A 35-year-old non smoker man with no known history of chronic pulmonary disease, was treated at our hospital after accidental aspiration of gas-oil. He had developed an acute lipoid pneumonia in a few hours. Computed tomography of the chest showed a ground-glass pattern in middle lobe; given the immediate epidemiological precedent, it was possible to confirm a definitive diagnosis. One year later the patient is asymptomatic although small signs of acute process remain in the computed tomography.
We can conclude that, in our work, the parameters that better correlates objective data with health-related quality of life of COPD patients are the age and the severity of the obstruction.
artículos originales0 Hipercoagulabilidad y daño endotelial en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica en fase estable Hypercoagulability state and endotelial injury in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients M. a. aibar 1 , K. laborda 2 , F. conget 3 , r. cornudella 4 resuMen La enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica es en la actualidad la cuarta causa de muerte en nuestro país. El principal agente causal de la enfermedad es el tabaco, cuyos efectos sobre el árbol bronquial no se limitan al parénquima pulmonar sino que además lesionan la pared endotelial, lo que podría contribuir a la aparición de trombosis, isquemia o hipertensión pulmonar.
The urolithiasis is a very common disease that it causes, in addition to the suffering for the patients, an important cost sanitary partner. The composition of the renal stones that can influence in the treatment and later evaluation of the disease, varies in the different zones. In our work the composition of the renal stones received in the Biochemistry department of the H.C.U of Zaragoza studies during year 2002, with a brief approach to the epidemiology of the disease in the Area III of Zaragoza. The rate of incidence was of 0.35% with a clear predominance in men; the most frequent renal stones were those of pure calcium oxalate or calcium oxalate combined with apatite carbonate, although the percentage of samples gathered with respect to the total of diagnoses as soon as it surpassed 10%. Not found significant differences between the composition of the renal stones coming from the different zones from our Area, nor based on the sex of the patients. Given the influence of the composition of the urolithiasis for its treatment, we must insist on the collection of the greater number of samples for its analysis, although the epidemiologic data and the study of the urinary sediment can be used in the practice.
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