Seizure outcomes and associated factors in adults with unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy undergoing surgery.

Objective: To analyze postoperative seizure outcomes and factors associated with unfavorable seizure control (Engel III-IV) in adults with drug-resistant unilateral mesial temporal epilepsy who underwent temporal lobectomy.

Methods: This was an observational, longitudinal, and retrospective study. A descriptive analysis of sociodemographic, clinical, and paraclinical characteristics was performed.

Memory and language risk assessment with Wada test in patients candidates for epilepsy surgery.

Aim: To determine post-surgical cognitive risk and associated factors according to lesion location in a sample of patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery with Wada test at the Fundacion Instituto Neurologico de Colombia.

Materials And Methods: An observational, retrospective, analytical study was completed in patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy candidates for epilepsy surgery treated from 2001 to 2021, who completed the Wada test as part of the pre-surgical evaluation. A descriptive analysis of sociodemographic, clinical, imaging and neuropsychological variables was completed; a multivariate logistic regression was performed analyzing factors associated with resection risk in patients with left lesions.

Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders relapses and seasonal influence in an equatorial country cohort.

Introduction: Information about seasonal distribution of Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) attacks, particularly in tropical countries, has rarely been described and the reported data are diverse.

Objective: To evaluate influence of seasonal variation in NMOSD relapses in an equatorial country.

Patients And Methods: Exploratory observational, retrospective ecological study in a cohort of patients with NMOSD followed from January 2008 to December 2019.

The Role of miRNAs to Detect Progression, Stratify, and Predict Relevant Clinical Outcomes in Bladder Cancer.

Bladder cancer (BC) is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide, with significant differences in survival depending on the degree of muscle and surrounding tissue invasion. For this reason, the timely detection and monitoring of the disease are important. Surveillance cystoscopy is an invasive, costly, and uncomfortable procedure to monitor BC, raising the need for new, less invasive alternatives.

Eco-epidemiological study of seropositivity against Rickettsia and Leptospira agents in rural areas of Urabá, Colombia.

Unlabelled: Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases that are often underdiagnosed due to a lack of knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, among others.

Objetive: to characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of both and agents and determine the risk factors for these outcomes in rural areas of Urabá, Antioquia.

Methods: a secondary data analysis using information on and exposure from a prior prospective study that explored sociocultural and ecological aspects of infection in rural Urabá, Colombia.