Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral

Editorial Management Automation in the Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral, an urgent need

An approach to the Cuban Journal of General Medicine

Vascular risk in diabetic patients with obesity

A tool for assessing senior adult care in the family doctor’s office

Criteria for identifying primary care vulnerable patients

Child mistreatment: Is it a gender problem?

Child mistreatment knowledge in pupils’ mothers

Toxic substances consumption by adolescent with sexually transmitted infections

Life experience of homosexual young men and its influence in the practice of transactional sex

Physical activity habits and body image cannons in university students

Acupuncture and kinesiotherapy in treatment of adhesive capsulitis o shoulder

Social and environmental processes in the health of asthmatic children: challenges for science and technology in Cuba

Periodontal disease, is it one more risk factor for atherothrombotic ischemic stroke?

De forma compactada se explica la relación biológicamente plausible que existe entre la aparición de accidentes cerebrovasculares, particularmente de infarto cerebral isquémico aterotrombótico y la precedencia de enfermedad periodontal inmuno-inflamatoria crónica. Se sugiere la necesidad de estudios que vinculen ambas entidades para conciliar los resultados de las investigaciones internacionales con las realizadas en nuestro medio. Se propone el análisis del estado periodontal en los pacientes pertenecientes a grupos de riesgo o víctimas de enfermedades cerebrovasculares. La consideración de la enfermedad periodontal inmuno-inflamatoria crónica como un factor de riesgo más para el infarto cerebral isquémico aterotrombótico, debe pasar de una interrogante a una estrategia.

The biologically plausible relation existing between the occurrence of cerebrovascular accidents, particularly of atherothrombotic ischemic stroke, and the presence of chronic immunoinflammatory periodontal disease is explained in a compacted way. The need for studies linking both entities is suggested for conciliating the results of the international researches with those carried out in our environment. The analysis of the periodontal state in patients from risk groups of victims on cerebrovascular disease is proposed. Considering the chronic immunoinflammatory periodontal disease as a risk factor for atherothrombotic ischemic stroke should pass from a question to a strategy.

Choroidal hemangioma

El hemangioma coroideo circunscrito es un tumor vascular hamartomatoso benigno de baja incidencia. Se presenta este caso debido a su evolución lenta y la pobre respuesta a tratamiento con terapia fotodinámica. El paciente, de sexo masculino, 49 años de edad, con disminución de la visión del ojo derecho de ocho meses de evolución y sin otra sintomatología asociada. Las exploraciones complementarias realizadas (retinografia, OCT, Ecografía y Angiografía flurosceínica) evidencian un tumor yuxtapapilar nasal que es diagnosticado como hemangioma circunscrito de coroides. Se decide tratarlo con terapia fotodinámica. En este caso, aunque el resultado en la ganancia visual no es el esperado, en los exámenes complementarios realizados se observa una discreta mejoría. La lenta evolución de este paciente responde, a criterio de los autores, a varios factores como la edad, el deterioro de la visión en el momento del diagnóstico, el número de aplicaciones de tratamiento con la TFD realizadas, el tiempo de evolución del tumor y el tamaño de la lesión.

Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma is a benign hamartomatous vascular tumor of low incidence. This case is presented for its slow natural history and the poor response to treatment with photodynamic therapy. The 49-year-old male patient with right-eye visual reduction of eight month of evolution and without any other associated symptomatology. Complementary explorations carried out (retinography, OCT, sonogram, fluorescein angiography) evinces a juxtapapillary nasal tumor diagnosed as circumscribed choroidal hemangioma. The decision is to treat it with photodynamic therapy. In this case, despite the fact the visual gain outcome is not the desired, the complementary tests performed revealed a fair improvement. According to the authors, the slow evolution of this patient is due to several factors such as age, visual decay at the time of the diagnosis, the TFD number of applications, the tumor´s time of evolution and the lesion seize.

Critic to the syllabus of the course Promotion of medicine rational use of the Master’s course in Pharmacoepidemiology

Influence of the social subjects on primary care medical services