[Masters of Chilean Internal Medicine].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maximal oxygen uptake is considered by the International Biological Programme as the international standard of cardiorespiratory adequacy and physical condition. AIM:To measure maximal oxygen uptake in normal Chilean subjects, to establish normal reference values. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Maximal oxygen uptake...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Donoso H,Osorio J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-three patients with severe acute pancreatitis have been studied. Pancreatitis was associated with biliary tract disease in 23 patients (36.5%) and with alcoholism in 21 (33.3%). It occurred post-operatively in 9, and was associated with other conditions in 10. We evaluated the Ranson prognostic signs (RPS) with ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Martínez J,Zúñiga A,Guzmán S,Llanos O,Rahmer A,Troncoso P,Escobar M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is an analgesic and antipyretic drug widely used across the world. Its ingestion is one of the most common causes of drug overdose. In the United States is the first cause of acute hepatitis in adults. AIM:To describe the epidemiological profile of paracetamol overdose in Chile. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bravo V,Román M,Bettini M,Cerda P,Mieres JJ,Paris E,Ríos JC

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A change in the social structure of medicine and its impact on clients has occurred in the last decades. AIM:To perform a survey about subjective wellbeing among physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A physician’ professional satisfaction survey consisting in 90 questions, was applied to 580 physicians (7...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bascuñán ML,Horwitz N,Schiattino I,Acuña J,Jiménez JP

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 25 years old woman with a four years history of end stage renal disease on hemodialysis. During the last two years of follow up, multiple tender nodules appeared in the left clavicle and ribs. These were diagnosed as brown tumors, secondary to osteitis fibrosa cystica, in the context of a secondary hyperpa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Gómez MC,Riquelme P,Sirandoni G,Sapunar J,Princic E,Lee B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas (90%) which are two to four times more common in men than in women. The reasons for these differences are associated with exposure to factors such as tobacco and alcohol. Age is also considered as a risk factor (about 90% of the cases are diagnosed after 45 year...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Riera P,Martínez B

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:One third of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by intracranial aneurysms, die. AIM:Review of medical records of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage treated at a clinical hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Review of medical records of patients discharged from the hospital between 2006 and 2011 with...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Yáñez Lermanda A,Ruiz-Aburto Aguilar A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increased life expectancy is associated to a nation's progress. Life expectancy at birth is 78 years in developed countries, 72 in Latin America, 70 in China, 63 in Eastern Europe and 51 in Africa. Chile is the Latin American country with the higher increment in life expectancy, reaching 75 years at birth, during t...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Medina Lois E

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aiming to correlate the alterations in evoked potentials with the initial clinical manifestations of multiple sclerosis, 29 patients with the disease were studied and 19 were followed for a lapse ranging from 1 to 11 years. Visual evoked potentials were studied in all the patients and 51% were abnormal. Auditory evoke...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Ferrer S,Jiménez P,Mellado L,Thieck E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High blood pressure of unknown etiology has been related to many pathogenetic factors, mainly dietary salt intake, mental stress, alcohol consumption, sedentary living and aging. Hypertension is more common in condition such as obesity and diabetes mellitus. Sustained elevation of arterial pressure is mediated by vaso...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pérez-Olea J

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with high mortality. There is still a broad assortment of severity classifications for patients with PE, which affects the choice of therapies to use. The main clinical criteria for defining a PE as massive is systemic arterial hypotension, which depends on the extent of v...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Mercado M,Aizman A,Andresen M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is a heterogeneous disease characterized by symmetrical motor and sensitive alterations, absence of tendon reflexes and increased cerebrospinal fluid protein levels. We report 6 patients with the disease, (three males) aged 41 to 70 years old. Four had the classical pr...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Araya P,Fruns M,Silva C,Pedraza L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Docosahexanoic acid (C22:6, DHA) is a highly unsaturated omega-3 fatty acid that forms part of the central nervous and visual system structures. DHA is synthesized from its precursor, alfa-linolenic acid, that is also a omega-3 fatty acid and can be obtained from vegetable oils. Marine organisms, specially fish, are g...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valenzuela A,Nieto MS

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：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：:This article reports verbatim the National Development Plan for 1978-1983, issued by the Office of the President of the Chilean Republic, and by the Office of National Planning. The document states that an increase in population would be desirable; however, action toward such goal is to be taken by individual couples...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors：

更新日期：1979-06-01 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：:Congenital malformations of the spleen are rare. We report a patient with an ectopic spleen located in the left iliac fossa, which was excised in order to prevent severe complications such as torsion of the pedicle, rupture or infection. A second patient with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura presented with an acces...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Etcheverry R,Allamand JP,Guzmán G,Robinson MI

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondhand smoke (SHS) is an established cause of morbidity and mortality among non-smokers. The workplace is an important source of exposure, especially among workers of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. AIM:To estimate the daily occupational exposure to SHS among non-smoking workers of bars and restaurant...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Aceituno P,Iglesias V,Erazo M,Droppelmann A,Orellana C,Navas-Acién A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central nervous system damage associated to HTLV-I does not limit itself to the spinal cord, but also involves subcortical structures, producing cognitive impairment and behavioral changes which eventually could conform a new form of subcortical dementia. AIM:To study cognitive changes in patients with HTLV...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cartier L,Gormaz A

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Malnutrition has been strongly associated with morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients. In the other hand, dialysis allows a nutritional improvement in patients with more than 12 months in dialysis. AIM:To study the prevalence of malnutrition among patients in hemodialysis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Huidobro A,Velasco N,Rojas T

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accrual of anatomical preparations since the nineteenth century in Santiago, Chile, became the so called "anatomical cabinet" under the supervision of professor Julio F Lafargue. Afterwards, this cabinet evolved to form an anatomical museum in the mid twentieth century. It contained preparations using corpses whos...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cárdenas V JL

更新日期：2018-12-01 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 is the speech pronounced by Dr Abraham Horwitz, Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile and Honorary Director of PAHO, during the academic act that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean Public Health School endowment. The school had a doctrinal and technical impact on Chilean health and decisiv...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Horwitz A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is an important step forward in cancer treatment. AIM:To report the first experience in Chile with IMRT for prostate cancer and compare the results obtained with different doses. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From January 1997 through June 2008, 156 patients with a mean age o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Besa D C P,Rosso A R,Bustos C M,Borghero Y,Trucco B C,Mac-Namara H M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 56 years-old man presenting with chest pain with exercise, seven years after an orthotopic heart transplant. A coronary angiography showed an atherosclerotic lesion in the common left main coronary artery with more than 90% obstruction. The lesion was successfully treated with a transluminal angioplasty wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Riedemann S E,Castro G P,Quintana F JC,Pérez P O,Mc-Nab M P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of major genes in the susceptibility of non syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) in Chile has been postulated, considering the high prevalence and familial aggregation of this condition. AIM:To study the familial recurrence of CL/P in Chile. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The recurren...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Palomino H,Guzmán E,Blanco R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00