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Introducción: La Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2 es una patología crónica no transmisible y representa, un conocido factor de riesgo para el desarrollo de accidentes cerebrovasculares. Además, la mortalidad asociada y la evolución posterior a dicho evento, entre los pacientes diabéticos, son preocupantes. Objetivo: Determinar los factores de riesgo relacionados al desarrollo de accidentes cerebrovasculares en pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2. Métodos: Este estudio es de tipo observacional, analítico de casos y controles y retrospectivo. La población se encontró constituida por pacientes con el diagnóstico de Diabetes Mellitus de tipo 2 que fueron hospitalizados en el mencionado hospital y período. La muestra estuvo conformada por 324 pacientes. Se realizó un tipo de muestreo no probabilístico. Resultados: Se analizaron 108 casos y 2016 controles. En el análisis multivariado...

Hantavirosis is a zoonotic infection transmitted mainly by rodents. In Peru, a lethality of 40–60% is calculated in inhabitants of the Peruvian Amazon jungle, especially in Loreto. Despite this, this disease continues to be under-diagnosed despite the fact that it represents a serious problem for public health in Latin America. We present a sistematic revision of case reports and seris of cases of Hantavirus infection in the Peruvian jungle. The most important characteristic of the cases presented are mean age 25.7 years, predominance of females (5/6), clinical presentation of headache, myalgias, nausea and vomiting (6/6) and unfavorable evolution to acute respiratory to acute respiratory distress (ARDS), renal failure, septic shock and multiple organ failure in 3of the cases presented.

Introduction: In industrialized countries there is large production of publications from specialized physicians on specific topics regarding their working areas. Reality is quite different in Peru. Objective: To determine the rates of scientific paper production found in Google Academics and Scopus, as well as their association with medical specialties. Methodology: This is an analytical cross-section study. Randomized sampling of medical specialists registered in the Peruvian College of Physicians was performed. Those who were selected were searched aiming to determine whether they had produced papers in publications that would be found in Google Academics or that would be indexed in the Scopus database. Their lifetime production was reported, together with statistical associations. Results: Out of 2108 specialized physicians, 1810 (85.9%) and 2027 (96.2%) had never produced any scienti...

Introduction: In industrialized countries there is large production of publications from specialized physicians on specific topics regarding their working areas. Reality is quite different in Peru. Objective: To determine the rates of scientific paper production found in Google Academics and Scopus, as well as their association with medical specialties. Methodology: This is an analytical cross-section study. Randomized sampling of medical specialists registered in the Peruvian College of Physicians was performed. Those who were selected were searched aiming to determine whether they had produced papers in publications that would be found in Google Academics or that would be indexed in the Scopus database. Their lifetime production was reported, together with statistical associations. Results: Out of 2108 specialized physicians, 1810 (85.9%) and 2027 (96.2%) had never produced any scienti...

Background. Tuberculosis is a public health problem considered to be the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease among adults. Diagnosis is often challenging and is based on clinical, epidemiological, radiological, bacteriological, histological and biochemical findings. Timely diagnosis, identification of the susceptibility profile and follow-up compliance is important to enable more effective treatment and avoid severe forms of the disease. Aim. Describe the resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis identified in the period of the year 2022 at Hospital María Auxiliadora. Material and Methods. This is an observational, cross-sectional study of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis throughout the year 2022 in the Tuberculosis Center of Excellence (TB COE), division of the respiratory medicine department at the Hospital Maria Auxiliadora, Lima, Peru. Data was coll...