Vascular leiomyoma in the oral cavity

The aim of this study was to examine a case report of vascular leiomyoma located in the oral mucosa of the oral cavity. Vascular leiomyoma is a benign tumor arising from smooth muscle. One factor that makes vascular leiomyomas in the oral cavity rare is that there is little smooth muscle in the mouth. The most common histological subtype in the oral cavity is the vascular subtype. The greatest difficulty in histological diagnosis of this entity is the similarity in morphology with other malignancies, particularly of neural or fibroblastic lineage. Wide surgical resection is the only treatment reported in the literature with good results. The recurrence rate is very low if complete resection is achieved. The study of rare or unusual lesions is very important for the clinical diagnosis of vascular leiomyoma

Desenvolvimento de um modelo experimental de falha óssea infectada na ulna de coelhos

OBJETIVO: Desenvolver um modelo experimental que permita estudar a regeneração de grandes falhas ósseas em condições de infecção. MÉTODO: Falhas ósseas segmentares de 15mm foram criadas cirurgicamente na ulna de 12 coelhos e inoculadas com 5x10(8) unidades formadoras de colônia (UFC) de S. aureus. O desbridamento da infecção foi realizado duas semanas após, seguida da aplicação sistêmica de gentamicina por quatro semanas. Os animais foram acompanhados por um período de 12 semanas para avaliação do controle da infecção e da regeneração óssea. RESULTADOS: A regeneração espontânea foi inferior a 25% do defeito na avaliação radiográfica e histológica. CONCLUSÃO: A Falha óssea infectada de 15mm na ulna de coelhos é incapaz de alcançar a regeneração completa sem tratamentos adicionais. Nível de Evidência V, Estudo experimental.

Evolución y análisis de la promoción de destinos turísticos por parte de las OMDs en el ámbito de la Sociedad Red : tecnologías y tendencias

Programa de doctorado: Tecnologías de la información y sus aplicaciones.

Optimización de costes en líneas de producción para plantas desalinizadoras de agua de mar mediante ósmosis inversa en las Islas Canarias

Programa de doctorado: Tecnología Industrial

I Taller de Innovación Educativa de la Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles

[ES]Los resúmenes que se incluyen en esta publicación corresponden a las presentaciones efectuadas en el Taller de Innovación Educativa de la Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales y Civiles, llevado a cabo los meses de junio y julio de 2015. Dicho taller estuvo dirigido al personal docente de la Escuela, con objeto de que conocieran de primera mano las experiencias docentes innovadoras llevadas a cabo por compañeros profesores que imparten docencia tanto en la propia Escuela como en otros centros de esta Universidad. Durante las sesiones los participantes tuvieron la oportunidad de compartir los resultados de distintas iniciativas docentes desarrolladas en asignaturas relacionadas con la ingeniería, así como de conocer nuevas técnicas de apoyo al proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.

Summary of the Report of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Psychopharmacology of the American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association Board of Directors established an ad hoc task force on psychopharmacology to explore the desirability and feasibility of psychopharmacology prescription privileges for psychologists. In this context, the Task Force's charges were to determine the competence criteria necessary for training psychologists to provide service to patients receiving medications and to develop and evaluate the necessary curricular models. This article summarizes the Task Force's major recommendations and provides specific information regarding its training recommendations . It is hoped that this article will encourage broad discussion of psychology's most appropriate integration of psychopharmacology knowledge and its applications into its training programs and professional activities.

The DESCARTES-Nantes survey of kidney transplant recipients displaying clinical operational tolerance identifies 35 new tolerant patients and 34 almost tolerant patients.

BACKGROUND Kidney recipients maintaining a prolonged allograft survival in the absence of immunosuppressive drugs and without evidence of rejection are supposed to be exceptional. The ERA-EDTA-DESCARTES working group together with Nantes University launched a European-wide survey to identify new patients, describe them and estimate their frequency for the first time. METHODS Seventeen coordinators distributed a questionnaire in 256 transplant centres and 28 countries in order to report as many 'operationally tolerant' patients (TOL; defined as having a serum creatinine <1.7 mg/dL and proteinuria <1 g/day or g/g creatinine despite at least 1 year without any immunosuppressive drug) and 'almost tolerant' patients (minimally immunosuppressed patients (MIS) receiving low-dose steroids) as possible. We reported their number and the total number of kidney transplants performed at each centre to calculate their frequency. RESULTS One hundred and forty-seven questionnaires were returned and we identified 66 TOL (61 with complete data) and 34 MIS patients. Of the 61 TOL patients, 26 were previously described by the Nantes group and 35 new patients are presented here. Most of them were noncompliant patients. At data collection, 31/35 patients were alive and 22/31 still TOL. For the remaining 9/31, 2 were restarted on immunosuppressive drugs and 7 had rising creatinine of whom 3 resumed dialysis. Considering all patients, 10-year death-censored graft survival post-immunosuppression weaning reached 85% in TOL patients and 100% in MIS patients. With 218 913 kidney recipients surveyed, cumulative incidences of operational tolerance and almost tolerance were estimated at 3 and 1.5 per 10 000 kidney recipients, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In kidney transplantation, operational tolerance and almost tolerance are infrequent findings associated with excellent long-term death-censored graft survival.

