Fracaso renal agudo en pacientes con mieloma: Nuestra experiencia con hemodiálisis extendidas con dializadores de alto poro / Acute renal failure in patients with myeloma: Experience with extended high cut-off hemodialysis

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[History and poetry in women's biological twilight: menopause and old age]. / Historia y poesía en el ocaso biológico de la mujer: menopausia y ancianidad.

This is a poetical and historical approach to the last biological stages of the evolutive development of women, namely menopause and old age. It starts with the passages found in Egyptian Papirii such as Ebers or Smith, dated 1500-2000 BC, which describe, among other symptoms, the sweating and hig body temperatures caused by the diminishing hormon secretion of the ovaries. Other important works on the subject, some of them written in the 20th century and some others composed before that date, are also quoted, such as the Edad Crítica (Critical Age) by Dr. Marañon. The final stage of a woman's life, old age, is presented through the famous sonet "Alfa y Omega" (Alpha and Omega) by poet Manuel Machado. Using poetical strokes, the author conveys an image of the many phisiopatological consequences of old age in women: osteoporosis, genital prolapse, urine incontinence and "wrinkles" ("old age is neither shown by white hair nor by wrinkles but by the heart"). The work finishes with the famous statement uttered by Napoleon Bona-parte: "God wanted to be a writer: Man is His prose; His poetry, Women". The same poetry that Dr. Cruz y Hermida has found through the complexities of the evolutive process of feminine biology.

[Women the thought and works of Cajal (remembrances on the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award)]. / La mujer en el pensamiento y la obra de Cajal (evocación de su figura en el i Centenario de la concesión del Nobel).

This conference begins with a personal evocation of the author's grandfather, Gaspar Cruz y Martín, Anatomic Sculptor at the Faculty of Medicine of San Carlos--the commemorative medal depicting Cajal that can be seen today at the Cajal Teaching Room Museum in the Medical College of Madrid is due to his hand. The talk goes on to compile a little anthology of texts on women by Cajal, chosen as literary counterparts to his scientific writings. Women are seen by Cajal under the light of beauty, love, marriage, family and even feminism. The anthology ends with a series of "misogynistic stings"--as Dr. Cruz y Hermida calls them--which alternate negative criticism with open praise, mostly showing the admiration that women caused in the sensitive intelligence of the great humanist. The conference finishes with an account of the last moments of Cajal and the moving words by D. Teófilo Hernando, who was at the side of the Maestro when he passed away.

[My 25th anniversary with the academy. An excuse to remember some old friends who have disapeared]. / Mis bodas de plata con la academia. Un pretexto para recordar a los viejos amigos desaparecidos.

As the author reaches his 25th anniversary with R.A.N.M., he remembers the academics therein, whom he found in the year of his entry (November, 1980), in the midst of life and work, and with whom he closely spent the following years, yielding anecdotal and human brush strokes through our brief pesonal encounters. Before remembering the academics now gone, we note another of those relationships, begun like the others in the some year and, happily, still maintaining today the precious gift of life. This exercise in historical reporting in which the memory does justice to those names that lent their prestige to Spanish Medicine, is not meant -in the words of Profesor Cruz y Hermida- to be a chapter in the history of medicine, but rather a page in the history of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.

[The obstetrical biography of Queen Isabel the Catholic (medical and historical comments on the Queen's pregnancies, births and miscarriages)]. / Biografía obstétrica de Isabel la Católica (comentarios histórico-medicos de los embarazos, partos y abortos de la Reina).

In commemoration of the 500 year anniversary of Queen Isabel's death, and in homage to her memory, the author provides a suggestive biological perspective of her majesty from a gynaecological historian's point of view. The author highlights the obstetrical episodes that occurred throughout her reproductive life and required the implication of various professionals, such the "protomedicato" typical of the epoch, experienced midwives, and Ladies in Waiting. The most significant obstetrical events were the births of 5 children: Isabel, Juan, Juana, María and Catalina. Given the Court's transient nature, the children were born throughout various geographical areas of the kingdom: Palencia, Seville, Toledo, Cardaba and Alcalá de Henares. Indeed, she was an exceptional woman born to rule and to give birth far and wide throughout the land of her People.