[Health and humanization Diploma: the value of reflection and face to face learning].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Waist to height ratio and ultrasensitive C-reactive protein are predictors of the presence of the metabolic syndrome in children. AIM:To determine the proportional risk of metabolic syndrome component clustering in children, using waist to height ratio and ultrasensitive C-reactive protein. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arnaiz P,Marín A,Pino F,Barja S,Aglony M,Navarrete C,Acevedo M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 64 years old female admitted with fever, cough, dyspnea and lung opacities in the chest X ray. A chest tomography scan (CTS) showed multiple-bilateral ring-shaped opacities and the reversed halo sign (RHS). The patient did not improve with antimicrobial therapy (AT). Infection and rheumatologic causes were...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Schiappacasse G,Acevedo A,Martínez R,Escobar J,Hernández A,Pires Y

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Approximately 150 subjects per year suffer severe burns in Chile. AIM:To analyze sociodemographic/clinical features and outcomes of severely burned patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective cohort study of 936 patients aged 47 ± 20 years (66% males), admitted to the National Burn Center of Chile between...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Albornoz CR,Villegas J,Peña V,Whittle S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protective immunity against rotavirus infection is directed against antigenic epitopes on the outer capsid proteins VP7 and VP4. The aim of this study was to characterize the VP7 and VP4 antigenic types circulating in different hospital areas of Santiago, Chile, over different time periods. Between April 1993 and Apri...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： O'Ryan M,Mamani N,Avendaño LF,Cohen J,Peña A,Villarroel J,Chávez A,Prado V,Valdivieso F,Kaltwasser G

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A narrative review of the evidence regarding the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of coronary heart disease and depression is presented. As a common pathogenic factor, inflammation could explain the frequent association of both diseases. We discuss the benefit of exercise and diet modifications in both cond...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cavieres F Á

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporotic hip fractures are devastating events in older women. There is a genetic modulation of bone phenotypic parameters including bone density (BMD) and bone fragility fractures. Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms explain a small part of the genetic influence on BMD, whereas their effect on fr...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Quevedo L I,Martínez B M,Castillo N M,Rivera F N

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On February 27, 2010 a powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami stroke Chile. The study of mortality during this emergency can provide important public health information. AIM:To describe the main characteristics of people who died during the earthquake and the following three months. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lastra T J,Guzmán C G,Conejeros R C,Suárez V G,Chávez F O

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A serologic study for prevalence of Chagas infection was performed in Salamanca, Northern Chile. Indirect immunofluorescence and indirect hemagglutination reactions were used in samples from 1529 females and 698 males representing 10% of the population. A total of 499 positive results were obtained. The incidence of i...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lorca M,Reyes V,Muñoz P,Tassara R,Canales M,Mercado R,Atías A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, occupational illnesses are defined by the "Work-related accidents and occupational illnesses law". The institutions that administer that law have the legal obligation to determine the "occupational" or "common" origin of accidents and diseases. AIM:To compare symptoms and problems at work in a gro...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Trucco B M,Rebolledo M P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Title revalidation of foreign medical graduates to practice medicine in Chile is a complex and expensive process. According to the legislation they are required to approve the Unique National Exam of Medical Knowledge (EUNACOM), which has a theoretical and a practical section. AIM:To demonstrate that a coll...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Kunakov P N,Moraga L,Ortiz L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The place of death has changed and coverage of medical attention at death varies according to the development level of countries. AIM:To assess the evolution of coverage of medical attention of the last disease and place of death as indicators of health care quality and development level, in the sixth regio...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Leiva H H,León K F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary acute myeloid leukemia is a very rare complication in patients with solid organ transplantation. We report a 62 years old female who received a right single lung allograft for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Her immunosuppression scheme consisted in prednisone, azathioprine, and tacrolimus. Two years after th...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Peña C,Sepúlveda C,Melo J,Guerra C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, 40% of deaths due to acute myocardial infarction occur in women. AIM:To assess the presence of cardiovascular risk factors in women with acute coronary syndromes. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Thirty four women aged 46 to 55 years old, admitted to the hospital due to an acute coronary syndrome and 102 age...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Blümel JE,Prieto JC,Leal T,Cruz MN,Gallardo L

