[Analysis of Crowding in an Adult Emergency Department of a tertiary university hospital].

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, cholelithiasis is a serious public health problem and there are no studies about its natural history. AIM:To assess the long term evolution of patients with symptomatic and asymptomatic cholelithiasis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Ninety two patients with cholelithiasis (57 female), aged 15 to 80 years o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Csendes A,Csendes P,Burdiles P

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laugier-Hunziker syndrome is a rare benign idiopathic condition characterized by acquired macular pigmentation of lips and buccal mucosa, often accompanied with melanonychia. The main concern with this condition is to rule out other differential diagnosis with systemic repercussions and similar hyperpigmentation patte...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fajre X,Aspillaga M,McNab M,Navarrete J,Sanhueza V,Benedetto J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between Good's syndrome (hypogammaglobulinemia and thymoma) with pure red aplasia is very uncommon. We report a 70-year-old male, who had a thymoma excised nine years before. Afterwards, he suffered frequent respiratory infections, which were attributed to a humoral immunodeficiency. Nine years later, ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Peña C,Intriago M,Muñoz P,Gray AM,Cabrera ME

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the clinical features and immunophenotype of 500 children and 131 adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), diagnosed between 1984 and 1993. Cases were classified, according to immunophenotype in B-cell ALL with three subtypes (pro-B or null, common and B) and T-cell ALL. Among children, common ALL a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cabrera ME,Labra S,Ugarte S,Matutes E,Greaves MF

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Culture is defined by the Webster's dictionary as acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills. AIM:To assess the general cultural knowledge of university students. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A test containing 58 question...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vargas C NA,Pinochet T D,Juárez E P

更新日期：2010-03-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular immune mechanisms of the resistance to infection by T cruzi as well as the pathogenesis of Chagas disease are still controversial. AIM:To quantify and analyse the peripheral blood immune cells from chagasic and non chagasic patients by flow cytometry. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Peripheral blood samples ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez G,Zulantay I,Gajardo M,Venegas J,Villanueva R,Pérez A,Liendo F,Apt W,Solari A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies in mice have demonstrated that the Msx-1 homebox gene is implicated in cleft palate. Thus, it has been suggested that its human homologue, MSX1 (HOX-7), located in chromosome 4 could be involved in the etiology of non syndromic cleft lip palate. AIM:To study the linkage between non syndromic ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Blanco R,Jara L,Villaseca C,Palomino H,Carreño H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to study the knowledge, opinions and sexual behaviour of a sample of 464 students from the Universidad Austral de Chile. Results show that 78% of male and 41% of female students have had a sexual intercourse and that 78% of males and 72% of females with an active sexual life use contraceptive ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Repossi A,Araneda JM,Bustos L,Puente C,Rojas C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus infection raises ethical issues in medical practice. This work presents several problems with ethical connotations related to HIV infections, observed by a neurologist during his medical practice. Patient-physician relationships, confidentiality, the request of patient consent to perform d...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Nogales-Gaete J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is an X linked congenital disease that presents as eczema, thrombocytopenia and immune deficiency. The only curative procedure for this illness is hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), preferably from a healthy HLA identical sibling donor. Cord blood is becoming an excelle...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Wietstruck P MA,Zúñiga C P,Talesnik G E,Méndez R C,Barriga C F

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:Several genetic polymorphisms of adiponectin have been associated to metabolic diseases as obesity and co-morbidities. AIM:To investigate if there are associations between +45TG, +276GT, -11,377CG y -11,391GA adiponectin SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism) with obesity in a Chilean children population. M...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Orellana G,Sapunar J,Sáez K,Aguayo C,Calvo C,Radojkovic C,Riffo B,Gleisner A,Asenjo S,Ulloa N

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to demographic changes, rising health expenditures, and the reimbursement mechanisms of insurers in the past 30 years, physicians and nurses have had to change the way services are delivered. Concepts such as cost effectiveness and patient safety have also led to the emergence of case management. Case management, ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Eymin G,Zuleta J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar organizer regions may be observed by colloidal silver stains. A considerable increase in the number of regions may be observed in tumors and other pathologic processes as an index of cellular proliferation. Among 20 studies in patients with gastric carcinoma we found a significantly greater number of nucleol...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Roa I,Araya JC,de Aretxabala X,Mauriz A,Cea M

