the emergent abdominal surgeries from either of traumatic or non traumatic causes can result in situations in which the abdominal wall cannot initially be closed. many techniques have been reported for temporary coverage of the exposed viscera, but the result of various techniques remains unclear. during 94 months, 19 critically ill patients whit an open abdomen underwent surgery using plastic ...

The damage control surgery, with emphasis on laparostomy, usually results in shrinkage of the aponeurosis and loss of the ability to close the abdominal wall, leading to the formation of ventral incisional hernias. Currently, various techniques offer greater chances of closing the abdominal cavity with less tension. Thus, this study aims to evaluate three temporary closure techniques of the abd...

1 Chief of Transplant Services, Department of Surgery. Fundación Cardio-Infantil Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Gastroenterology and Hepatology Services, Department of Internal Medicine. Fundación CardioInfantil. Bogotá, Colombia 3 Chief of Gastroenterology Service, Department of Internal Medicine. Fundación Cardio-Infantil. Bogotá, Colombia 4 Chief of Hepatology Service. Department of Internal Medicine. ...

1 Gastroenterologist at the Clínica Universitaria Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia 2 Pathologist and Epidemiologist at the Clínica Reina Sofía and the Clínica Universitaria Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia 3 Gastroenterologist and Epidemiologist at the Clínica Reina Sofía in Bogotá, Colombia 4 Gastroenterologist at the Clínica Reina Sofía – Clínica Universitaria. Bogotá, Colombia. 5 Chief of Gastroente...

1 Medical Epidemiologist and Pathology Resident at the Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud in Bogotá, Colombia 2 Medical Students in the Semilleros de Investigación de Patología Program at the Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud in Bogotá, Colombia 3 Pathology Resident at the Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud in Bogotá, Colombia 4 Oncologist and Pathologist...

1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia 3. Group of Mechanobiology of Organs and Biological Tissues (Mech+Biol_UN), Biomimetics Laboratory, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. 4. Instit...

1 Master of Public Health, Master of Health Administration, Hepatology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Second Year Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad del Rosario, Fundación Cardio-Infantil, Bogotá, Colombia. 3 Internist, Gastro-hepatologist in the Hepatology Section of the Department of Internal Medicine, Fundación Car...

In this document we describe the size of the Población Flotante of Bogotá (D.C.). The Población Flotante is composed by people who live outside Bogotá (D.C.), but who rely on the city for performing their job. We estimate the Población Flotante impact relying on a new data source provided by telecommunications operators in Colombia, which enables us to estimate how many people commute daily fro...

1 Laboratorio de Micologı́a y Fitopatologı́a, Departamento de Ciencias biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2 Centro de Bioinformática-Instituto de Biotecnologı́a (IBUN), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 3 Grupo de Investigación en Bioinformática, Escuela de Ingenierı́a de Sistemas y Computación, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 4 GEBIXCentro Colombiano d...

1 General Surgery Resident at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogotá, Colombia [email protected] 2 Specialist in General and Gastroenterological Surgery in the Department of General and Gastroenterological Surgery at the Hospital Universitario Clínica San Rafael in Bogotá, Colombia 3 Specialist in Internal Medicine and Epidemiology 4 Specialist in General and Gastroenterological Sur...