Publications by authors named "July Montano Martinez"
Patients with cholestatic diseases can present secondary hypercholesterolemia, as a result of the accumulation of lipoprotein X (Lp-X); an abnormal LDL form, considered as the biochemical parameter more sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of cholestasis intra or extrahepatic cholestasis. The aim of this clinical communication is to illustrate this association. A 54-year-old male with severe cholestatic liver disease which in turn presents a progressive total cholesterol rise and LDL with presence of lipoprotein X.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the prevalence of hyperuricemia in children with overweight or obesity and analyze the relation with metabolic syndrome and the diseases that define it.
Materials And Methods: This is a cross-sectional prevalence study in 148 children recruited from pediatric endocrinology consultation, with overweight or obesity (12±3 years, 48% boys, BMI 31.8±6.
Introduction: There is currently a disproportionate increase in childhood and adolescent obesity worldwide, together with other disorders involving substantial cardiometabolic risk in adulthood, such as alterations in carbohydrate metabolism.
Objective: To establish the prevalence of prediabetes, defined as impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) after an oral glucose tolerance test, and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM-2) in a pediatric population with severe obesity. Additionally, we aimed to assess clinical metabolic differences between prediabetic obese patients and obese subjects without prediabetes.
Objective: To perform a casuistry review of patients diagnosed with pituitary adenomas (PA) who underwent surgery performed by the same neurosurgeon after 1995.
Material And Methods: A descriptive and retrospective study was performed in 98 patients with PA undergoing surgery from 1995-2008. Tumor size and data on functionality, pathology and postprocedural complications were analyzed.