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Background: Mortality for acute pancreatitis (AP) in Chile has fluctuated between 7 ana 10% in last years. Aim: To evaluate AP mortality over a period of 20 years in a clinical hospital in Santiago, Chile. Material and Methods: Review of the database of hospital discharges with the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, between 1990 and 2010 and the medical records of those patients. Age, gender, length of hospital stay, surgeries, percutaneous interventions and mortality were registered. To compare the evolution of the disease over time, patients were divided in two groups: those hospitalized between 1990 and 1999 and those hospitalized between 2000 and 2010. Results: We reviewed the records of 1367 patients with a median age of 48 years (48% men). In the first period, 93 of637 (14.6%) patients died, whereas in the second period, 22 of 730 patients died (3.0%). In the first and second period, 41.9 and 25.3% of patients were subjected to surgical procedures. The hospital stay was shorter in the second group, compared with the first (14.2 and 25.9 days respectively). Conclusions: There was a decrease in mortality caused by AP in the last 10 years, probably associated with a better interdisciplinary management of these patients.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Hospital Mortality , Pancreatitis/mortality , Acute Disease , Chile/epidemiology , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
Se presenta la experiencia protocolizada de 375 pacientes con obesidad grave refractaria a tratamiento médico, que han sido sometidos a gastrectomía casi total de 98 por ciento con reservorio de 20 ml. y asa yeyunal desfuncionalizada en Y de Roux de 150 cm. ya sea por abordaje abierto o por laparoscopía, basados en la experiencia publicada de los riesgos que representa dejar un estómago ciego abandonado. Los resultados muestran que el método es muy eficaz para manejar en forma definitiva la obesidad y que puede ser realizado por vía laparoscópica. Sin embargo, dado que tiene riesgos de morbilidad relacionados con la técnica quirúrgica, debe ser realizado por grupos con experiencia en cirugía gastro-esofágica, que sepan manejar oportuna y adecuadamente las complicaciones, bajo protocolos de estudio, con pacientes debidamente informados y en el marco de un trabajo trans-disciplinario que involucre a otros profesionales de la salud, tanto para el manejo inmediato del paciente operado como para su seguimiento y control alejado.