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Up to one-third of patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) are not responsive to first-line therapy or eventually relapse. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have been successfully employed to treat relapsed/refractory cHL (r/r cHL) but place patients at risk of financial toxicity. Early-phase trials and observational data suggest that low doses of ICIs may achieve similar results to those obtained with high doses.

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  • Latissimus dorsi tendon transfer (LDTT) has been shown to improve shoulder function and reduce pain over a long-term period, particularly in patients with irreparable massive rotator cuff tears, although those with fatty infiltration of certain muscles may have worse outcomes.
  • This study followed 143 patients who underwent LDTT between 2004 and 2013, collecting data on complications and outcomes after a minimum of 10 years, with some patients ultimately needing further surgery (reverse shoulder arthroplasty).
  • Out of the tracked patients, 101 were evaluated at an average of 12.3 years post-surgery, providing valuable long-term insights into the effectiveness of LDTT in enhancing shoulder mobility and function.
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  • * An unusual DSA pattern was observed initially, which improved and resolved after four treatments, correlating with the clinical alleviation of symptoms.
  • * The findings indicate that BIS-DSA monitoring could serve as an effective and affordable method for neuro-monitoring during hyperbaric oxygen therapy in patients with decompression sickness.
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  • Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) can present atypically, sometimes seen as bilateral symmetrical vasogenic edema in the basal ganglia, noted as the "lentiform fork sign."
  • Prompt identification of variations in PRES presentation is essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment, especially in transplant recipients using immunosuppressive drugs.
  • A case study of a 19-year-old male highlights this atypical presentation and the importance of neuroimaging in diagnosing PRES, with successful management leading to resolution of symptoms within two weeks.
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Purpose: To investigate the phenotype of sarcoidosis according to the time when a malignancy is diagnosed (preexisting to the diagnosis of sarcoidosis, concomitant, or sequential) and to identify prognostic factors associated with malignancies in a large cohort of patients with sarcoidosis.

Methods: We searched for malignancies in the SARCOGEAS cohort, a multicenter nationwide database of consecutive patients diagnosed with sarcoidosis according to the ATS/ESC/WASOG criteria. Solid malignancies were classified using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10) nomenclature, and hematological malignancies using the 2016 WHO classification.

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Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Latin American Federation of Endocrinology for the use of vitamin D in the maintenance of bone health: recommendations for the Latin American context.

Arch Osteoporos

June 2024

Federación Latinoamericana de Endocrinología (FELAEN), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Asociación Colombiana de Endocrinología, Diabetes y Metabolismo (ACE), Bogotá, Colombia.

Introduction: These guidelines aim to provide evidence-based recommendations for the supplementation of Vitamin D in maintaining bone health. An unmet need persists in Latin American regarding the availability of clinical and real-world data for rationalizing the use of vitamin D supplementation. The objective of these guidelines is to establish clear and practical recommendations for healthcare practitioners from Latin American countries to address Vitamin D insufficiency in clinical practice.

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Sudden cardiac death is a common occurrence. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a global public health problem suffered by ≈3.8 million people annually.

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Salud Publica Mex

July 2023

Dirección General, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México..

La muerte súbita cardiaca es un problema de salud pública a nivel mundial. Aunque su incidencia no es conocida, se estima que causa hasta 50% de la mortalidad de origen cardíaco y hasta 20% de la mortalidad total en los adultos. En México, estimaciones previas sugieren que causa en promedio 33 000 muertes al año; sin embargo, los datos no son precisos.

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Influence of exposure to climate-related hazards in the phenotypic expression of primary Sjögren's syndrome.

Clin Exp Rheumatol

December 2023

Department of Autoimmune Diseases, ICMiD, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, and Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain.

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  • - The study investigates how environmental factors, specifically climate-related natural hazards, may affect the diagnosis and symptoms of Sjögren's syndrome across different countries, examining aspects like epidemiological profiles and sicca symptoms.
  • - Researchers analyzed data from 16,042 patients in 23 countries, determining that those in countries severely impacted by climate hazards (like extreme precipitation and flooding) were often diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome earlier and exhibited varying symptom frequencies.
  • - Findings revealed statistically significant patterns, indicating lower occurrences of dry eyes and mouth in patients from countries facing specific climate threats, while showing that increased climate-related risks correlated with higher disease activity scores (ESSDAI).
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Objectives: To analyse how the potential exposure to air pollutants can influence the key components at the time of diagnosis of Sjögren's phenotype (epidemiological profile, sicca symptoms, and systemic disease).

Methods: For the present study, the following variables were selected for harmonization and refinement: age, sex, country, fulfilment of 2002/2016 criteria items, dry eyes, dry mouth, and overall ESSDAI score. Air pollution indexes per country were defined according to the OECD (1990-2021), including emission data of nitrogen and sulphur oxides (NO/SO), particulate matter (PM2.

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Introduction: We present an updated overview of the hematological involvementassociated with sarcoidosis, including a management approach forcytopenias and revisiting the association with hematologicalmalignancies.

Areas Covered: Theetiology of cytopenias in sarcoidosis can be attributed to two majoretiopathogenic mechanisms: infiltration of hematopoietic organs suchas the spleen and bone marrow, and autoimmune-mediated cytopenias.With respect to the association with hematological malignancies, itrequires careful evaluation of patients from a chronologicalperspective.

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Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Practice of Assisted Reproduction in Latin America.

JBRA Assist Reprod

September 2023

Programa de Etica y Politicas Publicas en Reproducción Humana, Facultad de Medicina Universidad Diego Portales. Director del Registro Latinoamericano de Reproducción Asistida, Chile.

