A community-based intervention study involving family gardens with aromatic herbs on changes in dietary and urinary sodium.

Objective: To measure dietary and urinary changes in sodium (Na) intake and excretion through the implementation of family gardens with aromatic herbs and workshops for cooking, using the herbs as a substitute for salt and seasoning powder.

Methods: Thirty-five participants from a neighborhood of Mexico City were included. A general questionnaire was administered to collect information on sociodemographic factors.

Nocturia as a clinical indicator of severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and its response to CPAP or surgical treatment.

Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common condition that has been associated to a number of metabolic, cardiovascular and cognitive consequences. Its diagnosis relies on a polysomnographic or polygraphic study, but clinical findings remain as an important part of the diagnostic process. Nocturia is a common symptom that may indicate severe OSAS, but it is often forgotten in the initial evaluation of these kind of patients.

[Keratoconus and corneal transplant clinical study].

Objective: to determine the frequency and clinical characteristics of patients with keratoconus and a corneal transplant (CT) at an ophthalmology reference hospital.

Methods: retrospective, cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study of 166 patients with diagnosis of keratoconus and CT.

Results: average age of 37.

Severe head injury combined with orthopedic and vascular trauma of the limbs.

From 1982 to 1992, 2766 brain injury patients were admitted to the University Hospital San Cecilio of Granada, Spain. In 873 cases head injury was concomitant with other injuries but the association of severe head injury and combined orthopedic and vascular trauma of the limbs was observed only in 23 cases (incidence 2%). Thirteen patients were scheduled for revascularization, and of these secondary amputation was mandatory in two cases to keep rising intracranial pressure under control.

[A superior vena cava syndrome secondary to a pleural fibrous mesothelioma].

Benign fibrous or pleural mesothelioma are rare tumors that seem to originate in the mesenchyma (subpleural fibromas). They are usually discovered by chance and the prognosis for the patient is favorable after surgery. If the tumors are large, extrapulmonary signs may be present (hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, hypoglycemia).