["Revista Médica de Chile": 120 years (July 1872-July 1992)].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacological treatment improves survival in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. The use of sacubutril/valsartan and ivabradine has been recently approved and incorporated in the latest guidelines. AIM:To identify candidates eligible for these therapies among patients treated in a ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rossel V,Duarte M,Muñoz P,Bravo C,Bobadilla G,Verdugo F,Guardamagna C

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Renal failure secondary to effort rhabdomyolysis is uncommon. We report three males age 28, 37 (military sportsmen) and 44 years (sedentary obese), with this condition. Episodes occurred after a training session to run a triathlon, during the course of a mini marathon and during a rescue attempt of a drowning person. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vega J,Gutiérrez M,Goecke H,Idiáquez J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute appendicitis is the most common non obstetric surgical emergency during pregnancy. AIM:To asses our experience in the diagnosis and management of acute appendicitis occurring during pregnancy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data from all pregnant patients who were subjected to an appendectomy for a suspected a...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Butte JM,Bellolio MF,Fernández F,Sanhueza M,Báez S,Kusanovich R,Viñuela E,González R,Pruyas M,Díaz V,Martínez J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Felodipine is a calcium channel inhibitor with high vascular selectivity. AIM:To study the effectiveness of felodipine in the treatment of essential hypertension in subjects older than 64 years old. PATIENTS AND OUTCOME:Fifty subjects were studied. After a washout period of four weeks, subjects received a ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Fasce E,Peña L,Fasce M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades there has been an important decrease in infant mobidity and mortality, but these achievements are not equally distributed across the whole population. Children are one of the most susceptible groups due to their unique vulnerabilities to environmental factors. Unhealthy environments, indoor polluti...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： París M E,Bettini M,Molina H,Mieres JJ,Bravo V,Ríos JC

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Rates of obesity reach high levels in Chile, with geographic, social and school variations. AIM:To identify factors at two levels associated with excessive weight in school children: child-family characteristics and school-neighborhood. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Using a cross-sectional and multi-step design, se...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Amigo H,Bustos P,Erazo M,Cumsille P,Silva C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic valve stenosis is the most prevalent valvulopathy in the elderly, but it is frequently undertreated. AIM:To assess early and long term results of valve replacement with bioprostheses in patients 70 years old or older with aortic stenosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A review of the database of the Cardiova...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Zalaquett R,Olivares G,Mejía R,Quezada F,Padilla O,Becker P,Irarrázaval M,Morán S,Muñoz C,González R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies in mice have demonstrated that the Msx-1 homebox gene is implicated in cleft palate. Thus, it has been suggested that its human homologue, MSX1 (HOX-7), located in chromosome 4 could be involved in the etiology of non syndromic cleft lip palate. AIM:To study the linkage between non syndromic ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Blanco R,Jara L,Villaseca C,Palomino H,Carreño H

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:The Chilean Ministry of Health has been using standards for nutritional evaluation and weight gain recommendations during pregnancy in the last 25 years. In the meantime new standards have been developed. AIM:To study the combined influence of preconception maternal nutritional status and gestational weight...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Mardones F,García-Huidobro T,Ralph C,Farías M,Domínguez A,Rojas I,Urrutia MT

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell anemia was a rare disease in Chile, especially in adults, however the recent immigration wave from Haiti is changing this scenario. We report a 29 year old black female from Haiti with a non-disclosed history of sickle cell anemia. She was transfused with two units of red blood cells, found unconscious and...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Moya F,Rivera M,Araya F,Donoso J,Sandoval P,Varas P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 36 men and 94 women aged 60 to 85 years, without nutritional deficiencies or illness that could interfere with hematopoiesis, to characterize the normal limits of red and white blood cell counts. Lower limit of hemoglobin normal values were 132 g/l for men and 125 g/l for women. The corresponding figures fo...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Olivares M,Hertrampf E,Wegner D,Capurro MT,Letelier A,Valenzuela E

