Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Introduction: chronic kidney disease is considered a growing socio-economic and public health problem for all systems worldwide.Objective: characterize hemodialysis older adults at “Abel Santamaria Cuadrado” General Teaching Hospital during 2016-2017.Method: an observational, descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted, the target group was made up of the 139 patients suffering from chronic kidney disease who underwent hemodialysis treatment in the period study, the sample included 53 older adult patients, the data obtained was stored in a database for further analysis and processing, using descriptive statistics to present the results obtained.Results: male sex predominated (66 %), the age group from 65 to 69 (37,7 %). Hypertension was the cause of the utmost prevalence (41,5 %), the type vascular access for hemodialysis most applied in patients was the central venous catheter (60 %), and cardiovascular disease was the clinical characteristic associated with a morbidity and mortality rate of higher incidence (50,9 %). Cardiovascular diseases prevailed as the main causes of death (17 %). Conclusions: older adults with hemodialysis treatment suffered from diabetes mellitus and/or hypertension as the principal comorbidities, which constitute at the same time, the triggering causes of the disease. The use of central venous catheter was common as a venous access. Cardiovascular diseases constituted the principal causes of mortality.

Introduction: a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage constitutes a global health problem; being the third cause of death, the first of disability in the adult and the second of dementia all over the world.Objective: to characterize clinically and epidemiologically the patients admitted as a consequence of a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage, at “Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” General Teaching Hospital, from January to October 2017.Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional observational study, carried out at the Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima General Teaching Hospital in 2017. A sample of 62 patients diagnosed with spontaneous hemorrhagic stroke was reviewed between January 1 and October 31, 2017, reported by the statistics department of this health institution. Socio-demographic and clinical variables, risk factors, among others were analyzed. Statistical processing was performed using SPSS 21.0 for better description of the results.Results: patients older than 50 years, male sex (58,1 %) and white race (74,2 %) predominated, with intraparenchymal hemorrhage being the main stroke (48,4 %). There was also a predominance of a hospital stay greater than 48 hours (79 %), with a mortality of 21 % at discharge, being higher in cerebral meningeal hemorrhage (75 %).Conclusions: intraparenchymal hemorrhage is the most evident cerebral vascular accident; in addition to presenting combined with other types. The minority underwent neurosurgical intervention. Hypertension was the main risk factor associated with stroke in these patients.