Publications by authors named "Silvia Ojeda"
During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps based on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology found in smartphones have been deployed by multiple countries despite BLE's debatable performance for determining close contacts among users. Current solutions estimate proximity based on a single feature: the mean attenuation of the BLE signal. In this context, a new generation of these apps which better exploits data from the BLE signal and other sensors available on phones can be fostered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Among patients with Chagas disease, men have a higher risk of worse pathological symptoms than women. We aimed to explore the role of the Y chromosome in men diagnosed with Chagas disease and assess the relationship between their ancestry and disease status.
Methods: In this comparative study, we analyzed 150 men with unrelated non-chagasic disease (nCD) and 150 men with unrelated chagasic disease (CD).
Article Synopsis
- An 85-year-old patient was diagnosed with hyperglycerolemia caused by glycerol kinase deficiency (GKD) after experiencing polydipsia, polyuria, and severe hypertriglyceridemia for 27 years without pancreatitis.
- Diagnosis was confirmed through specific lab results, including elevated glycerol levels in plasma and urine, and a novel deletion in the glycerol kinase gene.
- Dietary changes—frequent, complex carbohydrate-rich meals without medication—were effective in alleviating the patient's symptoms.
Objectives: To assess the incidence of 131I-induced sialadenitis (SD) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), to analyze clinical and other factors related to metabolic radiotherapy that may predict the lack of response to conventional medical therapy (CMT), and to determine the effectiveness of intraductal steroid instillation in patients failing CMT.
Material And Methods: Fifty-two patients with DTC, 45 females (86.5%) and 7 males (13.
Clear cell renal carcinoma is the most frequent type of renal carcinoma. Recently, attention has been focused in the expression of angiogenic factors by these tumors, which would justify in part their capacity to grow, invade and disseminate, stating a worse evolution of those patients with an unfavorable angiogenic profile. 83 samples of nephrectomy with a diagnosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma were studied.
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