abstract：BACKGROUND:Our working hypothesis was that minimally invasive surgery was superior to conventional surgery for total hip arthroplasty procedure. We compared THR results in the minimally invasive posterior approach with THR results in the conventional posterior approach. METHODS:Prospective, randomised trial. Fifty pat...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Varela Egocheaga JR,Suárez-Suárez MÁ,Fernández-Villán M,González-Sastre V,Varela-Gómez J,Murcia-Mazón A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of mixed infection by two filariae (Loa loa and Mansonella perstans). It seems that the infection was suspected due to a pronounced eosinophilia in a routine analysis. Sheathed and unsheathed microfilariae were observed in the spread of peripheral blood, which enabled a diagnosis to be established of...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Gil-Setas A,Pérez Salazar M,Navascués A,Rodríguez Eleta F,Cebamanos JA,Rubio MT

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Time-dependent" pathologies, understood as those in which diagnostic or therapeutic delay negatively influences the evolution and prognosis of a case, are considered to be critical in emergencies, as their morbidity and mortality is directly related to delay in starting treatment. Examples of this type of pathology c...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Jiménez Fábrega X,Espila JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appropriate care of patients in emergency services can reach a level of complexity as to make a sound training necessary, which should be based on a medical specialty, as happens in the majority of the countries in our context. In Spain at present there is no regulated and homogeneous training in urgency and emerg...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Ayuso F,Nogué R,Coll Vinent B,Fernández Esáin B,Miró O

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:COPD is currently the fourth cause of death in our country; the main causal agent of the disease is tobacco whose effects on the bronchial tree are not limited to the lung parenchyma. The action of tobacco injures the endothelial wall, which could contribute to lung thrombosis, ischemic events or secondary pulmonary h...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Arregui MA,Ezquerra KL,López FC,Lacasa RC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To analyse the frequency and characteristics of metachronous neoplastic lesions, carcinomas and adenomas, following resection of colorectal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We reviewed 382 patients subjected to RCC operations and followed up through complete colonoscopies in two hospitals in our province. We an...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Borda A,Muñoz-Navas M,Martínez-Peñuela JM,Jiménez FJ,Carretero C,Borda F

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This paper discusses the last wave of cholera in Navarre (1884-85). This epidemic has been the least studied because it barely affected Pamplona, the largest urban area in the province. But the situation was critical in other zones close to the River Ebro (the Ribera area). BACKGROUND:In 1886, the "Regional...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： León P

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a clinical case of vesical schistosomiasis that we consider unusual in our environment. The clinical features of this parasitosis include an intermittent hematuria of several weeks evolution which is not resolved with the usual treatment. Due to the increase in the immigrant population arriving from endemic...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Morales Senosiáin D,Molina J,Martínez Oríz A,Martínez Artola V,Beristáin X

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding, and how this has varied in the population attending the Mendillorri health centre between the years 2002 and 2006. We studied two cohorts of neonates (born in 2002 and 2006, respectively), who attended our centre, through a revision of ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Baztán Arrastia I,Ortega I,Armendáriz Y,Barace E

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute and severe hyponatremia causes a metabolic encephalothy. It is physiopathologically based on the cerebral edema, and its fatal symptoms include seizures and coma. We present a case of an extreme hyponatremia of multifactorial etiology in a schizophrenic patient with potomania. Potomania does not usually cause hy...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Macías Robles MD,López Fonticiella MP,Maciá Bobés M,Fernández San Martín A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Offences involving sexual assault are an issue of the greatest current interest in different social fields (legal, medical, police, criminological...). They are significant due to their frequency and to the legal, physical and psychological repercussions involved. It is therefore important to clearly understand the pa...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Lapeña S,Gaztambide A,Huarte I

