[Implementation of multidisciplinary clinical pathways in a highly complex health institution].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Teaching practice is one of the most complex topics of the training process in medicine and other health care careers. The Teaching Practices Questionnaire (TPQ) evaluates teaching skills. AIM:To assess the factor structure and internal consistency of the Spanish version of the TPP among health care teacher...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pérez V C,Vaccarezza G G,Aguilar A C,Coloma N K,Salgado F H,Baquedano R M,Chavarría R C,Bastías V N

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national network including 114 blood banks and laboratories performs screening for HIV infection on approximately 250,000 blood donors a year. This represents 100% coverage of blood transfusions performed in Chile. Up to December 1990. 4956 samples had been sent to the National Reference Center for AIDS for suppleme...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez G,Vera L,Soto G,Mora J,Ramírez E

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality of life and psychological well-being are readily hampered by depression. The changes that students face during college life impact their psychological health and well-being, including the emergence of mental health problems like depression Aim: To determine the relationship between depressive symptom...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rossi JL,Jiménez JP,Barros P,Assar R,Jaramillo K,Herrera L,Quevedo Y,Botto A,Leighton C,Martínez F

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has a relevant impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Short Form 6 dimensions (SF-6D) quality of life tool allows researchers to calculate preference-based utilities using data from SF-12 or SF-36 questionnaires. AIM:To provide normative values of SF-6...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Collado-Mateo D,Adsuar JC,Olivares PR,García-Gordillo MÁ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibacterial potency of cephalosporins depends on inhibition (acylation) of one or more penicillin-binding proteins (PBP). Recently, reduced affinity of PBP for cephalosporins and other B-lactam agents has been found in some cases. Mechanism for these changes in affinity are analyzed in this review. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Garrido J,López F

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important agent of food intoxication is Staphylococcus aureus, that is able to produce enterotoxins. AIM:To detect Staphylococcus aureus contamination in cafeteria food handlers of a Chilean University. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Nose, throat, hands and nail samples from 87 food handlers were obtained for mic...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Soto A,Saldías ME,Oviedo P,Fernández M

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author in this short text remembers the passing of a beloved pet cat. Cats are beautiful animals and wonderful companions. They evolved together with humans in Africa, subsequently spread over the five continents with them, and became the subject of many human cultural activities, including art, poetry and religio...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cabello C F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gestational Diabetes is characterized by different degrees of glucose intolerance that produce a series of fetal and perinatal alterations. During many years, in those cases of gestational diabetes that did not respond to nutritional interventions, the use of insulin was a proven treatment to achieve metabolic control...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valdés R E,Soto-Chacón E,Lahsen M R,Barrera H C,Candía P P

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low plasma HDL cholesterol levels are an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. During the past years, the study of HDL has been stimulated by the discovery of novel genes and proteins, which have provided new insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in HDL metabolism. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Laris Mdel R,Arteaga A,Cuevas A,Rigotti A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous hemoperitoneum secondary to intraabdominal variceal rupture, is an uncommon and highly lethal complication of cirrhosis. We report a case of a 68 years old male submitted because of abdominal pain and fainting. The clinical and laboratory work up concluded that the patient had cirrhosis and hemoperitoneum....

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Moreno JP,Piña R,Rodríguez F,Korn O

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. Its prevalence in Europe and the USA is 0.5 to 1%. AIM:To analyze epidemiological aspects and degree of compliance with gluten-free diet (GFD) among Chilean individuals with CD....

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Espino A,Castillo L C,Guiraldes E,Santibáñez H,Miquel JF

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have described a high percentage of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, the prevalence of SIBO has not been well established in other functional disorders. AIM:To evaluate the prevalence of SIBO in patients with different func...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Madrid AM,Defilippi C C,Defilippi G C,Slimming A J,Quera P R

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a serious disease that needs rapid diagnosis for an accurate treatment. The most important etiological agents are: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae type b. Overall pathogen detection rate in patients with ABM in Chile is 83%. AIM...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Reyes S M,Torres T JP,Prado J V,Vidal A R

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few trials have studied the prevalence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and related risk factors in postmenopausal women using the DSM-IV criteria. AIM:To evaluate the prevalence of SD in menopausal women and the impact of risk factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Five hundred thirty four healthy women, 40 to 64 years ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Blümel JE,Araya H,Riquelme R,Castro G,Sánchez F,Gramegna G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric mucosal pH may be a good indicator of splanchnic tissue oxygenation. AIM:To study the effects of abdominal surgical procedures on gastric mucosal pH. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Eighteen patients subjected to abdominal surgery were studied. All patients received general anesthesia and hemodynamic paramete...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Concha M,Añazco R,González A,Becker D,Gajardo A

