[Constrictive pericarditis as a serious and rare presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus: Report of one case].

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：:We report a 70-year-old woman, who had recently consumed shellfish, that was admitted to the intensive care unit with septic shock and died 19 hours later due to a multi-organic failure. Microbiological, serological and molecular assays confirmed a hemolytic tdh+ Vibrio cholerae non-01, non 0139 as the etiologic agent...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Briceño L I,Puebla A C,Guerra A F,Jensen F D,Núñez B H,Ulloa F MT,Osorio A CG

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 60 females using either intrauterine device or taking oral contraceptive pills. Hemoglobin, serum iron, total iron binding capacity and saturation of transferrin were determined before and 4 and 10 months after starting a responsible paternity program. Women with a basal hemoglobin level below 12 g/dl were ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Palomo I,Grebe G,Valladares G,Bustos P,Ferrada M

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a close link between hypertension and atherosderosis. Hypertension causes atherosclerotic damage of several organs, called target organs and the risk factors for hypertension and atherosderosis are very similar. The risk of mortality associated to hypertension increases with blood pressure values below the cu...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Román A O,Badilla S M,Dussaubat A AM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent left superior vena cava is the most common venous congenital malformation and is usually asymptomatic. Its presence could increase the difficulty for transvenous lead implantation. We report a 71-year-old woman with an idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation and heart failure that required bi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vergara SI,Frangini SP,Barrero VR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of cardiovascular diseases is two to four times higher in diabetic patients. AIM:To study the severity of coronary disease and survival of patients with diabetes mellitus, compared to matched controls without diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A retrospective review of all coronary angiographies perfo...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Gajardo J,Olmos A,Seguel I,Saldaña A,Román L,Naveas R,Verdugo EU

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "Revista Medica de Chile" founded in 1872 is the second oldest medical journal in Latin America after the "Gaceta Medica de Mexico" (1864). Among medical journals in the world it is placed 24. It has been published monthly without interruption, except for the period January through December 1891, due to the revolu...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Costa-Casaretto C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mapping techniques, 32 consecutive gallbladder carcinomas diagnosed in our department were studied. The defined lesions were dysplasia, carcinoma in situ and superficial spreading carcinoma. A total of 2257 lesions were recorded from 1072 inclusions. All the defined lesions were present in about 10% of all secti...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Roa I,Araya JC,Wistuba I,Villaseca M,de Aretxabala X,Busel D,Burgos L

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：: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: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：:ANCA (anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) associated vasculitis or AAV are a group of diseases with predominant inflammation of small vessels and the presence of detectable ANCA in serum. Due to these common features, it is considered that AAV share pathogenic mechanisms. Consequently, a similar therapeutic approa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Silva F,Cisternas M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classic hepatotropic viruses, hepatitis A through E, are not the only viral agents able to infect the liver. Other systemic viruses may cause hepatic injury that can range from mild and transient elevation of aminotransferases to acute hepatitis and occasionally acute liver failure and fulminant hepatitis. The cli...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Gallegos-Orozco JF,Rakela-Brödner J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DSM-5 is a significant factor in promoting the "remedicalization" of psychiatry as the focus of psychiatric knowledge, developed by the evidence-based medicine movement, shifted from the clinically-based biopsychosocial model to a research-based medical model. DSM-5 purposes are 1]clinical: diagnosis, prevention, earl...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Figueroa G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies of gastric transmucosal potential difference concern acute damage. We studied this phenomenon in 168 patients with different pathologic processes: erosive gastritis, duodenal and prepyloric ulcer, atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcer and normal controls. Ag-AgCl electrodes and Agar-KCl bridges were used to r...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Defilippi C,Morales A,Smok G,Angelo S

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Beliefs about professionals' healthcare may influence healthcare behaviors. Such beliefs are in part the result of the interactions that professionals have with their patients. Recent studies highlight the importance of beliefs about physicians, their effect on health-care behaviors, and the requirement of c...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Baeza-Rivera MJ,Betancourt H,Salinas-Oñate N,Ortiz MS,Marín O,Valle G

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:One of the main challenges in environmental management is to prevent the public health impact of projects that can cause pollution. To tackle this problem, the new Chilean bill on environmental management has defined the need to determine the potential health risks of a given Project. This paper gives a summary of the...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Matus C P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a comparative review of sick leave and wage replacement policies among countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (EOCD), an organism that Chile joined recently. This review also deals with the main transformations applied to the system to improve its effciency and the variables th...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vergara M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed 25 patients operated on for Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome between August 1985 and October 1989. Their mean age was 37 +/- 12 years and arrhythmia had been present for 5 to 30 years. A mean of 3.3 +/- 1.2 antiarrhythmic agents had failed in controlling recurrences. Tachycardia was orthodromic in 21 patient...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： González R,Morán S,Fajuri A,Irarrazabal MJ,Maturana G,Urzua J,Lema G,Espinoza R,Casanegra P

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microtia is a congenital defect characterized by disturbances in the size and form of the ear lobe. Anotia corresponds to the absence of the ear lobe. AIM:To study the prevalence of microtia and anotia at the Maternity of the University of Chile Clinical Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Analysis of the datab...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Nazer J,Lay-Son G,Cifuentes L

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Professor Raúl B. Etcheverry, M.D., was a founder of Chilean Hematology back in the 1940's and a practicing physician and teacher until an advanced age. Being a superb clinician, he was admired by his ability to unveil from the most common to the most difficult diagnosis of blood disorders and neoplasms by examining b...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Reyes B H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking may hamper female fertility, probably modifying ovarian reserve. Antimüllerian hormone (AMH) is an accurate marker for ovarian reserve. AIM:To look for an association between smoking status and plasma AMH concentration. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A cohort of 141 infertile women in a university setting in...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fuentes A,Escalona J,Céspedes P,Repetto V,Iñiguez G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Up to 20% of patients with pancreatic carcinoma subjected to a bilio digestive diversion, develop a delayed gastric emptying due to duodenal infiltration. However the role of prophylactic gastrojejunoanastomosis is not well defined. AIM:To compare the effects of gastrojejunoanastomosis performed as prophyla...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Espinoza R,Rivera M,Guzmán S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor transitorily reduces the GFR in a kidney with renal artery stenosis, effect that can be ascertained with scintigraphic studies using ACE inhibitors. We evaluated the clinical usefulness of captopril renography (CR) in the diagnosis of renovascular ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Orellana P,Jalil R,Valdés F,Fava M,Olea E,Fernández MS,Valdés G,Contreras O,Fontbote C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin reuptake inhibitors, used as antidepressants, may cause hyponatremia due to a syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone, specially in elders. Thirty cases with such complication have been reported in the last six years. We report a 76 years old female with a hypertensive cardiopathy and paroxysmal atria...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Miranda M,Armijo G,Miranda P

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most important topics mentioned by people from places affected by the February 27th, 2010 earthquake to the Presidential Delegation for the Reconstruction, was the urgent need of mental health care. Given the enormous individual and social burden of mental health sequelae after disasters, its treatment beco...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Figueroa RA,Cortés PF

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal failure secondary to effort rhabdomyolysis is uncommon. We report three males age 28, 37 (military sportsmen) and 44 years (sedentary obese), with this condition. Episodes occurred after a training session to run a triathlon, during the course of a mini marathon and during a rescue attempt of a drowning person. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vega J,Gutiérrez M,Goecke H,Idiáquez J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00