Rev Invest Clin
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Multicenter Study
Extended major histocompatibility complex haplotypes, ancestry and acute kidney transplant rejection in Mexicans.
Extended major histocompatibility complex (MHC) haplotypes are associated with several autoimmune diseases, and these appear to depend on ancestry. ⋯ Ancestry and LD may be associated with risk of acute rejection and may therefore be useful in directing immunosuppression.
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Comparative Study
F18-FDG-PET/CT in the evaluation of patients with suspected recurrent or persistent locally advanced cervical carcinoma.
Cervical cancer (CC) represents the second most common neoplasm and the third cause of death by cancer among women. Recurrent or persistent disease depends on the clinical stage, but can be as high as 70%. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is an image study that can detect increased glucose uptake in tumor tissues. ⋯ PET/CT has the capability for detecting recurrent or persistent cervical cancer; it detects increased metabolic activity mainly in primary site or lymph nodes. Further PET/CT evaluation is required to confirm the real impact of this study on the early detection of CC recurrence.
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Diverse psychosocial and cultural factors are related to adherence to treatment of type 2 Diabetes mellitus (DM2) such as social support, coping styles and the cost of medical attention. ⋯ Supportant CS was more frequent in men. Belief in conventional medicine, and supportant CS were associated with adherence to treatment. These factors should be considered for a more rational approach for the management of disease.
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Biography Historical Article
[On the vaccination before and after Jenner].
The expression "inoculation" of smallpox was first employed by doctor Emanuel Timone, native of the Greek island of Chios and graduated from the Universities of Padua and Oxford. This method was largely employed in the XVIII century. Nevertheless, in 1798, the English physician Edward Jenner published the results of his observartions and his own experience with "vaccination", i. e. the inoculation of cowpox. ⋯ It arrived to Spain in 1801 and thence was transferred to Spanish America and Philippines Islands with the expedition leaded by doctor Francisco Xavier Balmis. This expedition reached New Spain in June 1804, and remained there until February 1805 when embarked addressing to Philippines Islands. The other expeditionary group, leaded by doctor José Salvani, addressed toward Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, where Salvani died.
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To assess and relate the nutritional status by type of abuse in a pediatric population diagnosed with physical abuse (PA) and sexual abuse (SA). ⋯ This study identified acute and chronic under nutrition in girls with PA, and overweight and obesity in girls with SA. These findings enrich the knowledge for the suspicion of maltreatment child syndrome during the search of the aetiology of the clinical expression studied.