Henry Hinds Feb 17, 2011:

Thanks, Joe I don't do a lot of medical, but when I do, I always have to do my research! Thanks for the reference.

liz askew Feb 17, 2011:

Internal Medicine would be the most likely here. Prevalence of Pneumonia due to Legionella pneumophila and ...
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21 Jan 2009 ... We studied 177 patients with pneumonia admitted to an internal medicine department over a period of 3 years to determine the incidence of ...
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Joseph Tein Feb 17, 2011:

HENRY: IAM/AMI Hola compañero ... tanto tiempo. For medical translators IAM is "pan comido". Others can check out:

http://tremedica.org/glosarios/siglas/

... where you'll get nine possibilities for IAM, and tens of thousands of other very ... that's VERY ... helpful entries for Spanish medical abbreviations. Check it out.

Lidia Morejudo (asker) Feb 16, 2011:

Medicina Internat Sí, creo que va a ser medicina interna... parece tan obvio...

Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães Feb 16, 2011:

My guess would be "medicina interna", i.e. "ingreso en medicina interna", as opposed to "ingreso en UCI", "observación" etc.

Roxanna Delgado Feb 16, 2011:

IAM @ Henry: IAM es infarto agudo de miocardio.

Henry Hinds Feb 16, 2011:

IAM ...episodios de IAM ¿De qué?

No podemos adivinar todos los acrónimos.

María Eugenia Wachtendorff Feb 16, 2011:

¿PAÍS DE ORIGEN DEL DOCUMENTO? Es muy importante que indiques esto, Lidia :)