[Oral cavity changes in alcoholic patients].

abstract：:Endothelial lipase (EL) is synthetized by endothelial cells and its main substrates are lipoprotein phospholipids. Over expression of EL reduces high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and phospholipids, in vivo and in vitro. Inhibition of the enzyme achieves the opposite effects. The synthesis of the enzyme is reg...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pierart Z C,Serrano L V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Illicit drug abuse is a public health problem, generally starting in adolescence. Medical students are not an exception. AIM:To assess the consumption of illicit drugs among medical students of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A questionnaire used by the National Council f...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Romero MI,Santander J,Hitschfeld MJ,Labbé M,Zamora V

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1980 and December 1990, 16 patients with acute mitral insufficiency were operated on an emergency basis at our institution. They represented 1.8% of all mitral surgical cases. All of them were in acute pulmonary edema and 7 in cardiogenic shock. The etiology was ischemic in 6, degenerative in 4, infect...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Zalaquett R,Morán S,Irarrázaval M,Maturana G,Navarro M,Grau A,Lema G,Urzúa J,Chamorro G

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering that a high proportion of the Chilean general population smokes, the Chilean Society of Respiratory Diseases in collaboration with the Chilean Societies of Cardiology and, Endocrinology and Diabetes, formed an interdisciplinary group, who issued a set of recommendations for the treatment of the smoker, met...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Corvalán B MP,Véjar M L,Bambs S C,Pavié G J,Zagolin B M,Cerda L J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double blind study, 20 patients who presented with acute episodes of asthma were randomized to treatment with nebulized salbutamol (5 mg) of subcutaneous salbutamol (0.5 mg). The clinical conditions were not significantly different before or after treatment in both groups. Significant bronchial dilation was obtai...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Quijada C,Galleguillos F

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Verapamil is a calcium channel blocker ideally suited for the treatment of A-V nodal reciprocating supraventricular tachycardia. Most types of ventricular tachycardia are refractory to treatment with verapamil since they depend on sodium channels. However, a few cases of recurrent ventricular tachycardia are refractor...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González R,Fajuri A,Arriagada C,Marchesse M,Serrat H

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical pathways or structured multidisciplinary care plans are a tool to standardize clinical practice. The aim of this article is to describe and propose a methodology for the development of clinical pathways in a highly complex health institution. We used the guidelines of the European Quality of Care Pathway, whi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Chávez Barrientos P,Menajovsky Haas C,Arriagada Beyzaga L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 57 year-old woman with a big partially cystic adrenal pheochromocytoma presenting with high fever and abdominal pain. Based on CT scan images and before knowing urinary catecholamines level, the diagnosis of sepsis secondary to an abscessed adrenal macrotumor was done. A diagnostic percutaneous fine-needle...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lam J,Henríquez R,Rojas O,Marina V

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This French physician was hired by the Chilean government in 1867. He was a brilliant surgeon who made significant contributions to Chilean medicine. He returned to France in 1873, where he had a successful career as a professor of obstetrics. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Costa-Casaretto C

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Felodipine is a calcium channel inhibitor with high vascular selectivity. AIM:To study the effectiveness of felodipine in the treatment of essential hypertension in subjects older than 64 years old. PATIENTS AND OUTCOME:Fifty subjects were studied. After a washout period of four weeks, subjects received a ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fasce E,Peña L,Fasce M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the commonest cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide, with an incidence of 0.6-4 per 100.000 inhabitants per year. It affects all age groups and carries an incapacity burden of up to 20%. AIM:To describe the features of GBS in adult Chilean patients admitted to a tertiar...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cea G,Jara P,Quevedo F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 605 households selected by conglomerate random sampling in a typical Chilean city in order to study patterns of utilization of medicinal agents. The critical item investigated drug use in the week preceding the interview. The 95% confidence limits for drug utilization were 24.1 and 26.8% and for medicinal ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Danhier A,Brieva J,Villegas G,Yates T,Pérez H,Boggiano G

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is no conclusive evidence about the association between physical fitness (PF) and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in older adults. AIM:To seek for an association between PF and HRQOL in non-disabled community-dwelling Chilean older adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS:One hundred and sixteen subjects ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guede Rojas F,Chirosa Ríos LJ,Fuentealba Urra S,Vergara Ríos C,Ulloa Díaz D,Campos Jara C,Barbosa González P,Cuevas Aburto J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical specialization has brought about the need to guarantee suitability for its practice. The progressive changes in knowledge and the incorporation of specific technologies, set forth the need to periodically demonstrate this capacity. In developed countries different initiatives, that sooner or later will become ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rosselot E

