Publications by authors named "Luis Francisco Pineda-Galindo"
High mortality at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in a referral center in the metropolitan area of Mexico City.
J Infect Dev Ctries
August 2022
Article Synopsis
- Limited data on COVID-19 in Latin America sparked a study of 333 hospitalized patients in Mexico City to analyze their clinical characteristics and outcomes.
- Most patients were middle-aged men (median age 45), with a high prevalence of obesity (75%), and significant differences in laboratory results were noted between inpatients and outpatients.
- The study found high mortality rates, particularly among mechanically ventilated patients (94%) and a 30-day mortality of 57%, with many non-survivors being young and obese.
Synovial sarcoma is a rare malignity of mesenchymal origin; the diagnostic approach usually begins by documenting a soft tissue tumor; however, it results in a challenging diagnosis when it is more profound, of small size, or primary from the bone. The present report describes a patient who presented insidious onset hip pain attributed to rheumatoid arthritis, with a fatal outcome due to baseline disease and surgery complications. The underestimation of hip pain, mainly when there is no palpable mass, may delay the diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Involuntary weight loss (IWL) is associated with a bad prognosis. A causal diagnosis is difficult and the priority is to identify those patients at risk of a serious underlying disease, such as malignant neoplasia.
Objective: External validation of a prognostic index of neoplasia in patients with IWL.
IntroducciÓn: El linfoma extranodal derivado de células NK/T (LNK/T) es una variedad de linfoma no Hodgkin; el tipo nasal constituye la presentación más común. Nuestro objetivo es presentar un caso de LNK/T con afección del sistema nervioso central (SNC) que simuló una tuberculosis meningea.
Caso ClÍnico: Varón de 31 años con sensación de obstrucción nasal, cefalea, fiebre, panhipopituitarismo y mononeuropatía craneal múltiple, con lesión hipofisaria por imagen de resonancia magnética y engrosamiento dural, que evolucionó con pancitopenia y úlcera en el paladar blando.
[IgG4-related disease: a case report].
Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc
July 2018
IgG4-related disease is an inflammatory condition characterized by high levels of IgG4. It affects salivary and lacrimal glands, pancreas, lymph nodes, lungs or kidney. The diagnosis is based on identifying a histological pattern with a dense lymphocyte and plasmacyte infiltration, focal fibrosis or phlebitis, finding more than 10 IgG4 positive cells per high power field and/or IgG4/IgG ratio in plasma higher than 40%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Systemic lupus erythematosus is highly associated with premature atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. The origin of this subclinical atherosclerosis has been attributed mainly to the inflammatory nature of the disease.
Objective: To assess the effect of long-term use of glucocorticoids on cardiovascular risk in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Introduction: Fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains a syndrome with difficult approach and changing spectrum. Our aim was to compare two series of FUO patients seen at the Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Especialidades Centro Medico La Raza, Mexico City.
Methods: Data from FUO series from 1979-87 were compared with those from 2004-14 series.