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_name
Rev Med Chiljournal_title
Revista medica de Chileauthors
Espinoza R,Aguilera H,Fernández Fsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1992-08-01 00:00:00pages
923-6issue
8eissn
0034-9887issn
0717-6163journal_volume
120pub_type
杂志文章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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:/S0034-98872011001200013
更新日期:2011-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:There is a correlation between aging and the decrease of plasma levels of vitamin B-12. AIM:To determine the prevalence of vitamin B-12 and folate deficiency and its hematological impact among older adults (AM). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Cross-sectional study, in 1028 subjects aged 65 to 87years, living in comm...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0034-98872010000100006
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Postpartum depression is a serious, common, treatable condition, with broad repercussions in mother and family life, but frequently under diagnosed. A screening tool, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) could improve the detection rate of depressive symptoms. AIM:To assess the efficacy of EPDS i...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0034-98872008000700005
更新日期:2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:A high proportion of women consulting for depression have a history of childhood abuse and trauma. AIM:To compare the efficacy and costs associated with a treatment that enquires directly into childhood trauma and understands present interpersonal difficulties as a compulsion to repeat the traumatic past, v...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:/S0034-98872010000400006
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Celiac patients are at high risk of developing insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a condition that has a long pre-diabetic period. During this lapse, anti-islet cell antibodies serve as markers for future disease. This may be related with the duration of the exposure to gluten. AIM:To test the hypothesis ...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872004000800010
更新日期:2004-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:/S0034-98872008000800013
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is the commonest cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide, with an incidence of 0.6-4 per 100.000 inhabitants per year. It affects all age groups and carries an incapacity burden of up to 20%. AIM:To describe the features of GBS in adult Chilean patients admitted to a tertiar...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0034-98872015000200005
更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report four episodes of mushroom poisoning that occurred between 1986 and 1990 in the province of Malleco. Twenty five of 36 individuals who ingested the mushroom became ill; they had an acute gastroenteritis that was followed in 7 by an acute hepatitis and in one by a massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Three...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-07-01 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
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872018001201459
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Vildagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor (DPP4i). Its efficacy and safety of DPP4i in Chilean real life type 2 diabetic (T2D) patients is not well known. AIM:To assess the safety profile and effectiveness of 12 weeks of treatment with Vildagliptin for glycemic control in T2D Chilean patients with...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0034-98872015000100008
更新日期:2015-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Stem cells have drawn extraordinary attention from scientists and the general public due to their potential to generate effective therapies for incurable diseases. At the same time, the production of embryonic stem cells involves a serious ethical issue concerning the destruction of human embryos. Although adult stem ...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4067/S0034-98872013000800010
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Laugier-Hunziker syndrome is a rare benign idiopathic condition characterized by acquired macular pigmentation of lips and buccal mucosa, often accompanied with melanonychia. The main concern with this condition is to rule out other differential diagnosis with systemic repercussions and similar hyperpigmentation patte...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0034-98872016000500017
更新日期:2016-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872006000200002
更新日期:2006-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Worldwide, smoking is the main avoidable cause of death among adults. AIM:To study smoking habits among health care workers in Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A national survey about smoking among subjects working in the Chilean Ministry of Health. An anonymous and self administered enquiry was used. RESULTS:...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872004000200013
更新日期:2004-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors. The genealogical data stemming from 169 CL (P) probands and 168 epileptic probands yielded information on the prevalence rates of cleft and epileptic re...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1992-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gabriel Cano de Aponte was Governor of Chile since 1717 and until his death in 1733, being 68 years old. As a soldier, he was an experienced horse rider. The sequence of events that caused his death three months after an equestrian accident is unclear. A systematic clinical analysis of the latter is the main objective...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 传,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:/S0034-98872008000900020
更新日期:2008-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::A narrative review of the evidence regarding the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of coronary heart disease and depression is presented. As a common pathogenic factor, inflammation could explain the frequent association of both diseases. We discuss the benefit of exercise and diet modifications in both cond...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872020000200224
更新日期:2020-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The risk of cardiovascular diseases is two to four times higher in diabetic patients. AIM:To study the severity of coronary disease and survival of patients with diabetes mellitus, compared to matched controls without diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A retrospective review of all coronary angiographies perfo...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872004000300008
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The classic hepatotropic viruses, hepatitis A through E, are not the only viral agents able to infect the liver. Other systemic viruses may cause hepatic injury that can range from mild and transient elevation of aminotransferases to acute hepatitis and occasionally acute liver failure and fulminant hepatitis. The cli...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:/S0034-98872010001100016
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Aneurysmal bone cysts are benign fibro osseous lesions, rarely present in maxillary region. We report the CT and morphological findings of aneurysmal bone cyst of the maxilla in a 15 years old female. The patient was subjected to a maxillectomy, preserving the orbit floor. The postoperative evolution has been uneventf...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/s0034-98872005001100012
更新日期:2005-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Between June 1983 and September 1987, 2799 disability pensions were given in the East Santiago Area, population 676,269. Of them, 222 (7.9%) were due to ophthalmological causes. Blindness as defined by the WHO was present in 57 cases. It was caused by myopia (33%), glaucoma (21%), diabetic retinopathy (9.8%), retinal ...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Gallbladder carcinoma is frequent in Chile. The aim of this study was to report the mutagenicity of whole human bile, using the Ames/Salmonella microsome assay with Salmonella typhimurium TA98. The bile of 19 patients, aged 23 to 64 years old, subjected to cholecystectomy was examined, and mutagen activity was found i...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Several genetic polymorphisms of adiponectin have been associated to metabolic diseases as obesity and co-morbidities. AIM:To investigate if there are associations between +45TG, +276GT, -11,377CG y -11,391GA adiponectin SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism) with obesity in a Chilean children population. M...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4067/S0034-98872012001000002
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The most common type of oral cancer is squamous cell carcinoma, which accounts for approximately 90% of all oral malignancies. Therefore the oral cancer problem primarily concerns the diagnosis, biology and management of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). However, there are red and white lesions, that are consid...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2003-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The permanent surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella sp in the Temuco Regional Hospital, allowed us to define the empirical use of antimicrobials in dysenteric syndrome. AIM:To study antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella strains collected from 1997 to May 2001 and compare the results wi...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is an urgent need to increase the awareness on the Joint Hyper mobility Syndrome QHS). This is a congenital and prevalent emergent condition that is frequently undiagnosed and that causes significant health problems. Besides recurrent muscular-skeletal problems and signs and symptoms derived from tissue fragilit...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:/S0034-98872009001100013
更新日期:2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Gastric mucosal pH may be a good indicator of splanchnic tissue oxygenation. AIM:To study the effects of abdominal surgical procedures on gastric mucosal pH. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Eighteen patients subjected to abdominal surgery were studied. All patients received general anesthesia and hemodynamic paramete...
journal_title:Revista medica de Chile
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00