Doctors are updated to treat diabetes and heart disease (Honduras)

Improving eating habits and hygiene are the two main recommendations made by American specialists to sampedranos in the International Update course in Medicine 2015 that was carried out in the city.

News in the field of diabetes and lipids, advances in the immunotherapy of solid tumors, advances in coronary revascularization and in peripheral arterial revascularization were some of the topics of interest taught by medical specialists from the San Lucas Hospital, Houston, United States.

More than 250 people, including specialist doctors, health personnel and students participated in the International Update Course in Medicine that has been held in San Pedro Sula for eight years with recognized doctors.

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Rudy Cruz, medical director of the Sampedrano Medical Center (Cemesa), said he feels satisfied with the high degree of interest of the participants who did not hesitate to clear their doubts through a space of questions and answers, being one of the greatest concernsby students the risk in medical centers to acquire infectious diseases."They knew the newest techniques in medicine, we want to be at the forefront of what is needed, we cannot allow our people to travel to other countries to improve their health," he said.

The internist Alan Hoffman, the cardiology specialist Michele Sartori and the specialized oncology Luis Camacho were responsible for teaching the workshop of more than eight hours.

“Now we have medical legs for the legs, so we can clear the blockages and make the obstruction return.It improves circulation and we do not need to do surgeries, just work with catheters, ”said Sartori, Italian cardiologist.

This technique has been implemented in the United States for a year, in Honduras it is not yet done.However, for patients it is a much less expensive alternative than an operation and what it entails."Here more education is needed with the population of limited resources and better hygiene, other medicine structures have to be applied without people having to load with that economic weight."

The high consumption of fats in the sampedranos is one of the main causes of many diseases.Sartori coincides with the other doctors in which it is necessary to better take care of food.

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