[The bidirectional cavopulmonary (Glenn) shunt without cardiopulmonary bypass: a safe and advisable technique].

The bidirectional cavopulmonary (Glenn) shunt is almost a routine first step procedure for total cavopulmonary connection in children with single-ventricle cardiac anomalies. It is usually performed with cardiopulmonary bypass, of which adverse effects can be especially deleterious in these cardiac conditions. To avoid these adverse effects, we performed the cavopulmonary shunt in 5 children through sternotomy without cardiopulmonary bypass.

[The journey of the Guarayos to the land of the dead. A transcultural psychiatric study].

The investigation of the being of a culture has the power of revealing something about the existence of the human beings that form it. The ethnographic study of the Guarayos, in which we find the great 'mythologem' of the agricultural people, allows us to understand the collective and permanent drunkenness that characterizes it.