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Introduction: Hypertension is the chronic disease of more morbidity worldwide, which represents a health problem due to its multicausality and consequences. Objective: To describe the main sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hypertension, belonging to a health area of Niquero. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 370 patients with hypertension who belonged to the Family Doctor Office No. 4 of Niquero, Granma province, was carried out from June, 2021 to the same month in 2022. The variables age, sex, color of the skin, classification according to tension figures and evolution were studied, as well as patient state and complications. Results: There was a prevalence of the 40-59 (37.6 %) and 60-79 (36.5 %) age groups, female sex (58.4 %), as well as the mixed race color of the skin (55.9 %). The patients with grade II hypertension in phase 1 (44.3 %) and partially compensated (55.9 %) were the majority. Peripheral arterial disease was the main complication (21.1 %). Conclusions: The description of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hypertension constitutes an element to take into account for the appropriate control of those affected in the health areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Hypertension is the chronic disease of more morbidity worldwide, which represents a health problem due to its multicausality and consequences. Objective: To describe the main sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hypertension, belonging to a health area of Niquero. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of 370 patients with hypertension who belonged to the Family Doctor Office No. 4 of Niquero, Granma province, was carried out from June, 2021 to the same month in 2022. The variables age, sex, color of the skin, classification according to tension figures and evolution were studied, as well as patient state and complications. Results: There was a prevalence of the 40-59 (37.6 %) and 60-79 (36.5 %) age groups, female sex (58.4 %), as well as the mixed race color of the skin (55.9 %). The patients with grade II hypertension in phase 1 (44.3 %) and partially compensated (55.9 %) were the majority. Peripheral arterial disease was the main complication (21.1 %). Conclusions: The description of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hypertension constitutes an element to take into account for the appropriate control of those affected in the health areas.

Introduction: The diabetes mellitus is the chronic disease considered as one of the highest sanitary emergencies in the XXI century in the world that can trigger some complications and serious health problems. Objective: To characterize diabetic patients with arterial chronic disease in lower limbs according to clinical, hemodynamic and ultrasound variables. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of the 178 diabetic patients with clinical diagnosis of arterial chronic disease in lower limbs was carried out, who were assisted in the Imaging Service of Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from January, 2017 to December, 2019, to whom hemodynamic exam by means of the ankle-brachial index and arterial Doppler ultrasound was carried out. Results: In the investigation there was a prevalence of the elderly (41.6 %) from the female sex (54.0 %), the intermittent abandonment as main symptom (57.3 %), the femoropopliteal sector (34.8 %) according to the exact topography of the lesions, as well as the significant stenosis (53.9 %) and the moderate peripheral arterial disease (58.3 %). Conclusions: Most of the patients presented a significant stenosis according to Doppler ultrasound, in correspondence with the diagnosis of moderated peripheral arterial disease by the ankle-brachial index. The Doppler ultrasound also contributed the exact topography of the lesions.

Introduction: The diabetes mellitus is the chronic disease considered as one of the highest sanitary emergencies in the XXI century in the world that can trigger some complications and serious health problems. Objective: To characterize diabetic patients with arterial chronic disease in lower limbs according to clinical, hemodynamic and ultrasound variables. Methods: An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study of the 178 diabetic patients with clinical diagnosis of arterial chronic disease in lower limbs was carried out, who were assisted in the Imaging Service of Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from January, 2017 to December, 2019, to whom hemodynamic exam by means of the ankle-brachial index and arterial Doppler ultrasound was carried out. Results: In the investigation there was a prevalence of the elderly (41.6 %) from the female sex (54.0 %), the intermittent abandonment as main symptom (57.3 %), the femoropopliteal sector (34.8 %) according to the exact topography of the lesions, as well as the significant stenosis (53.9 %) and the moderate peripheral arterial disease (58.3 %). Conclusions: Most of the patients presented a significant stenosis according to Doppler ultrasound, in correspondence with the diagnosis of moderated peripheralarterial disease by the ankle-brachial index. The Doppler ultrasound also contributed the exact topography of the lesions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta el caso clínico de un paciente de 66 años de edad, quien comenzó a presentar dolor intenso en el pie derecho, luego de haber recibido un trauma, y a notar cambio de coloración en el grueso artejo del mismo pie, por lo cual fue ingresado para mejor estudio y tratamiento. Se realizó revascularización de la extremidad afectada y se utilizó el Heberprot-P® como complemento terapéutico (12 aplicaciones). El dolor desapareció totalmente y el índice tobillo - brazo del miembro inferior afectado alcanzó valores normales. El anciano egresó a los 10 días de revascularizado y en la tercera semana de aplicado el producto se había logrado un tejido de granulación productivo. No hubo reacciones adversas al medicamento, ni infección local, de manera que el pie quedó totalmente funcional.

Se realizó un estudio observacional y descriptivo, de serie de casos, de 14 pacientes con enfermedad arterial periférica aortoilíaca, operados por procedimientos vasculares directos en el Servicio de Angiología y Cirugía Vascular del Hospital Provincial Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "Saturnino Lora Torres" de Santiago de Cuba, de enero del 2010 a octubre del 2012, con vistas a caracterizarles según algunos parámetros clínicos y quirúrgicos y así evaluar la efectividad del tratamiento quirúrgico. Entre los principales resultados se obtuvo que el total de la serie eran hombres de más de 50 años de edad, en quienes se efectuó la ecografía Doppler como técnica imagenológica de elección; todos los afectados con oclusiones eran fumadores y de ellos, 50 % recibió revascularización quirúrgica, mientras que la totalidad de pacientes con aneurismas padecía hipertensión arterial y en 62,5 % de estos se practicó la cirugía de sustitución vascular. Se concluyó que la enfermedad arterial periférica aortoilíaca oclusiva tiene una aparición cada vez más temprana, los aneurismas de la aorta abdominal no son diagnosticados precozmente, las angiografías y tomografías son estudios necesarios para decidir el tratamiento quirúrgico, y que los parámetros quirúrgicos, como el tiempo de pinzamiento de la aorta, la diuresis durante el pinzamiento, la diuresis total y el tiempo quirúrgico; no tuvieron graves repercusiones en el período posoperatorio, ni en la supervivencia de los pacientes.

An observational and descriptive study of case series was conducted in 14 patients with aortoiliac peripheral artery disease, operated through direct vascular procedures at the Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Provincial Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, from January 2010 to October 2012, to characterize them according to some clinical and surgical parameters and evaluate the effectiveness of the surgical treatment. Among the main results it was obtained that the total number were men over 50 years of age in whom the Doppler ultrasound was selected as imaging technique; all patients with occlusions were smokers and 50% of them underwent bypass surgery, whereas all patients with aneurysms had hypertension and 62.5% of them underwent vascular replacement surgery. It was concluded that occlusive aortoiliac peripheral artery disease has an increasingly early onset, abdominal aortic aneurysms are not diagnosed early, and angiography and CT studies are needed to decide the surgical treatment, and surgical parameters such as time of aortic clamping, diuresis during clamping, urine output and surgical time had no serious implications in the postoperative period or survival of patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]