Publications by authors named "Mateos-Garcia E"

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  • A clinical trial investigated whether therapeutic-dose anticoagulation could improve outcomes for critically ill patients with severe Covid-19 compared to standard thromboprophylaxis.
  • The study found no significant difference in organ support-free days between the two groups, with the anticoagulation group showing a median of 1 day compared to 4 days for the usual-care group.
  • The trial was halted due to a high probability of futility, with similar hospital discharge survival rates and a slightly higher occurrence of major bleeding in the anticoagulation group.
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Chemotherapy induces immunosuppression which is associated with a significant increase in the frequency and severity of infections. Neutropenia is the most important factor in determining susceptibility to bacterial infections. Our aim was to establish the prevalence of bacterial infections and bacterial susceptibility patterns in patients with fever, neutropenia and hematological neoplasias.

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The effectiveness of the treatment of neurocysticercosis with praziquantel has been assessed in several clinical trials in the last 20 years. Most studies employed a dose of 50 mg/kg/day, three times at day during 2 weeks. Recently, a novel and brief dosage scheme of praziquantel has been described.

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Background: This study was carried out to assess the isolation rate of bacterial and fungal causative agents in Mexican neutropenic adults with hematological neoplasia.

Methods: A prospective observational survey involving 120 consecutive episodes of febrile neutropenia during 1 year was carried out. These episodes were observed in 630 patients discharged with diagnoses of leukemia or lymphoma, or after bone-marrow transplantation.

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The role of vitamin B complex preparations as an analgesic adjuvant is controversial. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to characterize the potentiation of the antinociceptive effect of diclofenac by a vitamin B complex preparation and its individual components by using the pain-induced functional-impairment model in the rat (PIFIR). Pain was produced by the intraarticular injection of uric acid in the right hind limb.

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