Moral Distress: Its Manifestations in Healthy Donors during Peripheral Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cell Harvesting.

Hematopoietic stem cell donors (HSCDs) may have ambivalent feelings about donation. These feelings are related to moral obligation to help a sick relative and/or fear about the donation procedure. This ambivalence can produce moral distress (MD) and anxiety, which are usually unnoticed by the treating physician.

Comparative study of the clinical features of patients with a tubo-ovarian abscess and patients with severe pelvic inflammatory disease.

Objective: To determine the clinical characteristics that indicate the presence of tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) among patients with severe pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).

Methods: An observational cohort study was performed from October 2011 to March 2013. The study included all patients with a diagnosis of TOA and PID admitted to a university hospital in Mexico.

HLA-DRB1 Class II antigen level alleles are associated with persistent HPV infection in Mexican women; a pilot study.

Background: Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major risk factor for malignant lesions and cervical cancer. A widely studied element in the search for genetic factors influencing risk HPV infection diseases is allelic variation of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus. The study was designed to search for HLA susceptibility alleles contributing to the persistence of HPV infection in Mexican women.

Factors associated with the need for blood transfusion during hysterectomy.

Objective: To identify the preoperative clinical conditions associated with the need to perform a blood transfusion among patients undergoing hysterectomy.

Methods: In a retrospective, comparative, case-control trial at the University Hospital, Nuevo León, Mexico, the records of patients who underwent elective hysterectomy between 2007 and 2009 were reviewed. Patients were grouped depending on whether or not they required blood transfusion.