Part 5: Allogeneic HSCT in refractory SJIA with lung disease; recent cases from centers in North America & Europe by Alexei A. Grom, Scott W. Canna, Rolla F. Abu-Arja, Rashmi Sinha, Luciana Peixoto, Elvira Cannizzaro, Shanmuganathan Chandrakasan, Kyla Driest, Rebecca Marsh, Bénédicte Neven, Karen Onel, Sampath Prahalad, Susan Prockop, Pierre Quartier, Johannes Roth, Grant Schulert, Juliana M.F. Silva, Donna Wall, Ulrike Zeilhofer

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Isolated open tibial shaft fracture: a seven-hospital, prospective observational study in two Latin America countries by WILLIAM DIAS BELANGERO, FABRICIO FOGAGNOLO, KODI EDSON KOJIMA, GUILHERME CHOHFI DE MIGUEL, FERNANDO BIDOLEGUI, ALEJANDRO DANIEL BERTUNE, ERNESTO LOMBARDO, ADÉLIO DE LIMA DIAS, JOÃO BATISTA MANZOLI TORRES, BRUNO PARILHA COUTINHO, JORGE DOS SANTOS SILVA, MARCOS DE CAMARGO LEONHARDT, PABLO SEBASTIÁN PEREIRA, JOSÉ RICARDO LENZI MARIOLANI, VINCENZO GIORDANO

“…RWR is significantly higher for younger patients, no history of infection, and those who could run in the gait status assessment.…”
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The burden of stillbirths in low resource settings in Latin America: Evidence from a network using an electronic surveillance system. by Bremen de Mucio, Claudio Sosa, Mercedes Colomar, Luis Mainero, Carmen M Cruz, Luz M Chévez, Rita Lopez, Gema Carrillo, Ulises Rizo, Erika E Saint Hillaire, William E Arriaga, Rosa M Guadalupe Flores, Carlos Ochoa, Freddy Gonzalez, Rigoberto Castro, Allan Stefan, Amanda Moreno, Sherly Metelus, Renato T Souza, Maria L Costa, Adriana G Luz, Maria H Sousa, José G Cecatti, Suzanne J Serruya

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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Parents’ Non-Intention to Vaccinate Their Children and Adolescents against COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean by Diego Urrunaga-Pastor, Percy Herrera-Añazco, Angela Uyen-Cateriano, Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Adrian V. Hernandez, Vicente A. Benites-Zapata, Guido Bendezu-Quispe

“…We included adult (18 and over) Facebook users residing in LAC who responded to the survey between 20 May 2021 and 14 July 2021. …”
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Transcranial doppler as screening method for sickling crises in children with sickle cell anemia: a latin America cohort study by Gabriel Pinheiro Modolo, Gustavo José Luvizutto, Pedro Tadao Hamamoto Filho, Gabriel Pereira Braga, Silmeia Garcia Zanati Bazan, Natalia Cristina Ferreira, Juli Thomaz de Souza, Fernanda Cristina Winckler, Carlos Clayton Macedo de Freitas, Newton Key Hokama, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal, Rodrigo Bazan

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Representación en elecciones municipales en América Latina: Partidos políticos nacionales y otras candidaturas a alcaldías by Tomas Dosek, Jair Alva Mendoza

“…Abstract: Representation in local elections in Latin America? National political parties and other candidates to city halls Latin American countries allow for the political participation of different types of candidates in local elections. …”
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The effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America, 2021: a multicenter regional case–control studyResearch in context by Rebecca Kahn, Cara B. Janusz, Marcia C. Castro, Aline da Rocha Matos, Carla Domingues, Jamie Ponmattam, Gloria Rey-Benito, Cristiana M. Toscano, Lucia Helena de Oliveira, Analia Rearte, Ignacio Leandro Uriarte, Elsa Baumester, Maria Elena Borda, Miguel Diaz Cordoba, Juan Facundo Petrina, Ezequiel Consiglio, Carla Vizzotti, Tatiana Guimarães de Noronha, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão, Jeova Keny Baima Colares, Sonia Mara Raboni, Tazio Vanni, Lely Guzman, Adriana Regina Farias Pontes Lucena, Maria Elena Santolaya, Cinthya Urquidi, Claudia P. Cortes, Pedro Pablo Usedo Lopez, Rosana Benitez, Veronica Menares Latorre, Andrea Moller Roth, Iván Brstilo Cerda, Solange Santillana, Zohra Abaakouk, Angel Paternina Caicedo, Nelson Alvis Guzman, Juan Carlos Fernandez Mercado, Fernando de la Hoz Restrepo, David Santiago Quevedo, Sofia Rios Oliveros, Diane Moyano Romero