更新日期：1996-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:We report a 56 year old male hypertensive, who presented with a posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) as an initial manifestation of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). His first symptoms were right hemiparesis and hemihypoesthesia, followed by headache, dizziness, dysarthria and a general feeling o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Urrutia L S,Venegas R E,Figueroa V C,Carrizo C C

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Fifty three patients were studied with dipyridamole thallium myocardial scintigraphy, 4 to 6 days after a first episode of myocardial infarction. Localization of infarction was anterior in 25 and inferior in 28. Infarction was confirmed by myocardial scintigraphy in 87% of cases. A non q wave myocardial infarction was...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Kunstmann S,Corbalán R,Olea E,Orellana P,Marchant E,Puschel K,Galleguillos CG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting of from the notion that medicine presents a plurality of aims, it is proposed that it should be conceived as a "science of actions" rather than as a "science of objects". Health is not a neutral "object" that could be unambiguously defined and approached from any vantage point solely with the standards of a d...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Stepke FL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a prolonged course of oral acyclovir was evaluated in 55 pts with recurrent genital herpes (36 men and 19 women). The pts were voluntarily enrolled after an acute episode, with tissue culture viral isolation. All the pts received an initial course with 200 mg of acyclovir x 5 for 10 days. Then they were ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Velasco M,Saavedra T,Sepúlveda C,Suárez M

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneurysmal bone cysts are benign fibro osseous lesions, rarely present in maxillary region. We report the CT and morphological findings of aneurysmal bone cyst of the maxilla in a 15 years old female. The patient was subjected to a maxillectomy, preserving the orbit floor. The postoperative evolution has been uneventf...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guzmán G P,Baeza O A,Araya O J,Roa S J,Brevis O L,Torres L P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality of acute bacterial meningitis (BM) has remained stable in the last decades in spite of the use of new antibiotics, probably due to vascular complications. We report a 68-year-old woman with BM who had a malignant infarction of left middle cerebral artery territory 72 hours after admission to the hospital...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： López MG,Mellado PT,Huete IL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, Thyroid cancer (TC) is included in a list of diseases that have a guaranteed access to treatment, endorsed by the Ministry of Health. The care burden of the disease will depend on its incidence. AIM:To estimate the incidence of TC in Chilean patients with access to thyroid surgery and describe its...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sapunar Z J,Ferrer R P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great diversity of commercially available products for the serologic diagnosis of Chagas disease led us to conduct a study of these products in comparison with the indirect immunofluorescence test. Percent agreement between methods ranged from 79 to 100%, the details for each product being given in the text. Bette...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Astorga B,Herskovic P

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 501 prostitutes from the northern and eastern areas of Santiago in november and december, 1987. HIV infection was studied by the HIV antibody and also by HIV antigen. At that time no positive reactors were found. Prostitutes from the northern area were older, of a lower socioeconomic background and less pro...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Quero MS,Suárez M,Uribe J,Cerda P,Espoz H,Arroyave R

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between January 1986 and December 1990 the prevalence of F. hepatica infection was studied in 5861 rural inhabitants of the provinces of Curico, Talca and Linares, VII Region, an hyperendemic zone of animal fascioliasis. Every one was screened by intradermal (IDR), complement fixation (CF), double diffusion (DD) count...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Apt W,Aguilera X,Vega F,Zulantay I,Retamal C,Apt P,Sandoval J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45 year old male who manipulated tropical fish ponds developed painless nodular plaques in both hands. Biopsy showed mononuclear infiltrate of the dermis with few granulomata. Repeated cultures revealed M. marinum (diagnosis confirmed at the WHO/PAHO Reference Center in Canada). Good initial results were obtained wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guarda R,Gubelin W,Gajardo J,Rohmann I,Valenzuela MT

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is paucity of information about viral etiology of community acquired pneumonia in adults. AIM:To investigate the viral etiology of pneumonia among hospitalized patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:All adults with pneumonia that were hospitalized were prospectively enrolled at Puerto Montt hospital. A micro...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rioseco Z ML,Riquelme O R,Riquelme O M,Inzunza P C,Oyarzún G P,Agüero O Y,Ferrés G M,Vial C P,Fasce P R,Torres M A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer will develop in one out of ten women during their lifetime. Early diagnosis has increased in recent years. AIM:To describe a population of women with breast cancer stage T1N0M0. To analyze radiation therapy toxicity and to evaluate treatment results. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective review ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez C,Bustos M,Camus M,Alvarez M,Goñi I,León A,Besa de C P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00