Publications by authors named "Jose Meneses-Calderon"

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and evolution of patients with acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) over a period of 18 years in the city of Toluca, Mexico.

Methods: This was a descriptive and retrospective study of eighteen years. All women with AFLP confirmed by biopsy were included and the incidence, laboratory test values and complications were registered.

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Combined treatments against SARS-CoV-2 are emerging and some have taken into account the post-COVID-19 fibrosis. The aim of this survey was to report the experience of treating COVID-19 patients with pirfenidone, nitazoxanide (NTZ) and colchicine. It was a case series report of COVID-19 patients treated from December 2020 to March 2021, in a rural health center located in the State of Mexico, Mexico.

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Background Nitazoxanide shows adequate activity against coronavirus. The aim of this study was to describe the behavior of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in pregnant women treated with nitazoxanide. Methodology This cross-sectional study included the files of COVID-19 positive pregnant women treated with nitazoxanide 500 mg every 6 hours, levofloxacin every 12 hours, and clarithromycin 500 mg every 12 hours.

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Introduction: Nitazoxanide has shown efficacy in vitro against coronavirus infections (MERS, SARS, SARS-CoV-2). The aim of this report is to describe the results of treating COVID-19 positive patients with nitazoxanide in three clinical settings: pregnancy/puerperium, hospitalized patients in an Internal Medicine Service and in an ambulatory setting.

Methodology: This was a prospective follow-up and report of COVID-19 cases in three different situations, pregnant women, hospitalized patients receiving medical attention in an Internal Medicine Service and ambulatory patients residing in Toluca City, and Mexico City.

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Objectives: To determine the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine vs. Hydroxychloroquine + Nitazoxanide in reducing the need for invasive mechanical ventilatory support for patients with COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is currently being used in multiple trials with varying doses in an attempt to treat COVID-19.

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Objective: to evaluate changes in the expression of tumor necrosis factor-α in patients with rheumatoid arthritis submitted to phototherapy.

Materials And Methods: This was an open label study, enrolling ten patients. The phototherapy scheme within a range of 425 to 650 nm, 11.

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Pregnancy presents a large number of metabolic adaptations and requirements of micro and macronutrients could be increased, which are not always covered by the diet making necessary to supplement some of them. The micronutrients are an important part of metabolic reactions and both; their deficiency as their excess could participate in damage to organs and tissues of the mother and the fetus. Actually the hypertension pregnant states (HPS) participate in the leading causes of death during pregnancy, making necessary the search for interventions to prevent or reduce the consequences.

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We reviewed the literature regarding pregnancy-induced hypertension and its relation with thrombotic microangiopathy and intravascular hemolysis (TMIH). In the present work we described the background, frequency, mortality, clinical picture, classification, diagnosis, complications and treatment. In addition, we analyzed Weinstein's report of 1982, and we concluded that the reported data of the HELLP syndrome is not conclusive because the presence of TMIH is not demonstrable in his group of patients.

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