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R Vargas-Rosendo

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PubMed1992

[The Mortality Committee: a hospital need].

Mortality Committees are multidisciplinary teams whose function is to analyze preventable causes of death in order to decrease the death rate, to contribute to the education of medical and paramedical staff and also to advise the hospital authorities in medical and administrative decision-making. In this paper we discuss the activities of the Mortality Committee of the Hospital de Pediatria from May 1989 to May 1991. The review comprised 202 death cases occurred during this period, and was carried out by the medical personnel involved in attending those cases while alive. In 42.5% of these cases the review was supplemented by the necropsy results. Patients' personal data, referral source, status on admission, principal disease, direct cause of death, adequacy of laboratory test and other studies, clinical/pathological correlation and suggestions to improve medical care are discussed. We suggest for every hospital the convenience of having this committee in order to improve the quality of medical care.

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PubMed1989

[Renal transplants from anencephalic donors].

Kidney transplants are carried out as any other surgical procedure at specialized third level hospitals. For over 20 years, in Mexico, transplants have been done with kidneys originating from cadavers. Even though this has been of tremendous help, there is still a shortage of donors. Two successful cases of kidney transplants are presented where the donor was an anencephalic neonate and where segments of the aorta and vena cava were used to keep alive the kidney tissue enough for the corporal surface of a child and also that of an adult.

Anencephaly↗
PubMed1980

Skin immunoflorescence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE. Relationship between the immunohistochemical pattern and systemic activity.

19 SLE patients between 12 and 18 years of age were studied. In all cases a renal histological study was performed and patients received prednisone daily or on alternate days; 10 also received azathioprine. Patients were hospitalized for disease activity assessment from the clinical and biochemical standpoints. A healthy skin biopsy was simultaneously performed in the antero external face of the forearm and the fragment was subject to direct immunofluorescence study. IgG, IgM or C3 granular deposits were fund in six patients (33 per cent). Presence, type and intensity of deposits were related with other clinical and biochemical activity aspects, type of nephropathy, evolution and treatment time, and none was statistically significant. We can conclude that immune deposits in the skin of SLE patients can be useful as an auxiliary method for the diagnosis of this disease not having a relationship with the type and severity of the nephropathy or clinical activity of the disease.

Adolescent↗