Primary sacral hydatid cyst. A case report.

This case report highlights an unusual osseous spinal presentation of a well described disease, hydatidosis. A 59-year-old woman presented with increasing back pain and bilateral radiculopathy. Examination disclosed symptoms of spinal stenosis and urinary incontinence.

Prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints and disability in Cuba. A community-based study using the COPCORD core questionnaire.

Objective: Rheumatic diseases are prevalent conditions around the world, but precise information is not easily obtainable in developing countries. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints in the community in Cuba using the ILAR/COPCORD core questionnaire and published methodologies.

Methods: The ILAR/COPCORD core questionnaire was administered in the form of a home survey to 300 adult subjects.

[Effect of obesity on the morphology of the left ventricle].

Background: To analyze the relationship between obesity in its different degrees and the left ventricle morphology.

Patients And Methods: M-mode echocardiography was used to estimate the mass, wall thickness and internal dimension of left ventricle in 48 obese women with different degrees of obesity, defined according to the body mass index. 25 women with normal weight were used as controls.

[Disorders secondary to iodine deficiency in the autonomous community of the Murcia area].

Hypothesis. To know goiter prevalence, iodine excretion and disorders associated to iodine deficiency in the region of Murcia, with the aim to define the need for establishing iodine prophylaxis programs. Method.

[Anthropometric study of the school population of the autonomic community of Murcia].

Background: The aim of this study was to know the anthropometric study of school children in Murcia in order to obtain parameters of present reference for our country and region.

Methods: A transversal study of the school population of the community of Murcia at Preschool, EGB, BUP and Technical School levels was carried out including 1,930 children between the ages of 4 and 17. These children were selected from a total of 242,596 proportionally chosen with respect to demography of each of the twelve regions in the area with weight, height and bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and abdominal skin folds being measured.

Fibrinolytic activity after vessel wall injury.

The goal of this study was to assess fibrinolytic activity after vessel wall injury and to correlate changes in fibrinolytic activity with angiographic and histologic findings. Accordingly, in 18 atherosclerotic rabbits, vessel wall injury was produced by means of iliac artery balloon angioplasty (the injury group), whereas 8 atherosclerotic rabbits served as a control group. In all rabbits from the injury group, deep vessel wall injury was documented by either angiography or histologic study.