Publications by authors named "Fabiola Mendez-Sanchez"

Introduction: Pharmacotherapy for the management of obesity is primarily aimed at weight loss, weight loss maintenance and risk reduction (reduction in body fat, risk factors for cardiovascular disease and the incidence of diabetes mellitus). Among drugs that have been evaluated for weight loss include antidepressants (fluoxetine) and antiepileptic (topiramate).

Material And Methods: We analyzed eating behavior and weight loss in a sample of morbid obesity patients before bariatric surgery.

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Introduction: The Importance of the cardiovascular effects, fundamentally the ventricular arrhythmias, produced by the antipsychotic ones, is discussed.

Clinical Case: 28 year old patient with morbid obesity, operated by bariatric surgery, with good result, suffers a ventricular no supported polymorphic tachycardia while he was heightening treatment with aripiprazole and fluoxetine.

Conclusions: To value the influence of diverse factors for the production of ventricular arrhythmias emphasizing fundamentally the interactions of aripiprazole and the loss of weight.

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The importance effect on the population of the new virus Influenza A/H1N1 and the potential therapeutic with Oseltamivir. Clinical case. Patient of 62 years old, without history of interest, contracted Influeza A, that she undergoes a confusional syndrome responding to antipsychotics and with complete recovery after the episode.

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Introduction: Speed is a psychostimulant of the Central Nervous System that can cause behavioral alterations, euphoria, psychosis and diverse organic medical pictures.

Clinical Case: The case of a 19 year old male patient, who consumes amphetamines, who had behavioral alterations and heteroaggressiveness, circumstances that required psychiatric admission is presented. After performing brain imaging tests, intracranial venous sinus thrombosis was found, which has not, up to the present date, developed significant symptoms.

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