Effects of immunosuppressive drugs on COVID-19 severity in patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Background: We investigated associations between baseline use of immunosuppressive drugs and severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in autoimmune hepatitis (AIH).

Patients And Methods: Data of AIH patients with laboratory confirmed COVID-19 were retrospectively collected from 15 countries. The outcomes of AIH patients who were on immunosuppression at the time of COVID-19 were compared to patients who were not on AIH medication.

GASTRIC AND ORAL FEEDING IN SEVERE ACUTE PANCREATITIS.

Background: There is controversy about the initiation of gastric or oral feeding in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) because they could increase pancreatic stimulation and exacerbate symptoms and complications.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and results of patients with SAP who underwent gastric tube or oral feeding versus parenteral or jejunal feeding.

Methods: A retrospective study was carried out on patients over 18 years old with SAP diagnostic, who had been treated in critical care units.

Multiple sclerosis in Peru: National prevalence study using capture-recapture analysis.

Background: There is scarce epidemiological data on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in Latin America. National epidemiological studies are needed to guide the health policy related to MS.

Objective: To determine MS national prevalence in Peru and describe clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease.

[Acute fatty liver of pregnancy in a Peruvian pregnant woman: a case report].

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare disease of pregnancy that occurs with greater preponderance during the third trimester. Its etiology is unknown, but there is evidence of a micro vesicular fat deposit in the hepatocyte. It has a maternal-fetal mortality up to 20% because the only treatment is to end gestation.

[Clinical profile and results of acute pancreatitis in the Intensive and Intermediate Care Unit of a general hospital].

Introduction: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) are diagnosed more frequently because the higher use of radiologic exams, in that sense they are a great challenge to define its management and treatment in relation to its potential malignant transformation.

Objective: To describe IPMN clinical profile, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) characteristics and survival in all patients diagnosed with IPMN by EUS at HNERM.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective cohort of patients with IPMN diagnosed at HNERM by EUS from 2013 to 2018.

Nanoparticle-Based Biosensing Assay for Universally Accessible Low-Cost TB Detection with Comparable Sensitivity as Culture.

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death globally, surpassing HIV. Furthermore, multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB have become global public health threats. Care of TB patients starts with quality, accessible, and affordable diagnosis.

[Lemmel's syndrome: report of a case].

Lemmel's syndrome is a very rare condition as a cause of obstructive jaundice secondary to the presence of a duodenal diverticulum. We report a case, a 68-year-old female patient with a cholestatic pattern, biliary tract dilatation, who underwent ERCP, with a juxtapapillary diverticulum compressing the distal bile duct, which was sphincterotomy.

[Acute pancreatitis in intensive care unit: review and evolution of 36 cases Víctor Lazarte E. Hospital. Trujillo, Perú].

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis is a local inflammatory process that could be generalized by producing mild to severe gastroenteral manifestations, like multiple organ dysfunction and death.

Objective: To describe epidemiological, clinical, therapeutical characteristics and evolution of patients with AP of our unit and to compare with other studies of Peru and other countries.

Materials And Methods: We realized a review of all cases with AP treated in ICU-INCU of Victor Lazarte Echegaray Hospital over 1 degrees January of 2004 to April, 30 of 2007.

[Nosocomial sinusitis in the intensive care unit: incidence, clinical characteristics and evolution].

Objective: To describe incidence, epidemiologic characteristics, clinical manifestations, tomographic features, microbiologic findings and evolution of patients with nosocomial sinusitis (NS) in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Design: Retrospective and descriptive study.

Setting: 24-bed ICU from a public hospital.