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical Informatics is a new discipline that arose from the need to incorporate information technologies to the generation, storage, distribution and analysis of information in the domain of biomedical sciences. This discipline comprises basic biomedical informatics, and public health informatics. The development o...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Capurro D,Soto M,Vivent M,Lopetegui M,Herskovic JR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both epidemiological and clinical evidence suggest a relationship between the prenatal environment and the risk of developing diseases during adulthood. The first observations about this relationship showed that prenatal growth retardation or stress conditions during fetal life were associated to cardiovascular, metab...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Recabarren SE,Sir-Petermann T,Maliqueo M,Lobos A,Rojas-García P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The absence of lymph node involvement (N0) in gastric cancer is associated with a better survival. However some N0 gastric tumors still have a bad prognosis. AIM:To study demographic and morphological variables associated with prognosis in N0 gastric carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Review of pathological r...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Tapia O,Villaseca M,Bellolio E,Araya JC,Roa JC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An appropriate measurement of physical activity (PA) in children is useful, since inactivity is associated to obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic risk. AIM:To assess the reliability of the INTA questionnaire of PA, to compare the derived PA score with accelerometry and to assess its ability to identify ex...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Godard M C,Rodríguez N Mdel P,Díaz N,Lera M L,Salazar R G,Burrows A R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine and metabolic dysfunction, highly prevalent in women in their reproductive years. Hyperandrogenism, oligo-ovulation, polycystic ovarian morphology are the main features of this syndrome. PCOS is a genetic disorder with a multifactorial etiology and has a strong link w...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Concha C F,Sir P T,Recabarren SE,Pérez B F

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:An alternative strategy for cancer treatment is the manipulation of the immune system, denominated cancer immunotherapy. The immunotherapeutical use of cells of the immune system, like dendritic cells (DC), is being explored in different clinical protocols. Recently, we finalized a clinical phase I protocol, for the t...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： López M,Escobar A,Alfaro J,Fodor M,Larrondo M,Ferrada C,Salazar-Onfray F

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biliary cholesterol is transported by vesicles and micelles. Cholesterol microcrystals are derived from thermodynamically unstable vesicles. In experimental animals vitamin C deficiency leads to a super-saturation of biliary cholesterol and to the formation of gallstones. AIM:To search for a possible relati...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： del Pozo R,Muñoz M,Dumas A,Tapia C,Muñoz K,Fuentes F,Maldonado M,Jüngst D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Vitamin K antagonist medications (VKA) are essential for the prevention of thromboembolic events, but their effectiveness is influenced by multiple factors, such as the type of medication chosen. AIM:To evaluate the efficacy in anticoagulant control of the bioequivalent and non-bioequivalent drugs of acenoc...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rodríguez D,Nieto E,Quiroga T,Rojas E,Vera F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new Chilean regulation about patients' rights and duties is generating a significant change in the information that health care professionals must provide to their patients. This issue will gravitate on medical liability. If this duty is accomplished incorrectly, professionals would fall into an illicit act and be...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Pizarro W C

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The preliminary results of a prospective and cooperative protocol for the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas of trunk and extremities, stages IB-IIIB are presented. Thirty one patients (17 males, 22 with a tumor larger than 5 cm) aged 16 to 68 years, were treated with one dose of epirubicin 70 mg/m2 i.v. and radiothera...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： San Martín S,Pérez R,Sepúlveda M,Rodríguez M,Durán B,Trujillo C,Arraztoa J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific Ethics is the theory and praxis of decisions. Philosophical Ethics is presented as the theory and praxis of the good. As the good differs among cultures, Philosophical Ethics is dependent on the endo-cultural good conception. The decision (included that one of adhesion or not to a world vision) de...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valenzuela CY

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to demographic changes, rising health expenditures, and the reimbursement mechanisms of insurers in the past 30 years, physicians and nurses have had to change the way services are delivered. Concepts such as cost effectiveness and patient safety have also led to the emergence of case management. Case management, ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Eymin G,Zuleta J

更新日期：2013-11-01 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:The Chilean population has inadequate lifestyles and high prevalence of chronic diseases. AIM:To analyze eating behaviors, nutritional status and history of previous diseases, in students of higher education. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Cross-sectional study in students of 54 higher education centers across the c...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Ratner RG,Hernández PJ,Martel JA,Atalah ES

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00