Institution
Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo
Recent research
- Biology
This retrospective single-surgeon cohort study evaluated speech outcomes in 79 children with nonsyndromic cleft palate, with or without cleft lip, who underwent primary palatoplasty with intravelar veloplasty involving extensive palatal muscle dissection, performed by a single su...
- Health & Medicine
Abstract Iron, zinc and calcium are essential minerals required for key physiological functions, including oxygen transport, immune function, enzymatic activity and bone health. Despite their importance, deficiencies remain widespread globally, driven in part by the poor bioavail...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract COVID-19 and obesity are complex conditions marked by immune and metabolic dysfunction, with the former still ranking among the leading causes of death from infectious diseases worldwide and the latter reaching pandemic proportions. Clinical evidence consistently shows t...
- Health & Medicine
Purpose This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates endovascular therapy (EVT) versus best medical treatment (BMT) in pediatric acute ischemic stroke (AIS) due to large-vessel occlusion. Methods Systematic searches were conducted across PubMed, Cochrane, and Embase, incept...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Social cues on stone tools outweigh raw material properties in wild primates
1. Abstract The ability to select appropriate tool material enabled early hominins access to new resources and environments. The underlying mechanisms driving tool selection effectively remain unknown. Observations of extant primates have demonstrated strong selectivity for speci...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
ABSTRACT Background Nursing process is a systematic, problem‐solving framework structuring clinical reasoning and patient‐centred care; within it, Nursing Diagnoses (ND) link clinical assessment to planning and implementing individualised interventions. However, evidence demonstr...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Common pathways and outliers in glucose catabolism across Trypanosomatidae
Glucose catabolism in trypanosomatids differs significantly from that in most other eukaryotes. Here, the first few enzymes of the pathway are all located inside glycosomes, that is, the peroxisome‐like microbodies uniquely present in the Kinetoplastida and Diplonemida of the Eug...