Preguntas respondidas por la guía: 1- Devem ou não ser acrescentados exames de imagem de tórax ao tratamento padrão para pacientes com COVID-19 cujos sintomas desapareceram, ao decidir dar ou não alta hospitalar? 2- Devem ou não ser usados exames de imagem de tórax para pacientes sintomáticos com...
COVID-19/diagnostic imaging,
Sensitivity and Specificity,
Radiography, Thoracic,
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction,
Tomography, X-Ray Computed,
False Negative Reactions,
False Positive Reactions,
Ultrasonography,
Diagnostic Imaging/methods
Lewinsohn, DM;
Leonard, MK;
LoBue, PA;
Cohn, DL;
Daley, CL;
Desmond, E;
Keane, J;
Lewinsohn, DA;
Loeffler, AM;
Mazurek, GH;
O'Brien, RJ;
Pai, M;
Richeldi, L;
Salfinger, M;
Shinnick, TM;
Sterling, TR;
Warshauer, DM;
Woods, GL.
BACKGROUND: Individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may develop symptoms and signs of disease (tuberculosis disease) or may have no clinical evidence of disease (latent tuberculosis infection [LTBI]). Tuberculosis disease is a leading cause of infectious disease morbidity and mortality...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a large-scale public health problem. Key global priorities for TB care and control include improving case-detection and detecting patients earlier, particularly patients with smear-negative TB disease. This document provides a pragmatic summary of the evidence and recommendation...
Sabbagh, Luis;
Aponte, Diego;
Cañadas, Raúl;
Torres Amaya, Marcela;
Álvarez, Eligio;
Prieto, Robin G;
Parra, Viviana;
Acero, Fanny;
Pardo, Rodrigo;
Otero R, William.
Objetivo: brindar una guía de práctica clínica con la evidencia más reciente para el uso de ultrasonido endoscópico en pancreatitis crónica y lesiones quísticas y sólidas en adultos, la cual está dirigida a pacientes, personal asistencial, administrativo y entes gubernamentales de los servicios ...
Gil Parada, Fabio Leonel;
Torres Amaya, Marcela;
Riveros Santoya, Sandra Viviana;
Castaño Llano, Rodrigo;
Ibáñez, Heinz;
Huertas Quintero, Margarita María;
Carmona, Rafael;
Pardo, Rodrigo;
Otero, William;
Sabbagh, Luis.
Objetivo: desarrollar una guía de práctica clínica con la evidencia más reciente para la tamización de cáncer de colon y recto en población asintomática de riesgo promedio, dirigida a pacientes, personal asistencial, administrativo y entes gubernamentales de cualquier servicio de atención en Col...
Al-Hameed, F;
Al-Dorzi, H. M;
Shamy, A;
Qadi, A;
Bakhsh, E;
Aboelnazar, E;
Abdelaal, M;
Al Khuwaitir, T;
Al-Moamary, M. S;
Al-Hajjaj, M. S;
Brozek, J;
Schünemann, H;
Mustafa, R;
Falavigna, M.
The diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) may be challenging due to the inaccuracy of clinical assessment and diversity of diagnostic tests. On one hand, missed diagnosis may result in life-threatening conditions. On the other hand, unnecessary treatment may lead to serious complications. As a result...
DESCRIPTION: The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to present the evidence and provide clinical recommendations on the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in adults. METHODS: This guideline is based on published literature on this topic that was identified by using MEDLINE (1...
The global priorities for tuberculosis (TB) care and control are to improve case-detection and to detect cases earlier, including cases of smear-negative disease which are often associated with coinfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and young age, and to enhance the capacity to diagnose ...
Earlier and improved tuberculosis (TB) case detection - including smear-negative disease, often associated with HIV co-infection - as well as expanded capacity to diagnose multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are global priorities for TB control. Conventional laboratory methods are slow and cumberso...
This report is an addendum to the diagnostic criteria published in the 2006 WHO/IDF report “Definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and intermediate hyperglycaemia” , and addresses the use of HbA1c in diagnosing diabetes mellitus. The WHO Consultation concluded that HbA1c can be used as a diag...
