Infections are responsible for about one fifth of the world’s annual 2.7 million neonatal deaths. In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa about one quarter of all neonatal deaths are due to infections. Many sick infants only have non-specific signs, and thus are not recognized to have infection. Even when...
Esta guía aborda aspectos relacionados con el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de la acalasia en adultos...
The overall objective of the guidelines is to provide public health approach guidance on evidencebased practices for testing, treating and managing LTBI in individuals with the highest risk of progression to active disease. The guidelines are expected to provide the basis and rationale for the developmen...
El objetivo principal de la guía es proporcionar a los profesionales sanitarios, recomendaciones para la prevención, el diagnóstico y el manejo terapéutico de los pacientes con Linfoma B Difuso de célula grande (LBDCG), que presentan (o tienen riesgo de) afectación leptomeníngea o del parénquima ...
Lymphome B diffus à grandes cellules/traitement médicamenteux,
Lymphome B diffus à grandes cellules/diagnostic,
Maladies du système nerveux central/étiologie,
Ponction lombaire/méthodes,
Biopsie/méthodes,
Spectroscopie par résonance magnétique/méthodes,
Méthotrexate/usage thérapeutique,
Rituximab/usage thérapeutique,
Antinéoplasiques/usage thérapeutique,
Approche GRADE,
Maladies du système nerveux central/prévention et contrôle
In 2011 WHO conditionally recommended the use of at least 36 months of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) (as a proxy for lifelong or continuous treatment) for people living with HIV in high TB-prevalence and transmission settings. The evidence of the benefits and harms of 36-month IPT compared to 6-mont...
This early-release guideline makes available two key recommendations that were developed during the revision process in 2015. First, antiretroviral therapy (ART) should be initiated in everyone living with HIV at any CD4 cell count. Second, the use of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recomme...
These are the first World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection, and complement similar recently published guidance by WHO on the prevention, care and treatment of infection due to the hepatitis C virus (HCV)...
Malaria case management, which consists of prompt diagnosis and effective treatment, remains a vital component of malaria control and elimination strategies. This third edition of the WHO Guidelines for the treatment of malaria contains updated recommendations based on new evidence as well as a recommend...
Raghu, Ganesh;
Rochwerg, Bram;
Zhang, Yuan;
Cuello Garcia, Carlos A;
Azuma, Arata;
Behr, Juergen;
Brozek, Jan L;
Collard, Harold R;
Cunningham, William;
Homma, Sakae;
Johkoh, Takeshi;
Martinez, Fernando J;
Myers, Jeffrey;
Protzko, Shandra L;
Richeldi, Luca;
Rind, David;
Selman, Moisés;
Theodore, Arthur;
Wells, Athol U;
Hoogsteden, Henk;
Schünemann, Holger J.
Background: This document updates the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society/Japanese Respiratory Society/Latin American Thoracic Association guideline on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatment. Methods: Systematic reviews and, when appropriate, meta-analyses were performed to summarize ...
Al-Hameed, F. M;
Al-Dorzi, H. M;
Al-Momen, A. M;
Algahtani, F. H;
Al-Zahrani, H. A;
Al-Saleh, K. A;
Al-Sheef, M. A;
Owaidah, T. M;
Alhazzani, W;
Neumann, I;
Wiercioch, W;
Brozek, J;
Schunemann, H;
Akl, E. A.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) is commonly encountered in daily clinical practice. After diagnosis, its management frequently carries significant challenges to the clinical practitioner. Treatment of VTE with the inappropriate modality and/or...
