[A national survey on smoking habit among health care workers in Chile].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Women in childbearing ages (WCBA) represent a strategic intervention group to reverse the global trend of increasing obesity. AIM:To conduct a review of studies reporting obesity prevalence in WCBA in Chile in the last 25 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS:To describe obesity prevalence, we used three approaches,...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Araya B M,Padilla O,Garmendia ML,Atalah E,Uauy R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease that may involve more than one territory. Myocardial infarction can occur after carotid endarterectomy and stroke is a well documented morbidity of coronary artery bypass grafting. To optimize results, we have performed concomitant carotid endarterectomy and myocardial revasculari...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Mertens R,Valdés F,Krämer A,Morán S,Zalaquett R,Irarrázaval M,Maturana G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dopamine agonists (DA) effectively reduce tumor size of macroprolactinomas, with the consequent improvement of eventual visual impairment. AIM:To study the visual outcomes in patients with macroprolactinoma treated with DA. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective cohort study which included patients with macrop...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cuevas JL,Fernández V,Rojas D,Wohllk N,González O,Torche E

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Wernicke encephalopathy is considered a complication of dialytic therapy, but there are few reports of this complication. We report a 57 years old man and a 45 years old woman, with grade IV renal failure, who after acute peritoneodialysis and chronic hemodialysis respectively, had a confusional syndrome that responde...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Toro J,Sacks C,Fuentes R

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is close association between maltreatment during pregnancy and child abuse after birth. AIM:To compare anthropometric growth and use of health services of children whose mothers suffered maltreatment with children coming from families without domestic violence. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:A longitudinal stu...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Arcos E,Uarac M,Molina I

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 33 patients with recurring nodular goiter (from a population of 2,500 operated patients). Recurrence occurred 0.7 to 12 years after surgery. T4, T3, TSH, perchlorate and TRH tests were performed in 18. Results were similar to those in 13 operated patients without recurrence. Administration of thyroid hormo...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Villaseca R,López Caffarena E

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nutritional impact of CONIN nutritional recovery centers must be evaluated, considering the current epidemiological situation in Chile and the new therapeutic focus giving more emphasis to ambulatory treatment. AIM:To analyze the nutritional status of children treated at traditional CONIN centers, the r...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pizarro T,Rodríguez L,Atalah E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 1529 diabetic patients seen between 1959 and 1982 at a teaching hospital in Concepción, Chile. 116 of them were insulin dependent diabetics. Gestational diabetes was excluded. The 10 year actuarial risk of acquiring tuberculosis was 24.2% for insulin-dependent diabetics and 4.8% for the rest (p less than 0...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Olmos P,Donoso J,Rojas N,Landeros P,Schurmann R,Retamal G,Meza M,Martinez C

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To adequately plan the post graduate training of physicians, we need to know the needs for specialists in the country and the most prevalent diseases and causes of consultations. In 2004, the National System of Health Services assessed the number of hours and types of specialties available, their regional distribution...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Román A O,Señoret S M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive symptoms and personality features of patients with mood disorders are supposed to have a strong variability in cross cultural studies. The clinical profile, the outcome and the treatment response seem to be different across the world. AIM:To investigate the differences and similarities of major d...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Heerlein A,Gabler G,Chaparro C,Kraus A,Richter P,Berkau C

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Islet cell-specific autoantibodies such as islet cell antibody (ICA), antiinsulin (IAA), anti-glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and anti-tyrosine phosphatase (IA2) can be present in patients with type I diabetes. Breast feeding duration and the early exposure to milk substitutes are environmental factors ass...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pérez-Bravo F,Riesco V,Albala C,Oyarzún A,Santos JL,Carrasco E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The five senses have had a fundamental importance for survival and socialization of human beings. From an evolutionary point of view the sense of smell is the oldest. This sense has a strong representation within the genome, allowing the existence of many types of receptors that allow us to capture multiple volatile o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fuentes A,Fresno MJ,Santander H,Valenzuela S,Gutiérrez MF,Miralles R

