Abstract Introduction: In cholelithiasis, lipid and histopathological alterations have been found and suggest the accumulation of lipids in the gallbladder tissue (cholesterolosis), due to the few existing reports a study was carried out to determine their association. Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between the lipid profile and gallbladder histopathology in patients with cholelithiasis undergoing cholecystectomy. Methodology: An observational, cross-sectional, analytical, and prospective study was carried out in a group of patients from the Hospital General de México “Eduardo Liceaga” undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy from January 2015 to January 2020. With approval of the protocol by the ethics and research committee, the following variables were considered: age, sex, BMI, comorbidities (diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cirrhosis), LDL-C, HDL-C, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and histopathological findings (cholesterolosis, polyps, xanthogranulomatosis, acute cholecystitis, and cholecystitis chronicle). A descriptive and inferential analysis was performed with SPSS v.24. It was considered p < 0.05 as significant. Results: From a group of 302 patients, 133 cases (108 women and 25 men) were included in the study. They presented overweight (39%) and obesity (33%), the lipid profile with hypoalphalipoproteinemia (61%), hypertriglyceridemia (40%), hypercholesterolemia (17%), and elevated LDL-C (16%); and in histopathology chronic cholecystitis (70%), cholesterolosis (28%), and acute cholecystitis (7%). Discussion: Our sample is representative of the Mexican population (in physical characteristics and lipid profile). However, no significant association was found between dyslipidemia and histopathological findings.

RESUMEN La displasia septo-óptica (DSO) es una entidad que incluye hipoplasia de nervios ópticos, disgenesia de la línea media cerebral y disfunción hipotálamo-hipofisaria. Entre las teorías sobre su patogenia es de resaltar una posible disrupción vascular que altera el desarrollo de las estructuras involucradas. Dado que la (DSO) es una patología infrecuente, se presenta el caso de un recién nacido que desde sus controles prenatales presentó alteraciones anatómicas cerebrales en línea media. Posteriormente al nacimiento se confirmaron las siguientes: ausencia de septum pellucidum, dilatación ventricular supratentorial con sospecha de estenosis acueductal y disgenesia del cuerpo calloso, además de una trombosis de seno venoso. Se resalta la importancia de mostrar la relación de estas dos patologías puesto que solamente encontramos otro caso reportado en la literatura. Igualmente, se destacan herramientas del manejo de trombosis cerebral neonatal. Por último, se resalta la utilidad de los controles prenatales como guía del enfoque rápido para el diagnóstico en este paciente.

SUMMARY The septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is characterized by a classic triad: optic nerve hypoplasia, dysgenesis of the cerebral midline and hypothalamus-pituitary axis dysfunction, in association, sometimes, with abnormalities in the cerebral cortex. In this article, we report a case of SOD diagnosed in the first days after birth of a patient, in which we incidentally documented a cerebral sinovenous thrombosis in the prenatal check-up exams. In here we try to highlight that the combination of both pathologies is less prevalent, finding in the literature just one case reported. In the other hand, to show the importance of adequate prenatal controls to guide the diagnosis and the management of Neonatal cerebral sinovenous thrombosis.

The objective of this article is to describe the process of approval of the Italian smoking ban, enacted in 2005. The method is to conduct a review of proposed and approved legislation 20002005, and of articles published in Italian newspapers, 1998-2008. Enabling factors in the process were: the leadership of two consecutive Health Ministers, both physicians, who introduced the bill four times between 2000-2002; the repeated presentation and final approval of the bill as an amendment within a bill on public administration which enabled timely approval of the ban; and the stringent air quality standards in the 2003 regulation that made building smoking rooms impracticable and prohibitively expensive. Limiting factors in the process were: the 6-month delay in approving the regulation on smoking rooms; the 1.5-year delay in approving the regulation establishing owners' responsibility for enforcing the ban in hospitality premises and the legal action in August 2005, which shifted responsibility for enforcement to police. Eighty-three percent of the 808 articles published on smoking in 1998-2008 were released between 2000-2005, during the policy process. While the press devoted considerable attention to the issues raised by the hospitality sector, the long legislative process of the bill and its regulations also stimulated coverage on tobacco control issues.

L'obiettivo dell'articolo è descrivere l'iter per l'approvazione della legge 3/2003, articolo 51. Il metodo usato è stato la ricostruzione del'iter parlamentare della legge nel 2000-2005, e della rassegna stampa in Italia sul fumo, 1998-2008. Tra i risultati ottenuti, la strategia per l'approvazione del disegno di legge (DDL) anti-fumo presenta alcuni punti di forza: la leadership di due medici-ministri della sanità (Veronesi e Sirchia) che hanno presentato 4 DDL nel 2000-2002; l'aumento di 4 volte delle sanzioni per i divieti già vigenti nel 2001; l'inserimento nel 2002 per 3 volte del divieto come articolo all'interno di una legge-quadro, per far approvare velocemente il bando; gli standard restrittivi della qualità dell'aria dei sistemi di ventilazione previsti nei locali fumatori dal regolamento attuativo DPCM 23/12/2003. I punti negativi dell'iter sono stati: il ritardo nell'approvazione dei requisiti per le aree fumatori e dei responsabili dei controlli; l'annullamento del TAR del Lazio nell'agosto 2005 della responsabilità degli esercenti nel controllare l'osservanza del divieto. Risultano pubblicati oltre 800 articoli sul fumo nel 1998-2008, di cui l'83% durante l'iter di approvazione della legge. Anche se la stampa ha dedicato molta attenzione alle rivendicazioni dei ristoratori, il lungo iter parlamentare ha favorito la pubblicazione di articoli sulla prevenzione del tabagismo.