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

The Blastocystis hominis is protozoo that causes diarreicos pictures. He is highly prevalente in populations that do not count on suitable services of hygiene, sewage system and public health. The infection with  Blastocystis hominis is frequently associed with other enteric pathogens, in addition has been reported like opportunistic parasite in patients with VIH AIDS. The objective of the present study is to determine the presence of  Blastocystis hominis in patients of external consultation with symptoms associated to gastrointestinals diseases, in commune 7 of Santa Marta district, Colombia, during the 12 month (January to  December of 2.004). The procedures for the diagnose was coproparasitologic assays and the number of analyzed patients was of 291. The results show a high presence of  Blastocystis hominis in patients with diarreica disease resident in Gayra. A high percentage of the parasited population (62,6%) display as only causal agent of the diarreica disease to the  B. Hominis, this results suggests the presence of ot her diseases that can involve an immunological  commitment, the effect will be a weak immune response against the parasite.

A transversal descriptive study was made to 13 of the 24 patients who went to the Emergency room in the Central Hospital «Julio Méndez Barreneche» in Santa Marta city with suicide attempt diagnose. Previous verbal acceptation consent was applied to four measure instruments in four sessions: An interview designed by the authors who collect social demographic data, the Orientation Suicide Inventory (OSI 30), Auto applied scale for depression of Zung – Conde and Scale ¿How is your Family?. The profile found in this study points that the majority of the people who try it, regardless of the sex, are people under 30, single, unemployed, with a low economic and educative level; 38% have had 2 previous intents of which 80% are female. The intents are ingesting medicinal substances and insecticides. Most of the people presented a high punctuation on suicide ideas, which means this population is to be paid a lot of attention to.

Background: Sexual relationship (SR) prevalence changes according the sociocultural context. Among adolescents, RS has negative outcome like non-expected pregnancy and sexually transmissible diseases. Objective: To establish the prevalence of SR in adolescent student from three official schools from Santa Marta, Colombia, and exploring some associated factors. Method: A transversal study was designed. Adolescent students, aged from thirteen to seventeen year-old, answered an anonymous and self report survey that it asked for sociocultural characteristics, and others health risk behaviors like alcohol drinking. Results: Fi ve hundred thirty two stude nts were included. Mean age was 14.7 years (SD 1.31); 56.2% was girls, and mean education was 9.1 years (SD 1.53) (53% middle school and 47% high school). SR prevalence was 27.8% (CI 95% 24.0-31.6). Logistic regression showed association between SR and being male (OR 10.53, CI 95% 6.25-17.54), older (OR 1.90, CI 95% 1.57-2.30), last month smoking (OR 2.27, CI 95% 1.38-3.73), and last month alcohol consum e (OR 2.05, CI 95% 1.01-4.81). Conclusions: One of each four adolescent student have had SR. Experimented sexual adolescents are more likely being males, older, and reported alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking.

Starting at the end of the sixties in the last century psychology began an interesting process in which it has compromised the study and attention of problematic health-illness issues. When we immerse ourselves in the análisis of the health problems of the Cuban population, it is imposible not to think about the cardiovascular problems and especially isquemica cardiopathy. The isquemica cardiopathies cause a great physical and emotional impact on the population. After an event of this nature, a great anxiety of fear and danger is generated because the event may repeat with terminal consequences. This fear can also be transposed to the area of sexuality so that the person looses, in manycases, the sexual life they had before the event. Considering this was the motive to complete the present work with the object to determine the sexual peculiarities of 80 patients diagnosed with the illness who were being given care in the Provincial Clinical Surgical University Hospital «Camilo Cienfuegos» of Sancti – Spiritus. Interviews and questionaires were used to diagnos the increase of sexual disfuncions in the patients, the reduction in the frequency of sexual relations and the increase in doubts and fears caused by the lack of proper counsuling. For all these reasons arises the need to propose a strategy of psychological intervention with the objective to give proper counseling to tose patients who have been diagnosed with Isquemica Cardiopathy so that they can find rehabilitation in their future sexual perfomance.

