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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Francisco Marroquin University School of Medicine, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Unidad Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
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The Vanderbilt Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Santo Tomás, Panama City 0819-03752, Panama.
School of Medicine, Universidad Interamericana de Panamá, Panama City 0830-00929, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios CCSS, San Jose 1475-1000, Costa Rica.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Horacio Oduber, Oranjestad 569, Aruba.
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Neurology Service, Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid CSS, Panama City 0831-01654, Panama.
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Neurology Service, Hospital Regional Rafael Hernández CSS, David City 0816-06808, Panama.
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Over the last three decades, the mesoamerican region has seen an increase in the frequency of patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease of nontraditional causes (CKDnt) also known as Meso-America...
A retrospective descriptive study was conducted in a nephrology reference hospital in the central provinces of Herrera and Los Santos, comparing a group of 15 patients with CKDnt to 91 patients with C...
Patients with CKDnt had a median age of 58 years (IQR: 52-61), significantly lower (P < 0.001) than patients with CKDt with a median age of 71 years (IQR: 64-78). Patients with CKDnt had a history of ...
To our knowledge, this is the first study in Panama to investigate the clinical presentation of patients with CKDnt and one of the few in Central America and the world that compares them with patients...
The study was performed in the Republic of Panama. Panama has a coastline of 2,988.3 km, of which 1,700.6 km corresponds to the Pacific coast. Most of the coast is flat, and several geomorphological f...
Panama is a country with endemic Dengue virus (DENV) transmission since its reintroduction in 1993. The four serotypes have circulated in the country and the region of the Americas, however, DENV-4 co...
Despite a recommendation by PAHO for Tdap vaccination in pregnant women since 2019, uptake remains suboptimal across Latin America. This study evaluated the knowledge and attitudes of women towards ma...
A cross-sectional online survey was undertaken between December 8, 2022, and January 11, 2023, targeting women in Colombia, Peru, or Panama with a child 12 months or under. We collected data on respon...
In the 938 respondents who completed the survey (Panama, n = 325; Peru, n = 305; Colombia, n = 308), 73-80 % had received the influenza vaccine, whereas only 30-39 % had received a Tdap vaccine. Signi...
To increase maternal Tdap vaccine uptake, health professionals should be encouraged to recommend vaccination consistently, and pregnant women should receive reminders explaining why and where to be va...
Due to the many implemented restrictions, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has rendered some tasks more difficult, for instance, the evaluation of outpatients. Panama's tertiary care hospital for kidney biopsy...
Panama is one of eight countries in Mesoamerica that aims to eliminate malaria by 2022. Malaria is concentrated in indigenous and remote regions like Guna Yala, a politically autonomous region where a...
Access to care was measured using the proportion of villages targeted by the effort with active CHWs. Epidemiological impact was evaluated through standard surveillance and case management measures. T...
An active CHW was placed in 39 (95%) of 41 target communities. During the pilot, CHWs detected 61% of all reported cases from the region. Test positivity in the population tested by CHWs (22%) was hig...
The CHW network allowed for replacement of routine active surveillance with strong passive case detection leading to more targeted and timely testing and treatment. The higher test positivity among th...
Despite high pediatric vaccination coverage rates (VCRs), pertussis incidence has increased worldwide, including in several countries in Latin America in the last two decades. Given the few vaccine ef...
Dialysis patients have a different response than the non-dialysis population to infection with COVID-19. This study evaluates the prevalence of infection and lethality in patients receiving hemodialys...
This is a prospective, multi-center cohort study of spatients aged 18 years or older and receiving in-center hemodialysis or ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in 13 centers in Panama from March 2021 to 2...
A total of 1531 patients receiving dialysis treatment accepted to participate. PD patients represented an 18% of study patients. Lethality was higher in peritoneal dialysis patients with COVID-19 infe...
Ninety one percent of people in the country received BNT162b2 Pfizer BionTech vaccine. Lethality decreased from 30 to 5% once vaccination was available. There were no severe adverse effects and sympto...
Tropical forests are well known for their high woody plant diversity. Processes occurring at early life stages are thought to play a critical role in maintaining this high diversity and shaping the co...
Fossil cetaceans are often found in Miocene marine outcrops across the globe. However, because this record is not homogeneous, the dissimilar increase in occurrences, along with the sampling bias has ...