Med Clin Barcelona
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Letter Case Reports
[The usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage for the diagnosis of a fat embolism].
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Delirium is an organic mental disorder frequently seen in elderly patients admitted to hospital for medical or surgical diseases. The prevalence, triggering factors, the relationship with prior existence of dementia and the evolution of delirium were studied. ⋯ Most of the elderly who have presented delirium admitted in a general hospital had been diagnosed with dementia during hospital stay thus indicating the high comorbidity of the two entities. In many cases it is important to carry out symptomatic in addition to etiologic treatment to achieve rapid reversibility of the disorder.
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Misspellings of transcription or the copy of references of articles published in the literature without verifying the information with the original document may be the cause of incorrect citations. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of citations to journal articles in 1962 to 1992 volumes of Medicina Clínica. ⋯ A high rate of citation errors has been also documented in a Spanish medical journal. The importance of reference verification should be emphasized and authors should exercise more care in preparing bibliographies of their articles.
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Despite the existence of an effective, cheap vaccine with few side effects, tetanus remains present in Spain with most of the cases being observed in subjects over the age of 49 years. The present seroepidemiologic study was performed to detect the degree of protection of this population. ⋯ Most of the adult population over the age of 49 years in Guipúzcoa is not protected against tetanus. This is in contrast with the situation observed in the infant and adolescent population. Specific preventive measures directed at the adult and elderly population should be undertaken.