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 146 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 259Page e7106
Letter to the Editor
Comment on the article: “Epidemiological and clinical aspects of Guillain-Barré syndrome, 2012-2022”
Abstract 155 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 238Page e6890
Commentary on the article “Epidemiological profile of rheumatoid arthritis”
Abstract 165 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 308Page e6892
Comment on the article: “Incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia”
Abstract 155 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 245Page e6893
Comment on the article “Workplace violence as a predictor of suicidal ideation in undergraduate internal physicians”
Abstract 143 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 112Page e6897
Severe COVID: A challenge for rheumatologists
Abstract 126 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 152Page e6898
Original Articles
Association of platelets with multiple organic failure in septic patients
Abstract 175 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 467Page e6820
Características clínicas de los pacientes pediátricos con estancia prolongada en la Unidad de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica
Abstract 101 | PDF Downloads 249Page e6814
Psychometric properties of a direct violence scale and its behavioral mediation
Abstract 170 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 496Page e6841
Correlation of occlusion pressure with sedation in non-neurocritical patients
Abstract 113 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 242Page e6778
Factores de riesgo para defunción por COVID-19 en un hospital público en Ciudad Juárez, México
Abstract 117 | PDF Downloads 321Page e6798
Addictive risk behaviors in health professionals in Mexico and Cuba
Abstract 171 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 446Page e6843
Dual Test in Pregnant Women: Case of a General Zone Hospital with Family Medicine
Abstract 137 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 369Page e6837
Social security burden due to work-related disability due to kidney failure
Abstract 204 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 313Page e6812
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and its association with prediabetes in adolescents with obesity
Abstract 144 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 378Page e6851
Characterisation of hypobaric hypoxia at 2240 metres above sea level
Abstract 122 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 351Page e6859
A series of poisonings due to spider bites (Latrodectus spp)
Abstract 215 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 412Page e6804
Riesgo de mortalidad en adultos mayores hospitalizados por COVID-19 con y sin vacuna en México
Abstract 153 | PDF Downloads 427Page e6823
Characterization of occupational risks in workers affiliated to the IMSS 2024
Abstract 462 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 467Page e6877
Review Article
Climate crisis and mental health: a scoping review eco-anxiety in latinamerican adults
Abstract 179 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 511Page e6787
The Anatomy of the Forest Plot graphic
Abstract 256 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 552 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0Page e6801
Malnutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Abstract 285 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 576Page e6834
Opinion Articles
Environmental medicine and AI, migration, and emerging and reemerging diseases in Mexico
Abstract 149 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 463Page e6756
Medición temprana versus tardía de hemoglobina y hematocrito postransfusión en adultos: una revisión narrativa
Abstract 222 | PDF Downloads 291Page e6878
The persistence of abuse in students and medical residents in Mexico: Analysis and solution proposals
Abstract 221 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 322Page e6876
Clinical Cases
Shulman syndrome: An atypical presentation of a rare disease
Abstract 135 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 478Page e6086
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to Chronic Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis: A clinical case
Abstract 145 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 457Page e6838
Clinical Case: Micro-drainage of subcutaneous emphysema Grade V through a fenestrated peripheral venous catheter in critical ill
Abstract 135 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 382 Video (Spanish) Downloads 0Page e6826
Pediatric parasagittal meningioma, case report
Abstract 137 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 443Page e6839
Hepatic encephalopathy from cholangitis in a young patient with ornithine transcarbamylase mutation
Abstract 125 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 253Page e6874
Cognitive and psychiatric evolution in autoimmune encephalitis in a school-aged child: Clinical case
Abstract 115 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 467Page e6913
Others
Cuauhtémoc in the defense of Mexico-Tenochtitlan: The work of Luis Ortiz Monasterio in Oaxtepec
Abstract 126 | PDF (Spanish) Downloads 471Page e7224
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