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Multiple sclerosis care units in Latin America: Consensus recommendations about its objectives and functioning implementation.

Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2021
OBJECTIVE Currently, there are several reasons to promote worldwide the concept of multiple sclerosis care units (MSCU) for a better management of affected patients.
E. Cristiano, P. Abad, J. Becker, A. Carrá, J. Correale, J. Flores, M. Fruns, O. Garcea, Juan Garcia Bónitto, F. Gracia, F. Hamuy, C. Navas, L. Patrucco, Víctor Rivera, M. Velázquez, J. Rojas   +15 more
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Therapeutic strategies in NMOSD and MOGAD patients: A multicenter cohort study in Latin America.

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2023
PURPOSE This study describes the therapeutic strategies in NMOSD and MOGAD adopted by neurologists to treat both conditions in Latin America (LATAM) with main focus on rituximab (RTX) and the disease outcome.
J. Rojas, Pablo A Lopez, J. Criniti, J. P. Pettinicchi, A. Caride, E. P. Correa Díaz, Ana María Toral Granda, María Angélica Ortiz Yépez, Wilson Alfredo Gualotuña Pachacama, Jefferson Santiago Piedra Andrade, V. Daccach Marques, Elisa Bribiesca Contreras, Enrique Gomez Figueroa, José de Jesús Flores Rivera, L. Galleguillos, C. Navas, H. S. Soares Neto, F. Gracia, E. Cristiano, L. Patrucco, J. Becker, F. Hamuy, R. Alonso, Federico Man, V. Tkachuk, Débora Nadur, M. Lana-Peixoto, I. S. D. Castillo, Edgar Carnero Contentti   +28 more
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Differences of affective and non-affective psychoses in early intervention services from Latin America.

Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022
BACKGROUND Psychosis presentation can be affected by genetic and environmental factors. Differentiating between affective and non-affective psychosis (A-FEP and NA-FEP, respectively) may influence treatment decisions and clinical outcomes.
Raphael O. Cerqueira, C. Ziebold, Daniel A. Cavalcante, G. Oliveira, Javiera Vásquez, J. Undurraga, Alfonso González-Valderrama, Rubén Nachar, C. López-Jaramillo, Cristiano Noto, N. Crossley, A. Gadelha   +11 more
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Chiasmatic lesions on conventional magnetic resonance imaging during the first event of optic neuritis in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein‐associated disease in a Latin American cohort

European Journal of Neurology, 2021
Optic neuritis (ON) is often the initial symptom of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein‐associated disease (MOGAD). We aimed to compare the frequency and pattern of chiasmatic lesions in MOGAD‐related ON
Edgar Carnero Contentti, P. López, J. Criniti, J. P. Pettinicchi, E. Cristiano, L. Patrucco, Elisa Bribiesca Contreras, E. Gómez‐Figueroa, J. Flores-Rivera, E. Correa-Díaz, Ana María Toral Granda, María Angélica Ortiz Yépez, Wilson Alfredo Gualotuña Pachacama, Jefferson Santiago Piedra Andrade, L. Galleguillos, V. Tkachuk, Débora Nadur, V. Daccach Marques, I. Soto de Castillo, M. Casas, Leila Cohen, R. Alonso, A. Caride, M. Lana-Peixoto, J. Rojas   +24 more
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Research priorities in multiple sclerosis in Latin America: A multi-stakeholder call to action to improve patients care: Research priorities in MS in LATAM.

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2021
As human and economic resources are limited, especially in Latin America (LATAM), it is important to identify research priorities to improve multiple sclerosis (MS) patients care in the region.
J. Rojas, Edgar Carnero Contentti, P. Abad, Adriana Aguayo, R. Alonso, J. Bauer, J. Becker, Andrea K Bustos, C. Cárcamo, A. Carrá, E. P. Correa Díaz, J. Correale, E. Cristiano, Alejandro J. Diaz, N. Fernández Liguori, J. Flores, M. Fruns, O. Garcea, S. Giachello, Melisa Godoy, F. Gracia, Victor F Hamuy, Paula Henestroza, Javier A Navarra, C. Navas, L. Patrucco, Magdalena Perez Bruno, Andrea Prato, V. Rivera, Alma R Rosa Martinez, S. Vanotti, Macarena Vázquez, D. Vizcarra, M. Ysrraelit, Marina Alonso Serena   +34 more
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GAPi: A description of the initiative for early psychosis intervention in Latin America and the short- to medium-term outcomes in early psychosis patients.

