Pandemic impact on aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in Peru's high COVID-19 lethality setting: A public institutional experience.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 profoundly impacted healthcare worldwide, and Peru was particularly affected, experiencing the highest COVID-19 case fatality rate globally.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective comparative study of patients presenting with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) at a public Peruvian national referral center specializing in cerebrovascular diseases. Two study periods were considered, one during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and a second identical period in 2019.

[Comparison of digital and conventional life story books on mood, communication, cognition and quality of life in people with dementia in nursing homes: A pilot study].

Introduction: Person-centered care (PCC) includes life story, a form of reminiscence therapy that can be useful in the treatment of dementia. We compared the efficacy of using a digital or conventional life story book (LSB) on depressive symptoms, communication, cognition, and quality of life.

Material And Methods: Thirty one persons with dementia living in 2 PCC nursing homes were randomly assigned to receive reminiscence therapy based on the Neural Actions digital LSB (n=16) or a conventional LSB (n=15).

[Characteristics of Helicobacter pylori infection in a private hospital in Lima, 2019 experience and literature review].

Digestive diseases are the fourth leading cause of outpatient care in Peruvian healthcare centers, with gastritis and peptic ulcers being the most common. This is a retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive study of secondary analysis of medical record data to evaluate the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients undergoing upper digestive endoscopy during 2019 at Clinica Delgado, Lima, Peru. An association between males (PRa 1.

A Non-Invasive Method Based on Computer Vision for Grapevine Cluster Compactness Assessment Using a Mobile Sensing Platform under Field Conditions.

Grapevine cluster compactness affects grape composition, fungal disease incidence, and wine quality. Thus far, cluster compactness assessment has been based on visual inspection performed by trained evaluators with very scarce application in the wine industry. The goal of this work was to develop a new, non-invasive method based on the combination of computer vision and machine learning technology for cluster compactness assessment under field conditions from on-the-go red, green, blue (RGB) image acquisition.

[Efficacy and safety of the endoscopic management of Zenker diverticulum with IT-Knife 2 device].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of the endoscopic management of Zenker Diverticulum with IT-Knife 2 device.

Materials And Methods: prospective and multicenter study (Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital and Golf Clinic). We included all patients with sintomatic Zenker Diverticulum that were treated with endoscopic cricopharyngeal miotomy from september 2013 until august 2016.

[Use of cyanoacrylate in the endoscopic therapy of gastric varices: experience in the National Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins from 2006 to 2010].

Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic success of the injection of N-butyl-2 cyanoacrylate in the treatment of gastric varices.

Methods: Cross-sectional study included 33 patients with gastric varices who only received cyanoacrylate endoscopic therapy between 2006 and 2010. Intravariceally, cyanoacrylate was injected in a 1:1 dilution with lipiodol until the obliteration of varices.

[Giant esophageal fibrovascular polyp].

Fibrovascular polyps are extremely rare benign neoplasias of the esophagus, which usually originate in the lower cricoid area. They do not produce any discomfort in the patient for a long time, however it may make itself evident by the patient's regurgitation of the polyp, producing asphyxia or, more frequently, dysphagia. The case of a 58 year old male patient is presented herein, with a 9 month record of dysphagia, weight loss and intermittent melena.