About the Journal
Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social is a bimonthly publication of the Dirección de Prestaciones Médicas of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, first published in 1962. It serves as the official platform for disseminating clinical and epidemiological research conducted within the most important social security institution in Mexico.
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Current Issue
Vol. 64 No. 2 (2026): Marzo-Abril
Full Issue
Editorial
The “good author”
Abstract 231 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 497Page e7106
Letter to the Editor
Comment on the article: “Epidemiological and clinical aspects of Guillain-Barré syndrome, 2012-2022”
Abstract 275 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 410Page e6890
Commentary on the article “Epidemiological profile of rheumatoid arthritis”
Abstract 275 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 518Page e6892
Comment on the article: “Incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia”
Abstract 240 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 526Page e6893
Comment on the article “Workplace violence as a predictor of suicidal ideation in undergraduate internal physicians”
Abstract 234 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 175Page e6897
Severe COVID: A challenge for rheumatologists
Abstract 199 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 265Page e6898
Original Articles
Association of platelets with multiple organic failure in septic patients
Abstract 266 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 790Page e6820
Características clínicas de los pacientes pediátricos con estancia prolongada en la Unidad de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica
Abstract 184 | PDF Downloads 542Page e6814
Psychometric properties of a direct violence scale and its behavioral mediation
Abstract 245 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 824Page e6841
Correlation of occlusion pressure with sedation in non-neurocritical patients
Abstract 186 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 600Page e6778
Factores de riesgo para defunción por COVID-19 en un hospital público en Ciudad Juárez, México
Abstract 202 | PDF Downloads 607Page e6798
Addictive risk behaviors in health professionals in Mexico and Cuba
Abstract 262 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 851Page e6843
Dual Test in Pregnant Women: Case of a General Zone Hospital with Family Medicine
Abstract 241 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 749Page e6837
Social security burden due to work-related disability due to kidney failure
Abstract 320 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 550Page e6812
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and its association with prediabetes in adolescents with obesity
Abstract 243 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 657Page e6851
Characterisation of hypobaric hypoxia at 2240 metres above sea level
Abstract 207 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 658Page e6859
A series of poisonings due to spider bites (Latrodectus spp)
Abstract 373 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 861Page e6804
Riesgo de mortalidad en adultos mayores hospitalizados por COVID-19 con y sin vacuna en México
Abstract 220 | PDF Downloads 776Page e6823
Characterization of occupational risks in workers affiliated to the IMSS 2024
Abstract 698 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 765Page e6877
Review Article
Climate crisis and mental health: a scoping review eco-anxiety in latinamerican adults
Abstract 303 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 938Page e6787
The Anatomy of the Forest Plot graphic
Abstract 360 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 962 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0Page e6801
Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Abstract 365 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 1024Page e6834
Opinion Articles
Environmental medicine and AI, migration, and emerging and reemerging diseases in Mexico
Abstract 254 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 868Page e6756
Medición temprana versus tardía de hemoglobina y hematocrito postransfusión en adultos: una revisión narrativa
Abstract 358 | PDF Downloads 601Page e6878
The persistence of abuse in students and medical residents in Mexico: Analysis and solution proposals
Abstract 365 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 632Page e6876
Clinical Cases
Shulman syndrome: An atypical presentation of a rare disease
Abstract 224 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 831Page e6086
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to Chronic Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis: A clinical case
Abstract 240 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 880Page e6838
Clinical Case: Micro-drainage of subcutaneous emphysema Grade V through a fenestrated peripheral venous catheter in critical ill
Abstract 213 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 792 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0Page e6826
Pediatric parasagittal meningioma, case report
Abstract 208 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 854Page e6839
Hepatic encephalopathy from cholangitis in a young patient with ornithine transcarbamylase mutation
Abstract 198 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 466Page e6874
Cognitive and psychiatric evolution in autoimmune encephalitis in a school-aged child: Clinical case
Abstract 199 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 822Page e6913
Others
Cuauhtémoc in the defense of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: The work of Luis Ortiz Monasterio in Oaxtepec
Abstract 199 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 809Page e7224
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