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Granuloma anular, pronóstico de diabetes mellitus. A propósito de un caso
Annular granuloma, prognosis of diabetes mellitus. On the purpose of a case

Rev. medica electron; 41 (3), 2019
RESUMEN El granuloma anular es una dermatosis de relativa frecuencia en niños, jóvenes y adultos. Está caracterizado por lesiones cutáneas eritemato-pápulo-nodulares, que adoptan una disposición anular. Su etiopatogenia es desconocida, pero con numerosos factores predisponentes, desencadenantes o a...

Resultados terapéuticos en pacientes con traumas de colon y recto tratados con sutura primaria o colostomía
Therapeutic Results in patients with Colon and Rectal Traumas Treated with Primary Suture or Colostomy

Rev. cuba. cir; 58 (2), 2019
RESUMEN Introducción: El trauma de abdomen tiene alta incidencia y con frecuencia afecta el colon y el recto, se aboga por el tratamiento mediante sutura primaria. Objetivo: Identificar diferencias en las características clínico-quirúrgicas y resultados terapéuticos de pacientes con lesiones tra...

Morbilidad y mortalidad por peritonitis secundaria en el servicio de cirugía
Morbidity and Mortality due to Secondary Peritonitis in the Surgery Service

Rev. cuba. cir; 58 (2), 2019
RESUMEN Introducción: La peritonitis secundaria se origina por contaminación de la cavidad peritoneal, continúa siendo una enfermedad grave con morbilidad y mortalidad altas. Objetivo: Determinar la morbilidad y la mortalidad por peritonitis secundaria en el Servicio de Cirugía del Hospital Gener...

Fluid balance in pediatric patients in prone position: a pragmatic study

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: To verify the association between prone position, increased diuresis, and decreased cumulative fluid balance in critically ill pediatric patients who underwent mechanical ventilation (MV) for pulmonary causes and describe adverse events related to the use of the position. METHODS: Th...

Impact of HER2 receptor status on axillary nodal burden in patients with non-luminal A invasive ductal breast carcinoma

Rev. méd. Chile; 147 (5), 2019
ABSTRACT Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women. Aim: To assess the impact of HER2 status on axillary lymph node (ALN) involvement in patients with invasive ductal carcinoma of no special type (IDC-NST) both at diagnosis and during the 4-year postoperative period. Patien...

Laparoscopic approach in surgical staging of endometrial cancer

Abstract Objective To compare laparoscopy with laparotomy for surgical staging of endometrial cancer. Methods A cohort of women with preoperative diagnosis of endometrial cancer who underwent surgical staging was retrospectively evaluated. The main study end points were: morbidity and mortality, hosp...

Left ventricular aneurysm repair: off-pump linear plication versus on-pump patch plasty

Abstract Objective: The study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of simplified linear plication and classic patch plasty in patients with left ventricular aneurysm (LVA). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 282 patients undergoing LVA repair between 2006 and 2016. After propensity score matching, ...

Innominate vs. axillary artery cannulation in aortic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Objective: To investigate whether axillary artery cannulation has supremacy over innominate artery cannulation in thoracic aortic surgery. Methods: A comprehensive search was undertaken among the four major databases (PubMed, Excerpta Medica dataBASE [EMBASE], Scopus, and Ovid) to identify all...

Previous cardiac surgery: a predictor of mortality in aortic valve replacement?

Abstract Introduction: Previous cardiac surgery (PCS) is a risk factor for operative mortality in pa-tients undergoing reoperative aortic valve replacement (AVR) and may be influenced by the volume of patients in each center. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of AVR in patients with prev...