• Latin America intensive care unit disaster preparedness: results from a web‑based attitudes and perceptions survey 

      Báez, Amado Alejandro; McIntyre, Kaitlin (International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2019-11-11)
      Disasters burden on hospital emergency intensive care units (ICUs). This burden is increased in Latin America (LATAM) where hospital resources, intrahospital disaster simulations, and perceived level of preparedness vary ...
    • Latin American anaphylaxis registry 

      Jares, Edgardo J.; Cardona, Victoria; Gómez, Maximiliano; Bernstein, Jonathan A.; Rosario Filho, Nelson A.; Cherrez-Ojeda, Ivan; Ensina, Luis Felipe; De Falco, Alicia; Díaz, María C.; Chávez Vereau, Pierre A.; Rocha Felix, Mara M.; Lavrut, Jorge; Moreno Laflor, Oscar I.; Latour Staffeld, Patricia; Piraino, Pedro; Alacaraz Duarte, Perla; Ivancevich, Juan C.; Dabove, Fabian; Giavina-Bianchi, Pedro; Tinoco Moran, Iván O.; Nunes Oliviera, Fabiana A.; Monsell, Silvana; Souza, María V.; Cepeda, Alfonso M.; Slullitel, Pablo D.; Morfin-Maciel, Blanca M. (Elsevier Inc. on behalf of World Allergy Organization., 2023-01-23)
      Recent data about clinical features, triggers and management of anaphylaxis in Latin America is lacking. To provide updated and extended data on anaphylaxis in this region. An online questionnaire was used, with 67 ...
    • Latin American Association for the study of the liver recommendations on treatment of Hepatitis C 

      Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum; Paraná, Raymundo; Cheinquer, Hugo; Alves de Mattos, Angelo; Gadano, Adrian; Silva, Marcelo; Pessôa, Mario G.; Gomes-Ferraz, Maria L.; Soza, Alejandro; Mendes-Correa, M. Cassia; Chávez-Tapia, Norberto C.; Dagher, Lucy; Padilla, Martín; Hernandez, Nelia; Sánchez-Avila, Juan F.; Contreras, Fernando; Moraes-Coelho, Henrique S.; Paris, Edison R.; Paris, Edison R.; Bessone, Fernando; Uribe, Misael (Annals of Hepatology, 2014-08)
      The following recommendations provide an approach to the establishment of guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection. These guidelines are based on a formal analysis and review ...
    • Latin American initiative for lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline (LatAm-FINGERS): study design and harmonization 

      Crivelli, Lucia; Calandri, Luis; Kimie Suemoto, Claudia; Salinas, Rosa María; Velilla, Lina Marcela; Sanches Yassuda, Mônica; Caramelli, Paulo; Lopera, Francisco; Nitrini, Ricardo; Sevlever, Gustavo Emilio; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Acosta, Daisy; Charamelo Baietti, Ana María; Cusicanqui, María Isabel; Custodio, Nilton; De Simone, Sergio Dansilio; Delgado Derio, Carolina; Duque-Peñailillo, Lissette; Duran, Juan Carlos; Jiménez-Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Leon-Salas, Jorge Mario; Bergamo, Yanina; Florencia Clarens, María; Damian, Andrés; Demey, Ignacio; Belén Helou, María; Márquez, Carlos; Martin, María Eugenia; Morais Martin, Maria da Graça; Querze, Diego; Surace, Ezequiel Ignacio; Acosta-Egea, Sabrina; Aguirre–Salvador, Esteban; da Cunha Peixoto Cançado, Gustavo Henrique; Dozzi Brucki; Dozzi Brucki, Sonia Maria; Vasconcelos Friedlaender, Clarisse; Braga Gomes, Karina; Gutierrez, Myriam; Laforcada Ríos, Carlos; Martinez Galindo, Joyce Graciela; Montesinos, Rosa; Nuñez-Herrera, Alberto; Ospina-Henao, Sebastián; Rodríguez, Guillermina; Ruiz Masson, Victoria; Sánchez, Mónica; Christian E. Schenk, Christian; Soto, Ligia; Tonidandel Barbosa, Maira; Gonçalves Tosatti, Jéssica Abdo; Vicuña, Yosselin; Espeland, Mark; Hakansson, Krister; Kivipelto, Miia; Baker, Laura; Snyder, Heather; Carrillo, María; Allegri, Ricardo Francisco (Alzheimer's Association®, 2023-05-19)
      Latin American Initiative for Lifestyle Intervention to Prevent Cognitive Decline (LatAm-FINGERS) is the first non-pharmacological multicenter randomized clinical trial (RCT) to prevent cognitive impairment in Latin America ...
    • Learnings from real-life experience of using omalizumab for chronicurticaria in Latin America 

