Gonzalo Antonio Ortiz

• University of El Salvador

Objectives (1) To assess the predictive value of anti‐tissue transglutaminase immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies (a‐tTG) by chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) related to duodenal histology in children with suspected celiac disease (CD) and (2) to determine the cut‐off value of a‐tTG by CLIA that allows diagnosis of CD avoiding biopsy. Methods Ret...

Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) affects 15-36% of children with acute pancreatitis (AP) and may progress to chronicity. To determine the etiology and evolution of RAP, a descriptive retrospective cohort study was conducted in patients aged 1-18 years. Twelve patients with RAP were included out of 79 with AP, and demographic, etiological, clinica...

The goal of the treatment is to relieve symptoms, achieve duodenal mucosal healing, avoid long term complications, and ensure children´s appropriate growth, for which it´s necessary to follow a lifelong, nutritionally complete and healthy gluten free diet (GFD). The Celiac Disease Working Group of the Gastroenterology Committee of the Sociedad Arge...

Myelomeningocele is a complex congenital defect that affects the spinal cord and structures associated with it. These patients often have neurogenic bowel and bladder dysfunction with constipation, fecal and urinary incontinence. In addition to dietary modifications, laxatives, and enemas, therapies such as biofeedback and neurostimulation (invasiv...

En Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero: los años desconocidos, el historiador, diplomático y académico Gonzalo Ortiz Crespo nos ofrece un detallado recorrido por los años colombianos de este ilustre cuencano, quien entre 1913 y 1931 residió en Bogotá donde estudió Derecho, se doctoró en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y se casó con una dama de la alcu...

RESUMEN El objetivo del tratamiento de la enfermedad celíaca en los niños es aliviar los síntomas, lograr la curación de la mucosa duodenal, evitar las complicaciones a largo plazo y asegurar el crecimiento adecuado durante la niñez y adolescencia, para lo cual es necesario adherir a una dieta libre de gluten nutricionalmente completa, saludable y...

La interpretación musical pianística de música postonal o contemporánea propone desafíos relacionados con la organización del material composicional cuyo resultado sonoro difiere de las categorías de la música tonal. El análisis se torna necesario para resolver ese problema, pero un análisis que, desde el punto de vista de las prácticas interpretat...

En el contexto actual se manifiesta la integración de las TIC en el contorno educativo ya que involucra investigar el cómo estas herramientas tecnológicas apoyan a los estudiantes en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje del idioma inglés. En la realización de esta investigación se aplicaron los métodos deductivo, inductivo y estadístico, de tipo ana...

Introduction. Usually, during anorectal manometry, only the presence or absence of rectoanal inhibitory reflex (RAIR) is investigated. Studies have reported that a detailed analysis may provide data of interest. Our hypothesis is that RAIR measurement may provide information to detect organic causes (tethered cord, lipoma, etc.) in patients in whom...

Se revisa cómo la conducta se encuentra determinada por un determinismo a posteriori, el cual implica que solo se pueden determinar las causas de un hecho hasta que este ha sucedido; por lo que no es una causalidad intencional de carácter finalista e intenciones irreductibles. Se destaca y define en esta determinación de la conducta el papel del in...

The jaguar (Panthera onca), the largest felid in the Americas, has been classified by IUCN as ‘near-threatened’. The purpose of this review was to gather the current knowledge on jaguar reproduction. Information from over forty-five sources has been selected. Jaguars have been classified as polyestrous with generally an induced ovulation, with a mo...

El propósito de esta investigación es estudiar el proceso de producción de cartón corrugado en la empresa Productora Cartonera S. A. (PROCARSA). Para ello se evaluó el comportamiento de las variables de calidad resistencia al aplastamiento de borde (ECT) y Separación de espiga (PAT). Posterior al análisis descriptivo, a cada variable de calidad se...

Este texto es fruto de la síntesis de dos artículos de opinión publicados en eldiario.es bajo este mismo título los días 11 de noviembre y 8 de diciembre de 2020. En él, hacemos un llamamiento a transitar fuera de la rueda capitalista, planteando en consecuencia una serie de ejes de referencia para orientar dichas estrategias de transición. Buscamo...

