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Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty: procedure evolution from first-in-man cases through current technique
(PublMed, 2018)Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty (ESG) has evolved over time. With the advent of full-thickness endoscopic suturing, an efficient technique for ESG was developed and refined. This prospective first-in-man trial started in ... -
Endoscopic treatment of gastrointestinal leaks
(Springer, Cham, 2023-03)Gastrointestinal leaks are severe complications after bariatric surgery, mainly related to postoperative anastomotic defects with substantial morbidity and mortality. Surgical interventions can be complicated with high ... -
Engaging students in secondary science learning through the scientific and engineering practices and use of digital tools
(Elsevier B.V.,, 2023)Policy documents have suggested that school science should represent real scientific and engineering practices and use of digital tools, in order to raise students’ low levels of interest and engagement in science learning. ... -
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic
(2022-07-22)Research on health security has focused on how many different political, economic, social, and health-related factors affect disease containment within states. However, largely missing from this scholarship is an examination ... -
The epidemiology of dependency among urban-dwelling older people in the Dominican Republic: a cross-sectional survey.
(BMC Public Health, 2008)Demographic ageing, and the health transition will soon lead to large increases in the number of dependent older people in low and middle income countries. Despite its importance, this topic has not previously been ... -
Epidemiology of needlesticks and other sharps injuries and injection safety practices in the Dominican Republic
(2007)Contaminated sharps, such as needles, lancets, scalpels, broken glass, specimen tubes, and other instruments, can transmit bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C viruses (HCV). Methods: ... -
Equity in the delivery of community healthcare to older people: Findings from 10/66 Dementia research group cross-sectional surveys in Latin America, China, India and Nigeria.
(BMC Health Services Research, 2011)To describe patterns of recent health service utilisation, and consequent out-of-pocket expenses among older people in countries with low and middle incomes, and to assess the equity with which services are accessed and ... -
Estimadores formales de Bayes en el modelo aleatorio general de clasificación doble cruzado
(Springer Link, 1978)Se desarrollaron algunos estimadores formales de Bayes de los componentes de varianza en el modelo de clasificación doble cruzado de efectos aleatorios con una observación por celda. La generalización de tales estimadores ... -
Estimating impacts on developing countries of the decrease in U.S. training opportunities for foreign medical graduates.
(Academic Medicine, 1991)Between 1973 and 1983, the number of foreign nationals from developing nations who entered the United States for graduate medical education decreased by approximately 90%. Many of those who would have studied in the United ... -
Estudio de los materiales constructivos de la catedral de Santo Domingo, Primada de América
(REHABEND 2016, 2016-05)Todos los materiales, incluyendo los de construcción, sufren con el tiempo procesos de envejecimiento que se presentan como degradación y/o deterioro, especialmente los que están a la intemperie o en contacto con el ... -
Evaluation of Plasma Biomarkers for A/T/N Classification of Alzheimer Disease Among Adults of Caribbean Hispanic Ethnicity
(JAMA Netw Open., 2023)Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma biomarkers can detect biological evidence of Alzheimer disease (AD), but their use in low-resource environments and among minority ethnic groups is limited. To assess validated plasma ... -
Evolution of the Qatar trauma system: the journey from inception to verification
(Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2019)Traumatic injuries accounted for substantial burden of morbidity and mortality (M and M) worldwide. Despite better socioeconomic conditions and living standards, the incidence of trauma is rising in the Eastern Mediterranean ... -
Evolutionary relationships and biogeography of Biomphalaria (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) with implications regarding its role as host of the human bloodfluke, Schistosoma Mansoni.
(Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2001)The wide geographic distribution of Schistosoma mansoni, a digenetic trematode and parasite of humans, is determined by the occurrence of its intermediate hosts, freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria (Preston 1910). ... -
Exploring the natural history of intrinsic capacity impairments : longitudinal patterns in the10/66 study
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society, 2023)Intrinsic capacity (IC) is a construct encompassing people's physical and mental abilities. There is an implicit link amongst IC domains: cognition, locomotion, nutrition, sensory and psychological. However, little is known ... -
Exsanguination: reliable models to indicate damage control
(Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 2023-01-01)Exsanguination is a syndrome defined as extreme form of hemorrhage that if not surgically controlled will lead to death. This chapter defines the syndrome and describes the injuries prone to cause this most extreme form ... -
Extraction of vanadium from petroleum coke samples by means of microwave wet acid digestion
(Elsevier, 1990-01)Certified coal standards and Venezuelan petroleum coke samples were submitted to microwave acid digestion to evaluate the convenience of this procedure for the extraction of their vanadium content. The solution and the ... -
FMNL2 regulates gliovascular interactions and is associated with vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
(Acta Neuropathologica (2022) 144:59–79, 2022-05-24)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk factors (CVRFs) during middle age and later and is frequently accompanied by cerebrovascular pathology at death. An interaction ... -
Food accessibility in Central America and the Dominican Republic
(nutrición clínica y Dietética Hospitalaria, 2021)Food accessibility is linked to food insecurity. Likewise, poverty is the main underlying determinant of household food insecurity and increases the consumption of products of little nutritional value, which has consequences ... -
Frailty and the prediction of dependence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a 10/66 population based cohort study.
(BMC Medicine, 2015)In countries with high incomes, frailty indicators predict adverse outcomes in older people, despite a lack of consensus on definition or measurement. We tested the predictive validity of physical and multidimensional ... -
From prometheus to element care
(REC Interventional Cardiology ., 2019)Se relacionan algunos avances de la medicina. Se menciona programa Element care para adultos mayores . Se reflexiona sobre la atención al paciente.
