Evaluation of the level of high density lipoproteins as a predictor of severity in abdominal sepsis.

Background: Alterations in the lipid profile are part of the acute phase response, this corresponds to the so-called lipemia of sepsis.

Objective: To determine if the serum level of high density lipoprotein (HDL) is related to severity and mortality.

Method: Retrospective, descriptive, cross-sectional study of patients diagnosed with abdominal sepsis.

Evaluation of the serum procalcitonin level as an indicator of severity and mortality in abdominal sepsis due to secondary peritonitis.

Background: Procalcitonin is a biomarker of sepsis, whose concentrations increase when some endotoxin enters the bloodstream. It is used, among other things, to discriminate the etiology of infections, increase or decrease the antibiotic spectrum, and predict mortality.

Objective: To determine the utility of the serum level of procalcitonin as a predictor of severity and mortality.

[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in pregnant patient: experience in hospital General de Mexico in a period of 5 years (2008-2012)].

Background: Cholecystitis is the second cause of abdominal pain during pregnancy. 1-8 of 10,000 requiring surgery, being performed in the first and second quarter laparoscopically. 100% of patients with cholecystitis, about 12% are associated with pancreatitis with high rates of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality.

Serum IL-12 is increased in Mexican obese subjects and associated with low-grade inflammation and obesity-related parameters.

Interleukin-(IL-) 12 has been recently suggested to participate during development of insulin resistance in obese mice. Nevertheless, serum IL-12 levels have not been accurately determined in overweight and obese humans. We thus studied serum concentrations of IL-12 in Mexican adult individuals, examining their relationship with low-grade inflammation and obesity-related parameters.