Acute Stroke Care in Mexico City: The Hospital Phase of a Stroke Surveillance Study.

Background: Acute stroke care has greatly improved in recent decades. However, the increasing stroke mortality in low-to-middle income countries suggests that progress has not been reached completely by these populations. Here we present the analysis of the hospital phase of the first population-based stroke surveillance study.

Predictors of Mechanical Ventilation in Guillain-Barré Syndrome with Axonal Subtypes.

Background: The early clinical predictors of respiratory failure in Latin Americans with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) have scarcely been studied. This is of particular importance since Latin America has a high frequency of axonal GBS variants that may imply a worse prognosis.

Methods: We studied 86 Mexican patients with GBS admitted to the , a referral center of Mexico City, to describe predictors of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV).