COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The infection has been reported to demonstrate different types of skin manifestations including urticarial, maculopapular, papulovesicular, purpuric, livedoid, and thrombotic-ischemic lesions. Given the high mortality rate of the infection, timely and accurate identification of relevant skin manifestations can play a key role in early diagnosis and management.Skin manifestations, a well-known effect of viral infections, are beginning to be reported in patients with COVID-19 disease. These manifestations most often are morbilliform rash, hives, vesicular rashes, acral lesions, and livedoid rashes. Some of these skin manifestations arise before the signs and symptoms most commonly associated with COVID-19, suggesting that they may be showing signs of COVID-19 Bibliographic...

COVID-19 is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The infection has been reported to demonstrate different types of skin manifestations including urticarial, maculopapular, papulovesicular, purpuric, livedoid, and thrombotic-ischemic lesions. Given the high mortality rate of the infection, timely and accurate identification of relevant skin manifestations can play a key role in early diagnosis and management.Skin manifestations, a well-known effect of viral infections, are beginning to be reported in patients with COVID-19 disease. These manifestations most often are morbilliform rash, hives, vesicular rashes, acral lesions, and livedoid rashes. Some of these skin manifestations arise before the signs and symptoms most commonly associated with COVID-19, suggesting that they may be showing signs of COVID-19 Bibliographic...

Objetivo general: Determinar la satisfacción de la calidad del servicio de los usuarios en el consultorio externo de medicina interna del Hospital Daniel Alcides Carrión en Huancayo, de julio a noviembre del 2016. Material y métodos: Estudio Observacional, Descriptivo, Transversal, Retrospectivo, con muestra de 292 pacientes que se atendieron en la consulta externa del servicio de medicina interna, del HDAC, Huancayo,2016. Resultados: Se obtuvo una Satisfacción Global de 60,30%. Los valores porcentuales dependieron básicamente de 02 dimensiones, la Dimensión Seguridad en un 86,80% de Satisfacción y Empatía en un 80,30%. El mayor número de pacientes fueron del sexo femenino 61,00%, el mayor grupo etario se encontró en el rango de edad de 36 a 45 años con un 31,00%, el grado de instrucción que más se encontró fue el nivel secundario completa con 34,00%, el mayor porcentaje fu...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la asociación de la nomofobia con ansiedad en estudiantes de medicina humana de la Universidad Peruana Los Andes. A través de un diseño de investigación observacional, analítico y transversal; la muestra fue de 292 estudiantes del primero al décimo ciclo, se evaluaron características sociodemográficas, nomofobia con el instrumento NMPQ y ansiedad con la GAD-7. Se utilizó la prueba de Chi cuadrado para determinar la asociación. De los encuestados, 181 (61.99 %) fueron del sexo femenino, el rango de edad más frecuente fue de 18-20 años (57.88 %) y la media de edad fue 20.45 ± 2.20 años. La prevalencia de nomofobia fue del 95.89 %, la categoría de edad de 18-20 años presentó el rango más amplio en el puntaje de nomofobia (20- 140), el mayor promedio lo presentó el sexto ciclo con 71.49 ± 41.26 y el sexo masculino c...

Introduction: Readers express their comments in the form of letters to the editor about previously published articles, original research that does not reach the original article, or general topics that require attention because of their novelty. It has the possibility of receiving a response in the form of a reply. Objective: Describe the characteristics of the letters to the editor published during the period 2015-2020 in the journals of medical education in Spanish indexed in SciELO or Scopus. Method: A descriptive, retrospective, and bibliometric study of the letters to the editor of the journals: Educación Médica, Educación Médica Superior, Investigación en Educación Médica y la Revista de la Fundación Educación Médica. The period covered was from January 2015 to December 2020. Results: The annual average of letters to the editor was 13.23%, with a minimum value of 6.58% in...

Objective: To determine the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination in medical students from Universidad Peruana Los Andes. Materials and methods: An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. A total of 243 second- to tenth-academic term students completed a questionnaire about sociodemographic and academic characteristics, family and personal medical history, and the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses received. To determine the association, chi-square test and Student’s t-test were used. Results: Vaccination coverage was 98.77 %, out of which 61.73 % had three doses. In addition, 46.50 % of the students reported having been infected with COVID-19 at least once. The bivariate analysis showed that age (p = 0.047) and place of residence (p = 0.042) were significantly associated with the vaccination status. Conclusions: Although vaccination coverage was very high, it should ...

The Cotard Syndrome, also known as delirium of negation or nihilistic delirium, was described by the French neurologist, Julius Cotard, on June 1880. From that time until the end of the 20th century, in scientific literature, approximately 100 cases were reported that presented symptoms of depression, anxiety, nihilist delusions concerning the body and existence, hypochondriacal and immortality delusions, as well as auditory and visual hallucinations. We present the case of a female patient, 73-years old, from Ayacucho, with a history of sexual assault at the age of 12 and suicidal attempts on 2 occasions, diagnosed with depression at 40 years of age, received treatment with quetiapine, trazadone and clonazepam. She remained with fluctuating medical progress, with symptoms worsening with stressors such as the death of her mother and husband and when she underwent surgeries. Currently, sh...

Objective: To identify the factors associated with fear of COVID-19 prior to returning to in-person classes among medicalstudents. Materials and methods: An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study. Through convenience sampling, aquestionnaire was administered to 252 students from a medical school in Huancayo, Peru. The questionnaire consisted of a first section comprising the study information and informed consent, another one devoted to the sociodemographic characteristics and a last section which included validated questionnaires used in similar contexts, such as the Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S), and a psychological questionnaire, i.e., the DASS-21 questionnaire, made up of three subscalesthat assess both the presence and level of depression, anxiety and stress. To determine the correlation between thescales, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. In addition, cr...