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

It was performed a research and some controls to patients with the objective to identify some risk factors of the Acute Respiratory Infection in children under 15 years old belonging to the consults 145B and 18 Floor- Building of Jimmy Hirtzel polyclinic in Bayamo, Granma. The sample was made by 111 patients and 222 controls from a universe of 341 children. For the controls there were selected children under 15 years without respiratory symptoms, they belonged to the same consult. It was studied the association between the acute respiratory disease with the risk factors like: environmental, nutritional and some others related to the mother. The results showed that the low scholarity of the mother was a risk factor statistically outstanding. (OR: 6.67 IC: 5.67-7.84) in relation to the risk of children who acquire acute respiratory infections. It was evidenced that the children whose parents are smokers presented more risks to acquire this disease (OR 4.50, IC 3.34-6.0). Conclusions: all of the studied risk factors contributed to the risk to acquire High Acute Respiratory Infections in the community. The most significant factors were the mother scholarity level, undernutrition and passive exposure to the smoke.

The ventricular septal defects embrace all those congenital anomalies of the heart that independently of their nature, origin and  characteristics, facilitate the blood flow from a ventricular cavity to the other. It can be presented isolated or associated to other dysfunctions of the cardiovascular anatomy. Single ventricular septal defect is the most frequent of congenital cardiopathies, with evolution from the spontaneous closure to the most severe forms that develop obstructive pulmonary vascular disease what makes surgery contraindicated. The early diagnosis and treatment will reduce the appearance of complications and will help to prolong the survival of these patients. The present bibliographical revision was designed with the objective of deepening in the diverse anatomical, physiopathological, clinical and diagnostic aspects of the adults patients with CIV. The articles related with the topic and available in Medline and Hinaris´s databases in the last ten years were revised in an automated and exhaustive way. The whole information obtained was condensed, being carried out an analysis and synthesis of this one.

The historical grounds of the universalization of medical superior education were analized since the bases upon the fidelista thought, the antecedents of the formation of professional human resources for health development in Cuba and the elements that support their present strategy since the characteristics of the battle of ideas and the improvement of the socialist Cuban project.

A retrospective descriptive and observational study was made for the 503 patients who were treated with endoscopies of the lower gastrointestinal tract in the “Octavio de la Conception y de la Pedraja, Pediatric Hospital in Holguin province, the objective was to  describe the epidemiological characteristics of rectal polyps in pediatric patients. To select the samples the inclusion and exclusion criteria were taken into account, with 234 patients with rectal polyps. The variables used were the prevalence of rectal polyps, clinical diagnostic impression of endoscopy, histological diagnosis and the age group. The data were gathered from a model made by the authors. It was concluded that 234 patients had rectal polyps. The presumptive diagnosis which motivated the prescription of endoscopy was rectorrhagia and rectal polyps also; the histopathology diagnosis was conformed by the juvenile polyp group. The most affected group was about 2 to 6 years old, the size of polyps was 0.5 to 0.9 cm and the sesils showed a greater representation. 

Se fundamentan los cambios que implica la universalización de la educación médica superior como aspectos estratégicos del perfeccionamiento del sector de la Salud Pública y su incidencia en los procesos universitarios para la formación de profesionales.

Se realizó un estudio descriptivo-prospectivo, período enero-junio del año 2010, en la Biblioteca del Policlínico Universitario “Luis E. de la Paz Reina”, en el Municipio Yara, Provincia Granma; con el objetivo de evaluar  la  utilización de la Biblioteca Virtual de Salud (BVS) por los médicos y enfermeras  de la familia proponiendo un sistema de actividades que estimulen el uso de la misma. Los resultados de la encuesta que se aplicó se presentaron en tablas estadísticas que expresan el bajo nivel de conocimientos y el poco uso de la información que genera o posee el centro en los recursos informativos.  Los especialistas en Medicina General Integral utilizaron con más frecuencia los servicios de la BVS con ayuda de las bibliotecarias y más del 70 % manifestó tener necesidad de asesoramiento; por lo cual se trazó un sistema de actividades para estimular y contribuir al uso y explotación de los recursos de la BVS, lo que posibilita que llegue la información necesaria y precisa para el desarrollo de su labor profesional. Teniendo en cuenta la importancia que como fuerza productiva del desarrollo tiene la información, resulta necesario proporcionarle  una vía estable para el enriquecimiento del  conocimiento de los usuarios objeto de estudio.

The prosthetic rehabilitation through implants constitutes a therapy of paramount acceptance by the affected patients due to the edentulous process. Nevertheless the possibilities of its application is sometimes diminished by several factors of the patients like: the position of the maxillary sinus, the bone reabsorptions and vestibular undermined that are presented due to the fractures of the vestibular charts during the exodontias. The place of the implant with   a degree of angulation constitutes a solution for surgeons in order to avoid these structures and looking for a better bone availability. However it   is against   the proper rehabilitation when it gets separated from the parallelism of the adjacent teeth, affecting the aesthetic factor. The use of prosthetic abutment angles to correct the implants angulation is an alternative of the prosthesis specialists to obtain an adequate treatment. It is presented a clinical case where this technique is evidenced, as well as its advantagest.

There were analized the characteristics of the  Health sector  in Granma, as well as the most significant results, and the scientific- technical potential of their professionals is emphasized as the resource to encourage  the main  processes of formation, assistance and research, since the conscious application of science and  techniques as instruments to improve the management, in the presence of the Agreements of the VI Congress of the Communist Party. 

The infections are still a scourge for children, which is evidenced in the second basic cause of infantile mortality in Cuba. It was performed an analytic  research of cases an controls with the objective to identify the influence of risk factors in preterm newborns with precocious newborn infection, hospitalized in the Neonatology Closed Service at Carlos Manuel Cespedes Hospital in Bayamo, Granma, since January 1rst to December 31, 2010. It was performed a univaried analysis, the presence of vaginal (OR 3.07, p=0.001) and urinary sepsis (OR 10.54, p=0.000), the breaking of membranes with more than 18 hours (OR 10.54, p=0.000), the clinic corioamnyonitis was the risk factor because its value was OR 9.70, p=0.000). Concluding, all researched factors influenced in the presence of the precocious neonatal infection. 

It was performed a revision article about some aspects of Hypertensive disease in pregnancy with the objective to update the topic and facilitate the educational information about the physiopathology, risk factors, prevention,  changes in different systems of the organism and their management. The bibliographical research was exhaustive, automatized in the magazines of the speciality that were published since 2003 to 2011, from every part of the world, in English or Spanish, circulating in the internet. It is concluded that until the current time the disease was maintained as a health problem that was not solved yet in the maternal infant care with several controversial aspects in the physiopathology, what brought difficulties in the prevention and precocious treatment of the disease.