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J Guerrero

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[Possible use of serum calcitonin in septic patients at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome].

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a late complication in critically ill patients and its diagnosis is usually made when the syndrome is fully established. There is an increased interest in developing early markers that may help to identify ARDS in its initial stages. Calcitonin was recently reported as a useful serum marker to identify burned patients at risk for respiratory failure. We report a case with abdominal sepsis and ARDS, whose serum calcitonin level was 1000 pg/mL without other known clinical causes of hypercalcitoninemia and who died in multiorganic failure. The possible mechanisms of hypercalcitoninemia and its possible utility as marker of ARDS in critically ill patients is discussed.

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[Fragmentation of single biliary calculi with an electromagnetic generator].

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is a non surgical alternative for the treatment of cholelitiasis. At present, there are three main types of shock waves generators, one of them an electromagnetic device is (lithostar plus). The aim of this work is inform results obtained using Lithostar plus machine for the treatment of patients with a single gallstone. From total of 722 patients, 98 filled criteria for lithotripsy treatment; 63 patients had a single gallstone, with a mean age of 48.83 +/- 13.89 22 were males and 41 females. Patients were divided in 5 groups in base of the number of extracorporeal shock waves used, all of them had similar a gallstones of similar size. 32 patients (50.8%) showed total fragmentation with only one session. According with the results obtained, we can conclude that using lithostar plus we can get total fragmentation in one session in 50.8% of patients with a single gallstone.

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[Kawasaki disease].

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[Myocardial fibrosis in Shwachman's syndrome (author's transl)].

A case of a child affected by Shwachman's syndrome with a chronic diarrhea, cyclic neutropenia and bone defects is described. The child died at the age of eight months from an acute cardiac failure which showed analytical alterations compatible to an acute myocardial infarction. Pathologic study showed a pancreatic lipomatous hypoplasia, myocardial fibrosis and chondrometaphyseal dysplasia. Main hypothesis that relate pancreatic pathology and development of myocardial fibrosis are discussed, although there is a lack of definitive evidence for confirming such relation.

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