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Background: Puerto Maldonado is the capital of Madre de Dios Department and is a dengue endemic zone. Severe (hemorrhagic) dengue includes shock, respiratory distress and involvement of target organs. Objectives: To identify laboratory findings in severe dengue patients. Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study. Setting: Central Laboratory and Epidemiology Department, Santa Rosa Hospital, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru. Materials: Fifty-five medical records of patients with severe dengue hospitalized in the intermediate care unit from June 2010 through November 2011. Methods: Results of laboratory tests taken during hospitalization were analyzed. Main outcome measures: Transaminases, creatinine, complete blood count and urinalysis. Results: Most patients came from Puerto Maldonado (84%). The 40-49 years-old group was the most affected (32%). Out of 55 patients, 83% showed incre...

La preocupación médica con los trópicos casi era una obsesión para los médicos militares de las colonias europeas durante las últimas décadas del siglo XIX, y aun actualmente las enfermedades llamadas tropicales continúan siendo un serio problema de salud pública en muchos países del mundo, en Latinoamérica y en particular en nuestro país -acentuados últimamente por el cambio climático-, por lo que el abordaje de estas enfermedades requiere un gran esfuerzo en términos de las estrategias que deben implementarse así como las alianzas entre todos los actores para alcanzar una mejor prevención y control de ellas.

Infections in gynecology and obstetrics are pathologies that affect women throughout their life; some of them represent public health problems. The Peruvian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in its seventieth anniversary, since its foundation until today maintains a constant concern on this subject. Through the years it has promoted and published various investigations and reports by members of the Society and from the institutions where they labor. These are exposed in this article with special emphasis on historical, pioneering and relevant papers, and published in The Peruvian Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the official scientific publication of the Society.

Medical journals require visibility and impact as important sources of information. In this article, Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia (RPGO) visibility and impact are determined, following digitalization of all articles since 1955 for virtual positioning, with free access to these articles, visits and archive discharges, obtaining both impact and citations for the journal, authors and articles. According to SciELO statistics, RPGO impact factor is the third among the eight Peruvian medical journals indexed, following Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública (indexed in MEDLINE) and Revista Médica Herediana, and fourth among the 22 Peruvian journals of the SciELO collection, following RPMESP, Revista de Psicología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and RMH. RPGO is currently a journal with leadership position in obstetrics and gynecology for i...

Introduction: Breast cancer is a global public health problem and the most common cancer among women. In Peru it is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. Mammography is the most common diagnostic tool; though breast self-examination is easy, inexpensive, and noninvasive. Objectives: To determine the frequency of breast self-examination in Peruvian women of childbearing age, and sociodemographic factors associated with this practice. Design: Analysis of secondary sources based on the Population and Family Health Survey (ENDES, Peru) 2008, a probabilistic, stratified and multistage sample study that investigated population dynamics and maternal and child health, including questions on breast self-examination performance. Setting: Urban and rural areas in all departments of Peru, including Lima. Participants: Nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-four women aged 20 to 49. Inte...

Labour disputes in the health sector in Peru

Objectives: To determine research production at the Faculty of Medicine, UNMSM. Design: Retrospective, observational, transversal type study. Setting: Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Seven research institutes and one investigation center investigators. Interventions: Study of investigator cards elaborated by the Faculty of Medicine Research Unit and filled by members of the Andean Biology, Experimental Surgery, Ethics in Health, Clinical Investigations, Tropical Medicine, and Pathology Research Institutes as well as by Biochemistry and Nutrition Investigation Centre members. Data analysis used Epi- Info system version 3.5.1 and Anova statistical model for analysis of variance. Main outcome measures: Scientific investigations and publications. Results: From the 116 members of the six Research Institutes/Centre only 54 from five Inst...

Introduction: Unmet needs for contraception are high in Peru and worldwide. Proper advice from health professionals maximizes use and compliance of contraceptive methods meeting the needs of every woman. Objectives: To determine the impact and determinant factors of gynecologists’ advice for women choosing a self-administered hormonal contraceptive method, either daily pill, weekly transdermal patch or monthly vaginal ring. Design: Observational, descriptive and transversal study. Location: Lima, Piura, Chiclayo, and Trujillo, Peru. Institution: Latin Project PIENSA: Program for Research and Education on Contraceptive Health. Participants: Five hundred eighty-one women aged 18 to 40 attended by 40 gynecologists providing advice on contraception. Interventions: Standardized counseling with educational material including information on effectiveness, mechanism of action, user mo...

