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Echocardiographic Alterations in Subjects with Sarcopenia and Right Heart Failure [PDF]
Medical SciencesBackground: Chronic heart failure (HF) is a significant public health issue. The principal risk factors for left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) include older age, female sex, obesity, hypertension, smoking, and diabetes, among others, all of ...
Arturo Orea-Tejeda +9 more
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Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis care at a tertiary hospital: integrating lessons from COVID-19 learned [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionDuring the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 until 2023, healthcare resources dedicated to critical diseases, including respiratory conditions like Tuberculosis (TB), were significantly impacted worldwide.
Norma A. Téllez-Navarrete +9 more
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Pulmonary manifestations and clinical management of echinococcosis in a low-endemic region of Mexico: a 15-year retrospective cohort study at a tertiary hospital [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and HealthBackground Cystic echinococcosis has a low incidence even in endemic countries. It is a chronic and complex zoonosis that in many cases presents delay in diagnosis; it typically affects the liver in up to 90% of the cases, being disseminated pulmonary ...
Víctor Hugo Ahumada Topete +16 more
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Associated uncertainty estimation during the validation process of TCID50 and FRNT neutralization assays against SARS-CoV-2 variants, used in population surveillance research and correlates of protection [PDF]
Frontiers in ImmunologyNeutralizing antibody (nAb) assays are essential for evaluating antibody-mediated immune response against SARS-CoV-2, in the context of efficacy and potency of vaccines, as well as population-level surveillance.
Edgar Reyna-Rosas +6 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and irreversible lung disease of unknown etiology. Myofibroblasts are organized in peculiar subepithelial fibroblasts foci (FF), where they abnormally persist and exclude lymphocytes by unclear ...
Leslie Chavez-Galan +10 more
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Mortality in patients with interstitial lung diseases hospitalized by severe or critical COVID-19
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2023 Background Since the first case of severe COVID-19, its effect on patients with previous interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been uncertain. We aimed to describe baseline clinical characteristics in ILD patients hospitalized by critical COVID and compare
Ana Karem S. Pruneda +4 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2020 Background Several lung structural and functional abnormalities may occur associated with aging, including emphysema. In this study, we evaluated the frequency and risk factors associated with emphysema in respiratory asymptomatic individuals enrolled in
Ivette Buendia-Roldan +8 more
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Background Post-COVID-19 syndrome is characterized by diverse symptoms and abnormalities that persist beyond 12 weeks from the onset of acute COVID-19.
Dulce González-Islas +9 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The COVID-19 outbreak has caused over three million deaths worldwide. Understanding the pathology of the disease and the factors that drive severe and fatal clinical outcomes is of special relevance.
Alejandra Hernández-Terán +19 more
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ERJ Open Research, 2020 Introduction Phenotypic age better represents age-related biological dysregulation than chronological age. Recently, a multisystem-based ageing measure, which integrates chronological age and nine biomarkers, was proposed.
Ivette Buendía-Roldan +10 more
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