This guideline reviews the clinical evaluation and management of gestational trophoblastic diseases, including surgical and medical management of benign, premalignant, and malignant entities. The objective of this guideline is to assist health care providers in promptly diagnosing gestational trophoblast...
Chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) results from the inability to achieve adequate postprandial intestinal blood flow, usually from atherosclerotic occlusive disease at the origins of the mesenteric vessels. Patients typically present with postprandial pain, food fear, and weight loss, although they can pr...
A clinical summary of this KDP was published in the Journal of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic .
More than twenty years ago, cerebrovascular accidents (CMP) were considered an incurable disease. In recent years, mainly thanks to the development of recanalization treatment and preventive st...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, despite being largely curable and preventable. In 2019 an estimated 2.9 million of the 10 million people who fell ill with TB were not diagnosed or reported to the World Health Organization. The Political Declaration adopted by...
Taenia solium is a zoonotic tapeworm found globally but with particularly high transmission and hyperendemnicity in parts of Latin America, South and South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Depending on its life cycle, it causes two distinct presentations in humans: taeniasis and (neuro) cysticercosis. A...
WHO guideline on school health services: Web Annex F. Systematic reviews of the effectiveness and acceptability of comprehensive school health services: GRADE evidence profiles and evidence-to-decision table In partnership with WHO guideline on school health services Web Annex F. Systematic reviews of th...
El panel priorizó la posibilidad de una reducción significativa en la mortalidad por sobre la incertidumbre en los efectos
de la intervención (muy baja certeza en la evidencia), los efectos adversos del tratamiento y la carga del tratamiento en
términos de utilización de recursos necesarios para imp...
Cervical cancer is a leading cause of mortality among women. In 2020, an estimated 604 000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer worldwide and about 342 000 women died from the disease. Cervical cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in 23 countries and is the leading cause of cancer death in 3...
This WHO guideline is an update of the specific recommendation in the technical annex of the 2007 Joint Statement by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSSCN) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on...
Direct maternal infections around the time of childbirth account for about one tenth of
the global burden of maternal death. Women who develop peripartum infections are also
prone to severe morbidity, long-term disabilities such as chronic pelvic pain, fallopian tube
blockage and secondary infertility. M...