      Cherrez Ojeda, Iván; Maurer, Marcus; Bernstein, Jonathan A; Vanegas, Emanuel; Félix, Miguel; Ramón, Germán D.; Ensina, Luis Felipe; Larco Sousa, José Ignacio; Matos Benavides, Edgar Emilio; Cardona Villa, R.; Latour Staffeld, P.; Morfin-Maciel, Blanca María; Mori, José; Wilches C, Paul; Mata, Valeria L.; Cherrez, Annia (Elsevier, 2019-01-08)
      Updated urticaria guidelines recommend that patients should be assessed for disease activity, severity, control, and quality of life at baseline and follow up. Regarding treatment, guidelines consider second generation ...
    • Leg length, skull circumference, and the incidence of dementia in Latin America and China: a 10/66 population-based cohort study 

      Prince, Martin J.; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jiménez- Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Dewey, Michael E.; Guerchet, Maelenn M.; Liu, Zhaorui; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Prina, A. Matthew (PLOS ONE, 2018-04-18)
      Adult leg length is influenced by nutrition in the first few years of life. Adult head circumference is an indicator of brain growth. Cross-sectional studies indicate inverse associations with dementia risk, but there ...
    • Levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons and trace metals in bivalves and nearshore sediments from the Dominican Republic 

      Sbriz, Luciano; Aquino, Margarita R.; Alberto de rodriguez, Natividad M.; Fowler, Scott W.; Sericano, Jose L. (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 1998-12)
      Bivalves (Crassostrea rizhophorae, Isognomon alatus, Codakia orbicularis Linné, and Tellina fausta) and sediment samples collected from 12 locations along the Dominican Republic coastline were used to assess the degree of ...
    • Liver injury after methylprednisolone pulses: A disputable cause of hepatotoxicity. A case series and literature review 

      Zoubek, Miguel Eugenio; Pinazo Bandera, José; Ortega Alonso, Aida; Hernández, Nelia; Crespo, Javier; Contreras, Fernando; Medina Cáliz, Inmaculada; Sanabria Cabrera, Judith; Sanjuan Jiménez, Rocìo; González Jiménez, Andrés; García Cortés, Miren; Lucena, M Isabel; Andrade, Raúl J; Robles Díaz, Mercedes (United European Gastroenterology Journal, 2019-02-17)
      Corticosteroids are often empirically used to treat idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity with severe features. Interestingly, intravenous methylprednisolone (MP) is increasingly being recognized as being responsible for liver ...
    • Loneliness among older adults in Latin America, China, and India: prevalence, correlates and association with mortality 

      Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jimenez-Velazquez, Ivonne Z.; Llibre Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Williams, Joseph D.; Liu, Zhaorui; Acosta Castillo, Isaac; Mayston, Rosie; Gao, Qian; Prina, Matthew; Prince, Martin; Acosta, Daisy; Sosa, Ana Luisa (International Journal of Public Health, 2021-03)
      This study was designed to explore prevalence and correlates of selfreported loneliness and to investigate whether loneliness predicts mortality among older adults (aged 65 or above) in Latin America, China and India. The ...
    • Long-term growth hormone therapy in adulthood results in significant linear growth in siblings with a PROP-1 gene mutation. 

