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Alejandro Marfil

Professor of Neurology
Verified email at uanl.edu.mx
Cited by 460

Poor patient awareness and frequent misdiagnosis of migraine: findings from a large transcontinental cohort

…, S Odobescu, E Chiriac, A Marfil… - European journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Although migraine is the second most disabling condition worldwide,
there is poor awareness of it. The objective was to assess the awareness of migraine …

Medical and surgical treatment in neurocysticercosis a magnetic resonance study of 161 cases

…, JH Arredondo-Estrada, A Marfil… - Journal of the …, 1995 - Elsevier
In a prospective non-controlled study we have treated 161 consecutive cases of Active
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) diagnosed by Magnetic Resonance (MR). Active NCC was classified in…

[HTML][HTML] Gastrointestinal disorders associated with migraine: a comprehensive review

…, R Monreal-Robles, A Marfil-Rivera - World journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Migraine is a recurrent and commonly disabling primary headache disorder that affects over
17% of women and 5%-8% of men. Migraine susceptibility is multifactorial with genetic, …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of covid-19 pandemic lockdown on migraine patients in Latin America

…, K Velez, I Rodríguez-Leyva, A Marfil… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, confinement, fear, lifestyle changes, and worldwide
health care impacted almost all diseases. Reports from countries outside Latin America …

[HTML][HTML] Comorbidity between hypothyroidism and headache disorders in a Mexican population

LE Fernández-Garza, A Marfil - Revista de Neurologia, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Results. Of 869 patients, 35 (4%) had hypothyroidism. Four had two different headache
diagnoses; of the 39 individual diagnoses, 23 were primary, 1 secondary, 13 cranial neuralgias, …

[HTML][HTML] Cluster headache: an update on clinical features, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment

…, M Martínez-Gurrola, A Marfil… - Frontiers in Pain …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cluster headache (CH) is one of the worst primary headaches that remain underdiagnosed
and inappropriately treated. There are recent advances in the understanding of this disease …

Hippocampal volume as treatment predictor in antidepressant naïve patients with major depressive disorder

…, RA Lugo-Guillen, A Marfil-Rivera… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Major depression disorder (MDD) limits psychosocial functioning and quality of life. One of
the biological alterations is a hippocampal volume (HV) reduction. Previous prospective …

Neurological aspects that should not be forgotten during the COVID-19 pandemic

LE Fernández-Garza, A Marfil - Interamerican Journal of Medicine and …, 2020 - iajmh.com
COVID-19 disease, in addition to causing the most common respiratory and systemic symptoms,
such as cough and fever, has the ability to cause neurological manifestations such as …

Prospective predictive performance comparison between clinical gestalt and validated COVID-19 mortality scores

A Soto-Mota, BA Marfil-Garza… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Most COVID-19 mortality scores were developed at the beginning of the pandemic and
clinicians now have more experience and evidence-based interventions. Therefore, we …

[HTML][HTML] The poor insane Ophelia: reconsidering Ophelia syndrome

…, B Chávez-Luévanos, A Marfil - Arquivos de Neuro …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
The association between memory loss and Hodgkin's lymphoma has been given the eponym
of Ophelia syndrome, in memory of Shakespeare's character in The Tragedy of Hamlet, …