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AUTHOR
V. Machado
SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study
Abstract Background Preoperative SARS-CoV-2 vaccination could support safer elective surgery. Vaccine numbers are limited so this study aimed to inform their prioritization by modelling. Methods The primary outcome was the number needed to vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one COVID-19-related death in 1 year. NNVs were based on postoperative SARS-CoV-2 rates and mortality in an international cohort study (surgical patients), and community SARS-CoV-2 incidence and case fatality data (general population). NNV estimates were stratified by age (18–49, 50–69, 70 or more years) and type of surgery. Best- and worst-case scenarios were used to describe uncertainty. Results NNVs were more favourable in su…
Trombosis de la arteria humeral secundaria a malformación de la primera costilla
We present a case of a healthy 52-year-old man who came to our clinic because he suffered fatigue in the upper left limb during the past 4 months. Progressively he developed claudication with minimum efforts and nocturnal pain that awoke him, tingles, coldness and pallor in the whole hand. Cervical, shoulder, elbow, and wrist mobility and muscle power were normal. There was absence of left axillary, humeral, radial and ulnar pulses, with a left subclavian pulse present. Echo-Doppler and CT angiography revealed axillary and brachial artery thrombosis secondary to a narrow left intercostoscalenic space due to agenesis of the first ribs? anterior arch and synchorosis of the costal remnant with…