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive tool for the electrical stimulation of the cerebral cortex, and for evaluation of the excitability of the motor cortex and pathways. Transcranial magnetic stimulation can be applied as single pulses of stimulation, pairs of stimuli separated by variable intervals to ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Ibiricu MA,Morales G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereotactic radiotherapy is a form of external radiotherapy that employs a system of three dimensional coordinates independent of the patient for the precise localisation of the lesion. It also has the characteristic that the radiation beams are conformed and precise, and converge on the lesion, making it possible to...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Aristu JJ,Ciérvide R,Guridi J,Moreno M,Arbea L,Azcona JD,Ramos LI,Zubieta JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Nursing activity in the cataract extraction process extends from carrying out biometry in the preoperative stage and collaboration in surgery, to providing the initial care in the postoperative stage and keeping the patient and family informed throughout the whole process. This article analyses agreement b...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Soto Ruiz MN,Silvestre MC,Andonegui J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity can be considered as a low grade inflammatory disease, characterized by increased plasma levels of proinflammatory cytokines such as tumoral necrosis factor-a (TNF-a), and acute phase reactant proteins like C-reactive protein. In this context, some cytokines of the interleukin-6 (IL-6) family have been involve...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Marcos-Gómez B,Bustos M,Prieto J,Martínez JA,Moreno-Aliaga MJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years different studies have highlighted a progressive increase in the demand for neurological care in emergency departments. To analyze the convenience of specific neurology shifts or the role that the neurologist should play in the emergency department, it is necessary to answer questions such as: What is ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Gómez Ibáñez A,Irimía P,Martínez-Vila E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cornea is a transparent tissue microscopically constituted by 5 well differentiated layers. The corneal epithelium is essential for corneal transparency and is found in a state of constant renovation throughout life on the basis of the population of limbocorneal stem cells. The localisation of these limbocorneal s...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Fernández A,Moreno J,Prósper F,García M,Echeveste J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A great number of systemic diseases can exhibit ocular manifestations during their evolution. These ocular alterations may cause symptoms by themselves, but can also be useful in diagnosing or monitoring the evolution of the systemic condition. The main characteristics of several systemic diseases exhibiting some kind...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Andonegui Navarro J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uveal metastases are the most frequent malign intraocular tumour, of which more than 80% are localized in the choroids. This, together with the progressive increase in its incidence, makes its study and review necessary for a correct diagnosis and treatment in current clinical practice. Etiology varies according to th...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Camarillo Gómez C,Sánchez Ronco I,Encinas J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few areas of paediatric care are as susceptible to the revision of lines of action, and require such professional training, as the care of the child with a rare disease (RD) and his/her family, especially if there are malformations. The lifelong impact, which many RDs entail, make continuous monitoring of the child co...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： González-Lamuño D,García Fuentes M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsule endoscopy has opened a new era in small bowel examination. Its indications are now well-defined and currently, wireless capsule endoscopy is considered as the first-line imaging tool for the diagnosis of small bowel diseases. ECE has been shown to be feasible, safe and a good alternative technique in patients ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Fernández-Urién I,Carretero C,Armendáriz R,Muñoz-Navas M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venous thromboembolic disease (VTED) in the upper extremities is an infrequent entity, although its incidence has increased in relation to the use of central venous catheters. Its etiology can be primary (idiopathic, spontaneous, due to effort or traumatic) or secondary (related to tumours, central venous catheters, e...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： González CI,Cires M,Rubio T,Jiménez F,Sarasíbar E,Gaztelu MT,González V

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1998-2002, 16,952 new cases of cancer were registered in Navarre. In men, the most frequently diagnosed cancers were in the following order: prostate, lung, colon and rectum, bladder and stomach, which accounted for 63.2%. In women, the sites were breast, colon and rectum, corpus uteri, stomach and ovary, whic...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Ardanaz E,Moreno-Iribas C,Pérez de Rada ME,Ezponda C,Floristán Y,Navaridas N,Martínez-Peñuela JM,Puras A,Santamaría M,Ezpeleta I,Valerdi JJ,Pardo FJ,Monzón FJ,Lizarraga J,Ortigosa C,Resano J,Barricarte A