This text is the result of the synthesis of two opinion articles published in eldiario.es under the same title on 11 November and 8 December 2020. It calls for a transition away from the capitalist wheel, and consequently puts forward a series of reference axes to guide these transition strategies. We seek a horizontal dialogue that builds collect...

Moniliasis caused by Moniliophthora roreri (Cif. y Par.) Evans et al., is one of the most destructive diseas- es of cocoa in México and Latin America. The plant pathogen affects cocoa fruits on different growth stages, causing significant production loss. In this research, the antifungal effects of essential oils from eight plants were tested again...

Introduction. Myelomeningocele (MMC) is an embryologic neural tube defect. Aim. To determine defecatory habits in MMC patients older and younger than 4 years old according to medullary level and factors affecting catharsis. Patient and methods. Descriptive study of prospective cohort by multidisciplinary team at Posadas Hospital, from March 2003 to...

Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a chronic autoimmune rheumatic disease with symptoms including dryness, fatigue, and pain. The previous work by our group has suggested that certain proinflammatory cytokines are inversely related to patient-reported levels of fatigue. To date, these findings have not been validated. This study aims to validate t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the performance of IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies (IgA anti-tTG), IgA anti-endomysial antibodies (IgA EMA), and IgA/IgG antibodies against deamidated gliadin peptides (IgA/IgG anti-DGP) for the diagnosis of celiac disease. METHODS Descriptive study in patients with celiac disease. Anti-DGP (IgA/IgG), IgA EMA, IgA...

Severe aortic stenosis is associated with pulmonary comorbidity in a significant percentage of patients, being difficult to define the definitive therapy, considering they are high surgical risk patients where doubt about the futility of the procedure arises. With the appearance and development of the transcatheter aortic valve implant, balloon aor...

OBJECTIVES: B-cell activating factor (BAFF), β-2 microglobulin (β2M) and serum free light chains (FLCs) are elevated in primary SS (pSS) and associated with disease activity. We aimed to investigate their association with the individual disease activity domains of the EULAR Sjögren’s Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI) in a large well-characte...

Vriesea heliconioides (Kunth) Hook. ex Walp is a bromeliad that possesses inflorescences of red bracts and white petals that confer it great horticultural potential. For commercial purposes, it is necessary to develop efficient propagation protocols that discourage the extraction from its natural habitat. This study aimed to define the optimal cond...

Vriesea heliconioides (Kunth) Hook. ex Walp es una bromelia que posee inflorescencias de brácteas rojas y pétalos blancos que le otorgan amplio potencial hortícola. Para su aprovechamiento comercial es necesario desarrollar protocolos de propagación eficientes que desalienten la extracción de su hábitat natural. Los objetivos del presente estudio f...

El Protocolo de Estambul es un documento que tradicionalmente ha sido referencia obligada para evaluar, investigar y documentar la tortura; no obstante que refleja una acusada debilidad en cuanto a su efectiva evaluación psicológica, cabe destacar que la acreditación jurídica de la tortura no puede depender, ni de una evaluación de corte clínico, y...

El Derecho no ha sido ajeno al reconocimiento de las situaciones y derechos de las personas adultas mayores, más aún, durante la década pasada se generaron la mayor cantidad de programas sociales en beneficio de estas personas; así como la creación de un marco jurídico nacional e internacional. La mayoría de estos instrumentos jurídicos buscan gara...

El presente texto propone un análisis de la iniciativa, aún en construcción, denominada Observatorio de Prácticas Comunicativas (OPC). Tal propuesta se concibe como un espacio para el fomento del conocimiento, la investigación y los procesos comunicativos para la transformación política, social, cultural y científica. En esa dirección, la primera p...