Impact of maternal Tdap vaccination on pertussis infection in young infants

Undiagnosed infected mothers often are the source of pertussis illness in young infants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends Tdap vaccine for post-partum women before hospital discharge. This intervention has been implemented at Ben Taub General Hospital (BTGH) in Houston, TX since January 2008. Our objective was to compare the proportion of infants born at BTGH and developing pertussis to the total number of pertussis cases before and after the intervention. Methods. We conducted a cross-sectional comparative study between the pre-intervention (7/2000 to 12/2007) and post-intervention (1/2008 to 5/2009) periods. Information on pertussis diagnosis was determined using ICD-9 codes, infection control records, and molecular microbiology reports from Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) and BTGH. Only patients ≤ 6 months of age with laboratory-confirmed B. pertussis infection were included in the study. Results. 481 infants had pertussis illness; 353 (73.3%) during pre-intervention and 128 (26.6%) during post-intervention years. The groups were comparable in all measures including age (median 73 vs. 62.5 days; p=0.08), gender (males 54.2%; p=0.47), length of hospitalization (median 9.8 vs. 4 9.5 days; p=0.5), outcomes (2 deaths in each period; p=0.28) and pertussis illness at TCH (95.2% vs. 95.3%; p=0.9). The proportion of pertussis patients born at BTGH, and thus amenable to protection by the intervention, was not statically different between the two periods after adjusting for age, gender and ethnicity (7.3% vs. 9.3%; an OR=1.05, 95% CI 0.5-2.1, p=0.88). Conclusions. Vaccinating only mothers with Tdap in the post-partum period does not reduce the proportion of pertussis in infants age ≤ 6 months. Efforts should be directed at Tdap immunization of not only mothers, but also all household and key contacts of newborns to protect them against pertussis illness before the primary DTaP series is completed.^

San Martín y el Ejército de los Andes

Con el fin de conocer las últimas interpretaciones acerca de nuestro pasado regional, los videos de la serie "Mendoza, crónica de nuestra identidad", pretenden llevar adelante la tarea constante de construir y reconstruir una identidad que se mantenga abierta a los valores del pasado, pero también a la inevitable reformulación crítica de los mismos principios. La propuesta es generar un proceso de actualización y perfeccionamiento en el campo de la historia regional. En el video SAN MARTÍN Y EL EJÉRCITO DE LOS ANDES, se analiza la campaña libertadora de San Martín en Cuyo. La Revolución Francesa había sacudido al Antiguo Régimen hasta sus cimientos. Los revolucionarios surgidos de una sociedad con fuertes jerarquías sociales y privilegios de nacimiento, comenzaban a proclamar los ideales de una nueva filosofía, en cuyo centro se ubicaba la consigna surgida de la toma de la Bastilla: “Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad". San Martín y sus hombres cruzaron la cordillera de Los Andes y derrotaron a los españoles en la batalla de Maipú. La primera parte del plan continental estaba superada. El próximo paso suponía dirigirse hacia el Alto Perú para combatir con el bastión más grande de los realistas en América. Los contenidos temáticos del video son: - Las ideas ilustradas en América. - La reacción realista luego de la liberación de Fernando VII. - San Martín gobernador de Cuyo. - Las transformaciones económicas durante la gobernación de San Martín. - El Cruce de la Cordillera de Los Andes.

La desamortización de tierras civiles corporativas en México : ¿una ley agraria, fiscal o ambas? Una aproximación a las tendencias en la historiografía

El trabajo hace una revisión historiográfica que problematiza la hipótesis de que la desamortización despojó de sus tierras o pauperizó a los pueblos de indios en México. Ello permite hilar otros cuestionamientos sobre actores políticos, sociales e institucionales, que no han recibido mucha atención de los historiadores respecto de los efectos de la Ley de 1856, como los ayuntamientos, los abogados y tinterillos. Apunta, además, a problemas metodológicos sobre la interpretación del tipo de tierras que fueron desamortizadas en virtud de que no se ha hecho un análisis corográfico, ni del paisaje de las mismas