La Antropología forense como ciencia auxiliar en Medicina Legal. A propósito de un caso.

La antropología forense es una disciplina que generalmente se dedica al estudio de los restos óseos humanos, cadáveres en estado avanzado de la putrefacción o en restos humanos descuartizados, desmembrados o desarticulados, sin embargo puede ser muy útil como ciencia auxiliar en las autopsias convencionales donde se observen lesiones óseas. Se presenta un caso de un adulto encontrado inconsciente junto a un vehículo de tracción animal, con un traumatismo craneoencefálico severo y fractura de base de cráneo. La interpretación antropológica de las lesiones óseas encontradas, permitió el esclarecimiento del hecho desde el punto de vista de la etiología médico legal

DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves

Tanalgo, Krizler C., Tabora, John Aries G., de Oliveira, Hernani Fernandes Magalhães, Haelewaters, Danny, Beranek, Chad T., Otálora-Ardila, Aída, Bernard, Enrico, Gonçalves, Fernando, Eriksson, Alan, Donnelly, Melissa, González, Joel Monzón, Ramos, Humberto Fernández, Rivas, Alberto Clark, Webala, Paul W., Deleva, Stanimira, Dalhoumi, Ridha, Maula, Jaycelle, Lizarro, Dennis, Aguirre, Luis F., Bouillard, Nils, Quibod, Ma. Niña Regina M., Barros, Jennifer, Turcios-Casco, Manfredo Alejandro, Martínez, Marcio, Ordoñez-Mazier, Diego Iván, Orellana, José Alejandro Soler, Ordoñez-Trejo, Eduardo J., Ordoñez, Danny, Chornelia, Ada, Lu, Jian Mei, Xing, Chen, Baniya, Sanjeev, Muylaert, Renata L., Dias-Silva, Leonardo Henrique, Ruadreo, Nittaya, Hughes, Alice Catherine (2022): DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves. Scientific Data 9 (1): 155, DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-

Treatment with tocilizumab or corticosteroids for COVID-19 patients with hyperinflammatory state: a multicentre cohort study (SAM-COVID-19)

Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the association between tocilizumab or corticosteroids and the risk of intubation or death in patients with coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) with a hyperinflammatory state according to clinical and laboratory parameters. Methods: A cohort study was performed in 60 Spanish hospitals including 778 patients with COVID-19 and clinical and laboratory data indicative of a hyperinflammatory state. Treatment was mainly with tocilizumab, an intermediate-high dose of corticosteroids (IHDC), a pulse dose of corticosteroids (PDC), combination therapy, or no treatment. Primary outcome was intubation or death; follow-up was 21 days. Propensity score-adjusted estimations using Cox regression (logistic regression if needed) were calculated. Propensity scores were used as confounders, matching variables and for the inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTWs). Results: In all, 88, 117, 78 and 151 patients treated with tocilizumab, IHDC, PDC, and combination therapy, respectively, were compared with 344 untreated patients. The primary endpoint occurred in 10 (11.4%), 27 (23.1%), 12 (15.4%), 40 (25.6%) and 69 (21.1%), respectively. The IPTW-based hazard ratios (odds ratio for combination therapy) for the primary endpoint were 0.32 (95%CI 0.22-0.47; p < 0.001) for tocilizumab, 0.82 (0.71-1.30; p 0.82) for IHDC, 0.61 (0.43-0.86; p 0.006) for PDC, and 1.17 (0.86-1.58; p 0.30) for combination therapy. Other applications of the propensity score provided similar results, but were not significant for PDC. Tocilizumab was also associated with lower hazard of death alone in IPTW analysis (0.07; 0.02-0.17; p < 0.001). Conclusions: Tocilizumab might be useful in COVID-19 patients with a hyperinflammatory state and should be prioritized for randomized trials in this situatio

Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020

We show the distribution of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic clades over time and between countries and outline potential genomic surveillance objectives. We applied three genomic nomenclature systems to all sequence data from the World Health Organization European Region available until 10 July 2020. We highlight the importance of real-time sequencing and data dissemination in a pandemic situation, compare the nomenclatures and lay a foundation for future European genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

Centrality evolution of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density over a broad pseudorapidity range in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76TeV

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Caracterização médico-legal do homicídio em mulheres vítimas. : Matanzas (Cuba). 2013-2018

El feminicidio define un acto de violencia extrema contra las mujeres por su condición de ser mujeres. Forma parte del concepto más amplio de violencia de género. El debate social que existe en la actualidad sobre la violencia contra la mujer ha tenido que producirse sobre una realidad ignorada. En esta polémica han sido más los que han buscado responsables que los que han aportado soluciones. La medicina en general y la medicina forense en particular han sido una víctima más de ese contexto socio-cultural que ha permitido que se produjera la agresión a la mujer de muy diversas formas por el hecho de ser mujer, sin que haya habido una respuesta científica similar a la que ha aparecido en otro tipo de hechos de violencia interpersonal. Este comportamiento ha sido más relevante en los países en vías de desarrollo; solo en Latinoamérica y el Caribe se reportan diariamente un aproximado de 1250 muertes de mujeres por día, como resultado de actos de violencia de género. Según la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) 25 países concentran las mayores cifras de homicidio contra mujeres en el mundo, y 14 de estos pertenecen a América Latina y el Caribe. En Cuba a pesar de la existencia de violencia de género como en el resto de los países latinoamericanos no está tipificado este delito y la muerte de una mujer a manos de un hombre se trata jurídicamente como un homicidio indiferenciado. El objetivo general de la investigación consistió en caracterizar los homicidios en victimas femeninas durante el período 2013-2018, tratados por el Servicio Provincial de Medicina Legal en Matanzas. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo, analizando los dictámenes de necropsias realizadas a las víctimas de homicidios en el periodo de tiempo estudiado, utilizando un instrumento de recogida de datos creado para la investigación. Se excluyeron los casos de féminas fallecidas en accidentes de tránsito o que encontraron la muerte a manos de otra mujer. Palabras clave: Feminicidio; Medicina legal; necropsia; mujer; violencia; Cub

DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves.

Understanding biodiversity patterns as well as drivers of population declines, and range losses provides crucial baselines for monitoring and conservation. However, the information needed to evaluate such trends remains unstandardised and sparsely available for many taxonomic groups and habitats, including the cave-dwelling bats and cave ecosystems. We developed the DarkCideS 1.0 ( https://darkcides.org/ ), a global database of bat caves and species synthesised from publicly available information and datasets. The DarkCideS 1.0 is by far the largest database for cave-dwelling bats, which contains information for geographical location, ecological status, species traits, and parasites and hyperparasites for 679 bat species are known to occur in caves or use caves in part of their life histories. The database currently contains 6746 georeferenced occurrences for 402 cave-dwelling bat species from 2002 cave sites in 46 countries and 12 terrestrial biomes. The database has been developed to be collaborative and open-access, allowing continuous data-sharing among the community of bat researchers and conservation biologists to advance bat research and comparative monitoring and prioritisation for conservation

Heavy flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in proton–proton collisions at √s=7 TeV

The production of muons from heavy flavour decays is measured at forward rapidity in proton–proton collisions at √s=7 TeV collected with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The analysis is carried out on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity Lint=16.5 nb−1. The transverse momentum and rapidity differential production cross sections of muons from heavy flavour decays are measured in the rapidity range 2.5<y<4, over the transverse momentum range 2<pt<12 GeV/c. The results are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations