Juan C López-Hernández, Javier Galnares-Olalde, Edwin S Vargas-Cañas
{"title":"[Authors' reply to the letter \"Guillain-Barré syndrome before and during the COVID-19 pandemic\"].","authors":"Juan C López-Hernández, Javier Galnares-Olalde, Edwin S Vargas-Cañas","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000872","DOIUrl":"10.24875/GMM.M24000872","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"213-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liliana Pérez-Peralta, David Rivera-De la-Parra, Enrique O Graue-Hernández, Sergio Hernández-Jiménez, Paloma Almeda-Valdés, Héctor Velázquez-Jurado, Aída Jiménez-Corona
{"title":"[Authors' reply to the letter to the editor \"Artificial intelligence and screening for visual impairment related to diabetic retinopathy and macular edema\"].","authors":"Liliana Pérez-Peralta, David Rivera-De la-Parra, Enrique O Graue-Hernández, Sergio Hernández-Jiménez, Paloma Almeda-Valdés, Héctor Velázquez-Jurado, Aída Jiménez-Corona","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000873","DOIUrl":"10.24875/GMM.M24000873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"219-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edith Valdez-Martínez, Horacio Márquez-González, Miguel Bedolla
{"title":"[Non-therapeutic hysterectomy in Mexican young females with intellectual disability: a problematized reality].","authors":"Edith Valdez-Martínez, Horacio Márquez-González, Miguel Bedolla","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000879","DOIUrl":"10.24875/GMM.M24000879","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Non-therapeutic hysterectomy in girls and adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) is an acceptable practice, even when there is a lack of prescriptive ethical reason.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To determine the magnitude of the practice of hysterectomy in girls and adolescents with ID, and explore the emic factors associated with this procedure.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Multicenter, intersectoral study with a mixed methods design.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The quantitative results showed that 50 of 234 reported hysterectomies corresponded to females with ID. Average age at the time of surgery was 15 ± 2.9 years. Prophylactic abdominal hysterectomy was the most common procedure, and the justifications for it were \"fertility control\", \"menstrual hygiene management\", and \"risk of sexual abuse\". A qualitative analysis of 15 focus groups revealed that parents' main concern was how to manage their daughters' index disease and reproductive health; they perceived menstruation positively; they expressed their fear of dying and leaving them without support, and emphasized fertility control; none of them approved hysterectomy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The bodies that define health policies need to create a new philosophy that avoids the reductionist approach of current biomedical model, which separates (in the health-disease process) our interdependence with other humans.</p>","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"179-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ma Eugenia Jiménez-Corona, Luis P Cruz-Hervert, Mauricio Rodríguez-Álvarez, Samuel Ponce-de-León-Rosales
{"title":"[Comment on the article \"Guillain-Barre syndrome before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a referral center of Mexico\"].","authors":"Ma Eugenia Jiménez-Corona, Luis P Cruz-Hervert, Mauricio Rodríguez-Álvarez, Samuel Ponce-de-León-Rosales","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000880","DOIUrl":"10.24875/GMM.M24000880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"211-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge A Castrillón-Lozano, Dayhana Arango-Cárdenas, Daniel E Marulanda-Márquez
{"title":"[Artificial intelligence and screening for visual impairment related to diabetic retinopathy and macular edema].","authors":"Jorge A Castrillón-Lozano, Dayhana Arango-Cárdenas, Daniel E Marulanda-Márquez","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000881","DOIUrl":"10.24875/GMM.M24000881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"217-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Florence: WHO's digital health assistant].","authors":"Miguel Gallegos","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.M24000865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"221-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141982095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro E Macías-Hernández, Elsa J Sarti-Gutiérrez, Germán Fajardo-Dolci, Raúl Carrillo-Esper
