Jose Tomas Ramos Amador

..We studied during a 3-year follow-up period the effects of highly active antiretroviral therapy with nelfinavir in vertically HIV-1 infected children...

..The impact of HIV drug resistance mutations in salvage therapy has been widely investigated in adults. By contrast, data available of predictive value of resistance mutations in pediatric population is scarce...

..To update antiretroviral recommendations in antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected children and adolescents...

..This study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of combination therapy including lopinavir/ritonavir in children with prior exposure to all classes of oral antiretrovirals...

..New strategies should continue to be developed to overcome the still important limitations of current antiretroviral treatment...

..We undertook a prospective study to estimate the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and associated risk factors in a cohort of 669 HIV-1 infected women...

..In the present study, we analyse the prevalence of anaemia and neutropenia in an uninfected children cohort born to HIV-infected women...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate failures in the prevention of MTCT and the clinical characteristics of infected infants...

..In the present study, we have analysed the proportion and characteristics of congenital malformations (CM) or birth defects (BD) in a cohort of uninfected children born to HIV-infected women...

..Such studies would be useful to determine patients' clinical and immunologic and virologic status, currently prescribed therapies and their associated toxicity...

..We report a case-series describing the effects in metabolic abnormalities in seven HIV-infected children, previously treated with protease inhibitor (PI) after switching to nevirapine...

..In spite of the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (IGIV), the absence of a specific diagnostic test and due to there being IGIV-refractory patients, Kawasaki disease is a major cause of coronary artery abnormalities (CAA)...

..The objective of this study was to assess the clinical characteristics and determine the epidemiological trend of new diagnoses of pediatric HIV infection in Madrid in the last 8 years...

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..Visceral leishmaniasis is endemic in Spain. New diagnostic tools and shorter regimens of treatment are been increasingly being used in children...

..Valganciclovir may be an excellent alternative because of its good bio-availability, providing plasma concentrations similar to those achieved with intravenous ganciclovir...

..There are new treatment options such the combination of azithromycin and calcitonin in children without clinical improvement with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...

..The present study describes the trend in PT over 13 years, as well as changes in medical-surgical management and their influence on PT...

..Our results on vertical HIV transmission combine for the first time the 'HLA-B35 disadvantage' and the 'pattern of inheritance' theories...

..Information on pediatric malaria in Spain is scarce. The aim is to evaluate the clinical, therapeutic and epidemiological characteristics of children diagnosed with malaria in our hospital...

..Nevertheless, worrisome metabolic and bone alterations are beginning to be observed...

..We believe that the case presented herein is a probable PANDAS syndrome, which would be the first case described in Spain...

..All patients had a favorable outcome, although in eight, radiological sequelae were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Spondylodiscitis is not exceptional in childhood and awareness of this entity among pediatricians should be increased...

..Shigella spp. is a bacterium that frequently causes diarrhoea in underdeveloped countries, but not so much in Spain, where it has been published that its incidence has decreased in the last few years...

..CONCLUSIONS: Prolonged administration of two antibiotics (of which one must be clarithromycin) in addition to surgery was well-tolerated and could be useful in patients with NTMB neck lymphadenitis...

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..We describe the life cycle of the human botfly and the typical clinical presentation and management of this entity. We also highlight the increasing importance of greater awareness of imported diseases...