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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1029-3019</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1029-3019</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1029-30192018000900920</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Caracterización de pacientes operados de hernias abdominales externas en un centro de diagnóstico venezolano]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Characterization of patients operated due to external abdominal hernias in a Venezuelan diagnosis center]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bejerano García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ramiro Julio]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Hospital Clinicoquirúrgico Docente "Dr. Ambrosio Grillo Portuondo&#698; ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Santiago de Cuba ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>22</volume>
<numero>9</numero>
<fpage>920</fpage>
<lpage>930</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1029-30192018000900920&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1029-30192018000900920&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1029-30192018000900920&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, prospectivo y de corte transversal de los 747 pacientes operados de hernias abdominales externas en el Centro de Diagnóstico Integral &#8220;La Atlántida&#8221; del Estado Vargas, de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, desde abril de 2013 hasta diciembre de 2017 con el objetivo de caracterizarles según variables de interés para la investigación. En la serie predominaron el sexo masculino (75,1 %), el grupo etario de 51-60 años (37,8 %), la hipertensión arterial como principal comorbilidad (32,0 %), la hernia inguinal como variedad más frecuente (63,7 %), además de la reparación con prótesis sin tensión (malla) como proceder más empleado y sin recidiva herniaria (72,6 %); asimismo, las complicaciones estuvieron dentro del rango internacional aceptado (5,1 %) y el edema del cordón resultó ser la más común.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT A descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study of the 747 operated patients due to external abdominal hernias in "La Atlántida" Comprehensive Diagnosis Center from Vargas State, of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was carried out from April, 2013 to December, 2017 with the objective of characterizing them according to variables of interest for the investigation. In the series the male sex (75.1 %), the age group 51-60 years (37.8 %), the hypertension as the main comorbidity (32.0 %), the inguinal hernia as the most frequent variety (63.7 %), besides the repair with prosthesis without tension (mesh) as the most used procedure and without hernia relapse (72.6 %) prevailed; also, the complications were within the accepted international range (5.1 %) and the edema of the cord turned out to be the most common.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[técnicas sin tensión]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[malla]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[recidiva]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[abdominal hernia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[hernioplasty]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[surgical procedure]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[techniques without tension]]></kwd>
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