[Study of hypertensive very elderly population admitted to a regional hospital]. / Estudio de la población hipertensa muy anciana ingresada en un hospital comarcal.

OBJECTIVES: To analyse the characteristics of the hospitalized very elderly people (age equal or superior to 80 years) with hypertension (HT). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Prospective study including the patients with HT who need hospitalization in our medical institution. Data collected were: demographic, clinical parameters, factors of vascular risk, hygienic-dietetic strategies, pharmacological treatment, cause of hospitalization, and biochemical determinations. RESULTS: There were included 92 very elderly patients (71 women); they represent 14 % of total hospitalized people. Two third parts had not realized academic studies, being 60 % of rural origin. Almost the half (41 %) was diabetic, and 27 % had dyslipidemia. Overall 62 % had 4 or more factors of cardiovascular risk. The hospitalization was related to the HT in the half of the cases, and 61 % had already previously some cardiovascular event. The lifestyle modifications more frequent were: not to smoke (95 %), no alcohol (81 %), and diet without salt (75 %). Diuretics were the most frequent anti-hypertensive agent used. The global mortality was two times superior to the hypertensive population < 80 years in the same period. CONCLUSIONS: The very elderly hypertensive patients of our study are fundamentally women, of rural origin and without academic studies. The above mentioned hospitalization is attributable directly to the HT in the half of the cases. They are a population of high cardiovascular risk, with previous events cardiac and cerebral-vascular. They confess to realize frequently the hygienic-dietetic strategies recommended. The diuretics are the anti-hypertensive agents most used for the HT. Since it was of waiting for the mortality in this group it is high.

Primary mesenteric liposarcoma of jejunum: presentation like a cystic mass.

This report describes a rare case of intra-abdominal liposarcoma in a 67-year-old woman. The patient presented at Internal Medicine Unit in May 2004, to study of thyroid pathology. The clinical examination was normal, except for the finding of an asymptomatic mass in the abdomen. The patient knew the existence of tumor since time ago, but she confesses to have only occasional discomfort. In the abdominal ultrasonography a solid mass with large cystic component was detected but relation with other organs was not clear. Computed tomography revealed the presence of a mass with solid and cystic components, in contact with small intestine in the left side of abdomen. A complete resection of tumor arising from mesentery of jejunum was performed successfully with end to end anastomosis. The gross specimen was lobulated and measured 8.5 x 7.5 cm. The histopathology analysis showed proliferating lipoblasts with irregular nuclei on a myxoid background, with plexiform vascular pattern, characteristics belongs to myxoid type liposarcoma. The patient is alive and well one year after removal of tumor. The uncommon site and the exceptional cystic morphology of tumor are discussed, and so it must be included the primary mesenteric liposarcoma in the differential diagnosis of intra-abdominal tumors with cystic large areas.