8 results match your criteria: "Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud - FUCS[Affiliation]"
Biomedica
December 2024
Servicio de Inmunología y Alergología, Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud - FUCS, Bogotá, D. C., Colombia.
Cernunnos/XLF deficiency is a rare, severe combined immunodeficiency, inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern (OMIM number: 611290), related to the NHEJ1 gene. This gene participates in the DNA non-homologous end-joining pathway, repairing double-strand breaks in the DNA of mammalian cells. The clinical features include growth retardation, microcephaly, triangle-shaped face, recurrent infections, fibroblast's excessive sensitivity to gamma-ionizing radiation, and hypogammaglobulinemia; also, low counts of subpopulations of B and T lymphocytes, with normal values of natural-killer cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes Metab Syndr Obes
April 2024
Specialization in Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
Purpose: Diabetes is a public health problem that requires strategies to impact glycemic control and reduce the risk of long-term medical complications. Pharmacological management is a necessary treatment for this disease. Therefore, semaglutide is an essential tool to achieve the treatment targets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Med Insights Case Rep
March 2022
Department of Cardiology, Clínica Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud - FUCS. Bogotá, Colombia.
Context: Since the end of 2019 with the identification of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it produces, named COVID-19, various manifestations have been described, initially pulmonary due to acute and severe respiratory syndromes, now systemic manifestations have been described.
Case Report: We report 3 cases of patients with cardiovascular manifestations associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection, highlighting the diagnostic approach and variety of presentation, from acute myocardial infarction, myocarditis, heart failure, shock, arrhythmias to sudden death.
Conclusions: Every day is more frequent to find reports of patients with cardiovascular compromise during COVID-19 affecting the development and prognosis of this disease.
Rev Colomb Obstet Ginecol
June 2021
Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS), Bogotá (Colombia).
Objective: To make an approximation to the prevalence of sleep disorders in Colombian menopausal women during the COVID-19 pandemic
Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional study as part of the Quality of Life in Menopause and Colombian Ethnic Groups research project [CAVIMEC+COVID STUDY]. The population consisted of women born and residing in Colombia, 40 to 59 years of age, who signed an informed consent and agreed to participate by completing an online form, freely and anonymously, in the first five days of June 2020. Sleep disorders were identified using the third item on the Menopause Rating Scale.
J Am Geriatr Soc
September 2021
Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS), Bogotá, Colombia.
Haemophilia
November 2020
Colhemofilicos: The Colombian League of Hemophilia and other Blood Deficiencies, Bogotá, Colombia.
Introduction: Haemophilia is an orphan and high-cost disease worldwide and, especially in middle-income countries as Colombia. Given its burden of disease, in 2014, a national administrative registry was created to centralize demographic, clinical and economic information regarding to haemophilia and other coagulopathies.
Objective: To describe the building and implementation processes of the Colombian registry of haemophilia and other coagulopathies.
Perioper Med (Lond)
January 2020
Anesthesiologist, IPS Universitaria, Ambulatory Headquarters, Medellín, Colombia.
Introduction: Closed loop total intravenous anesthesia is a technique in which the patient's hemodynamic and anesthetic depth variables are monitored, and based on this information, a computer controls the infusion rate of drugs to keep them within pre-established clinical parameters.
Objective: To describe the technical and clinical performance of a closed loop system for total intravenous anesthesia with propofol and remifentanil, using the SEDLine monitor.
Design: Multicentric prospective cohort study.
Urol Case Rep
May 2015
Fundación Universitaria Ciencias de la Salud (FUCS) Hospital San José, Bogotá DC, Colombia; Instituto Medico La floresta, CIMI, Caracas, Miranda 1080, Venezuela.
49 years male, who comes to the urology department, complaining of 8 months of lower abdominal pain, burning and oppressive type, of variable intensity reaching 9/10, which is occasionally exacerbated by urination, associated with intermittent gross hematuria, dysuria, refers no fever at any time. Patient with past medical history of bladder and right kidney Tuberculosis (TBC) 25 years ago, treated with a simple right nephrectomy and bladder augmentation with antrum segment of stomach, for low bladder capacity. Never showed any symptom during those 25 years lapsing time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF