Technological Advances in Panama

Technological advances in teleradiology.

Teleradiology consists of a set of added-value telematic services, implemented over an advanced telecommunications infrastructure and supported by different information technologies and related applications. The main goal of teleradiology is to provide different levels of support for remote diagnostic imaging procedures. This paper considers technological advances in this important area, includ...

Technological advances in renal care.

The first systems for treating kidney failure were developed in the 1940's, when it was found that blood could be successfully cleared of toxins and returned to the body using a relatively simple device based on artificial sausage skin wrapped around a wooden frame. This process was used to replace the function of the kidney, allowing patients to recover from conditions such as poisoning or cru...

Technological Advances in Glioma Surgery

Technological advances in adoptive immunotherapy.

Adoptive immunotherapy is an attractive and elegant strategy for treating a variety of life-threatening diseases. Several approaches have been developed to generate antigen-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells for adoptive T-cell therapy in cancer and infectious diseases. Currently, many approaches are based on either the use of autologous peptide pulsed dendritic cells as antigen-presenting cells or...

Recent Technological Advances in Hepatogenic Differentiation of Stem Cells Relevant to Treatment of Liver Diseases

Liver failure, in an acute or chronic form, is a growing health problem ranking as one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Inborn errors of metabolism characterized by defects in hepatic enzymes or other proteins with metabolic functions, such as receptors or transporters accompanied with environmental factors involve etiology and presentation of liver failure. Currently, the only establi...