Outcomes and complications of hospitalised patients with HIV-TB co-infection.

Background: Tuberculosis is one of the most common causes of hospitalisation in patients with HIV. Despite this, hospital outcomes of patients with this co-infection have rarely been described since antiretroviral therapy became widely available.

Methods: Prospective cohort study of HIV-infected adult patients hospitalised with TB in six referral hospitals in Medellin, Colombia, from August 2014 to July 2015.

Relationship of Geographic Altitude with Foveal Avascular Zone Metrics and Vascular Density Values Assessed by OCT Angiography.

Purpose: To evaluate variations in vascular density (VD) and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) metrics in relation to geographic altitude in healthy subjects from 6 Latin American cities.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: Healthy volunteers from 6 Latin American cities.

[Analysis of mortality caused by tuberculosis in Medellín, Colombia, 2012].

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a relevant global public health problem. Although reports of the World Health Organization show decrease in overall mortality rates, Colombia and Medellin show no significant decline.

Objective: To describe the sociodemographic, clinical, diagnosis, and treatment characteristics of patients who died due to tuberculosis in Medellin, Colombia, during 2012.

Ocular trauma from land mines among soldiers treated at a University Hospital in Medellín, Colombia.

Introduction: Currently ocular combat injuries are complex and associated with poor visual outcomes. Our objective is to characterize the military population that suffer land mine combat ocular trauma in Colombia and identify the type of wound, treatment and visual outcomes.

Methods: Retrospectively review of medical history of soldiers evaluated in Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital, whom had land mine trauma during January of 2004 and December 2012.

Infectious endotheliitis: a rare case of presumed mycotic origin.

Purpose: To report an interesting case of infectious endotheliitis of presumed mycotic origin.

Methods: A case report of a 56-year-old male farmer who sought medical attention after a month-long evolution of irritative symptoms in his right eye, accompanied by visual acuity (VA) impairment. The patient received topical and oral broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment with no improvement before being referred to a cornea specialist, where he was found to have VA of 20/150 and was noted on biomicroscopy to have endothelial feathery coalescent lesions.

Adrenal function status in patients with paracoccidioidomycosis after prolonged post-therapy follow-up.

This study assessed adrenal function in patients with paracoccididioidomycosis who had been treated to determine a possible connection between high antibody titers and adrenal dysfunction attributable to persistence of the fungus in adrenal gland. Adrenal gland function was studied in 28 previously treated patients, 2 (7.1%) of whom were shown to have adrenal insufficiency and 7 (259%) who showed a below normal response to stimuli by adrenocorticotropic hormone.

[Susceptibility to fluconazole and voriconazole of Candida species isolated from intensive care units patients in Medellin, Colombia (2001-2007)].

Background: Disseminated candidiasis is caused by different Candida species and mainly affects immunocompromised patients and those hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU).

Objective: Our aim was to determine the frequency and susceptibility of Candida spp. isolates to fluconazole and voriconazole, obtained from patients hospitalized in ICU in the city of Medellin during the years 2001-2007.

Joint preservation after extensive curettage of knee giant cell tumors.

Unlabelled: Curettage is the most attractive procedure for surgically treating a giant cell tumor because it preserves joint function. However, since many giant cell tumors compromise subchondral bone this technique can jeopardize the articular surface with subsequent fractures or collapse. We asked whether intralesional curettage of a giant cell tumor close to the knee that combined morselized bone and cortical structural allograft would preserve joint function.