desciende en los mayores de 5 aÃ...
Abstract Objective: To describe the performance of a non-fluoroscopic fixed-flexion PA radiographic protocol with a new positioning device, developed for the assessment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) in Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health Musculoskeletal Study (ELSA-Brasil MSK). Material and meth...
Background and objective: The present study aimed to evaluate whether right subclavian vein (SCV) catheter insertion depth can be predicted reliably by the distances from the SCV insertion site to the ipsilateral clavicular notch directly (denoted as I-IC), via the top of the SCV arch, or via the clavicl...