Rev Invest Clin
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As the media informed the spread of a highly transmissible disease, our medical community faced the disappearance of a languishing ancient tool. Traditionally helping to explain unexplainable death, educate, audit, warn relatives, or contacts; autopsies vanished in a reassigned COVID-19 teaching hospital (Fig. 1).
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Comparative Study
Cardioembolic Stroke: Risk Factors, Clinical Features, and Early Outcome in 956 Consecutive Patients.
There is little information about the early clinical features of cardioembolic stroke before complementary examinations. ⋯ Potential cardioembolic stroke requires a comprehensive evaluation, since early classification and identification through predictors would improve effective management.
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The incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is increasing globally due to an aging population and widespread use of imaging studies. ⋯ Surgical resection of RCC was safe and successful in VEP. Age ≥75 years was independently associated with 30-day perioperative complications. However, the vast majority were low-grade complications. Age alone should not guide decision-making in these patients, and treatment must be tailored according to performance status and severity of comorbidities.
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Observational Study
Serum Repressor Element-1 Silencing Transcription Factor Levels in Alzheimer's Patients from a National Institute of Health in Mexico City, Elderly and Young Controls.
Decreased levels of repressor element-1 silencing transcription (REST) factor in the brain, plasma, and neuronderived exosomes are associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). ⋯ Our results differ from previously published patterns found for plasma and cerebral REST levels. Free serum REST levels may not be a viable AD blood-based biomarker.