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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

Editorial

The “good author”

Omar Chávez Martínez (Author)
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Letter to the Editor

Comment on the article: “Epidemiological and clinical aspects of Guillain-Barré syndrome, 2012-2022”

Diana Gómez-Madrigal (Author)
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Commentary on the article “Epidemiological profile of rheumatoid arthritis”

Cynthia Roque-Ibáñez (Author)
Abstract 275 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 518

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Comment on the article: “Incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia”

José Alberto Flores-Hernández (Author)
Abstract 240 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 526

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Comment on the article “Workplace violence as a predictor of suicidal ideation in undergraduate internal physicians”

María Elena Rodríguez-Palacios (Author)
Abstract 234 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 175

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Severe COVID: A challenge for rheumatologists

Miriam Berenice Bernal-Enriquez (Author)
Abstract 199 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 265

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Original Articles

Association of platelets with multiple organic failure in septic patients

Emiliano Bocanegra-Alegría , Edgar Bravo-Santibáñez, Claudia Berenice Márquez-Torres (Author)
Abstract 266 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 790

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Características clínicas de los pacientes pediátricos con estancia prolongada en la Unidad de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica

Crisaixela Moya-Sánchez, Isabel Z. Ramírez-Flores , Maria E. Salazar-Rios, Maribel Ibarra-Sarlat (Author)
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Psychometric properties of a direct violence scale and its behavioral mediation

Bertha Lidia Nuño-Gutiérrez (Author)
Abstract 245 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 824

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Correlation of occlusion pressure with sedation in non-neurocritical patients

Jesus Alberto Valadez-Andrade, Salvador Calleja-Alarcón, Luis Alejandro Sánchez-Hurtado, Laura Romero-Gutiérrez (Author)
Abstract 186 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 600

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Factores de riesgo para defunción por COVID-19 en un hospital público en Ciudad Juárez, México

Miriam Angélica Luján-Montes, Beatriz Araceli Díaz-Apodaca, Magdalena Medrano-Ramos, Isis Claudia Solorio-Páez (Author)
Abstract 202 | PDF Downloads 607

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Addictive risk behaviors in health professionals in Mexico and Cuba

Justo Reinaldo Fabelo-Roche, Rene Cabrera-Ramos, Fernando Delgado-Borja, Serguei Iglesias-Moré, Donais Debrosse-Chaveco, Yordanis Arias-Barthelemy (Author)
Abstract 262 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 851

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Dual Test in Pregnant Women: Case of a General Zone Hospital with Family Medicine

Mónica Lucia Reyes-Berlanga, María Teresa De La Garza-Carranza , Víctor Manuel Sámano-Ortega (Author)
Abstract 241 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 749

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Social security burden due to work-related disability due to kidney failure

Marisol Torres-Toledano, Domínguez, Rocio Bautista-De Anda, Laura Cortés-Sanabria, Víctor Granados-García, Alfonso Cueto-Manzano (Author)
Abstract 320 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 550

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Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and its association with prediabetes in adolescents with obesity

Dra. Catalina Peralta Cortázar, Dra. Diana Berenice García Gómez, Dra. Alma Patricia González, Dr. Rodolfo Guardado Mendoza, Dra. Mariana Gómez Nájera, Dr. Carlos Paque Bautista, Dr. Miguel Ángel Hernández Solorio, Dra. Patricia Cortés Salim, Gloria Patricia Sosa-Bustamante (Author)
Abstract 243 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 657

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Characterisation of hypobaric hypoxia at 2240 metres above sea level

Luis Efrén Santos-Martínez, Jessica Paola Durán-Vidauri, José Viennue Ávila-Gómez, Adriana Ordoñez-Reyna, Javier Quevedo-Paredes, Luis Antonio Moreno-Ruiz (Author)
Abstract 207 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 658

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A series of poisonings due to spider bites (Latrodectus spp)

Jorge M. Castañeda-Gómez, Oscar Manuel Delgado-Cuellar, Ricardo Arce-Vega, Rubén David Zacarías-Rivera, Alejandro Villegas-Trejo, Beatriz Salceda-Sánchez, Roberto Barrientos-Medina, José Andrés Alvarado-Castro (Author)
Abstract 373 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 861

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Riesgo de mortalidad en adultos mayores hospitalizados por COVID-19 con y sin vacuna en México