{"title":"[Preparedness for an upcoming pandemic. Recommendations by the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico].","authors":"Alejandro E Macías-Hernández, Elsa J Sarti-Gutiérrez, Germán Fajardo-Dolci, Raúl Carrillo-Esper","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.M24000871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"117-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luz M Garduño-Zarazúa, Dora G Mayén, Ricardo Meléndez-Hernández, Antonio J Paz-Martínez, Eva Ramírez-Arroyo, David Sosa, Mónica Aguinaga, Javier Pérez-Durán, Osiris Ríos, Jaime López-Valdez, Leda Torres, Sara Frias
{"title":"Chromosome analysis of 303 pregnancy losses in Mexico.","authors":"Luz M Garduño-Zarazúa, Dora G Mayén, Ricardo Meléndez-Hernández, Antonio J Paz-Martínez, Eva Ramírez-Arroyo, David Sosa, Mónica Aguinaga, Javier Pérez-Durán, Osiris Ríos, Jaime López-Valdez, Leda Torres, Sara Frias","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.M24000859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Chromosomal abnormalities are present in 50 to 60% of miscarriages and in 6 to 19% of stillbirths. Although microarrays are preferred for studying chromosomal abnormalities, many hospitals cannot offer this methodology.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To present the results of the cytogenetic analysis of 303 products of conception (POC), which included 184 miscarriages, 49 stillbirths and 17 cases of undefined age.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, short tandem repeats and microarrays were used, depending on the type of loss and available sample.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 29 POCs we found maternal tissue and were eliminated from the analyses. Informative results were obtained in 250 (91.2 %)/274 cases; the karyotyping success rate was 80.7%; that of single nucleotide polymorphism microarrays, 94.5%; and that of fluorescence in situ hybridization and short tandem repeat, 100%. Cytogenetic abnormalities were observed in 57.6% of miscarriages and in 24.5% of stillbirths; 94% of total anomalies were numerical and 6% were submicroscopic.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Karyotyping with simultaneous short tandem repeat study to rule out contamination of maternal cells is effective for studying miscarriages; in stillbirths, microarrays are recommended.</p>","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 1","pages":"76-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140957189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Rivas-Sucari, José L Rodríguez-Eguizabal, Henry C Rivas-Sucari
{"title":"Diabetes mellitus type 2: associations with obesity, food addiction and, possibly, human development index.","authors":"David Rivas-Sucari, José L Rodríguez-Eguizabal, Henry C Rivas-Sucari","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.M24000874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 2","pages":"227-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141906342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eliseo Ramírez-García, Ma Claudia Espinel-Bermúdez, José D Martínez-Ezquerro, Juan H Medina-Chávez, Luz A Solís-Cordero, Diego Dávila-Uribe, Violeta Ríos-Escalante, Sergio Sánchez-García
{"title":"Hospital discharges for hip fracture in older adults, Mexico 2013-2022.","authors":"Eliseo Ramírez-García, Ma Claudia Espinel-Bermúdez, José D Martínez-Ezquerro, Juan H Medina-Chávez, Luz A Solís-Cordero, Diego Dávila-Uribe, Violeta Ríos-Escalante, Sergio Sánchez-García","doi":"10.24875/GMM.M24000899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/GMM.M24000899","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The most common traumatic injury among older individuals worldwide is hip fracture. Higher incidence after 70 years old and women (80-85%). Hospital discharges in Mexico have little evidence.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Describe hospital discharges from hip fractures in the Mexican public health system from 2013 to 2022.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A descriptive study using open data on hospital discharges from the Mexican public health system from 2013-2022, available by the General Direction of Health Information of the Secretary of Health, focused on discharge reports for hip fractures in people aged ≥ 60 years and any sex. The study describes individual variables, hospital discharge, and the federal entities where health care was provided.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between 2013 and 2022, there have been 230,060 (2.11%) discharges due to hip fractures in people aged ≥ 60 years within the Mexican public health system; the highest concentration in patients with ≥ 80 years old and women (69.2%). The Mexican Social Security Institute reported the highest number of discharges (n = 126,093), with the highest percentage due to improvement (93.7%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Hip fracture is a problem that requires more significant care resources in Mexico.</p>","PeriodicalId":12736,"journal":{"name":"Gaceta medica de Mexico","volume":"160 3","pages":"313-321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142738861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}