Multiple sclerosis affects young people of working age

Puerto Aysén-. The arrival of new specialists to the hospital has allowed to improve the resolution, delivering  adults Film  a better service to the users of the coastal zone of the region. Danae Rivera Soza, who after being accompanied by her mother to the post of Puerto Chacabuco, was urgently referred to the Hospital of Puerto Aysén (HPA), where she was diagnosed with appendicitis. The 7-year-old girl became the first patient to undergo a laparoscopic appendectomy in the HPA, an area that is in the process of being converted to a hospital of medium complexity, which has involved not only improvements in infrastructure, But also an increase in specialists and benefits. "In this process of conversion to a hospital of medium complexity, we are doing some academic surgeries in adult and pediatric patients," says Dr. Loreto Vigneaux, a pediatric surgeon who made the decision to operate Danae on the HPA, thus avoiding the transfer to the Hospital Regional Coyhaique. ...

Multiple sclerosis is characterized by episodes of neurological dysfunction that cause a variety of symptoms At age 29, Israel Rosas began to have blurred vision and numbness in one of his arms, symptoms he did not give importance to. As the days went by, when he noticed that the discomforts persisted, he decided to go to the doctor. After several neurological events, medical examinations and an MRI to corroborate the doctors' suspicions, the diagnosis was irreversible: multiple sclerosis, chronic disease, autoimmune degenerative and demyelinating central nervous system, considered the main cause of non-traumatic neurological disability among youngsters Economically active. Israel Rosas is one of more than two million people living with multiple sclerosis worldwide. In Mexico, this neurological condition of slow progression affects between 15 and 20 people per 100 thousand inhabitants. The development of this condition begins between 20 and 40 years of age and afflicts two wo...