Publications by authors named "L Rioja"
Article Synopsis
- - Dengue virus (DENV) can cause mild symptoms or lead to severe disease, including organ failure, with renal involvement linked to higher mortality rates.
- - Post-mortem studies of four patients who died from DENV-4 in Brazil revealed significant renal damage, characterized by inflammation, tissue injury, and viral replication indicated by NS3 protein presence.
- - The observed kidney damage likely resulted from a combination of high viral loads and an intense immune response, leading to increased secretion of inflammatory substances in the kidneys.
Protective outcomes of low-dose doxycycline on renal function of Wistar rats subjected to acute ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis
January 2018
Renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major cause of acute renal failure. Doxycycline (Dc) belongs to the tetracycline-class of antibiotics with demonstrated beneficial molecular effects in the brain and heart, mainly through matrix metalloproteinases inhibition (MMP). However, Dc protection of renal function has not been demonstrated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScar pruritus is frequently encountered in clinical practice (particularly in burn patients) owing to its poorly known pathogenesis and difficult treatment. In previous work, we demonstrated the usefulness of a diet excluding edible solanaceae (viz., potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and aubergines) in patients with antihistamine-resistant scar pruritus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Literature evaluating association between neonatal morbidity and immigrant status presents contradictory results. Poorer compliance with prenatal care and greater social risk factors among immigrants could play roles as major confounding variables, thus explaining contradictions. We examined whether prenatal care and social risk factors are confounding variables in the relationship between immigrant status and neonatal morbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The combination of a single pedicle local flap with tattooing for complete nipple areola complex (NAC) reconstruction is currently the most supported method. Although many technical descriptions of NAC reconstruction exist in the medical literature, there are no data that define the ideal areola size (diameter of the areola) after bilateral mastectomy and breast reconstruction considering the previous areola size.
Methods: This was a 3-year (2009-2012) observational, analytical, and longitudinal prospective study with 103 patients who had undergone NAC tattooing as the last process of bilateral breast reconstruction after surgery for breast cancer.