Publications by authors named "Paola Ochoa"

Article Synopsis
  • POEMS syndrome is a rare condition caused by problems in plasma cells and has five main features: nerve issues, organ enlargement, hormone problems, a specific type of protein in the blood, and skin changes.
  • In a study that included 46 patients from Latin America, researchers found that all had nerve problems, and many had skin changes and organ enlargement, with a median time of 7.7 months to get diagnosed.
  • The survival rate for patients was really good, with all patients who had a transplant still alive, suggesting that treatment in Latin America is effective and similar to other parts of the world.
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Purpose: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a highly heterogeneous, incurable disease most frequently diagnosed in the elderly. Therefore, data on clinical characteristics and outcomes in the very young population are scarce.

Patients And Methods: We analyzed clinical characteristics, response to treatment, and survival in 103 patients with newly diagnosed MM age 40 years or younger compared with 256 patients age 41-50 years and 957 patients age 51 years or older.

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Recent HIV-1 vaccine development has centered on "near native" soluble envelope glycoprotein (Env) trimers that are artificially stabilized laterally (between protomers) and apically (between gp120 and gp41). These mutations have been leveraged for use in membrane-expressed Env mRNA vaccines, although their effects in this context are unclear. To address this question, we used virus-like particle (VLP) produced in 293T cells.

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Primary plasma cell leukemia (pPCL) is an infrequent and aggressive plasma cell disorder. The prognosis is still very poor, and the optimal treatment remains to be established. A retrospective, multicentric, international observational study was performed.

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BACKGROUND Numerous treatment options are available for patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Because of the course of the disease, most patients will experience serial relapse or the MM will become refractory to most of these treatments, leaving patients with few or no treatment options over time. Selinexor, a treatment with a novel mechanism of action, is an oral selective inhibitor of nuclear export (SINE) compound that blocks exportin 1, the major nuclear exporter of tumor suppressor proteins.

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Objectives: We compared the efficacy of lenalidomide-dexamethasone (Rd) based treatments for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma patients (pts), in a real-world setting. In addition, we evaluated adverse events (AE), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).

Methods: In our retrospective, multicentric study, 156 pts with RRMM were included.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study examined the clinical and survival characteristics of transplant-eligible multiple myeloma patients in Latin America, focusing on the differences between public and private healthcare systems.
  • It included data from 1293 patients diagnosed from 2010 to 2018, highlighting significant disparities in outcomes and survival rates between those treated in public versus private institutions.
  • The findings suggest that late diagnosis and limited access to effective treatments in public facilities contribute to poorer survival rates, while patients receiving modern therapies and autologous stem cell transplants have survival rates comparable to international standards.
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Data about treatment outcomes and toxicity in Latin America are scarce. There are differences with central countries based on access to healthcare system and socioeconomic status. Argentinean Society of Hematology recommends bortezomib-based triplets for induction treatment of transplant eligible newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients.

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Background: Monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (MGRS)-related lesions are infrequent entities. There are no publications on these disorders in Latin America (LA). The aim of this study was to describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of these patients in LA.

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Objective: to analyze the relationship between the quantitative assessment of working conditions and the qualitative perception of one's own work experience.

Method: a sample of 1,760 nursing professionals from Barcelona answered a questionnaire assessing their working conditions and summarized their own current work experience in five key words.

Results: the textual corpus of the meanings of nursing work included 8043 lexical forms, which were categorized and codified.

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Interest in burnout has developed extensively worldwide, but there is scarce the literature regarding the consequences that new legal demands have on burnout and on organizational outcomes in physicians. The global context of the medical profession has been characterized in the recent years by changes in the employment patterns, profound intensification of work, and increment of labor flexibility. In this context, the study aims to analyze the influence of burnout on organizational outcomes in physicians, depending on new legal demands perception in Ecuador.

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Objective: To analyze the relations between the meanings of working and the levels of doctors work well-being in the context of their working conditions.

Method: The research combined the qualitative methodology of textual analysis and the quantitative one of correspondence factor analysis. A convenience, intentional, and stratified sample composed of 305 Spanish and Latin American doctors completed an extensive questionnaire on the topics of the research.

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