SCIENTIFIC

CURRENT DEVELOPMENT IN MEDICINE

The following is a translation of the titles, authors and summaries of several articles which appeared in the Revista Cubana de Medicina, Vol. IV, No. 2, Havana, 29 April 1965. The pages are indicated before each title.

129 SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY: A STUDY OF ITS OBJECTS AND BASIC CONCEPTS
By Dr. Leopoldo B. Izquierdo Bernal (*)
(*) Professor of Medical Psychology, School of Medical Sciences of the University of Havana. Director of the Department of Social Psychology of the Institute of Advanced Nervous Activity.

137 ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHICAL ALTERATIONS IN THE TRANSMURAL MITRAL COMMISSUROTOMY
By Dr. A. Hernandez Garcia (**), Dr. R. Amado Mon (***) and Dr. J. Castillo Navarro (****)
(**) Professor of Internal Medicine, Head of the Cardiology Department of the Comandante Manuel Fajardo Training Hospital.
(***) Assistant Specialist, Department of Cardiology of the Comandante Manuel Fajardo Training Hospital.

142 CONCLUSIONS
1. The electrocardiograms corresponding to 33 cases of mitral stenosis operated transmurally were studied.
2. The wave variations, as well as the favorable changes in the muscular and ventricular complex are those which, according to other authors, are present in patients operated transmurally.

Ref. No. 33 413; No. 20 Off. 656 Trans. C. Ref. No. 3411.