[Limited diagnostic testing can decrease the direct economic impact of irritable bowel syndrome].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. Its prevalence in Europe and the USA is 0.5 to 1%. AIM:To analyze epidemiological aspects and degree of compliance with gluten-free diet (GFD) among Chilean individuals with CD....

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Espino A,Castillo L C,Guiraldes E,Santibáñez H,Miquel JF

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Garengeot's hernia corresponds to the presence of the appendix within a femoral hernia, associated or not with acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of this uncommon situation is usually done during surgery. Furthermore, the clinical presentation as necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition. We report a 54 years old obese...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Briceño E,Jara R

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echotomographic studies were performed in 163 patients with gastric cancer from 1984 to 1990. The technical aspects of the examination and the images obtained in different lesions are described. Emphasis is placed on local or diffuse wall infiltration, ulcerations, vegetations or stenotic lesions. Consideration of the...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arroyo A,Mánquez P,Traipe E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 17-19 May 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation held a meeting in Geneva: The Management of Birth Defects and Haemoglobin Disorders. Meeting participants included 18 experts from developing and industrialized countries, including the author and nine staff from WHO...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Castillo Taucher S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensive medicine is especially expensive and requires an efficient management. AIM:To measure the real costs of diseases treated in an intensive care unit and compare them with the costs assigned by the Chilean National Health Fund (FONASA) for 2008. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective review of 225 patie...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Alvear V S,Canteros J,Rodríguez P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral cancer in Chile corresponds approximately to 1.6% of all cancer cases. There are few studies about oral epithelial dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma in the Chilean population. AIM:To determine the frequency of hyperkeratosis, mild, moderate and severe oral epithelial dysplasia, in situ carcino...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Martínez C,Hernández M,Martínez B,Adorno D

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:To study the effect of old age on phenytoin pharmacokinetics, twelve young and nine old adults aged 21.7 +/- 1.8 and 71.8 +/- 4.9 years respectively, were studied. No significant differences of phenytoin indicating the drug distribution and elimination does not change with aging. After oral administration, significant...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Estruch J,Galdames D,Martinetti A,Saavedra I

更新日期：1992-10-01 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: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：:Constrictive Pericarditis (CP) is an unusual disease. Its most common causes are idiopathic or secondary to cardiac surgery. Less frequently it is caused by connective tissue diseases. We report a 30 years old woman hospitalized due to progressive dyspnea, chest pain and signs of right sided heart failure. During her ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lustig N,Florenzano P,Sanhueza LM,Cid X,Ramos G,Thone N,Fullerton DA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The september 1888 issue of the Journal contains an article by Luis Asta-Buruaga MD, "Ambulances in New York: a system to be instituted in Santiago. In addition to encouraging this project, the idea of establishing small hospitals in peripheral quarters of the city is discussed. Dr Asta-Buruaga was a graduate from Col...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Costa-Casaretto C

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:We report a 70 years old man presenting with malaise, anal pain and progressive defecation difficulty, with a decrease in stool caliber. The patient had no contact or past history of tuberculosis. On physical examination, there was an ulcerated anal lesion with purulent discharge, that produced an anal stenosis. The p...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rocha M,Carrasco C,Naquira N,Venegas J,Kauer G,Coñoman H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An immunological damage of beta cells in the islets of Langerhans, plays a role in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. Recently, the identification of individuals in pre clinical phase and with high risk of developing type 1 diabetes, has become possible by means of the detection of immune markers such as i...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Maiz A,Manrique M,Hodgson MI,Díaz de Valdés M,Acosta AM,Andrade L,Olmos P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aseptic meningitis after lumbar puncture and spinal anesthesia is a rare but serious complication, whose acute onset and clinical symptoms mimic septic meningitis. A 33 year old woman presented this complication 5 h after an uneventful cesarean section under subarachnoid blockade. Though lumbar puncture revealed pleoc...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bugedo G,Valenzuela J,Muñoz H

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews some key issues of early rheumatoid arthritis such as the dfficulties to recognize this condition during the first months after onset. Therefore, three reference diagnostic criteria have been proposed for any patient presenting with more than three simultaneously inflammed joints, involvement of m...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Massardo L

