[Characteristics and results of breast cancer in elderly females treated with curative intent].

abstract：:We report a 65 years old female undergoing hemodialysis, presenting with intense pain in the lower right quadrant and moderate hematochezia. Since symptoms did not abate after an appendectomy, a colonoscopy and barium enema were performed, whose results suggested an advanced cecal carcinoma. Biopsies were negative for...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bannura G,Melo C,Villamán J,Muñoz M,Levy I

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, leukemia is one of the diseases whose treatment is guaranteed by a special law called AUGE (universal access and explicit guaranties). Therefore, the knowledge of its treatment costs is of utmost importance. AIM:To determine and to characterize the direct costs of pharmacotherapy for leukemia at a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Molina F,Schramm C,Ruiz G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 57 year-old woman with a big partially cystic adrenal pheochromocytoma presenting with high fever and abdominal pain. Based on CT scan images and before knowing urinary catecholamines level, the diagnosis of sepsis secondary to an abscessed adrenal macrotumor was done. A diagnostic percutaneous fine-needle...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lam J,Henríquez R,Rojas O,Marina V

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The classic diagnosis of Barret esophagus is based on the finding of three of more cm of distal esophagus covered by specialized columnar epithelium. However, at the present time, it is based on the presence of intestinal metaplasia in the junction of squamous-columnar mucosae. AIM:To assess the prevalence ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Csendes A,Smok G,Sagastume H,Rojas J

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of death in Chile and there is a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in the population. AIM:To assess the prevalence of those risk factors in a group of employees. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:We studied 2,219 individuals, 1,378 males with a mean age of 46.2 +...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lanas F,Del Solar J,Maldonado M,Guerrero MA,Espinoza F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The great variability in the clinical presentation of Chagas disease may depend in part in the genetic variability of Trypanosoma cruzi populations. AIM:To compare prepatent period, parasitemia, mortality and histological lesions in mice infected with two populations of Trypanosoma cruzi isolated in Chile. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pizzi P T,Wallace R A,Villagra O R,Muñoz V S,Ortiz Z S,Solari I A

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:A 51 year old man with acquired immune deficiency syndrome for 2 years developed a chronic leukemia/T cell lymphoma. Anti HTLV-1 antibodies were confirmed by Western Blot. In the last months he developed hypercalcemia and leukocytosis of 130,000. Necropsy confirmed the diagnosis of Leukemia/T cell lymphoma without cut...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Martínez V,Franco C,Sazunic I,Puga M,Bronfman L,Rodríguez C

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Human and animal trichinosis has been recorded in Chile since the late XIX century and is irregularly distributed along the country. From high rates of infection in the early 1900, the frequency of this parasitosis in man has progressively decreased. AIM:To describe and discuss the epidemiological situation...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Schenone H,Olea A,Schenone H,Contreras MC,Mercado R,Sandoval L,Pavletic C

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid advances in immunobiology, pharmacology and molecular biology have made successful renal transplantation the optimal therapeutic modality for adults and children, reaching a near--90% of patient-graft survival among the first years of transplant. But this knowledge also presents clinicians and scientists wit...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cano FJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 56 years old male patient presenting with a sympathetic denervation of the right upper limb due to an apical lung cancer. Vasomotor paralysis of the limb was objectively documented with a contact termography. The clinical presentation of this patient was unusual, considering that the alteration occurred wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Campero M,Verdugo RJ,Stuardo A,Tenhamm E

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The implementation of the marketing strategies in public hospitals provides management advantages and improves the relationship between customers and staff. AIM:To analyze the application of marketing strategies in a public hospital, from the perspective of the staff. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A structured surv...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Riveros S J,Berné M C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maternal and infantile morbidity is closely related to the features of women's reproductive history. AIM:To study the reproductive behavior of women hospitalized due to labor or abortion in a public maternity of Metropolitan Santiago. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:One thousand women were interviewed about their rep...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Henríquez R,Vargas N

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) is a disease of increasing incidence among children. The time elapsed between the beginning of symptoms and the diagnosis of the disease is, in most cases, very extended. AIM:To report the clinical picture at onset and laboratory features of children with DM1. MATERIAL AND ME...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Hodgson B MI,Ossa A JC,Velasco F N,Urrejola N P,Arteaga L I A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demands on primary health care services in Chile are increasing. The staff perception of specific sources of tension at work is not known. This knowledge is necessary to avoid preventable health problems caused by distress. AIM:To identify specific work stressors in primary health care facilities and to exa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guic S E,Mora O P,Rey C R,Robles G A

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common acute leukemia in adults, emphasizing its high recurrence rate despite hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). AIM:To report the results of AML treatment at the Catholic University of Chile Clinical Hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Review of medical records o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fuentes M,Rojas P,Ernst D,Ocqueteau M,Bertin P,Sarmiento M,Ramírez P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed real time echotomographic studies in 203 patients with a clinical diagnosis of obstructive jaundice. All patients were operated on and a diagnosis of choledocholithiasis was established in 125. The same diagnosis had been made by echo in 69 of them for a 63% sensitivity rate. The specificity was 92% and t...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arroyo A,Guerra M,Strauszer T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bottled water consumption has currently increased and their fluoride (F) concentration may not be ideal in terms of caries benefit or risk of fluorosis. While low concentrations would have little anticaries effect, high F concentration would increase the risk of dental fluorosis. AIM:To measure F concentrat...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fernández CE,Giacaman RA,Cury JA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with traumatic pancreatic pseudocyst are presented. One patient was treated with percutaneous drainage and the other was operated on to perform a cystoenterostomy. Both patients recovered successfully. Diagnosis and treatment of this condition is discussed. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Espinoza R,Aguilera H,Fernández F

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute coronary syndromes without ST segment elevation (Non-Q-Infarction and unstable angina) share a common pathophysiology, have no indication of thrombolysis, and should not routinely be catheterized on an emergency basis on admission. They should be put in bed rest, given anti-ischemic medications, aspirin and hepa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Florenzano F

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral vasodilators (CVD) account for 1.6% of the annual expenditure on drugs in Chile. Two kinds are typified: what we have called orthodox CVD and calcium-channel blockers. They have two main uses in neurology: firstly, in acute ischaemic stroke where orthodox CVD (buflomedil, codergocrine mesylate, and nicergolin...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Alvarez G,Vacarezza R

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to look for pathological changes in the oral cavity in a group of 40 non cirrhotic male alcoholics, ranging in age from 30 to 40 years old. These subjects were compared with a group of 40 non alcoholic male subjects of similar age. The presence of lip, dental, periodontal, salivary gland and ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Esguep A,Ceballos M,Smith P

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impetigo Herpetiformis is a high-risk gestational skin disease that represents a risk for both the mother and offspring. Its management is based on multisystemic support and maternal steroid therapy. When these measures are insufficient to control the disease, the association of ciclosporine to the treatment has been ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valdés E,Núñez T,Pedraza D,Muñoz H

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00