Colomb Medica
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Guidelines in medicine are essential tools to provide quality and standardised medical care. We analysed the quality of aesthetic medicine guidelines. ⋯ Aesthetic medicine and surgical guidelines had low quality and must be improved. There is a wide range of improvement, especially in applicability, reporting of evidence, recommendations, conflict of interest, quality control and SDM. These guidelines require a rigorous methodology based on systematic reviews to ensure quality evidence-based recommendations.
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Morphological properties such as length and tortuosity of the large intestine segments play important roles, especially in interventional procedures like colonoscopy. ⋯ The study highlights the importance of understanding the type and morphology of the large intestine for accurate interpretation of CT colonography results and effective clinical management of patients with suspected large intestine abnormalities. Furthermore, this study showed that 88.57% of the images in the test data set were detected correctly and that AI can play an important role in colon typing.
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Four cases of patients aged 41, 33, 43 and 68 years who presented periapical lesions and needed periodontal surgery for pre-prosthetic purposes. ⋯ Considering the results obtained, performing the periodontal and endodontic surgery procedures in a single surgical act is suggested. This reduces costs, travel, number of appointments, medication intake and post-surgical complications.
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YouTube is one of the most used social media platforms for accessing health information. ⋯ Most YouTube videos about chronic prostatitis did not have enough quality and reliable information. Health associations should be more attentive to posting more content videos of sufficient quality and reliability on social media platforms.
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A series of 6 cases with a probable diagnosis of sporadic CJD, treated in a Peruvian national reference hospital, are presented. ⋯ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disease of low prevalence and incidence. Great clinical suspicion and the exclusion of other etiologies are required. Currently there is no treatment for this entity and there is a high probability of death before one year.