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Petcoke is a remnant of the oil refining process that contains Ni and other heavy metals. Undesired human exposure to these compounds may result from petcoke combustion in plants located in the vicinity of the cities. AIM:To compare levels of urinary Ni in schoolchildren residing in cities exposed and not e...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Iglesias A V,Burgos D S,Marchetti P N,Silva Z C,Pino Z P

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased cholesterol levels above 200 mg/dl, LDL levels above 130 mg/dl and total cholesterol/HDL ratio above 4.5 in males and above 5.0 in females are recognized as indicators of increased risk of atherosclerosis. Risk associated to increased triglyceride levels (above 200 mg/dl) must be judged in relation to associ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Davidoff P

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the low frequency of thyroid nodules (TN) in children, one of every four is malignant. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has a high accuracy detecting thyroid cancer. AIM:To evaluate the performance of FNAC in TN in Chilean children to detect thyroid cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The pathologic...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Grob F,Carrillo D,Martínez-Aguayo A,Zoroquain P,Solar A,Nicolaides I,González H

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:We are reporting a 37 year old male with severe oligozoospermia and a history of infertility for thirteen years and surgery for severe unilateral varicocele. The hormonal levels for FSH, LH and T, and karyotype were within the normal range. Multiplex PCR revealed the presence of a de novo microdeletion in the azoosper...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Castro A,López P,Johnson MC,Sovino H,Martínez C,Vantman D

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic choristoma is the occurrence of normal pancreatic tissue in an abnormal location without any anatomic continuity with the main body of the gland. Although heterotopia is uncommon in the gallbladder and biliary tract, anecdotic cases of gastric mucosa, liver, adrenal gland and pancreas among other tissues ha...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Beltrán MA,Barría C,Naquira C,Almonacid J,Cruces KS

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Chile, cerebrovascular diseases are the fifth cause of death among men and the third cause among women. AIM:To assess the clinical features and management of patients with cerebrovascular disease admitted to a public hospital during 1997. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A retrospective analysis of clinical records...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Nogales-Gaete J,Núñez L,Arriagada C,Sáez D,Figueroa T,Fernández R,González J,Aragón A,Barrientos N,Varas P,Troncoso B,Cárcamo C,Chávez M,Gumucio M,Holmgrenn P,Beltrán G,San Martín E,Manríquez E,Figueroa C

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians took part in the promotion of public policies that regulated urban and architectural work, before engineers, architects, planners, and even before the State had a chance to take part in the formulation of such policies. Starting in the late nineteenth century, and especially during the first decade of the t...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Ibarra M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sézary syndrome (SS) is an unusually aggressive T- cell lymphoma characterized by the triad of erythroderma, the presence of more than 1,000 Sézary cells in peripheral blood and lymphadenopathies. It is accompanied by generalized pruritus and poor quality of life. The management of SS depends on its stage, patient com...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Molgó M,Jaque A,Vial V,Ocqueteau M,Pereira J,Chang M,González S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a short historical review of the outstanding changes occurred in the whole of endocrinology and particularly in Chile over the last 60 years -with the background of an infant mortality drop from 200 per thousand in 1940 to 8 per thousand today and a mean life expectancy increase from 42 to 76 years- the author outl...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Jadresic A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal intussusception, a medical emergency, is more commonly idiopathic and ileocolic and occurs with higher frequency in children aged 6 months to 2 years. Barium enema confirms the diagnosis and allows its hydrostatic reduction, that is the treatment of choice of this condition. AIM:To report our exp...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： García C,Flores P,Zúñiga S,Accorsi E,Monsalva R,Lastra M,Montes P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 35 years old female presenting with a right wrist pain. Physical examination was normal but, on a hand X ray examination, multiple dense para-articular bone foci were observed. Studying the rest of the skeleton, similar alterations were found in pelvis, knees, ankles, feet, shoulders and elbows. Osteopoiki...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guerra M,Gutiérrez L,Vergara V,East F

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00