Editorial de la revista número 1 del año 2021

Abstract

In patients with low back pain and neck pain who had not achieved satisfactory results with previous conventional treatments, Liliana Babio and colleagues from the Department of Kinesiology found significant improvements with osteopathic treatment.

Rocío N. Barrios and colleagues from Hospital Italiano and the Epidemiology Office of the Ministry of Health of the City investigated the epidemiological profile of 404 traffic accidents admitted to the Hospital during 2018.

Gabriela Urman and colleagues from the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Universidad Maimónides, evaluated parents’ beliefs and expectations regarding indications and potential problems associated with the use of imaging studies requested at an outpatient pediatric center.

Álvaro Vallejos Narváez, from the Clinical Pharmacology Department of Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, and collaborators from Hospital de San José, Bogotá, Colombia, present a clinical case of neurocysticercosis and seizures that developed DRESS syndrome (Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms) due to phenytoin.

Natali Bodnariuk and collaborators from the Departments of Dermatology and Internal Medicine illustrate a clinical case of bullous pyoderma gangrenosum, an atypical form of pyoderma gangrenosum, as a presentation of acute myeloid leukemia.

In Images in Internal Medicine and Surgery, Jessica Medina and Luis Alejandro Boccalatte, from the Departments of General Surgery of Hospital Italiano and Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires, illustrate the case of a patient with relapse of Burkitt lymphoma in the palate.

In the section Questions to the Expert, Miriam Rozenek, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Secretary of the Vaccine Commission of the Argentine Society of Infectious Diseases, answers the question: Do the available anti-COVID-19 vaccines differ in efficacy in older adults?

In the section Hospital Italiano in Medline, Pablo M. Ajler, from the Skull Base Section of the Department of Neurosurgery, summarizes the recently published experience of 30 cases of craniopharyngioma operated on at Hospital Italiano.

Daiana Macarena Ibáñez Alegre, Luis Daniel Mazzuoccolo, and Adriana Raquel Rinflerch update advances in CRISPR-Cas gene-editing technology and its potential applications.

Andrea M. Actis, from the Chair of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University Institute, recalls the personal and academic life of the Canadian scientist Maud Leonora Menten, known for her work on enzyme kinetics together with Leonor Michaelis in 1913.