Costs Associated With Early Vascular and Biliary Complications in Liver-Transplanted Patients in a Hospital in Antioquia, Colombia 2019: A Case Series.

Objectives: Vascular and biliary complications associated with liver transplants involve high morbidity and mortality as well as cost overrun for health systems. Efforts to prioritize their prevention require not only clinical information but also information on costs that reflect the economic burden on health systems. The objective of this study was to describe cost overrun incurred from early vascular and biliary complications after liver transplant.

Time trends of diabetes in Colombia from 1998 to 2015: the recent stagnation in mortality, and educational inequities.

Aims: To study the observed trends in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) mortality rates according to educational level, age group and sex in Colombia between 1998 and 2015.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted based in official databases. Age-standardized mortality rates were calculated by age-gropus, educational level, sex and year.

Factors associated with mortality due to trochanteric fracture. A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To explore factors associated with mortality in patients with trochanteric fracture.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in patients with trochanteric fracture treated at Clinica Las Vegas, in Medellín, Colombia, during the period going from January 2008 to December 2015. Information was collected on demographic, clinical variables, surgical complications and mortality.