[Intracranial hypertension].

Introduction: The characteristics of semirigid cavity confer to the skull and their content a special behavior, with regard to the other organs of the economy and they become the increases of pressure the interior in this space a threat against the appropriate evolution of the patients with intracranial pathologies of etiologies dissimilar.

Development: We make a study of the bibliography published on the topic, besides our personal approach with regard to the elements that we have been able to evaluate in our practices in clinic daily. We carried out a wide revision of the topic being exposed the physiopathological factors that intervene in to the maintenance of a homeostasis intracranial, the influence of the vital functions on this pressure and other aspects of importance.

[Reye syndrome: a case study in a Cuban provincial hospital from 1990 to 1996].

Introduction: Reye's syndrome is a metabolic encephalopathy of infancy which is often fatal. Epidemiological studies have shown associated factors including having taken Aspirin for viral illness. Some patients with this disorder may have preexisting organic acidemia such as dicarboxylic aciduria.