Caracterización de los pacientes atendidos por tuberculosis en el Hospital primario Oswaldo Padilla Waspam, Rio Coco Enero de 2013 a Junio 2015

El presente estudio se llevó a cabo en El municipio De Waspam, Rio Coco cuyo objetivo principal fue el de caracterizar a la población en estudio durante el periodo de enero de 2013 a junio de 2015. La metodología empleada es un estudio del tipo descriptivo, según la secuencia del tiempo transversal, con un universo correspondiente a 284 pacientes y una muestra de 72 pacientes calculada por fórmula logarítmica. La información se recolecto de fuentes secundarias mediante el uso de un instrumento de recolección que se llevó a cabo con varios acápites y en los que se respetó la privacidad de cada paciente, el análisis de datos fue llevado a cabo en tablas y gráficos elaborados en el programa Excel. En cuanto a los resultados los más importantes a mencionar son: La edad de la población a estudio encontramos que el grupo más afectado es el de 25 a 34 años con un 34.7% seguidos de los grupos de 35 a 44 años con un 23.6% y de 15 a 24 años con un 13.9% de los cuales se encuentran dentro del rango de edad de la población económicamente activa. El sexo más afectado es el masculino con un 66.6%, la procedencia el 65.3% de los pacientes procedían del área rural, cabe destacar que el casco urbano de Waspam es pequeño y que la mayoría de sus comunidades son a la orilla del Rio Coco en extrema pobreza, la mayoría de los pacientes resultaron analfabetos con un 63.9% y La tos por as de 14 dias fue el síntoma de predominio con 86.1%, seguido del signo de la fiebre con 80.5% y pérdida de peso con el 69.4% y el tipo de TB que desarrollaron los pacientes fue la pulmonar con un 84.7

Interstitial lung disease and microscopic polyangiitis in chilean patients

Objective: To describe the clinical and serological patients characteristics with Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA) and Interstitial lung disease (ILD). Methods: Of all the patients with AAV diagnosed between 2007-2017 at the Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile, those with MPA and ILD were selected and studied retrospectively. Results: All patients were Hispanic; median age at diagnosis 65 years (32-84). 59% were female. All were positive for p-ANCA, 16 patients for MPO. Most common manifestations were constitutional symptoms, weight loss and fever. CT-Scans patterns were Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP) in 10 patients, Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia (NSIP) in 6 and fibrosis not UIP or NSIP pattern in 1. In 6 cases, ILD was diagnosed 0.5-14 years before MPA and concomitantly in 11. Conclusions: Although infrequent, Microscopic Polyangiitis should be suspected in patients with ILD particularly if extra-pulmonary manifestations that rise the possibility of a systemic illness are present, regardless of the time elapsed between the latter and the diagnosis of this type of lung involvement

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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