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Aspectos clínicos y epidemiológicos en pacientes con cáncer de pulmón en un servicio de neumología
Clinical and epidemiological aspects in patients with lung cancer in a pneumology service

Medisan; 22 (4), 2018
Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y transversal de 125 pacientes con cáncer de pulmón, ingresados y diagnosticados en el Servicio de Neumología del Hospital General Docente Dr Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso de Santiago de Cuba, de enero de 2015 a octubre de 2016, con vistas a caracterizarles según variabl...

Rol de la broncoscopía en el paciente pediátrico

Pediatric bronchoscopy has played an important role in the practice of pulmonology, having important advances in recent years. It is now possible to perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures with this technique. Rigid bronchoscopy continues to have a significant character in the identification and ma...

Abordaje diagnóstico para aspiración de cuerpo extraño en pediatría

Foreign body aspiration in children is a frequent cause of consultation in the pediatric emergency department and can be a life-threatening event. It occurs mainly during the first 4 years of life and is more frequent in males. It is possible to find the clinical triad of cough, localized wheezing and de...

Estridor persistente

Stridor is a musical, often high-pitched sound produced by a rapid, turbulent flow of air through a narrowed segment of the large airways. The cause of stridor can be located anywhere in the extrathoracic airway (nose, pharynx, larynx, and trachea) or the intrathoracic airway (tracheobronchial tree). Str...

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in diagnosis of mediastinal lesions

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective To describe the results of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in making diagnosis of mediastinal injuries associated to different causes. Methods A retrospective cross-sectional study of patients submitted to Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchia...

Indications, clinical outcomes and complications of 1, 949 flexible bronchoscopies

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (4), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective To describe indications, clinical outcomes and complications of flexible bronchoscopy. Methods A descriptive observational study of bronchoscopies performed at the endoscopy service of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein . Demographic (age, gender and origin) and medical (indication...

A doença laríngea, traqueal e brônquica nas mucupolissacaridoses: estudo endoscópico
Laryngeal, tracheal and bronchial disease in mucupolysaccharidosis: an endoscopic study

As mucopolissacaridoses (MPS) são doenças geneticamente determinadas, originadas da deficiência de enzimas que degradam glicosaminoglicanos (GAG); a não degradação destas substâncias gera o acúmulo das mesmas no tecido conjuntivo em vários órgãos e sistemas do organismo, inclusive na laringe, ...

Neumomediastino espontáneo recidivante
Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum

Rev. cuba. med. mil; 46 (3), 2017
El neumomediastino espontáneo se caracteriza por la presencia de aire en el mediastino. Es una enfermedad generalmente benigna y autolimitada, no asociada a causa directa conocida. Es de infrecuente ocurrencia. Se presenta principalmente con dolor torácico, disnea y enfisema subcutáneo. El diagnóstic...

Rol de la broncoscopía como herramienta diagnóstica en la tuberculosis
Role of bronchoscopy as a diagnostic tool in tuberculosis

Rev. am. med. respir; 17 (3), 2017
El rol de la broncoscopía en las enfermedades infecciosas tiene como principal objetivo determinar la presencia del agente etiológico para dirigir un tratamiento efectivo. En el caso de la tuberculosis, la sospecha de enfermedad suele presentarse debido a ciertas características clínico-radiológicas...

Biopsia de pulmón transbroncoscópica
Transbronchoscopic lung biopsy

Rev. cuba. med; 56 (3), 2017
Introducción: el diagnóstico temprano de las enfermedades que afectan el parénquima pulmonar ya sean malignas o benignas es de vital importancia para disminuir la mortalidad por estas, la cual es elevada. La biopsia de pulmón transbroncoscópica es fundamental en el diagnóstico de dichas enfermedade...