OBJECTIVE: To determine the high risk HPV (HR-HPV) association with Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN) in women of two Dysplasia Clinics in Mexico City. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Prolective case-control study was done. Women with and without security affiliation attended in Instituto Mexicano del Segur...
La transición demográfica que se está dando en los países en desarrollo y en Mexico en particular, ha convertido el trato familiar hacia las personas de la tercera edad, en un asunto de importancia creciente. El presente estudio documenta y examina una experiencia de maltrato familiar en una persona ...
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the participation of clinical laboratories in the second biennial of an external quality assurance scheme for urinalysis in Mexico. METHODS: The participants received 32 control samples in 8 shipments of 4 controls each during the biennial 1999-2000. The controls were in the fo...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the frequency of periodontal disease in type 1 diabetes mellitus patients with and without metabolic control, having a control group of healthy patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A prolective cross sectional study with simple random sampling was carried out; patients were divided in th...
Effectiveness of preemptive therapy with ganciclovir in recipients of renal transplants at high risk (R-/D+) for the development of cytomegalovirus disease
Current management of renal transplant recipients who are CMV seronegative (R-) and receive an organ from a seropositive donor (D+) is controversial. These patients are at high risk for CMV disease and are usually treated with ganciclovir prophylaxis at variable dose and duration. An alternative to this ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of concurrent use of cisapride, astemizole and terfenadine with macrolides and azole antimitotics, drug combinations that have been reported in the literature as producing a pharmacological interaction associated with potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmias. MATERI...
Introducción: La tira horaria es un instrumento que la enfermera tradicionalmente ha venido utilizando para el control del suministro de soluciones intravasculares.
Objetivo: Determinar el uso y la utilidad que representa para el paciente el uso de la tira horario.
Material y métodos: Estudio transvers...