BACKGROUND: Anastomotic leakage remains a concern in general surgical practice. The significance lies in the resultant abdominal sepsis, related morbidity and mortality, risk of anastomotic loss, permanent stoma creation and the effect on local recurrence and overall patient survival in colorectal cancer...
OBJECTIVE: Candidaemia is the fourth most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections. The objective of this paper was to evaluate the risk factors associated with mortality in patients with candidaemia with respect to Candida species and their susceptibilities, retrospectively. METHODS: All consec...
To describe the estimates of morbidity and nosocomial mortality for traumatic brain injury (TBI), along with its causes. Methods: This is a descriptive series of hospitalizations in public Brazilian hospitals, with patients with age among 14 and 69 years, during the period of 2001 to 2007. It was selecte...
Introdução: o adenoma hepático roto é uma complicação incomum, exigindo alta suspeita clínica devido ao risco que representa. Exige pronta investigação diagnóstica com exames radiológicos. Após reposição volêmica, seu tratamento pode envolver desde a embolização transarterial hepática a...
OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated treatment strategies for head and neck cancers in a predominantly African American population. METHODS: Data were collected utilizing medical records and the tumour registry at the Howard University Hospital. Kaplan-Meier method was used for survival analysis and Cox propo...
El objetivo de este artículo es realizar un análisis de la curva de mortalidad por tuberculosis en Argentina a lo largo del siglo XX, desde 1911 hasta 2007. A partir de los datos obtenidos de diversas fuentes de carácter oficial se marcan las etapas históricas de dicha mortalidad, generando dentro de...
Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo y transversal de 550 pacientes en estado crítico, ingresados en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital General Docente "Orlando Pantoja Tamayo" de Contramaestre en la provincia de Santiago de Cuba, durante el bienio 2010-2011, con vistas a determi...