Enucleación bilateral por panoftalmitis endógena polimicrobiana fulminante / Bilateral enucleation due to multi-bacterial fulminant endogenous panophthalmitis

Mujer de 62 años con disminución de la agudeza visual bilateral rápidamente progresiva y panuveítis con celulitis orbitaria, asociadas a mal estado general, emesis y fiebre. Se diagnosticó septicemia por Klebsiella pneumoniae y panoftalmitis endógena bilateral. La afectación ocular progresó rápidamente a escleroqueratitis y perforación en ambos ojos, pese a recibir manejo antibiótico sistémico de amplio espectro. Finalmente, la paciente requirió enucleación bilateral. Los cultivos microbiológicos de las piezas quirúrgicas identificaron Klebsiella pneumoniae y Candida magnoliae. Según nuestro conocimiento, es el tercer caso publicado que haya requerido enucleación o evisceración bilateral por panoftalmitis endógena y el primer caso de infección ocular endógena causada por Candida magnoliae

The case is presented of a 62 year-old woman with a rapid, progressive bilateral decrease in visual acuity and panuveitis with orbital cellulitis. She was also in poor general condition, with emesis and fever. Septicaemia due to Klebsiella pneumoniae and bilateral endogenous panophthalmitis were diagnosed. The ocular infection quickly progressed to sclerokeratitis and bilateral perforation despite broad spectrum systemic antibiotic management, and eventually the patient required bilateral enucleation. Microbiological cultures of the surgical pieces identified Klebsiella pneumoniae and Candida magnoliae. To our knowledge, this is the third published case that required bilateral enucleation or evisceration due to endogenous panophthalmitis, and the first case of endogenous ocular infection caused by Candida magnoliae

Bilateral enucleation due to multi-bacterial fulminant endogenous panophthalmitis. / Enucleación bilateral por panoftalmitis endógena polimicrobiana fulminante.

The case is presented of a 62 year-old woman with a rapid, progressive bilateral decrease in visual acuity and panuveitis with orbital cellulitis. She was also in poor general condition, with emesis and fever. Septicaemia due to Klebsiella pneumoniae and bilateral endogenous panophthalmitis were diagnosed. The ocular infection quickly progressed to sclerokeratitis and bilateral perforation despite broad spectrum systemic antibiotic management, and eventually the patient required bilateral enucleation. Microbiological cultures of the surgical pieces identified Klebsiella pneumoniae and Candida magnoliae. To our knowledge, this is the third published case that required bilateral enucleation or evisceration due to endogenous panophthalmitis, and the first case of endogenous ocular infection caused by Candida magnoliae.

[Effectiveness of educational interventions on primary care physicians in the prevention of traffic accidents in the elderly]. / Eficacia de las intervenciones formativas sobre médicos de atención primaria en la prevención de accidentes de tráfico en ancianos.

The objective of this study was to assess the effect of the implementation of training programs for Primary Care Physicians for improving their clinical practice as regards the prevention of traffic accidents in the elderly. To do this, a systematic review was carried out following the PRISMA strategy. A total of 1,677 works were reviewed, of which only 5 were included because they met the inclusion criteria. Although none of the works was of an experimental type with a control group, it can be concluded that there is evidence that an adequate training in this subject by physicians improves their skills in the identification of elderly risk drivers, due to their pathologies and/or the use of drugs, as well as their level of confidence to communicate to the elderly and/or their families the need for restriction or, if necessary, the definitive cessation of driving.

Hysterectomy of the newborn guinea-pig, subsequent effects on the oestrous cycle and life span of the corpora lutea.

Longer oestrous cycles result from neonatal hysterectomy than from hysterectomy in adult life. Section and cauterization of the utero-vaginal union also prolonged the vaginal closure period up to an average of 55 days. The destruction of the mesometrium did not lengthen the oestrous cycle. Uterine autografts in hysterectomized newoborn guinea-pigs did not prevent the long cycles.