Introduction: Unmet needs for contraception are high in Peru and worldwide. Proper advice from health professionals maximizes use and compliance of contraceptive methods meeting the needs of every woman. Objectives: To determine the impact and determinant factors of gynecologists’ advice for women choosing a self-administered hormonal contraceptive method, either daily pill, weekly transdermal patch or monthly vaginal ring. Design: Observational, descriptive and transversal study. Location: Lima, Piura, Chiclayo, and Trujillo, Peru. Institution: Latin Project PIENSA: Program for Research and Education on Contraceptive Health. Participants: Five hundred eighty-one women aged 18 to 40 attended by 40 gynecologists providing advice on contraception. Interventions: Standardized counseling with educational material including information on effectiveness, mechanism of action, user mo...

Introduction: Drug abuse is a public health problem worldwide and has increased in developing countries. Illegal drugs such as marihuana and inhalants (terokal, PVC, benzene and/or acetone) are consumed increasingly at younger ages. Objectives: To determine the epidemiology, personal, scholastic and familial factors (parental involvement with their children's activities) associated to marihuana and inhalants use by high school students in Metropolitan Lima and Callao. Design: Analytical and transversal study. Setting: Metropolitan Lima and Callao. Participants: Five thousand six hundred and forty-seven high school 2nd, 4th and 5th year students. Interventions: Review and analysis of the "Prevention and drug use by high school students” national study database conducted by the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs 2005. Results: Lifetime prevalence of illicit drug u...

Background: The dropout rate in students of health sciences careers is scarcely investigated in our country. The university dropout in general is multifactorial in origin and implications, and includes individual, family, institutional and social factors. It causes huge economic losses to the country and to the region. Objectives: To determine the frequency of desertion during undergraduate training in medicine, nursing, obstetrics and dentistry in nine universities in Peru. Design: Retrospective observational cross-sectional study. Institution: Department of Management of Human Resources Development, Ministry of Health of Peru. Location: 4 universities of Lima and 5 universities of provinces. Methods: Record the number of students who withdrew during their training period in health sciences careers, and structured interviews to determine the conditioning factors. Main outcome measures: ...

Objectives: To determine growth hormone (GH) serum levels in adult males at sea level (Lima, 150 msnm) and high altitude (Cajamarca: 2 750 msnm, Huancayo: 3 280 msnm, Morococha: 4 540 msnm). Design: Descriptive, observational, transversal and prospective study. Location: Lima, Cajamarca, Huancayo y Morococha, Peru. Participants: Male adult natives of different altitude settings. Interventions: With informed consent blood samples were obtained from the forearm in fasting and resting conditions from 41 young adult male subjects 20 to 35 years old [12 subjects at sea level (Lima 150 m), 10 subjects in Cajamarca (2 750 m), 12 subjects in Huancayo (3 280 m), and 7 subjects in Morococha (4 540 m)]. Main outcome measures: Serum growth hormone (GH) levels. Results: GH mean values found were at 4 540 m: 3,87 ± 0,16 ng/mL; at 3 280 m: 1,31 ± 0,09 ng/mL; at 2 750 m: 0,63 ± 0,08 ng/mL; and at 150...

A review of editorial occurrences since 1955 when the journal Ginecología y Obstetricia was first published until 2015 is done, mentioning its continuity and permanence with publication of articles on obstetrics and gynecology, reproduction, infertility, public health, neoplasias, and fetal medicine. The presence of the current Editorial Committee since 1994 has allowed editorial quality, permanence, peer review, visibility, impact, and citations, incentivizing research and publication, and obtaining digitalization of all articles of the Revista Peruana de Ginecología y Obstetricia in the Open Journal System since 1955.

First published in 1918, Anales de la Facultad de Medicina is the official journal of San Fernando Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Following some years of absence, Anales was again published in 1995, under the direction of Dean José Piscoya Arbañil. Most of the Editorial Staff was later included in the new Editorial Committee in 2000 under the direction of José Pacheco Romero. Permanence, punctuality, visibility and impact distinguished the 15 years of administration of the journal despite editorial and financing limitations. Anales has received support from all the Faculty of Medicine Deans and the University Research Vice-Rector. It has obtained important indizations, and has digitized all journal articles and their respective doi since 1918, allowing more visits, article discharges and citations.