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Resumen Este artículo busca poner en diálogo la categoría de resiliencia con el enfoque narrativo, desde un acercamiento a las historias de vida como mediación metodológica cualitativa de particular significación, para leer de manera comprensiva lo que acontece a los sujetos cuando relatan la vida contando historias, reconociendo que el accenso a la humanidad como construcción subjetiva pasa por esa capacidad para relatar la propia vida, atravesada por experiencias límites. La atención se pone en las mismas historias de vida como mediación y su significación para la investigación en resiliencia. El método de trabajo se apoyó en una revisión documental, con un trabajo de análisis categorial, buscando elementos teóricos y metodológicos que fortalezcan la investigación en resiliencia desde el enfoque narrativo.
Abstract This paper establishes a dialogue between the resilience and the narrative perspective, from an approach to life stories as a qualitative methodological mediation of particular significance. It aims to read comprehensively what happens to subjects when they relate life-telling stories, recognizing that lighting the human fact as a subjective construction involves the capability to relate one's life, permeated by borderline experiences. Attention is focused in life experiences as mediation, and their signification is in consideration for resilience research. The method was based on a documentary review, and a categorical analysis, searching for theoretical and methodological elements that strengthen resilience research from the narrative approach.
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UNLABELLED: Even though lumbar discography was described in 1948 by Lind Bloom as a useful diagnostic method to identify ruptures of the anulus fibrosus of the intervertebral disc, it was neglected for many years as an unreliable method. This happened especially after a publication by Holt, who in 1968 reported a 37% false-positive rate in a study done among inmates, with a very irritating contrast medium (hypaque) that was administered intrathecally. OBJECTIVE: To show that lumbar discography is a dynamic and safe method and even more reliable than magnetic resonance imaging to detect intervertebral disc ruptures. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Thirty-three patients with a clinical history of lumbosciatic pain lasting more than 6 months and an MRI-proven diagnosis of herniated disc were studied. Fifty discographies were performed at the L3-4, L4-5, L5-S1 spaces. They were considered as negative: (1) When the contrast had an oval or cotton-ball shape. (2) When the disc admitted 2-2.5 cm of contrast medium without causing any pain. They were considered as positive: When the contrast dye diffused with an irregular pattern. (2) When the administration of the contrast dye was painful. All negative discographies were followed-up for 6 months. RESULTS: Thirty-three patients; 22 males, 11 females; 50 discographies as follows: 5 at L3-4; 27 at L4-5; and 18 at L5-S1. Five discographies were negative, At six months, the patients were asymptomatic. The discography detected 5 patients, equivalent to a 10% false/positive rate for the magnetic resonance imaging. Two patients developed diskitis. CONCLUSIONS: Discography is more effective than magnetic resonance imaging for detecting intervertebral disc ruptures. Patients with diskitis were related with minimally invasive surgery, probably more due to the infectious process than to discography.
