[Usefulness of a clinical questionnaire for screening osteopenia and osteoporosis in post-menopausal women].

Background: The prevalence of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women (PMW) is 30 %, and bone densitometry (BD) is the gold standard. This is not recommended as a screening test because of its cost. Instead, the SCORE index (Simple Calculated Osteoporosis Risk Estimation) is proposed.

[Estrogen therapy effect in arterial tension in postmenopausal women].

Introduction: Experimental studies have shown that estrogens prevent deposit of cholesterol in arteries, have effect upon the endothelial function (to prevent contraction of smooth muscle), and enlarge the vascular tone or vasodilatation.

Objective: To determine changes in arterial pressure before and after use of estrogen-therapy.

Material And Methods: A descriptive study was carried out follow-up during 8 weeks in Obstetric and Gynecologic Hospital (No.

[Depression prevalence and risk factors found in women attended by a family physician].

Objectives: Determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms in adult woman who was attended by family physician, to explore risk factors for depression and estimate how often depression is registered as a diagnosis by the family physician.

Materials And Methods: We did a prospective, analytic, and transversal study with simple randomized sampling at a Mexico City Family Medicine Clinic from March to December 2004. The size of the study was 384 patients.

[Elaboration and validation of an index for preeclampsia diagnosis].

Objective: To build a consistent and valid preeclampsia diagnosis index (IDP) for its Spanish acronyms.

Patients And Method: The study was done in a Gyneco-Obstetrics Hospital and a Family Medicine Unit from March 2000 to February 2001. Fifty items were chosen from the literature, with a design to validate diagnostic tests, which were assessed by family doctors and gyneco-obstetricians in regard to their appearance and content validity.

[Incidence of infected surgical wound and prophylaxis with cefotaxime in cesarean section].

Background: Surgical wound infection after cesarean section varies from 2.5 to 16.1%, thus the utilization of antibiotic prophylaxis has increased routinely and irrationally.

[Analysis of trends in maternal mortality during a 10 year-follow up in a urban region].

Background: Maternal mortality is considered a worldwide health problem, since the WHO has estimated that there are 500,000 maternal deaths annually and that the highest percentage of these deaths occurs in developed countries. It was not until 1970 that this problem became important, by revising the birth's registrations and the maternal causes of morbidity and mortality, and that the mortality committees study began.

Objective: To determine the epidemiological profile and the trend of the maternal mortality in a urban hospital.

[Clinical experience with chemotherapy of the malignant tumor of germinal cells (dysgerminoma) of the ovary].

Objective: To evaluate two alternative plans of chemotherapy with EP (etoposide, platinum) and BEP (bleomycin, etoposide, platinum) after oncological surgery.

Material And Methods: A clinical, longitudinal and descriptive study was done, where the cases with pure dysgerminoma diagnosed in the gynecology-oncology service during the years from 1992 to 2003 were included. Information was recollected in a precoding survey that included sociodemographic characteristics, tumor size, free survival of disease, general survival, recurrence index and the index of fertility.

[Hormonal replacement therapy and breast cancer. A case-control study].

Aims: Breast cancer is the second more frequently neoplasia in the woman and the first cause of mortality after 35 years old. It is considered a multifactorial illness, since is influenced for genetic, dietary and endocrine factors. Among these, hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) have been assigned benefits effect, as well as risks to increase the breast cancer incidence, because presence of estrogens receptor in the neoplasia cells makes think that the estrogens and other sexual hormones constitute a factor promoter of this cancer.

[Maternal and perinatal surgical complications in low platelet count for HELLP syndrome in severe preeclampsia-eclampsia in intensive care].

The preeclampsia is the first cause of maternal morbility, with increase in the obstetric complications when it is associated to HELLP syndrome, for the low platelets that even involves to the neonate. This study was carried out in the patients accepted in the intensive Adults Cares Unit in the period of one year, surgical complications and the perinatal results were determined in women with low platelet count for HELLP syndrome in preeclampsia-eclampsia. Three groups were formed according to the platelets account and then were analyzed using chi square to determine association among these groups of patients, as well as mean and standard deviation (M +/- DE) to describe results.