[Cost/benefit and cost/effectiveness study: Anahuac telemedicine].

Background: We undertook this study to make an accurate cost/benefit and cost/effectiveness assessment of the "Telemedicina Anáhuac" project, which provides virtual satellite medical care via fixed teleconsultations and movable units in rural/marginal areas.

Methods: The basis of the study was a bibliographical analysis of health areas.

Results: When making a monetary analysis and observing fair profits, accessibility and increase in coverage in these populations, it is easier to determine whether or not the project is viable and whether or not it accomplishes cost/benefit and cost/effectiveness conditions.

[Telemedicine Anáhuac. Educational system and health promotion activities].

Rural telemedicine began in the 1950s in the Papago, Arizona Reservation with the program Starphac. The Anáhuac University began the program in 2002. In the Anáhuac, the project was developed to provide specialty consultations in a virtual way to a highly marginalized population, creating clinical fields of high technology and fulfilling social obligations.

[Acute intestinal obstruction provoked by intraperitoneal secretion of ovarian tumor. A clinical case].

We report here of the case of a 53-year-old woman who presented with intestinal obstruction without response to medical treatment. Exploratory laparotomy produced a moderate quantity of yellowish-green liquid and agglutination of semi-dough-like material. Separation of the flaps of intestine and colon was easily done by the fingers.