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Filter by:The purpose of this research is to evaluate two different standard of care surgeries in treating periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) after total hip and knee arthroplasty. Researchers are looking at differences in outcomes following single versus planned double debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention (DAIR) for acutely infected total hip arthroplasty (THA), and total knee arthroplasties (TKAs).
Among postmenopausal women who suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI), vaginal estrogen therapy prevents UTI recurrences for 50% of sufferers. This research will investigate why some women benefit but others do not, focusing on (a) the effects of vaginal estrogen therapy on the bacteria that inhabit the vagina and bladder, (b) its influence on immune responses in both compartments, and (c) the extent to which those changes are critical to successful UTI prevention. The findings will be a first step in the development of more effective strategies to prevent UTI, one of the most common and costly benign urologic conditions.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) based on tenofovir represents a considerably new preventive intervention that has shown to significantly decrease the number of HIV infections while it enables early diagnosis of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STI). In Southern Spain, the target population to receive PrEP are men who have sex with men (MSM) with a history of STI and who pursue high-risk sexual practices regarding the acquisition of HIV, including an elevate number of sex partners, no or inconsistent condom use and the use of specific recreational drugs in the context of sexual activity ("chemsex"). Despite the benefits of PrEP use, it must be taken into consideration that risk compensations that may facilitate the acquisition of other STI may occur, including a higher implementation of risk practices and an increase in the number of partners, which is made easy as various social networks designed for this purpose are available nowadays. In order to better understand the benefit/drawback ratio, accurate data of a population using PrEP under real-life conditions, with densely scheduled follow-up and well-characterized (socio-)demographic parameters, sexual behaviour and STI are warranted.
Surgical site infection (SSI) is the second cause of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Its appearance increase mobidity and post-operatice hospital stays, increasing costs aswell, although its one of the most preventable HAI. The diagnosis and detection of SSI is usually carried out late by non-especialists once the patient has consulted to the emergency services or primary care with an already obvious infections. This raise both the direct and indirect costs and saturaties the emergency department and primary care, while delays treatment and increase disconfort and morbidity. A smart phone aplication (RedScar© ) was developped in order to detect and monitor wound infection remotely based on an automated algorithm with no medical intervention.This app allows the patient to upload a photography and answer a short questionary, the aplication will then give a diagnosis of possible infection and recommendations. This study is the first one to use a smartphone-based automatic aplication on real patients to diagnosis wound infection . This is a prospective, single-institution not randomized quasy-experimental study protocol. The study design and protocol were reviewed and approved by Research Ethics Committee of the Balearic Islands (CEI-IB). This paper is part of the R+D+i Project PID2020-113870GB-I00- "Desarrollo de herramientas de Soft Computing para la Ayuda al Diagnóstico Clínico y a la Gestión de Emergencias (HESOCODICE)", funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/.
The primary aim of this study is to assess and quantify the longitudinal impact of a mobile App-based module - FYA-003 - which is a gamified health education module for children promoting nutrition, physical activity, health hygiene, and infectious disease risk reduction within the clinically proven app fooya!, on the dietary and physical activity habits, hygiene practices, clinical outcome measures, and related knowledge of children and their caregivers. The app will be delivered in the classroom setting through school-based health education.
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the validity of the Microbial- ID test to aid in diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in terms of sensitivity and specificity.
This study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the Jinghua Weikang Capsule (a Chinese patent medicine for peptic ulcer and gastritis) containing quadruple therapy (Jinghua Weikang Caplsule plus triple therpy) for eradicating Helicobacter pylori in IgA nephropathy.
The global dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) are a significant threat to health care, especially for severely ill patients. Antibiotics currently used to treat CRE and CRPA infections are usually toxic and not very effective. Novel treatments include beta-lactamase inhibitors with broad-spectrum activity, among them IMI-REL. IMI-REL is a promising molecule due to the ability of REL to diminish carbapenem MICs to the susceptible range, potentially restoring the activity of this potent drug. However, few studies have systematically examined IMI-REL activity against a diverse clinical collection of CRE and CRPA strains, in particular from a region where the resistance is high, and the main mechanisms are in general unknown (Brazil- Latin America). As the use of molecular diagnostics becomes increasingly available in clinical settings, it is crucial to identify molecular markers predicting antimicrobial efficacy to guide therapeutic decision-making. In the present study, we will acess different species of CRE and CRPA from clinically relevant isolates to determine if the species, clonal lineage, and resistance gene profile, have influence to the response to IMI-REL.
The human BK polyomavirus is a significant risk factor for renal transplant dysfunction and allograft loss. The prevalence of BK viremia (BKV) following kidney transplantation is estimated to be 10-20%.
The investigators primary objective is to identify genetic factors that may increase the risk of patients developing a periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) following total joint arthroplasty (TJA). The investigators hope that by identifying genetic predispositions we will be able to provide patient specific care pathways to prevent or minimize the risk for PJI.