[Markers of HIV infection in prostitutes: analysis of preventive and risk factors].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postmenopausal women have higher severity of coronary heart disease (CHD) than premenopausal women and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is an independent risk factor. AIM:To assess the severity of CHD in pre and postmenopausal patients undergoing coronary angiography and the impact of T2DM in both groups. M...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Gajardo-Navarrete J,Ibieta G,Concha M,Garcés P,Robles I,Vera-Calzaretta A,González-Burboa A,Gajardo I,Gutiérrez M,Villarroel M,Aguayo M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension is a clinical condition with a low prevalence, but carries high morbidity and mortality. Important advances in the understanding of this disease and in its therapy have occurred. A particular scenario is pulmonary hypertension in patients undergoing non-cardiac as well as cardiac surgery. The ai...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fermandois C M,López B R,León S P,Lema F G

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal myocardial cells actively uptake the radioisotope Thallium-201 and its myocardial distribution is a reflection of the existent regional coronary artery blood flow at the moment of the examination. Thallium-201 reaches quickly a high intracellular concentration and then leaves myocardial cells in a mean time of ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Dighero H,Canessa J

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper undertakes an analysis of the scientific criteria used in the diagnosis of death and underscores the importance of intellectual rigor in the definition of medical concepts, particularly regarding such a critical issue as the diagnosis of death. Under the cardiorespiratory criterion, death is defined as "the...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Echeverría C,Goic A,Lavados M,Quintana C,Rojas A,Serani A,Vacarezza R,Grupo de Estudios de Etica Clínica de la Sociedad Médica de Santiago.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To measure the impact of day care attendance on lower respiratory tract infections in children under two years old in two urban settings with different degrees of air pollution. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:A 26 week follow up, during fall and winter of 1991 and 1992, was performed to 98 children (48 attending day care an...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vargas Catalán NA,Díaz Amor P,Zuleta Quiroz A,López Bravo IM,Venegas Silva V

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia affects one every 400 individuals, is caused by mutations in the LDL receptor gene and is associated with premature coronary artery disease. Nowadays, LDL cholesterol can be efficiently reduced with the new therapies to reduce blood lipids. We report a female patient who cons...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arteaga Ll A,Cuevas M A,Rigotti R A,González F,Castillo S,Mata L P,Alonso K R

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evolutionary theory has contributed with physiological, psychological and behavioral explanations to the comprehension and treatment of eating disorders (ED). The aim of this review is to analyze the relationship between ED and the attachment theory and natural selection based hypotheses (famine flight, repr...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Behar A R

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Obesity has a high prevalence among children. On the other hand, acute respiratory infections especially of viral origin, are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in this age group. During the recent pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) virus, obesity was identified as a novel independent risk factor for severity m...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fuenzalida L,García-Díaz DF

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The lithogenic risk profile is a graphical representation of metabolic factors and urinary saturation involved in the stone formation with their respective critical values. AIM:To determine the lithogenic risk profile in patients with urolithiasis. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Personal data such as anthropometric,...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Funes P,Echagüe G,Ruiz I,Rivas L,Zenteno J,Guillén R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent panorama of medical practice regulation in Mexico is exposed. The dynamics of regulation changes is observed in different areas, with particular intensity in the labor market. Changes seem to be moving towards the constitution of a new regulatory model. A full state regulation for the last 50 years, is bein...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Nigenda G,Ruiz JA,Montes J

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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：: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：:The echocardiographic identification of cardiac tumors as cause of embolic episodes is infrequent, and the finding of multiple papillary fibroelastoma is even less common. We report a 70 years old female with a history of a rheumatic mitral valve lesion, subjected to a commissurotomy in 1970. She was admitted with a c...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Córdova S,Zalaquett R,Chuaqui B,Casanegra P,Chamorro G

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:Embryo cryopreservation improves efficiency and security of assisted reproduction techniques. Nonetheless, it can be questionable, so it must be justified from technical, legal and ethical points of view. This article analyses these perspectives. Embryo cryopreservation maximizes the probability of pregnancy, avoids n...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Beca JP,Lecaros A,González P,Sanhueza P,Mandakovic B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequency of diseases caused by non tuberculous mycobacteria has increased in the last years. Their clinical diagnosis is difficult, mainly in immunocompromised patients. The identification of these mycobacteria by traditional methods is based on phenotypic characteristics and the results are obtained tw...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Araya R P,Velasco R M,Fernández O J

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：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：: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：BACKGROUND:Subjects with glucose intolerance or high fasting glucose levels have a higher cardiovascular risk and frequently become diabetic. AIM:To assess clinical and metabolic characteristics of patients with glucose intolerance or high fasting glucose levels. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Fasting and post glucose load ser...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arteaga Llona A,Pollak F,Robres L,Velasco N

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：:Hospital bed availability, trends in number of beds, productivity and administrative aspects in the public and private hospital sectors are analyzed. At present, there are 3.3 beds per 1000 population in Chile. This represents a decrease from previous figures, in spite of increasing demands derived from population agi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Medina E,Kaempffer AM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The permanent surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella sp in the Temuco Regional Hospital, allowed us to define the empirical use of antimicrobials in dysenteric syndrome. AIM:To study antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella strains collected from 1997 to May 2001 and compare the results wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Boehme C,Iglesias T,Loyola A,Soto L,Rodríguez G,Reydet P,Illesca V

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a disease of unknown cause characterized by pruritus and biochemical cholestasis in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Its pathogenesis may be due to the interaction of abnormalities in the metabolism of estrogens and progesterone, while still unknown environmental...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pineda G,Aguayo J,Ribalta J,González M,Reyes H

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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