“…Summary: Background: As of September 2022, nearly 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine products have been administered in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 27% of global COVID-19 deaths have occurred. …”
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Genome-wide study investigating effector genes and polygenic prediction for kidney function in persons with ancestry from Africa and the Americas by Odessica Hughes, Amy R. Bentley, Charles E. Breeze, Francois Aguet, Xiaoguang Xu, Girish Nadkarni, Quan Sun, Bridget M. Lin, Thomas Gilliland, Mariah C. Meyer, Jiawen Du, Laura M. Raffield, Holly Kramer, Robert W. Morton, Mateus H. Gouveia, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Adan Valladares-Salgado, Niels Wacher-Rodarte, Nicole D. Dueker, Xiuqing Guo, Yang Hai, Adebowale Adeyemo, Lyle G. Best, Jianwen Cai, Guanjie Chen, Michael Chong, Ayo Doumatey, James Eales, Mark O. Goodarzi, Eli Ipp, Marguerite Ryan Irvin, Minzhi Jiang, Alana C. Jones, Charles Kooperberg, Jose E. Krieger, Ethan M. Lange, Matthew B. Lanktree, James P. Lash, Paulo A. Lotufo, Ruth J.F. Loos, Vy Thi Ha My, Jesús Peralta-Romero, Lihong Qi, Leslie J. Raffel, Stephen S. Rich, Erik J. Rodriquez, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Kent D. Taylor, Jason G. Umans, Jia Wen, Bessie A. Young, Zhi Yu, Ying Zhang, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Tanja Rundek, Jerome I. Rotter, Miguel Cruz, Myriam Fornage, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Alexandre C. Pereira, Guillaume Paré, Pradeep Natarajan, Shelley A. Cole, April P. Carson, Leslie A. Lange, Yun Li, Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, Ron Do, Fadi J. Charchar, Maciej Tomaszewski, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Charles Rotimi, Andrew P. Morris, Nora Franceschini

“…Summary: Chronic kidney disease is a leading cause of death and disability globally and impacts individuals of African ancestry (AFR) or with ancestry in the Americas (AMS) who are under-represented in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of kidney function. …”
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A participatory framework for feasibility assessments of climate change resilience strategies for smallholders: lessons from coffee cooperatives in Latin America by Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza, Danielle King, Ariadne Rivera-Aguirre, Sapphire Wang, Jennifer Finley-Lezcano

“…We collaborated with smallholder coffee cooperatives in Latin America to assess the feasibility of climate change resilience strategies they selected: crop diversification; rainwater collection systems; pest monitoring and management; collective coffee seed banks and nurseries; and solar coffee dryers. …”
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The Politics of (Dis)Information: Crippled America, the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign by Stephanie J Cork, Paul T Jaeger, Shannon Jette, Stefanie Ebrahimoff

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Orthodontic treatment demand for fixed treatment and aligners among young adults in middle Europe and South America – a questionnaire study by Maciej Jedliński, Joyce Belfus, Marta Milona, Marta Mazur, Katarzyna Grocholewicz, Joanna Janiszewska-Olszowska

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Virginia Leone Bicudo e Guerreiros Ramos – para uma epistemologia decolonial da perspectiva negro-brasileira nas Américas by Nádia Maria Cardoso da Silva