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background The treatment of choice of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) is an induction with proteasome inhibitors followed autologous stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Since 2013, the treatment of these patients in the public system is based on CTD (cyclophosphamide, thalidomide, and dexamethasone). Aim To eval...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Peña C,Rojas-Vallejos J,Espinoza M,Donoso J,Soto P,Cardemil D,Aranda S,Contreras C,Vergara CG,LA Rocca G,Osorio R,López-Vidal H,Chandía M,Rojas C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is not clear if changes in serum lipid profile during menopause are related to changes in the distribution of fat or to insulin resistance. AIM:To look for an association between insulin resistance and changes in serum lipid levels in post menopausal women. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Cross-sectional study of ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Zavalza AB,Grover FP,Mora JM,Centeno M,Anaya RP

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article gives technical orientation to health institutions for the promotion of community participation and sets forth the challenge of constructing a health system for Chile, according to the needs and problems of the country and based on the principles of solidarity, equity and social participation. It presents...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Belmar R,Salinas J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospirosis is a world-spread zoonosis that is incidentally acquired by humans. It causes a diphasic febrile illness in which the Weil syndrome is its severest form, with renal, hepatic, clotting and central nervous system involvement. We report a 73 years old male, that was admitted to an intensive care unit with m...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Garrido R,Castillo L,Hernández G,Abarca J,Montes JM,Monsalve V,Espinoza R,Valenzuela S,Pérez G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The few studies in Chile assessing the nutritional status of indigenous children show a high prevalence of stunting, excess weight and feeding problems. AIM:To compare anthropometric indices in children from indigenous and non indigenous ancestry. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:School children aged 6 to 8 years old,...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Amigo H,Bustos P,Erazo M,Radrigán ME

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The aim of this work was to assess the degree of interaction between diethylpropion and some cellulosic derivatives widely used in anorexigenic prescriptions. Our in vitro results show that sodium carboxymethylcellulose and methylcellulose cause a significant degradation of diethylpropion, the first having a greater e...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Gómez M,Alvarez A,Cid E

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies indicate that doctors who work in the same area of the medical profession tend to behave somehow similarly. Thus, it has been suggested that personality relates to the medical specialty choice. However, it is not known whether people self-select into the medical specialties according to their...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bitran M,Zúñiga D,Lafuente M,Viviani P,Mena B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the future of medicine is daring. One can speculate about some of its future traits at the most. The spectacular progress in biological sciences has nurtured the hope that medicine will be able to dominate all ailments, improve the quality of life and longevity. Physicians are uncomfortable with the weak kn...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Goic A

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CEA is widely used in the follow up of patients with colorectal carcinoma. AIM:To study the value of preoperative CEA as an independent prognostic factor in colorectal carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Analysis of 373 operated patients (204 females, age range 21-92 years) with colorectal carcinoma and a mean...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bannura G,Cumsille MA,Contreras J,Barrera A,Melo C,Soto D

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Handgrip strength is an important predictor of functional performance among older adults. AIM:To measure handgrip strength in older adults and relate its values to their clinical functional assessment. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Handgrip strength was measured in 1047 older adults living in the community and aged...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Mancilla S E,Ramos F S,Morales B P

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stroke is the second cause of mortality and the first cause of morbidity in Chile and worldwide. Nowadays there is a major interest in introducing new therapies applying evidence based medicine for these patients. AIM:To describe the clinical profile of patients attended after a stroke, to determine stroke ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Mellado T P,Court L J,Godoy F J,Mery C V,Barnett T C,Andresen H M,Huete L I,Tevah C J,Tomicic F V,Romero P C,Fadic R R,Soza M MA,Valenzuela M R,Tapia I J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burkitt lymphoma has a low incidence, is highly aggressive, may be endemic, sporadic or associated with immunodeficiency and it has a high frequency of extranodal involvement. Overall and relapse free survival in HIV patients is 72 and 71% respectively. However, the current protocol in Chile considers a posi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Puga L B,Bustamante K K,Molina E J,Andrade M A

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Non cardiac chest pain can be caused by esophageal problems such as gastroesophageal reflux or smooth muscle motor disorders. AIM:To perform esophageal manometry in patients with non cardiac chest pain. MATERIAL AND METHODS:One hundred patients with chest pain in whom coronary problems were discarded, were...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rencoret G,Csendes A,Henríquez A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The economic impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in Mexico in terms of excessive diagnostic testing can be considerably reduced if the recommendations of the Latin American Consensus (LATAM) for IBS are followed. AIM:To estimate the economic impact of IBS in terms of excessive diagnostic testing. MATE...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Schmulson MJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00