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  • The study aimed to assess how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affected assisted reproductive technology practices at centers in Latin America during 2020.
  • An online survey was conducted among fertility clinics from July to December 2020, revealing that most centers paused operations early in the pandemic, with the highest response rate from Brazil.
  • By December, almost all centers had reopened and resumed treatments, but the number of ART cycles performed remained significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels.
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Background: What baseline predictors would be involved in mortality in people with primary Sjögren syndrome (SjS) remains uncertain. This study aimed to investigate the baseline characteristics collected at the time of diagnosis of SjS associated with mortality and to identify mortality risk factors for all-cause death and deaths related to systemic SjS activity measured by the ESSDAI score.

Methods: In this international, real-world, retrospective, cohort study, we retrospectively collected data from 27 countries on mortality and causes of death from the Big Data Sjögren Registry.

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  • Brainstem tumors make up 10.9% of all brain tumors, with pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) having a poor prognosis; this study focuses on children in Mexico from 2001 to 2021, analyzing clinical characteristics and prognostic factors for survival.
  • A total of 110 patients were included, with a median diagnosis age of 7 years; symptoms appeared within 6 months for over half the patients, and despite treatment, the overall survival rate at 4 years was only 11.4%.
  • The study emphasizes the need for improved healthcare strategies in Mexico and highlights challenges regarding the acceptance of palliative care among families and medical staff.
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Objective: Tildrakizumab is an anti-interleukin-23p19 monoclonal antibody approved to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of tildrakizumab in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

Methods: In this randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, multinational trial ( clinicaltrials.

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Menopause and diabetes.

Climacteric

June 2023

Department of Endocrinology, Hospital Cima San José, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica.

In the last 20 years, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has tripled in adults aged 20-79 years, affecting more than 25% of people over 50 years of age and especially women during menopause. After the menopause transition, women gain weight, increasing abdominal fat and decreasing lean body mass, with a significant reduction in energy expenditure. Increased insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism characterize this period, aggravated by an increase in plasma proinflammatory cytokines and free fatty acids, and a state of relative hyperandrogenism.

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Management of acute mesenteric ischaemia: Results of a worldwide survey.

Clin Nutr ESPEN

April 2023

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Background: Acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI) is a condition with high mortality. This survey assesses current attitudes and practices to manage AMI worldwide.

Methods: A questionnaire survey about the practices of diagnosing and managing AMI, endorsed by several specialist societies, was sent to different medical specialists and hospitals worldwide.

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Reply.

Med Clin (Barc)

March 2023

Línea de investigación de Sarcoidosis del Grupo de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas (GEAS), Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI), Madrid, España; Servicio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes, Instituto Clínic de Medicina y Dermatología (ICMiD), Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, España; Departament de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, España. Electronic address:

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Background And Aims: Dyslipidaemia is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease in the Mexican population. This analysis aimed to describe the baseline LDL-c levels of patients presenting to cardiovascular clinics and evaluate the proportion who achieved their risk-based LDL-c goals as recommended by 2021 ESC prevention guidelines.

Methods: The REMECAR registry is an observational study of patients attending a specialized cardiovascular clinic for their first visit.

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Objectives: To characterise the key epidemiological, clinical, immunological, imaging, and pathological features of the coexistence between sarcoidosis and Sjögren's syndrome (SS).

Methods: All centres included in two large multicentre registries (the Sjögren Syndrome Big Data Consortium and the Sarco-GEAS-SEMI Registry) were contacted searching for potential cases of coexistence between SS and sarcoidosis seen in daily practice. Inclusion criteria were the fulfilment of the current classification criteria both for SS (2016 ACR/EULAR) and sarcoidosis (WASOG).

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Introduction: calcium intake is fundamental over the whole life cycle; despite this, the world consumption of calcium is deficient. In Central America, there is little data on calcium intake. Objective: to evaluate daily calcium intake in the adult population of Costa Rica and Panama.

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Sjögren syndrome.

Med Clin (Barc)

February 2023

Línea de investigación de Sjögren del Grupo de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas (GEAS), Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI), España; Departament de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, España; Servicio de Enfermedades Autoinmunes, Institut Clínic de Medicina i Dermatologia (ICMiD), Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, España. Electronic address:

In 1933, the Swedish ophthalmologist Hendrik Sjögren was the first to suggest that behind the dryness that several of his patients presented, there could be a systemic disease related to an abnormal immune response. Since then, the term Sjögren's syndrome (SjS) has been used and it has been considered a minor and infrequent disorder compared to other systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD) and, consequently, with little progress both in clinical and therapeutic research. The emergence of new technologies at the end of the 20th century rapidly promoted the development of international projects of great impact and diffusion, which have completely changed this scenario, and in the last 20 years significant progress has been made in understanding the main epidemiological determinants and pathogenic mechanisms to increase the diagnostic accuracy and to design specific and individualized therapeutic strategies.

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Safety and efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in 1237 patients with primary Sjögren syndrome.

Clin Exp Rheumatol

December 2022

Grup de Recerca Consolidat en la Síndrome de Sjögren (GRESS), Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i deRecerca (AGAUR), Generalitat de Catalunya, and Research and Innovation Group in Autoimmune Diseases, Sanitas Digital Hospital, Hospital-CIMA-Centre Mèdic Milenium Balmes Sanitas, Barcelona, Spain.

Objectives: To investigate the safety and efficacy of SARS-Cov-2 vaccination in patients with primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS) due to scarcity of data in this population.

Methods: By the first week of May 2021, all Big Data SS Consortium centres patients who had received at least one dose of any SARS-CoV-2 vaccine were included in the study. The in-charge physician asked patients about local and systemic reactogenicity to collect SARS-CoV-2 vaccination data.

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