The malaria is an infectious disease caused by  Plasmodium parasites.  Plasmodium falciparum is the responsible of the most severe form of the disease. The report of cases of malaria in Sucre (Colombia) increased of 371 in 2000 to 611 in 2004, according to data of the epidemiology department of DASSALUD; in spite of this, studies published about of causes of this increase do not exist. One of the factors related to the increase of the morbidity and mortality by malaria at world is the resistance that  P. falciparum has developed towards antimalarials drugs . The resistance to pirimetamina has been related to point mutations in the gene that codifies for the Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), component of the biosynthetic route of folate of the parasite. The objective of the present study was to detect the presence in Sucre, of  P.falciparum strain with the Asn 108 DHFR mutation, associated with  in vitro pyrimethamine resistance. The investigation was carried out between October of 2002 and March of 2004. The detection of the wild genotype Ser- 108 and the mutant genotype Asn -108 was made by allele specific PCR. During the study 122 cases of  falciparum  malaria were reported, of which 6.6 % were native infections and 93.4% were acquired in endemic departments. Of 36 analyzed samples by PCR, 27.7 % displayed the genotype Asn -108, the rest of the samples displayed the genotype Ser -108. These results indicate that one of the main causes of the increase of registered malaria cases in Sucre, are the migrations and frequent flow of infected people, originating of endemic region. This is an important factor by the appearance of native infection and favors the introduction of  P. falciparum strain with resistance to pirimetamina.

On the evaluation of de neurodevelopment on infants under two years of age who showed EHI while gestation; concluded that 56.6% of the children have alterations on their development, 30% of those corresponded to normal alterations. Most of the pr oblems are on lenguage (56.6%), coordination, motor funtion (53.3%) and socialization (30%).

Starting from a conceptual approach to the gifted and the talent, forms through which the human intelligence is manifested, it is sought to show the importance of the special education that these people require. Highlighting the fact that particularly in the Caribbean coast, in spite of the investigative and pedagogic work that one comes advancing from some institutions, it is little what is known about this educational population. Who the students that present are characteristic and exceptional and talented academic performance in the schools of the District? Which their fundamental characteristics are? As facilitating the development of their potentialities?. They are these some of the queries that guide the development of the investigation project «students’ Identification with exceptional capacities and talents in Santa Marta’s District», financed by Fonciencia for the year 2005 and with which is sought to build a solid conceptualization it has more than enough talents and exceptional capacities that allow the understanding of the particularities psychological singular of these youths and, this way, to base their educational orientation

It was developed transversal descriptive study, in order to know the trauma members frequency in Urgency consult at the first Hospitalary Center of Santa Marta City between January 2003 and June 2004. The variables enlisted were anatomic region affected, patient age, male or female, origin place, extern cause that originated the trauma and days of hospitalary attention when it was needed. Ambulatory and hospitalary management for these patients was developed by specialist medical doctors at the Orthopedics and Traumatology Service of this third level attention Hospitalary Center. The total consults in the stableshied period for member’s traumatism was 2.052. From these, 1.420 (69.2%), were for superior members trauma and 632 (30.8%) were for the inferior members trauma. The consult total due of trauma in all regions was 3.838 patients. The results were similarly at others results in national or international reviews, with little differences inherent at local situations.

The serious member trauma represents an important percent in the pathologies that consults the hospital’s emergency rooms. Actually the world, national and local statistics save the same proportion in presentation frequency, but on developed countries the treatment before hospitalization is done by high qualified personnel, this may obtain best results in attention and prognostic of politraumatize patients, getting a significant reduction on mortality frequency. In every serious member trauma is required a care and neat management to reduce complications which in several occasions turns really catastrophic When the serious member trauma treatment is think about, the amputation represents an option in general on those patients with associated pathologies, which contributes to a torpid evolution when a reconstruction is done.

In the past 15 years several large scale, randomised controlled trials have revolutionised the management of patients with chronic Heart failure. Although it is clear that some drugs improve symptoms, others offer both symptomatic and prognostic benefirs, and the management of heart failure should be aimed at improving both quality of life and survival. Diuretics and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, when combined with non pharmacological measures, remain the basis of treatment in patients with congestive heart failure. Digoxin has a possible role in some of these patients, however, and the potential benefits of B blockers and spironolactone (an aldosterone antagonist) in chronic heart failure are now increasingly recognised.