Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is not a notifi able disease in Chile and has received little attention on the national medical literature. In order to evaluate the relevance and clinical features of the disease, we performed a retrospective analysis in a general hospital of fi ve cases of NCC during a 11 years period. Age ranged from 3 to 63 years and all had history of living or visiting southern Chile. Three patients had a solitary parenchymal cyst in vesicular or granulomatous stages and presented with generalized seizures. Their outcome was favorable after anticonvulsant and albendazole therapy and cysts reduced in size and calcifi ed during follow-up. The other 2 patients had extraparenchymal or mixed forms, including a pregnant woman with intraventricular cysts who developed endocraneal hypertension and recurrent dysfunction of her ventriculoperitoneal shunt. This patient died after discharge despite an initial favorable evolution with steroids and high-dose albendazole. This case series showed that NCC is still an epidemiological and clinical problem in Chile, affects patients within a wide range of age including children, requires multidisciplinary therapeutic interventions, and has two clinical presentations with different prognosis including one malignant form. To control this infection, a surveillance or reporting system should be initiated.Key words: Neurocysticercosis, diagnosis, complications, drug therapy, albendazole, neglected disease. Palabras clave: Neurocisticercosis, diagnóstico, complicaciones, terapia, albendazol, enfermedad desatendida. Hospital Militarde Santiago, Chile. Departamento de MedicinaServicio de Infectología (AFC, ASS, TW). Servicio de Imagenología (MCS).Servicio de Neurología (CFM, COB). Conflicto de interés: ningunoFinanciamiento: ninguno Recibido: 31 de mayo de 2011Aceptado: 11 de octubre de 2011Correspondencia a:Introducción L a neurocisticercosis (NCC) es la infección parasitaria más frecuente del sistema nervioso central (SNC), la más importante de las causas prevenibles de epilepsia en el mundo en desarrollo y un integrante de la lista de las enfermedades desatendidas (neglected diseases)1 . La OMS estima que la NCC afecta a cerca de 50 millones de personas en el mundo y causa unas 50.000 muertes anuales 1,2 . El conocimiento que se tiene de la NCC en Chile es fragmentario debido a que no es una enfermedad de notifi cación obligatoria y no existe un programa de intervención específi co para su control. Además, su baja frecuencia genera una falsa sensación de seguridad epidemiológica y difi culta el conocimiento clínico que de ella se tiene. No obstante su carácter esporádico, los cuadros de NCC son relevantes debido a su morbilidad prolongada o compleja y porque afectan a una población económicamente activa. Las últimas publicaciones regulares con series de pacientes en Chile según una búsqueda efectuada por PubMed o LILACS para años más recientes, datan de la década del 60, cuando el conocimiento de esta enfermedad estaba basado casi exclusivamente desde una aproximación neu...
s concerns. General practitioners, internists and residents value further studies reccommended by radiologists.]]>
Non-resolving pneumonia is a common clinical problem that prolongs morbidity and increases hospitalization costs. We report an 82 year-old non-smoking female who was admitted with chronic diarrhea and later developed nosocomial pneumonia. Lung infiltrates did nota neumonía que no responde a tratamiento (NNRT) es un problema relativamente frecuente entre pacientes hospitalizados que aumenta la morbimortalidad y cuya incidencia oscila entre 13 y 18% 1-3 . El estudio y manejo de estos pacientes comúnmente se fundamenta en la experiencia clínica, más que en evidencia cientí-fica. Un enfrentamiento inadecuado puede llevar a intervenciones innecesarias, aumentando los costos, estadía hospitalaria y las complicaciones.Una de las causas de la NNRT es la neumonía organizada, una entidad poco conocida, subdiagnosticada y que puede ser secundaria a múltiples causas, siendo de diagnóstico fundamentalmente histopatológico 4 . Cuando no se logra identificar una etiología se denomina neumonía organizada criptogénica (Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia: COP). Su potencial respuesta a corticoides, hace de esta patología un desafío para el clínico, especialmente cuando se han agotado los recursos diagnósticos y estrategias terapéuticas convencionales.Este artículo tiene como propósito dar a conocer un caso de COP que se presentó como
A survey was performed in a number of Units of Radiology in Santiago, Chile, aimed at obtaining from each medical staff (physicians, technologists and ancillary personnel) estimations on what the Head of a Department of Radiology ideal profile should be. Five out of twelve desirable characteristics proposed had to be selected for statistical purposes. Results were analyzed in correlation with positions, age and workplace of those polled. From our findings we conclude that most valuable leading traits vary from different work units, mainly depending on positions held within each medical Imaging Department. Thus, a proactive leadership demands awareness of such considerations in order to improve organizational practices and results.
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