      Lee, Judy K.; Zhu, Yuan Shan; Cordero, Juan J.; Cai, Li- Qun; Labour, Iluminada; Herrera, Cecilia; Imperato McGinley, J. (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2004)
      PROP-1 g ene mutations result in impaired production of GH, gonadotropins, TSH, and prolactin. We describe three adult siblings, aged 18-25 yr, with short stature, hypothyroidism, and lack of pubertal maturation, who were ...
    • Long-term stability of two-phase class II: treatment with the carriere motion appliance 

      Rodríguez, Héctor Luis (Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, 2019-08)
    • A low-cost LN2 monitor 

      Alvarez;, M.; Sbriz, L.; Cordero, M. (American Journal of Physician, 1989)
    • Luteinizing hormone pulsatility in subjects with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency and decreased dihydrotestosterone production 

      Canovatchel, W J; Volquez, D; Huang, S; Wood, E; Lesser, M L; Gautier, T; Imperato-McGinley, J (PulbMed, 1994-04)
      The pattern of LH pulsatility in male pseudohermaphrodites with inherited 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency (5 alpha RD) and decreased levels of plasma dihydrotestosterone was compared to that in normal males. Analysis of ...
    • Male pseudohermaphroditism due to multiple defects in steroid-biosynthetic microsomal mixed-function oxidases — a new variant of congenital adrenal hyperplasia 

      Peterson, Ralph E.; Imperato-McGinley, Julianne; Gautier, Teófilo; Shackleton, Cedric (New England Journal of Medicine, 1985-11-07)
      A six-month-old 46,XY infant with a female phenotype and ambiguous genitalia was evaluated for male pseudohermaphroditism. The principal findings were (1) low basal plasma levels of all measured C19 steroids and their ...
    • Male pseudohermaphroditism secondary to 5α-reductase deficiency—A model for the role of androgens in both the development of the male phenotype and the evolution of a male gender identity 

      Imperato-Mcginley, Julianne; Peterson, Ralph E.; Gautier, Teófilo (Journal of Steroid Biochemistry, 1979)
      Male pseudohermaphroditism secondary to 5α-reductase deficiency is reviewed. At birth, the affected males (46 XY) have a clitoral-like phallus, bifid scrotum and urogenital sinus with the testes in the inguinal canals or ...
    • Measuring disability across cultures the psychometric properties of the WHODAS II in older people from seven low- And middle-income countries. the 10/66 Dementia research group population-based survey 

      Sousa, Renata M.; Dewey, Michael E.; Acosta, Daisy; Jotheeswaran, A.T.; Castro-Costa, E.; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Rodríguez Pichardo, Guillermina; Ramírez, N. G.; Rodríguez, J. L.; Rodríguez, M. C.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Prince, Martin J. (International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 2010)
      We evaluated the psychometric properties of the 12-item intervieweradministered screener version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule – version II (WHODAS II) among older people living in seven ...
    • Mechanistic Insight from Preclinical Models of Parkinson’s Disease Could Help Redirect Clinical Trial Efforts in GDNF Therapy 

      Delgado-Minjares, Karen M.; Martinez-Fong, Daniel; Martínez-Dávila, Irma A.; Bañuelos, Cecilia; Gutierrez-Castillo, M. E.; Blanco-Alvarez, Víctor Manuel; Cardenas-Aguayo, Maria-del-Carmen; Luna-Muñoz, José; Pacheco-Herrero, Mar; Soto-Rojas, Luis O. (Int. J. Mol. Sci, 2021)
      Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by four pathognomonic hallmarks: (1) motor and non-motor deficits; (2) neuroinflammation and oxidative stress; (3) pathological aggregates of the α-synuclein (α-syn) protein; (4) ...
    • Medical students’ perceptions about the added educational value of student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic 

      Chapman, Helena J.; Bottentuit-Rocha, Jessica (Global Health Research and Policy, 2016-12)
      This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the ...
    • Medicinal plants in the Dominican Republic and their possible role in public health care 

      Roersch, C. (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2016)
      In the Dominican Republic, one can distinguish two medical systems: the formal medical system and the informal medical system. The formal medical system is based on the western conventional medical system. The informal ...
    • Mineralogical analysis with the firing temperature of limestone and clay mixture from Dominican Republic using Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffractometry 

      Villagran, M.; Sbriz, L.; Valconi, G. (Springer Link, 1991)
      The study of a limestone and clay mixture using Mössbauer spectroscopy, and X-ray powder spectrometry (XRD) for different firing temperatures are presented. This type of mixture is used in raw minerals in order to obtain ...