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the number of cases of tuberculosis in Navarre has fallen in recent years, it is necessary to adapt the control programs to the new situation. The keys to advancing in its prevention and control are: obtaining an early diagnosis and an effective treatment of patients and detecting and treating people with a l...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Teruel F,Castilla J,Hueto J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years attention has been drawn to the frequent association between sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome and stroke. Numerous and very different epidemiological studies are available that point to a possible causal relation. In a parallel way, there has been an increase over these years in the knowledge of the differ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Muñoz R,Ramos C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dignity should not be confused with the unbecoming conditions that a person can find himself in due to external situations or disease. The person/patient in a terminal situation has human dignity, which must be respected not because he/she is a terminal patient but simply because he/she is a person. But it is true tha...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Masiá J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a brief description and some reflections on the history of what is commonly called the psychiatric "reform" in Navarre. The aim is not to set out numerical data (and much less of an exhaustive character), but rather to emphasise the key events of that reform, and to perhaps offer an interpretatio...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Varo JR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perianal affectation due to Crohn's disease includes a wide spectrum of lesions involving different management and prognosis. A thorough exploration of the patient, under anaesthetic if necessary, a rectoscope to evaluate the possible affectation of the rectum by the disease, and on occasions evaluation through endoan...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Ciga MA,Oteiza F,Marzo J,Armendáriz P,De Miguel M,Ortiz H

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been a notable increase in the consumption of medicinal plants in Spanish society. This might be due to the fact that in some cases they have shown themselves to be efficient in treating certain pathologies and to the erroneous perception that these products are innocuous. Medicinal plants be...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Tres JC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right to health care is a social achievement of democratic states based on law. In order for this to become effective in a just way, it is necessary for many elements to come together. This article analyses these elements in their different moments: the state as a guarantor of this right and to limit assistance; t...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Couceiro A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical medicine consultations are fully justified in settings with the latest modern technology, where specific complementary tests are available and there are professionals with experience in tropical questions. That is to say, in tertiary hospitals. If such consultations took place in secondary hospitals or in pri...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Valerio L,de Balanzó X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is a health concern of the first order, given the high level of associated morbidity and mortality. The objective, in order to slow down the advance of its complications before they become irreversible, is based on correct metabolic control. The high rate of morbidity associated with the surgery of t...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Montiel MC,Pardo F,Rotellar F,Valentí V,Pastor C,Alvarez Cienfuegos J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proportion of colorectal cancers shows some type of genetic predisposition that can be recognised in clinical practice. From the classical dominant inheritance pattern of familial adenomatous polyposis or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, through the recessive transmission of the MYH associated polyposis, ...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Alonso A,Moreno S,Valiente A,Artigas M,Pérez-Juana A,Ramos Arroyo MA

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the prevalence of different risk factors in patients with cerebrovascular disease of a population in the Foral Community of Navarre, and to compare this with a control group with the same characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Population-based case-control study of a basic health zone (12,200 in...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Hervás A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the changes in the incidence and the epidemiological profile of tuberculosis in Navarra. METHODS:The cases of tuberculosis in the 1994-2003 period were analysed. Cases reported to the system of obligatory notifiable diseases, completed with the microbiological diagnoses and the cases collected in other...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Castilla J,Urtiaga M,Hueto J,Sola J,Dorronsoro I,Torroba L,Domínguez FJ,Bernaola E,Rubio MT,Irisarri F,Barricarte A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oncohaematological patients present a high incidence of infections, which are one of the principle causes of morbidity and mortality. There are different types of immunodepression related to the disease, the moment of its evolution and the treatment received. For practical purposes we will distinguish between patients...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Mateos MC,Argiñano JM,Ardaiz MA,Oyarzábal FJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap has been the most employed technique in autogenous breast reconstruction. It provides a new breast of adequate volume, ptosis and natural appearance, and does not require the implantation of prosthesis; a good symmetry with the contralateral breast is obtain...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Lozano JA,Roldán P,Escudero FJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following article briefly sets out the possible new protocols that can be applied in biliary pathology, arising from the changes brought about by the appearance of new techniques of laparoscopic biliary surgery. It offers a synthesis of the latest and most novel articles on surgical technique and management in dif...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Martí Cruchaga P,Valentí V,Pastor C,Poveda I,Zozaya G,Rotellar F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asbestosis is a diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, secondary to the inhalation of asbestos fibres. There is a dose-response relationship between exposure to asbestos and the risk of developing asbestosis, in such a way that the greater the exposure, the greater the risk of developing the disease. The time of cli...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Marín Martínez B,Clavera I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The legally protected occupational pathology consists of work accidents and occupational diseases. Diseases are considered to be occupational when there is a relationship of demonstrable causality between exposure to a determinate occupational risk and a specific disease. To facilitate recognition, different organisat...

journal_title：Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra

authors： Lezaun M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00