Publications by authors named "Jorge L Nunez-Pizarro"
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- - Bariatric surgery (BS) is the most effective treatment for severe obesity but requires ongoing follow-up to manage nutrition and monitor for complications.
- - One complication that can arise is exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), caused by factors like poorly timed enzyme secretion, lack of stimulation, and bacterial overgrowth.
- - A literature review connected to a patient from the authors' center highlighted that EPI was initially thought to be due to surgery alone, but further evaluation uncovered an unexpected underlying cause.
Objective: To evaluate associations between anxiety and severe impairment of quality of life (QoL) in Latin American postmenopausal women.
Methods: This was a secondary analysis of a multicenter cross-sectional study among postmenopausal women aged 40 to 59 from 11 Latin American countries. We evaluated anxiety (The Goldberg Depression and Anxiety Scale), and QoL (Menopause Rating Scale [MRS]), and included sociodemographic, clinical, lifestyle, and anthropometric variables in the analysis.
Gorham-Stout syndrome is an extremely rare pathology, of unknown etiology. It is characterized by proliferation of vascular channels that causes destruction and reabsorption of the bone matrix. We present a nine year-old male patient with an acute episode characterized by fever, chest pain, respiratory distress and dyspnea.
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