Publications by authors named "Enrique Granja Posada"

Background: Maternal age over 35 and lower than 18 years, primiparity, certain disorders such as blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and infections have been related to weight disorders of the newborn.

Objective: To asses risks of occurrence of two birth weight diagnostic criteria: 1) low birth weight and macrosomia; 2) trophism adjusted for gestational age, considering several maternal pathologies.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study of 316 newborns, singletons and free of malformations or congenital infections was carried out.

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Introduction: Bouveret's syndrome is characterized by piloro-duodenal obstruction following the implant of a giant gallstone with gallstone ileus origin. It constitutes the less common variety of gallstone ileus (1-3%), mainly affecting elderly patients with chronic degenerative illnesses, possibly with high mortality.

Objective: We report the case of a patient with a less common variety of gallstone ileus.

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