“…In this article, we seek to contribute to the consolidation of the decolonial academic field in the black-Brazilian perspective in Latin America, presenting two invisible black intellectuals in the social sciences in Brazil - Virgínia Leone Bicudo and Guerreiro Ramos - who lived the socio-anthropological Brazil, since the 40s of the 20th century. …”
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Methodology of Leaving America for Asia: Reading South Korea’s Social Studies Textbooks through ChenKuan-Hsing’s Asia as Method by Jeong-eun Rhee

“…Yet, it has evolved into an epistemological experiment to pursue the question of “what does it mean to leave America for Asia, at least methodologically, for the researcher who left Asia for America?” …”
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Airway Management of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19: Survey Results from Physicians from 19 Countries in Latin America by Manuel Granell, Nerea Sanchis, Carlos Delgado, Manuel Lozano, Marcio Pinho, Cecilia Sandoval, Carolina S. Romero, Cesar Aldecoa, Juan P. Cata, Jorge Neira, Jose De Andres, Alejandro Herreros-Pomares, Guillermo Navarro, The COV2-VIAEREA Network Study Group

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Prevalence and incidence of neuropsychiatric disorders in post hospitalized COVID-19 patients in South America: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Francisco Perea-Flórez, Francisco Perea-Flórez, Francisco Perea-Flórez, Nair Javier-Murillo, Nair Javier-Murillo, Nair Javier-Murillo, André Lapeyre-Rivera, André Lapeyre-Rivera, André Lapeyre-Rivera, Bryan Gamonal, Bryan Gamonal, Bryan Gamonal, Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo, Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo, Miguel Cabanillas-Lazo, Victor Velásquez-Rimachi, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Carlos Alva-Diaz

“…IntroductionThere are multiple reports of neuropsychiatric disorders (NDs) such as stress, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or anxiety, in patients who have survived the acute phase of COVID-19, being even more frequent in people who were hospitalized with moderate or severe disease. …”
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A Program Evaluation of a Dietary Sodium Reduction Research Consortium of Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Latin America by Janice Padilla-Moseley, Adriana Blanco-Metzler, Mary R. L’Abbé, JoAnne Arcand

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A Digitally Capable Mobile Health Clinic to Improve Rural Health Care in America: A Pilot Quality Improvement Study by Asif Iqbal, MBA, Gokhan Anil, MD, Pawan Bhandari, PhD, MS, Eric D. Crockett, FACMPE, Victoria M. Hanson, PhD, Bhushan S. Pendse, MS, PMP, Jonathan S. Eckdahl, MBA, Jennifer L. Horn, MD

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Intravitreal aflibercept for the treatment of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration in routine clinical practice in Latin America: the AQUILA study by Lihteh Wu, Arnaldo F. Bordon, Martin Charles, Francisco J. Rodríguez, JinKyung Lee, Tobias Machewitz, Margarete Mueller, Gabriela del Carmen Gay, Jans Fromow-Guerra, the AQUILA investigators

“…Abstract Background AQUILA (NCT03470103) was a prospective, observational, 12-month cohort study evaluating treatment patterns, clinical effectiveness, and safety of intravitreal aflibercept (IVT-AFL) in patients from Latin America with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). …”
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Emerging infectious diseases and new pandemics: dancing with a ghost! Lessons in inter- and transdisciplinary research in French Guiana, South America by Jean-François Guégan, Loïc Epelboin, Maylis Douine, Paul Le Turnier, Olivier Duron, Lise Musset, Christine Chevillon, Philippe Quénel, Mark Eric Benbow, Benoît de Thoisy

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Strategies to improve the implementation and effectiveness of community-based psychosocial support interventions for displaced, migrant and host community women in Latin America by M. Claire Greene, Gabrielle Wimer, Maria Larrea, Ingrid Mejia Jimenez, Andrea Armijos, Alejandra Angulo, Maria Esther Guevara, Carolina Vega, Emily W. Heard, Lina Demis, Lucia Benavides, Christine Corrales, Ale de la Cruz, Maria Jose Lopez, Arianna Moyano, Andrea Murcia, Maria Jose Noboa, Abhimeleck Rodriguez, Jennifer Solis, Daniela Vergara, Lena S. Andersen, Maria Cristobal, Milton Wainberg, Annie G. Bonz, Wietse Tol

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