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A high proportion of women consulting for depression have a history of childhood abuse and trauma. AIM:To compare the efficacy and costs associated with a treatment that enquires directly into childhood trauma and understands present interpersonal difficulties as a compulsion to repeat the traumatic past, v...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vitriol G V,Cancino A A,Florenzano U R,Ballesteros T S,Schwartz P D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute appendicitis is the most common non obstetric surgical emergency during pregnancy. AIM:To asses our experience in the diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis occurring during pregnancy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data from all pregnant patients who were subjected to an appendectomy for a suspected a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Butte JM,Bellolio MF,Fernández F,Sanhueza M,Báez S,Kusanovich R,Viñuela E,González R,Pruyas M,Díaz V,Martínez J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Respiratory pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to antimicrobials. A new group of drugs, called respiratory quinolones have been synthesized to overcome this problem. AIM:To study the in vitro susceptibility of respiratory pathogens to old and new antimicrobials. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Forty five ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Prado V,Giangrieco M,Durán C,Ojeda A,van Flaskamp R

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) is an extracorporeal life support system in catastrophic lung failure, shock and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in different age groups, with multiple physiologic features. When the candidate to be submitted is too unstable to be transported to a hospital with ECMO, cannulati...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Díaz R,Antonini MV,Orrego R,Abrams D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autonomy is an inherent condition of every ethical act. This attribution is expressed, when decisions are made, as capacity. Physician-patient alliance is defied when there is a reasonable doubt of patients' ability to make a choice, an extraordinarily complex scenario. As a response, in the last few decades multiple ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Robert B S,Reculé JI,Prato JA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One thousand women hospitalized at a maternity were surveyed after their delivery or abortion about their first sexual intercourse and pregnancy. Mean age at the first sexual intercourse was 18.7 years and only 9.2% used a contraceptive method in spite that 20% were not willing to become pregnant. The mean age of sexu...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Henríquez R,Vargas NA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The absence of lymph node involvement (N0) in gastric cancer is associated with a better survival. However some N0 gastric tumors still have a bad prognosis. AIM:To study demographic and morphological variables associated with prognosis in N0 gastric carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Review of pathological r...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Tapia O,Villaseca M,Bellolio E,Araya JC,Roa JC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In large series, nearly 60% of admissions for suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) had a non-coronary etiology of the pain. However, short term mortality of non recognized ACS patients, mistakenly discharged from the emergency room is at least twice greater than the expected if they would had been admitte...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Castro P,Corbalán R,Isa R,Gabrielli L,Pérez O,Chamorro G,Garayar B,Baeza R,Vergara I,Godoy I,Acevedo M,Fajuri A,Fernández M,Mardones JM,Bittner A,Rodríguez JA

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While some genetic factors may explain the development of cancer, its main causes are related to environmental exposure to carcinogenic agents as well as to the effect of determined lifestyles and habits. Several epidemiological studies have shown a consistent relation between obesity and cancer. In non smokers, obesi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez R C,Ibáñez C,Klaassen J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 36 men and 94 women aged 60 to 85 years, without nutritional deficiencies or illness that could interfere with hematopoiesis, to characterize the normal limits of red and white blood cell counts. Lower limit of hemoglobin normal values were 132 g/l for men and 125 g/l for women. The corresponding figures fo...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Olivares M,Hertrampf E,Wegner D,Capurro MT,Letelier A,Valenzuela E

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Appropriate antimicrobial therapy shortens the duration of Shigellosis and significantly reduces the risk of transmission. Shigella strains resistant to common antimicrobials have increased during the past years, determining the need for a periodic surveillance, to guide effective therapy. AIM:To report the...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Prado V,Pidal P,Arellano C,Lagos R,San Martin O,Levine MM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work is to analyze the distribution of Duffy blood group and the reproductive history of 148 malformed newborns and their mothers compared to 131 control pairs. The mother-child segregation of the system is analyzed using ITO matrixes. A higher frequency of heterozygote mothers for the system was found...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cifuentes L,Nazer J,Armanet L,Ruiz G,Vargas J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adequate management of high blood pressure (HBP) and Type 2 Diabetes (DM2) is a challenge to the healthcare system in Chile. AIM:To evaluate the effectiveness of a case management (CM) approach to manage HBP and DMII at Primary Healthcare (PHC) level, headed by healthcare technicians with the supervision of...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Poblete F,Barticevic N,Bastías G,Quevedo D,Vargas I

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality has a central role in medical care. The satisfaction of the rights of people to medical care, presupposes good quality medical acts. The meaning of quality goes further than a good attention based on scientific evidence and with competent skills. It comprises patient-physician relationship where professional b...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rosselot E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical care of HIV infected and AIDS patients may represent an important economical burden for public hospitals. AIM:To assess direct and indirect costs of medical care for HIV infected and AIDS patients in public hospitals of the Metropolitan Region of Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Between August 1994 and ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Toro L,Jara C,Adauy A,Henríquez A,Trujillo F,Child R,Ortiz E

更新日期：1998-02-01 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