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OBJETIVE:To evaluate efficacy and safety of emergency selective uterine artery embolization in the management of intractable hemorrhage when the patient is haemodinamically unstable. SETTING: Interventionist Radiology Service, Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital, Lima, MATERIAL AND METHODS: Six patients with life?threatening hemorrhage underwent uterine hemostatic uterine embolization. The mean hemoglobin level before the procedure was 5,2 g/dL. RESULTS: Immediate reduction of external bleeding was observed in all cases. No major complications related to embolization was found. Two patients underwent hysterectomy in stable conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Emergency embolization is a safe and effective procedure to control severe hemorrhage. The procedure obviates high risk emergency surgery.

OBJETIVE:To evaluate efficacy and safety of emergency selective uterine artery embolization in the management of intractable hemorrhage when the patient is haemodinamically unstable. SETTING: Interventionist Radiology Service, Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital, Lima, MATERIAL AND METHODS: Six patients with life?threatening hemorrhage underwent uterine hemostatic uterine embolization. The mean hemoglobin level before the procedure was 5,2 g/dL. RESULTS: Immediate reduction of external bleeding was observed in all cases. No major complications related to embolization was found. Two patients underwent hysterectomy in stable conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Emergency embolization is a safe and effective procedure to control severe hemorrhage. The procedure obviates high risk emergency surgery.

Objective. To determine the extent of pulmonary involvement in patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia usingtomography. Method. Retrospective evaluation in patients with evidence of COVID-19 at the Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen National Hospital, Lima - Peru, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, between March 15 and May 14, 2020. The extent of pneumonia was determined by means of tomography based on the Classification of the French Society of Thoracic Imaging. Results. 485 patients were included in the study. The extent of pneumonia was: 1.2% absent, 4.9% minimal, 20.6% moderate, 27.4% extensive, 30.7% severe, and 15.1% critical. Lung involvement was associated with age older than 60 years (p = 0.014) andambient oxygen saturation below 90% (n = 372, p = 0.000). Conclusions. Due to its extension, the SARSCoV-2 pneumonia in the first two months of the COVID-19 epidemic at Hospital Almenara ...