Allergic rhinitis is a major health burden that affects millions of individuals and interferes with quality of life and daily functioning. Intranasal steroids (INS) are the gold standard of rhinitis therapy due to their wellestablished efficacy and safety profiles when used as recommended. Despite the potential benefits, barriers related to patient...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the levels of physical activity in individuals with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (PSS) and its relationship to the clinical features of PSS. To this cross-sectional study, self-reported levels of physical activity from 273 PSS patients were measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short for...

Primary care providers must quickly diagnose, make referrals, and initiate treatment for a variety of ocular conditions and diseases. Delays in treatment during an ocular emergency can result in permanent vision loss, and thus a broad knowledge of the most vision-threatening pathologies is vital. This article reviews the definitions, etiology, pres...

Background We introduced a nurse led Rheumatology Advice Line in 2004 to offer telephone advice to patients with inflammatory arthritis (1). Since then there has been a year-on-year increase in the number and complexity of calls, putting unsustainable demand on service and staff. A service review in April 2014 demonstrated one third of calls were i...

El artículo pretende ser un insumo a los debates teóricos y políticos en los que se enmarcan las alternativas que enfrentan el poder económico, cultural, político y jurídico que hoy en día acumulan las empresas transnacionales, agentes hegemónicos en el modelo vigente de sociedad global. Este modelo es la manifestación actual del proyecto civilizat...

Background: Anorectal malformations (ARM) are infrequent anatomic defects with a prevalence of 1 each 5000 alive newborns. Most of the patients repaired of this illness have some degree of constipation or fecal incontinence. There are few reports about manometric studies and biofeedback treatment in patients with anorectal malformations. Objectiv...

La familia Arecaceae reúne cerca 2,361 especies agrupadas en 189 géneros, distribuidas por la región ecuatorial, tropical y subtropical del mundo. En América se encuentran aproximadamente el 50% de los géneros y 30% de las especies. Se considera a la región amazónica como el principal centro de diversidad de la familia. Las palmas constituyen un el...

Previous nationwide surveys of allergies in the United States have focused on nasal symptoms, but ocular symptoms are also relevant. This study determines the effects of ocular and nasal allergies on patients' lives. Telephone surveys of randomly selected U.S. households (the patient survey) and health care providers (provider survey) were conducte...

78-year-old man who entered twice at an interval of 8 months because of fever and recurrent meningeal involvement and remaining asymptomatic between episodes. Complementary examinations were consistent with meningoencephalitis with systemic inflammatory parameters significantly altered and adrenal mass, suggestive of myelolipoma in the first-admiss...

78-year-old man who entered twice at an interval of 8 months because of fever and recurrent meningeal involvement and remaining asymptomatic between episodes. Complementary examinations were consistent with meningoencephalitis with systemic inflammatory parameters significantly altered and adrenal mass, suggestive of myelolipoma in the first-admiss...

p>Comprender el pensamiento político de Don Nicolás Gómez Dávila es definir el campo de producción de su discurso textual. Se presenta una selección de sus escolios en el campo especializado de lo político, pero estructurado en las instituciones jurídicas. Así como el pintor coloca pequeños puntos de color y crea una representación, en el caso de G...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the results of the semen analysis data while applying the parameters set out in the previous standard and the last proposed, in order to assess the changes in the diagnosis in terms of normal or abnormal, as how this fact can affect treatment decisions. Methods: 1184 semen analysis of patients undergo...

Introduction: No published material on the prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in the pediatric population of Argentina has been found up to date. Objective. To estimate the prevalence of CD in a pediatric population (hospital-based sample) from 5 urban districts of Argentina. Methods: In a cross-sectional descriptive study, we analyzed serum samp...

Hasta la fecha del estudio no se hallaron estudios poblacionales publicados sobre prevalencia de EC en población pediátrica argentina. OBJETIVO: estimar la prevalencia de la EC en población pediátrica de cinco distritos urbanos. MÉTODOS: diseño descriptivo de corte transversal. Se invitó a participar a 2.230 niños, de 3 a 16 años, que realizaban es...

