[Implementation of curricular changes at a medical school].

The accelerated scientific, technological, and social advances in recent years have posed new challenges for professional training institutions, where universities play a leading role. Medical schools have not been oblivious to this process. This is how Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile implemented in 2015 a curricular reform derived from the joint work of academics, students and graduates.

Chronic liver failure and concomitant distant infections are associated with high rates of neurological involvement in pyogenic spinal infections.

Study Design: A retrospective study of a consecutive series of all patients with pyogenic spinal infections treated at a single institution over a 10-year period.

Objective: To investigate risk factors for neurologic impairment with pyogenic spinal infections.

Summary Of Background Data: Pyogenic spinal infections are frequently associated with neurologic deficit at the time of initial diagnosis.

Arthroscopic fixation of displaced tibial eminence fractures: a new growth plate-sparing method.

Purpose: Fractures of the tibial eminence can be treated arthroscopically. Numerous ways to attach an anterior cruciate ligament avulsion from the tibial eminence have been designed. This report describes a new physis-sparing reduction and fixation technique using an anchor passing nonabsorbable braided sutures through the substance of the anterior cruciate ligament, holding the avulsed bone fragment by tying a locking knot.