Asian Journal of Psychiatry
INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder that affects a significant proportion of the population and leads to impaired functionality and long-term challenges.
Daniel A. Cavalcante, Mariane Noto, R. Cerqueira, G. Costa, Luccas Coutinho, Fernando Malinovski, A. O. Fonseca, M. Santoro, V. Ota, Q. Cordeiro, R. Bressan, Sintia Belangero, A. Gadelha, Cristiano Noto   +13 more
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Brain and spinal MRI features distinguishing MS from different AQP4 antibody serostatus NMOSD at disease onset in a cohort of Latin American patients

Multiple Sclerosis, 2020
Objective: We aimed to evaluate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) previously used criteria (Matthews’s criteria, MC) for differentiating multiple sclerosis (MS) from neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) in Caucasian and non-Caucasian ...
Edgar Carnero Contentti, V. D. Marques, I. Soto de Castillo, V. Tkachuk, A. Barreira, A. Caride, M. C. Castillo, E. Cristiano, C. de Aquino Cruz, Gabriel Braga Diégues Serva, A. C. Santos, R. Labarca, C. Lavigne Moreira, P. López, Jimena Míguez, O. Molina, J. P. Pettinicchi, J. Rojas   +17 more
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Consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of primary progressive multiple sclerosis in Latin America.

Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2018
Despite the availability of a large amount of information regarding the management and care of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, there is scant information about recommendations on how to care for primary progressive MS (PPMS ...
E. Cristiano, J. Rojas, P. Abad, T. Adoni, J. Barahona, J. Becker, A. Carrá, J. Flores, M. Fruns, N. Fernández Liguori, O. Garcea, Juan J. García Bonito, D. Giunta, F. Gracia, F. Hamuy, M. A. Macías Islas, C. Navas, Liliana Ordoñez Boschetti, L. Patrucco, D. Sato, J. Correale   +20 more
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Structural brain abnormalities in schizophrenia in adverse environments: examining the effect of poverty and violence in six Latin American cities

British Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
Summary Background Social and environmental factors such as poverty or violence modulate the risk and course of schizophrenia. However, how they affect the brain in patients with psychosis remains unclear.
N. Crossley, A. Zugman, F. Reyes-Madrigal, L. Czepielewski, M. Castro, A. Diaz-Zuluaga, Julian Pineda-Zapata, Ramiro Reckziegel, A. Gadelha, A. Jackowski, Cristiano Noto, L. M. Alliende, Barbara Iruretagoyena, T. Ossandón, Juan P. Ramirez-Mahaluf, C. Castañeda, Alfonso González-Valderrama, Rubén Nachar, P. León-Ortíz, J. Undurraga, C. López-Jaramillo, S. Guinjoan, C. Gama, C. de la Fuente-Sandoval, R. Bressan   +24 more
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Acute optic nerve lesions in first-ever NMOSD-related optic neuritis using conventional brain MRI: A Latin American multicenter study.

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2020
BACKGROUND Few studies regarding MRI-defined acute optic nerve lesions (aONL) in patients with first-ever neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD)-related optic neuritis (ON) have been reported worldwide and none of them was conducted in Latin ...
Edgar Carnero Contentti, G. Delgado-García, P. López, J. Criniti, J. P. Pettinicchi, E. Correa-Díaz, I. Soto de Castillo, V. Daccach Marques, V. Tkachuk, E. Cristiano, Gabriel Serva Braga Diéguez, A. D. dos Santos, M. C. Castillo, L. Patrucco, Marcelo Oswaldo Álvarez Pucha, Joselyn Elizabeth Miño Zambrano, E. Gómez‐Figueroa, V. Rivas-Alonso, J. Flores-Rivera, A. Caride, J. Rojas   +20 more
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