RESUMEN Introducción El íleo postoperatorio es una importante causa de morbilidad después de un procedimiento quirúrgico abdominal. Un factor causal del retardo de la motilidad del tracto gastrointestinal es la presencia de una hiperactividad simpática generalizada que inhibe la motilidad intestinal. La fase cefálica de la digestión se inicia con...

Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory process of the pancreas, triggered by self digestión before activation of their pro ferments, it has a urgent management because it endangers the life of the patient.The recent accession of Orlistat, an inhibitor drug of lipase gastric and pancreatic to treat obesity, through its growing sale without a prescrip...

This article describes 6 Salud Para Su Corazon (SPSC) family of programs that have addressed cardiovascular disease risk reduction in Hispanic communities facilitated by community health workers (CHWs) or Promotores de Salud (PS). A synopsis of the programs illustrates the designs and methodological approaches that combine community-based participa...

Q Fever is an infectious disease caused by Coxiella Burnetti a bacterial obligate intracellular not capped, immobile and pleomorphic pathogen, the main source of infection is through inhalation of aerosols of slaughtered viscera of sheep, cattle and goats, but also can be implicated cats, dogs, rabbits and other species. The infection for C burnett...

Whipple's disease is a systemic infectious condition caused by a gram-positive bacteria belonging to the family of actinomycetes called Tropherima whipplei. It presents most often in males and 13% of patients present with severe diarrhea, fever, adenopathy, weight loss and pigmentation of the skin. Diagnosis is made through duodenal biopsy by which...

This research postulated as its general objective to identify the areas that integrate the sciences of Information and the relationships they establish between themselves, with the goal of evaluating the possibilities of existence, elucidating the terminological differences, their characteristics and likenesses. It worked on the basis of a qualitat...

This research postulated as its general objective to identify the areas that integrate the sciences of Information and the relationships they establish between themselves, with the goal of evaluating the possibilities of existence, elucidating the terminological differences, their characteristics and likenesses. It worked on the basis of a qualitat...

Sand Hollow Reservoir in southwestern Utah, USA, is operated for both surface-water storage and artificial recharge to the underlying Navajo Sandstone. The total volume of estimated artificial recharge between 2002 and 2007 is 85 million cubic meters (69,000 acre-feet). Since 2002, artificial recharge rates have generally been declining and are inv...

p>Este proyecto parte del interés por realizar un proceso comunicativo en donde las redes sociales se puedan articular entre los miembros de las Juntas Comunales de los municipios de Agua de Dios y Girardot y otros sujetos individuales y colectivos, para construir un capital social capaz de contribuir al desarrollo de este sector de Cundinamarca. E...

p>Todo poder echa mano del discurso delineando un dominio, sea este Estado-nación, Imperios clásicos, sistema-mundo e Imperio como posibilidad única de una nueva geopolítica planetaria. Desde el macroespacio y el poder que ordena y dice cómo debe ser pensado en donde el concepto de soberanía será la ficción instrumental que permita la obediencia a...

According to the information obtained from a georeferenced network of piezometers, it was determined the water table depth behavior in the Department of Lavalle and specially in the District of Costa de Araujo. The water table depths were grouped at intervals of 0.5 m, from surface to 2.5 m deep. The minimum and medium depths of each piezometer wer...

SIGAI, Sistema de Gestión de Asistencia Institucional, ofrece el servicio de automatización del control de asistencia del personal de una empresa o institución educativa, mejorando la imagen institucional en el aspecto organizativo, presentando estadísticas gráficas y resúmenes sobre el cumplimiento del personal de trabajo. Nuestro software esta en...

The function of the insects spermatheca is to store the spermatozoa from the time of copulation until the fertilization of the eggs. This organ consists of a sac, usually associated to glands. The ants Atta sexdens rubropilosa, Acromyrmex landolti, Acromyrmex balzani and Acromyrmex landolti balzani are species considered pests and cause serious eco...

It's has been known that the best repairing technique for incisional hernias consist in the use of polypropylene tights, which provides to abdominal wall a better resistance. The purpose if this Project is to compare tissue reactions that result of the use of these two implantation techniques, the implementation of the propylene tight on the preapo...

