[Radiological findings in patients with perennial allergic rhinitis]. / Hallazgos radiológicos en pacientes con rinitis alérgica perenne.

BACKGROUND: Rhinitis is clinically defined by obstruction, sneezing, pruritus and rhinorrhea. MATERIAL AND METHOD: There were studied 69 consecutive patients, from clinical immunology and allergy service of Hospital de Especialidades del Centro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI. RESULTS: 53 of them were women and 16 were men, all of them with ages between 15 and 55 years. They all had perennial allergic rhinitis, 50.7% of them had atopy, 47.8%, asthma as an added disease, 27.5%, nasal polyposis and 44.9%, sinusitis, in maxillary sinus 59.9%, in ethmoid 36.2% in 7.2% frontal. With septal deviation 33.3%, in 7.2% septal deviation with spur, obstruction of the osteomeatal complex in 4.3%, turbinate hypertrophy in 53.5%, polyps in 27.5% and bullous conchae in 7.2%. The diagnosis was performed by axial computerized tomography of paranasal sinuses. The chi square determined the association between structural alterations and the presence of sinusitis, with p = 0.001, with close relation between allergic rhinitis and sinusitis. CONCLUSIONS: Diagnosis and appropriate treatment proved to be very important in handling this disease.

[Interferon alpha 2b in pain caused by herpes zoster. Preliminary report]. / Interferón alpha 2b en el dolor por herpes zoster. Informe preliminar.

We studied forty patients with Zoster Herpes, twenty two of them, with this acute disease, eighteen with postherpetic neuralgia, to those that were considered chronic. The evaluation of the effect of INF alpha 2b, in the secondary pain of Zoster Herpes acute disease, in the patients with chronic severe secondary neuralgia they shared; the evolution with the treatment for half for visual pain analog scale in both groups the patients with acute pain, entered for visual pain analog scale between 10 and two points, with medium of 8.2 SD 2.1. They did not find any significance difference with this values p < 0.6. Most of the patients with acute pain was of 6 a 0 points with the medium a 0.27 y SD: 1,2 in the chronics went from. 6 to 0 points with a medium of 1.27 (SD:2.4), with a significative difference for t Student for comparation the initial scale in final in both groups of (p < 0.0001). The comparation of the best days, the disease bettered in acute quicker than the chronics with significance difference: (p < 0.001).