{"title":"Incidence of complications of the transsphenoidal microsurgical approach for neuroendocrine pituitary tumors in a third-level hospital over 5 years","authors":"Abrahan A. Tafur-Grandett, Miguel A. Vaca-Ruiz","doi":"10.24875/rmu.22000091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.22000091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan P. Martínez-Hernández, Alvaro Gómez-Peña, David Gómez-Almaguer
{"title":"Role of the human chorionic gonadotropin in treating graft-versus-host disease: a brief review","authors":"Juan P. Martínez-Hernández, Alvaro Gómez-Peña, David Gómez-Almaguer","doi":"10.24875/rmu.23000024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.23000024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135342824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos E. Salazar-Mejía, Javier A. Martínez-Moyano, Hugo E. Solis-Lara, Eduardo J. Cantú-Casas, Frida Valle-Domínguez, Valeria S. Narvaez-Gonzalez, Oscar Vidal-Gutiérrez, David Hernández-Barajas
{"title":"RET-mutated recurrent leiomyosarcoma treated with cabozantinib: a case report","authors":"Carlos E. Salazar-Mejía, Javier A. Martínez-Moyano, Hugo E. Solis-Lara, Eduardo J. Cantú-Casas, Frida Valle-Domínguez, Valeria S. Narvaez-Gonzalez, Oscar Vidal-Gutiérrez, David Hernández-Barajas","doi":"10.24875/rmu.23000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.23000021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publish or perish in the era of new communications, open-access journals, and predatory journals","authors":"Carlos A. Acosta-Olivo, David Gómez-Almaguer","doi":"10.24875/rmu.m23000082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.m23000082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities to improve undergraduate Geriatric Medicine education in the post-pandemic era","authors":"Min Banyar-Han, Shyh Poh-Teo","doi":"10.24875/rmu.23000016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.23000016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica A. Ortega-Balderas, Xavier G. Quiroz-Perales, Alejandro Quiroga-Garza, Rodrigo E. Elizondo-Omaña, Santos Guzmán-López
{"title":"The suggested approach to depression in immune-mediated rheumatic diseases","authors":"Jessica A. Ortega-Balderas, Xavier G. Quiroz-Perales, Alejandro Quiroga-Garza, Rodrigo E. Elizondo-Omaña, Santos Guzmán-López","doi":"10.24875/rmu.23000013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.23000013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zarit criteria as an indicator of the collapse of inpatient support networks in palliative care management in the old adult","authors":"Aldo García-Taboada, Edson A. Coronado-Moreno","doi":"10.24875/rmu.22000079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24875/rmu.22000079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Reyna-Sepúlveda , M. Hernández-Guedea , S. García-Hernández , J. Sinsel-Ayala , L. Muñoz-Espinoza , E. Pérez-Rodríguez , G. Muñoz-Maldonado
{"title":"Epidemiology and prognostic factors of liver abscess complications in northeastern Mexico","authors":"F. Reyna-Sepúlveda , M. Hernández-Guedea , S. García-Hernández , J. Sinsel-Ayala , L. Muñoz-Espinoza , E. Pérez-Rodríguez , G. Muñoz-Maldonado","doi":"10.1016/j.rmu.2017.10.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rmu.2017.10.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Amoebic abscesses (AA) are the most common cause of hepatic abscesses (HA) in the world and pyogenic abscesses (PA) in the western world. Complications of HA are sepsis, empyema by direct extension or abscess rupture.</p></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><p>To determine the epidemiology and prognostic factors of complications in patients with hepatic abscess in northeastern Mexico.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>Patients with diagnosis of hepatic abscess in the University Hospital “Dr. José Eleuterio González” between 2011 and 2015. The study has a retrospective design.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A total of 150 patients were reviewed, the most common symptoms were abdominal pain and fever. The etiology was 74 pyogenic, 28 amoebic, and unidentified in 48 patients. The most common agent was <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae</em>. Conservative management was given to 16 (17.3%) cases. The mortality was 18 patients (12%). The prognostic variables of complication were abdominal pain, respiratory rate, ALT<!--> <!-->><!--> <!-->154<!--> <!-->IU/L, hemoglobin less than 10<!--> <!-->g/dL, presence of a perforated abscess, and performing a second procedure. Mortality and hospitalization increased in the presence of complications.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>A prevalence of 20% of diabetes mellitus was observed in our patients. Mortality of PA, when associated with <em>K. pneumoniae</em>, ranges from 6 to 17%.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The predominant etiology remains pyogenic despite being an endemic country for amoebiasis. In our study, because of lower morbidity and mortality rate, the first choice of treatment was puncture of the abscess.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"19 77","pages":"Pages 178-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rmu.2017.10.009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75720335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Castillo-Macías , M.C. Salinas-Carmona , E. Torres-López
{"title":"Immunology of viral infections with a high impact in Mexico: Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika","authors":"A. Castillo-Macías , M.C. Salinas-Carmona , E. Torres-López","doi":"10.1016/j.rmu.2017.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rmu.2017.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>High-impact viral infections have become more relevant in recent years, with arthropods as a vector of particular interest. Among these, the most important are those caused by the Dengue virus (DENV), the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and the Zika virus (ZIKV). The objective of this review is to make known the immune response of the organism to these infections. When clinical characteristics are similar to each other, it is difficult to differentiate them clinically, which is why the role of the laboratory plays a crucial role in its diagnosis. At present, there is no specific treatment for these infections, so the role of health services should be focused on prevention campaigns, with critical importance placed on the reduction and control of new cases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"19 77","pages":"Pages 198-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rmu.2017.09.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84581485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. L. Iglesias-Benavides, V. M. Cedeño-Morales, Geraldina Guerrero-González, A. Guzmán-López
{"title":"Labor trials in 300 patients with a previous cesarean section","authors":"J. L. Iglesias-Benavides, V. M. Cedeño-Morales, Geraldina Guerrero-González, A. Guzmán-López","doi":"10.1016/J.RMU.2017.10.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RMU.2017.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34640,"journal":{"name":"Medicina Universitaria","volume":"1 1","pages":"166-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83414986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}