Alicia Alanis-Ocádiz, Luis Eduardo Gasca-López, Humberto Martínez-Bautista, Patricia Muñoz-Villegas, Carolina Quiñones-Villalobos, Patricio Urrutia-Alanis, Flavio Cuéllar-Roque, Georgina Lizeth Villagrana-Gutiérrez, Jannett Padilla-López (Author)
Abstract 220 | PDF Downloads 776

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Characterization of occupational risks in workers affiliated to the IMSS 2024

Yolanda Velázquez-Narváez, Lucía Ruíz-Ramos, María Guadalupe Martínez-Treviño, Oscar Monreal-Aranda (Author)
Abstract 698 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 765

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Review Article

Climate crisis and mental health: a scoping review eco-anxiety in latinamerican adults

Silvia Jessica Guarderas-Muñoz, Carlos Carrera -Reyes, Luis Fuenmayor-González (Author)
Abstract 303 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 938

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The Anatomy of the Forest Plot graphic

Dariana Rojas-Jiménez, Alma Itzel Castañeda-Aca, Juan José Alonzo-Martínez, Marlene López-Sánchez, Ivonne Analí Roy-García, Rodolfo Rivas-Ruiz (Author)
Abstract 360 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 962 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0

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Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Yair Ramos-Mérida, Jesus Yamamoto-Furusho, Sophia Eugenia Martínez-Vázquez (Author)
Abstract 365 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 1024

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Opinion Articles

Environmental medicine and AI, migration, and emerging and reemerging diseases in Mexico

Gerardo Rivera-Silva, María Guadalupe Moreno-Treviño, Raymundo Garza-Martínez (Author)
Abstract 254 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 868

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Medición temprana versus tardía de hemoglobina y hematocrito postransfusión en adultos: una revisión narrativa

Francisco Javier Nuñez-Martinez (Author)
Abstract 358 | PDF Downloads 601

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The persistence of abuse in students and medical residents in Mexico: Analysis and solution proposals

Gilberto Guzmán-Valdivia Gómez (Author)
Abstract 365 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 632

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Clinical Cases

Shulman syndrome: An atypical presentation of a rare disease

Alvaro A. Sánchez Ruíz, Dr. Bonifacio García, Victor García Ramos (Author)
Abstract 224 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 831

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Lower gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to Chronic Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis: A clinical case

Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez Cárdenas, Dra. Miriam Noemí García Vázquez, Dra. Martha Elena López González, Dra. Alma Patricia González, Dr. Carlos Paque Bautista, Dr. Arturo Maximiliano Reyes Sosa, Dr. Mario Murguía Pérez, Dr. Luis de Jesús Prieto Utrera, Dr. Arturo Reyes Hernández, Gloria Patricia Sosa-Bustamante (Author)
Abstract 240 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 880

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Clinical Case: Micro-drainage of subcutaneous emphysema Grade V through a fenestrated peripheral venous catheter in critical ill

Salvador Calleja-Alarcón, Luis Alejandro Sánchez-Hurtado, Laura Romero-Gutiérrez , Sudán Jareth Diaz-Reyna, Marco Antonio Amador-González (Author)
Abstract 213 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 792 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0

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Pediatric parasagittal meningioma, case report

Livia Araceli Noriega-Silva, José Luis Bañales-Vázquez, Luis David López-Baltazar (Author)
Abstract 208 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 854

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Hepatic encephalopathy from cholangitis in a young patient with ornithine transcarbamylase mutation

Yareli Lizbeth Rojas-Salazar, Emiliano Gómez-Montañez, Jorge Gustavo Rojas-Salazar (Author)
Abstract 198 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 466

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Cognitive and psychiatric evolution in autoimmune encephalitis in a school-aged child: Clinical case

Dra. Myriam Guadalupe Márquez Zapata, Dr. Gustavo Joaquín Cruz Ruelas, Dra. Alma Patricia González, Dr. Carlos Paque Bautista, Dra. Cecilia Elizabeth González Delgado, Gloria Patricia Sosa-Bustamante (Author)
Abstract 199 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 822

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Others

Cuauhtémoc in the defense of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: The work of Luis Ortiz Monasterio in Oaxtepec

Rodolfo Rivas-Ruiz (Author)
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