Publications by authors named "T Ortiz"
Past research has found that sexualized women are often dehumanized (i.e., attributed reduced human qualities).
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- Doctors often use steroids after a treatment to help with pain and swelling, but there isn't strong proof they actually help and they can have risks.
- A study with 365 patients looked at whether using steroids after a specific spine treatment (RFA) helped reduce pain compared to not using them.
- The results showed that pain levels were about the same for both groups after 7 and 60 days, so adding steroids didn't seem to be helpful and could be risky.
Neuroplastic changes appear in people with visual impairment (VI) and they show greater tactile abilities. Improvements in performance could be associated with the development of enhanced early attentional processes based on neuroplasticity. Currently, the various early attentional and cortical remapping strategies that are utilized by people with early (EB) and late-onset blindness (LB) remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Arboviruses pose a challenge in ensuring the supply of pathogen-free blood components because they are not routinely screened in blood banks, and blood components from infected asymptomatic donors could be transfused. This study aimed to detect and characterize arboviral infections in Colombian blood donors.
Methods: In a cross-sectional study, the prevalence of dengue (DENV), Zika (ZIKV), and chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses and co-infections of blood donors were compared between an epidemic period (November 2019-February 2020, = 462) and an endemic period (November 2021-August 2022, = 1,119).