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for atherosclerosis. Low density lipoproteins are considered a key factor in the formation of atheroma and the immune system has an important contribution to this process. AIM:To quantify the immune response against modified low density lipoproteins in patients with non in...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González M,Rojas N,Durán D,Schade A,Campos R,Milos C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aseptic techniques are those practices designed to reduce the risk of surgical site infection (SSI), defined as such, all those that occur within the first 30 days of the procedure. While the patient’s risk of developing an SSI in dermatologic surgery is low since many of the procedures are considered sterile, there a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Concha-Rogazy M,Andrighetti-Ferrada C,Curi-Tuma M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We report a 35-year-old female patient with a one year history of a pustular and painful erythematous dermatitis, located in great folds, pubis and abdomen. She was evaluated in primary health care, receiving antifungal treatment, antimicrobials, topical and systemic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valenzuela Y,Ramírez C,Bellolio E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:AgNOR technique detects, using silver salts, argyrophylic proteins of the nucleolar organizer region (NOR). The number and size of NOR reflect cell activity, proliferation and transformation and may help to differentiate benign from malignant cells. AIM:To assess the value of AgNOR assay to differentiate re...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rocher AE,Blanco AM,Palaoro LA

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last years our country has been affected by several outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Cholera and Hanta virus and recently, by pathogens associated to red tide. Chile was able to manage those emergencies using the local health system. The new threat that may emerge and could eventually overcome that capa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Spencer E

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hürthle cells can be found in non malignant thyroidal diseases such as Basedow Graves and Hashimoto diseases. When Hürthle cells comprise more the 75% of cellularity, they become a neoplasm. There are malignant variants of these neoplasms, constituted by follicular and papillary Hürthle cell carcinomas. AIM...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sanz J,Cerpa F,Domínguez M,Franco C,Jadresic A,Pérez G,Phillipi V

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Augusto Orrego Luco born in 1848 and dead in 1933 in Valparaiso, was one of the greatest clinicians and researchers of chilean medicine during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Besides being a psychiatrist he contributed to literature, history, politics and medicine. He received his medical degree in 18...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Ruiz Torres A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addisonian crisis as a first manifestation of metastatic disease secondary to cancer is uncommon. We report a 63-year-old man with a history of one year of fatigue, weakness, weight loss and repeated symptomatic hypoglycemia. The cortisol stimulation test with ACTH confirmed primary adrenal insufficiency. While receiv...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Utreras C,Díaz RE,Ascui R,Caro R,Véliz J,Wohllk N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Liver cirrhosis is an important public health problem in Chile. AIM:To review the main epidemiological features of liver cirrhosis in Chile in the last 22 years. METHODS:Review of yearbooks of mortality and causes of death of the Ministry of Health and Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, review of hospital...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Serra I,Araneda J,Decinti E

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biliary cholesterol is transported by vesicles and micelles. Cholesterol microcrystals are derived from thermodynamically unstable vesicles. In experimental animals vitamin C deficiency leads to a super-saturation of biliary cholesterol and to the formation of gallstones. AIM:To search for a possible relati...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： del Pozo R,Muñoz M,Dumas A,Tapia C,Muñoz K,Fuentes F,Maldonado M,Jüngst D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of pediatric arterial hypertension (AHT) is approximately 1% to 2%. In the last tenyears, mean blood pressure levels (BP) have raised due to obesity and changes in lifestyles. Family history (FH) of AHT is a risk factor to develop AHT in children. AIM:To assess blood pressure, cardiovascular ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Aglony I M,Arnaiz G P,Acevedo B M,Barja Y S,Márquez U S,Guzmán A B,Berríos C X

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to study the degree of cellular proliferation quantifying the immunohistochemical expression of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen. We assessed paraffin embedded samples of 25 infiltrating epidermoid cervical carcinomas, 76 precursor lesions (34 of low and 42 of high grade), 29 normal and...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Wistuba I,Roa I,Araya JC,Villaseca M,Capurro I,Chávez F

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Master of internal Medicine is the highest award granted by the Chilean Society of Internal Medicine (Sociedad Médica de Santiago) to its members. This article outlines the sense and transcendence of this award and provides an abridged, certainly incomplete, data of the recipients since 1981 when this award was first ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rosselot E

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:p53/p21WAF1/CIP1 and mdm-2 proteins play an important role in cell cycle regulation. The study of the pathogenesis of gastric cancer is important to understand how these tumors progress during their natural history. AIM:To study the relationship between the immunohistochemical expression of p53/p21WAF1/CIP1...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Villaseca M,Araya JC,Roa I,Roa JC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas (90%) which are two to four times more common in men than in women. The reasons for these differences are associated with exposure to factors such as tobacco and alcohol. Age is also considered as a risk factor (about 90% of the cases are diagnosed after 45 year...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Riera P,Martínez B

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 15% of patients with Wolff Parkinson White's syndrome who undergo electrophysiologic study have more than one accessory pathway. We describe the electrophysiologic testing and findings in 2 patients with multiple pathways. Identification of these is highly relevant since successful surgical therapy depen...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González R,Fajuri A,Venegas J,Garcés E

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00