There is a high percentage of patients with chronic auricular fibrillation and a high risk of embolism, who do not receive adequate TEP, in the absence of counter-indications to taking oral anticoagulants. There is great scope for improvement, which is within professionals' possibilities.

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Tr a v e l e r's consultation (III). Following the progression after the travel ABSTRACT The traveler´s consultation do not finish at the end of the travel. It is very important to follow the p ro g ression of the traveler in the family practice consultation after the travel. In this consultation the physician have to re g i ster the incidences happened in the travel in the me

RESUMEN La tiroiditis subaguda se conoce también con el término de tiroiditis granulomatosa o tiroiditis de Q u e rvain, y se define como una inflamación de la glándula tiroidea secundaria probablemente a una infección viral. Es una entidad ABSTRACT Subacute thyroiditis is known also as subacute granulomatous thyroiditis or de Quervain´s thyro iditis, it´s an inflammation of the thyroid gland of presumed viral aetiology. It´s a disorder non frecuently (5%), but is the most common cause of a painful thyroid gland. The symptoms beginning with an intensive asthenia, malaise, and frecuently pain in the region of the t h y roid gland secondary to distention of the

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