The Lower Unit of “El Pimpollar” volcanic outcrop (South-Portuguese Zone) is mainly composed of submarine dacites and andesites, with some subordinate basalts and trachyandesites. All these volcanic materials have intraplate affinities. The more basic rocks have alkaline character and show some differences with the equivalent vulcanites of the Iber...

The study about the possibilities of CO2 deep geological storage in the Júcar basin, has the basic purpose of identifying and defining the lithologies or stratigraphic units which are favourable from a hydrogeological point of view, so that it will be possible to aim later detailed researches about that kind of storage. As a consequence of this stu...

The Atlantic coast of Guatemala runs between Belize andHonduras; two countries in which coconut lethal yellow-ing (LY) disease is highly active (Harrison et al., 2002).Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera, Atlantic tall ecotype)with symptoms indicative of LY (Harrison & Jones,2003), including premature nutfall, necrosis of immatureinflorescences, progress...

La Zona de Ossa Morena se caracteriza por la abundancia de depósitos e indicios minerales pertenecientes a los ciclos orogénicos Cadomiense y Varíscico, así como a las etapas intermedias de rifting y plataforma estable. A pesar del desmembramiento producido por la orogénesis Varíscica, que enmascara los rasgos geológicos más antiguos, la mineraliza...

[EN] The Ossa-Morena Zone contains abundant ore deposits and showings for the most part formed during the Cadomian and the Variscan orogenic cycles, and the intermediate rifting and stable platform stages. Despite major tectonic dismembering during Variscan rejuvenation which masked older geologic features, Cadomian mineralisation is comparable to...

p>Este texto nos presenta una aproximación histórica del concepto de ciudadanía, el recorrido incluye algunos teóricos del tema, tales como Jhon Locke, Adam Smith, Deleuze-Guatari, Marshall, Adela Cortina, Uribe Hincapié y Negri & Hardt, entre otros. Algunos de ellos abordan el tema desde una óptica política, otros desde la económica y unos tantos...

p>El interaprendizaje, el conflicto escolar y la tecnología son términos que continuamente se hacen presentes en este artículo, que pretende reflejar el camino que se recorrió durante el proceso del trabajo de investigación titulado El Interaprendizaje comunicativo y periodístico acerca del conflicto escolar. Esta investigación contó con la partici...

The morphology of the venom gland in workers of the ant Pachycondyla striata (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera: Ponerinae) consists of an elongated sac that is directly connected to the sting apparatus. Three distinct regions compose this gland: the external secretory portion, composed by a secretory filament that bifurcates to originate another two; the int...

Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release (CICR) in the superficial abdominal flexor muscle of the crustacean Atya lanipes appears to be mediated by a local control mechanism similar to that of vertebrate cardiac muscle, but with an unusually high gain. Thus, Ca2+ influx increases sufficiently the local concentration of Ca2+ in the immediate vicinity of the sarcop...

The Iberian Pyrite Belt is one of the most important metallogenic areas of Europe running across the South of Portugal and the South-West of Spain, where a huge amount of geological and mining data produced during decades of exploration for massive sulphides in both countries is available. However, the information is held in disparate and dispersed...

After the failure of the Aznalcóllar mine dam, a number of activities were carried out in order to, first, remove the pyritic sludge deposited along the Agrio and Guadiamar river valleys and, second, to remediate the soils and to restore the fluvial morphology. A map of the spatial distribution of the sludge was made. This map showed the affected a...

In this article we describe several process evaluation activities of Salud para su Corazón (Health for your Heart), a community-based Latino cardiovascular disease prevention and outreach program created by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute which includes culturally relevant and language-appropriate materials for Latinos. Program activi...

bel, F. Steglich and M. Peter, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) 11714-11721 [49] Stochastic Gradient Approximation: An Efficient Method to Optimize Many-body Wave Functions A. Harju, B. Barbiellini, S. Siljamaki, R.M. Nieminen and G. Ortiz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 1173-1177 [50] Correlation effects for electron-positron momentum density in solids B. Barbi...