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determination of Alanine aminotransferase serum levels ([ALT]s) is a sensitive ana reliable test for liver diseases. AIM:To report the prevalence of abnormal [ALT]s in Chilean population and to identify associated variables. METHODS:We analyzed data from a random sub-sample of 2,794 adults surveyed during ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Tejos R,Padilla O,Pizarro M,Solís N,Arab JP,Margozzini P,Miquel JF,Riquelme A,Arrese M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last few years, multiple new medical schools have emerged in Chile, associated to the constant preoccupation to provide a good quality medical care. This created the need to evaluate medical training programs and to open a discussion about the attributes that a good physician should have. AIM:To ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： García-Huidobro D,Núñez F,Vargas P,Astudillo S,Hitschfeld M,Gennero R,Salvatierra L,Benavente A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maps have played a critical role in public health since 1855, when John Snow associated a cholera outbreak with contaminated water source in London. After cardiovascular diseases, cancer is the second leading cause of death in Chile. Cancer was responsible for 22.7% of all deaths in 1997-2004 period. AIM:To...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Icaza N MG,Núñez F ML,Torres A FJ,Díaz S NL,Várela G DE

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poor oral health status may have an impact on the health status of patients with chronic renal failure. AIM:To describe the oral health status of a group of Brazilian patients with chronic renal failure. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective review of the medical records of patients with chronic renal failure...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Souza CM,Braosi AP,Luczyszyn SM,Casagrande RW,Pecoits-Filho R,Riella MC,Ignácio SA,Trevilatto PC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An atypical cervical smear may represent a wide variety of lesions, from banal diseases to invasive neoplastic lesions. AIM:To study the evolution of atypical cervical smears in a highly controlled women population. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A retrospective analysis of 117 women with atypical cervical smears, d...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vilches K,Escalona A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical Informatics is a new discipline that arose from the need to incorporate information technologies to the generation, storage, distribution and analysis of information in the domain of biomedical sciences. This discipline comprises basic biomedical informatics, and public health informatics. The development o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Capurro D,Soto M,Vivent M,Lopetegui M,Herskovic JR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal transplantation can be done in patients with neurogenic bladder and clean intermittent self catheterization maintains renal function AIM:To retrospective assess the results of renal transplantation in patients with neurogenic bladder. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The medical records of seven patients aged 10...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Péfaur J,Aguiló J,Salinas P,Pinto V,Zubieta R,Mocarquer A,Gaete J,Fiabane A

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of good quality research about the diagnosis of esophageal varices and the prophylaxis and treatment of variceal bleeding in pediatric patients with portal hypertension There is little consensus and practically no evidence-based approach about the management of these patients. AIM:To desc...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Verdaguer D S,Gana A JC

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:In Chile, the number of sick leaves due to mental health problems has systematically increased in recent years. AIM:To perform an analysis of sick leaves due to mental problems managed by the Fondo Nacional de Salud (FONASA) during 2008. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Analysis of all sick leaves awarded during 2008 ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Miranda GH,Alvarado SO,Kaufman JS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 50-year-old woman with a recent myocardial infarction in whom a myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with Thallium201 was done simultaneously with a F18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) SPECT to study glucose metabolism. Myocardial infarction was located in the anteroseptal and a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González P,Coll C,Massardo T,Sierralta P,Humeres P,Aramburú I,Brugère S,Yovanevich J,Ramírez A,Jofré J,Chamorro H,Kuntsmann S,López H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1983 to 1987 we studied 30 patients with leukemia searching for chromosomal alterations. Cytogenetic studies of bone marrow showed an abnormal karyotype in 19 (67%). Seven out of 14 cases of acute leukemia presented different chromosomic alterations. The Philadelphia chromosome was found in 11 patients with chron...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Conte G,Torrens M,Larraín C,Be C,Daher V,Youlton R

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two female patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome and severe respiratory failure in whom extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was used. Its indication was due to a bad response to conventional treatment with mechanical ventilation and high levels of positive end expiratory pressure. A 2.0 or 2.2 m2...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Alamo M,Castro J,Alvarez E,Brunet L

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have developed sophisticated and successful genetic mechanisms to evade the action of antimicrobials. Bacterial multiresistance has caused serious problems in the treatment of nosocomial infections. Integrons and gene cassettes are considered the main genetic elements in the evolution of plasmids and transpos...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González G,Mella S,Zemelman R,Bello H,Domínguez M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of the lip represents about 20% of all oral carcinomas. It is more common in men, peaking during their sixth and seventh decade, and is more prevalent in the lower lip. AIM:To determine the five years survival rate of Chilean patients with lip SCC. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The reg...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cabello B T,Sazo B N,Salgado F A,Martínez R B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00