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A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. F. Enrique Alvarezanswered
General Surgery 49 years experience
Varicose veins: Dilated veins in your legs , from incompetence of the valves that preven the blood from baking of. Also veins in the oesophagus that are related to increase in pressure of yor portal venous system, frequently related to cirrhosis of the liver.
A 18-year-old member asked:
Dr. F. Enrique Alvarezanswered
General Surgery 49 years experience
In general: Hernia is the protrussion of an organ through a hole in the body, from
brainstem protruding throgh the tentorium or through the formen magnum in the skull to tiny pinchig herias of the bowell wall through small blood vessel hole of the abdominal wall or richter's herniae.
A 23-year-old member asked:
Dr. F. Enrique Alvarezanswered
General Surgery 49 years experience
Surgery: Symptomatic gallstones can only be treated surgically by removing the gallbladder, litothrypsy and actigall (ursodiol) were used for sometime but the indications were very specifical single stoneno larger than 1 CM and lots of diarrhea for about one year from the actigall (ursodiol) and then three or four years later the gallstones will come back.
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Alvarez is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Alvarez is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you. They have now corrected their info and it would be inpatient.
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Medical/Graduate school
University of El Salvador Faculty of Medicine, El Savador
Graduated 1972MD
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