Publications by authors named "Marcelino Martinez"
Objective: To compare the efficacy of infliximab (IFX) versus adalimumab (ADA) as a first-line biologic drug over 1 year of treatment in a large series of patients with refractory uveitis due to Behçet's disease (BD).
Methods: We conducted an open-label multicenter study of IFX versus ADA for BD-related uveitis refractory to conventional nonbiologic treatment. IFX or ADA was chosen as the first-line biologic agent based on physician and patient agreement.
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- - Mediastinitis is a rare complication linked to central venous catheters, typically associated with thoracic surgery; only a few cases have been documented.
- - A case involves an 83-year-old man who developed mediastinitis due to leaking parenteral nutrition through the central venous catheter.
- - The text outlines the signs, diagnosis, and treatment for this rare occurrence, emphasizing its consideration in patients with central venous catheters who haven't undergone thoracic surgery.
The theory of extreme learning machine (ELM) has become very popular on the last few years. ELM is a new approach for learning the parameters of the hidden layers of a multilayer neural network (as the multilayer perceptron or the radial basis function neural network). Its main advantage is the lower computational cost, which is especially relevant when dealing with many patterns defined in a high-dimensional space.
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