Efectividad de tratamientos breves y focalizados según la percepción de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión / Effectiveness of short and focused treatments according to the perception of patients with anxiety and depression

El proceso investigativo tuvo el objetivo de determinar la percepción que tienen los pacientes diagnosticados con ansiedad y depresión acerca de la efectividad de los tratamientos breves y focalizados recibidos en el departamento de psicología del Sanatorio San Gabriel, de la sede de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina), durante 2017 y 2018. El diseño empleado fue no experimental, descriptivo y con enfoque cuantitativo. La población estuvo constituida las historias clínicas de 19 pacientes de ese contexto de estudio. El 52,63% de los participantes consideró que existió una reinstauración de los síntomas originales, lo que prevaleció en el estudio, además de los que valoraron su rehabilitación como bien o muy bien y aquellos que consideraban requerir renovar las sesiones de terapia.

This research aimed to determine the perception that patients diagnosed with anxiety and depression have about the effectiveness of the brief and focused treatments received in the psychology department of the San Gabriel Sanatorium, of the headquarters of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Argentina), during 2017 and 2018. The design used was non-experimen-tal, descriptive and with a quantitative approach. The population consisted of the medical records of 19 patients from this study context. 52.63% of the participants considered that there was a reinstatement of the original symptoms, which prevailed in the study, in addition to those who valued their rehabilitation as good or very good and those who considered it necessary to renew the therapy sessions

'Pulmonary thrombosis in situ': risk factors, clinic characteristics and long-term evolution.

: Pulmonary embolism typically occurs from deep venous thrombosis (DVT). However, not always a DVT can be identified, and 'in situ' generation of pulmonary embolism has been considered, referred to in the literature as 'De novo pulmonary embolism' (DNPE). The objective of the study is to assess risk factors, comorbidities, clinic characteristics and long-term evolution of patients with pulmonary embolism in the absence of an identified source. Retrospective study of 280 patients with pulmonary embolism, 190 pulmonary embolisms with DVT group and 90 (32%) pulmonary embolism without DVT (DNPE group), admitted to an Internal Medicine Department of a tertiary hospital from January 2012 to December 2015. In the DNPE group, segmental and subsegmental arteries were more frequently affected (P = 0.01). As compared with pulmonary embolisms with DVT group: older age, female sex, sedentary lifestyle, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, heart failure, respiratory infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were significantly more frequent in DNPE. In multivariate analysis, respiratory infection [odds ratio (OR) 12.2, P < 0.0001], COPD (OR 8.7, P < 0.0001) and female sex (OR 3.0, P = 0.003) were independently associated risk factors. Long-term mortality (median follow-up 15 months) was also higher in DNPE group (34 vs. 16%, P = 0.01). De novo pulmonary embolism occurred in 32% of cases of pulmonary embolisms and was more frequent in female and COPD patients or those with respiratory infections as compared with pulmonary embolisms in which DVT was identified as a source of embolism.