[Microbiology in Chile: development through a century of existence].

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetically programmed adult-type hypolactasia affects 56% of Chilean population. Ideally, diagnosis should be confirmed. AIM:To compare diagnostic yield of genetic test, hydrogen (H2) expiratory test and a validated symptomatic structured survey (SS). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Patients submitted to H2 test ans...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Rollán A,Vial C,Quesada S,Espinoza K,Hatton M,Puga A,Repetto G

更新日期：2012-09-01 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

authors： Blanco R,Cifuentes L,Miranda M,Rameau MX,Muñoz MA,Jara L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 58-year-old female presenting with fever and vomiting. The initial laboratory examination disclosed two blood cultures that were positive for Streptococcus Pyogenes. An abdominal CAT scan showed a right basal pneumonia. The patient was treated with antimicrobials and discharged with oral cefadroxil for 21 ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Ramírez C,Arab JP,Eymin G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite being among the best academically prepared of the country, many medical students have difficulties to communicate in writing. In 2005, the School of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile introduced a writing workshop in the undergraduate curriculum, to enhance the students' writing...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Bitran M,Zúñiga D,Flotts P,Padilla O,Moreno R

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national network including 114 blood banks and laboratories performs screening for HIV infection on approximately 250,000 blood donors a year. This represents 100% coverage of blood transfusions performed in Chile. Up to December 1990. 4956 samples had been sent to the National Reference Center for AIDS for suppleme...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez G,Vera L,Soto G,Mora J,Ramírez E

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of epidemiological transition proposed by Omram explains the changes in disease patterns in communities. In societies with a high level of development this model has been complemented with the study of the post transition process. In this context, the emergence of allergic diseases, asthma and subsequently, ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Valdivia G

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New vaccination strategies are needed to control the increasing problem of pertussis in teenagers and adults. AIM:To determine the immunogenicity and reactogenicity of a diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (dTpa) vaccine with reduced antigen content. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A single dose of the dTpa vaccin...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Abarca K,Valdivieso F,Potin M,Ibáñez I,Vial P

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 61 years old male presenting with a right cerebral infarction, along with a type I persistent left proatlantal artery (PA), which is a form of primitive carotid-basilar anastomosis. The patient had an absence of the ipsilateral vertebral artery (VA) and hypoplasia of the contralateral VA, while the basilar...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Buljan K,Hegeduš I,Gilman Kuric T,Salha T,Tomić S,Butković Soldo S,Buljan V,Šošić Đ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lateral abdominal bruit is considered an important finding for the detection of renovascular hypertension. However, the precision and accuracy of new techniques such as angiography, Doppler ultrasound and studies with radioisotopes have changed its value and clinical interpretation. We report a 75 years old woman wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Duclos J,Jouanne E,Opazo M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchogenic cysts are congenital malformations of the tracheo-bronchial tree usually located intrathoraxically. We report a 44 years old male with a bronchogenic cyst located exceptionally in the pre tracheal anterior cervical region, simulating a thyroid lesion. ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Majlis S,Horvath E,Castro L,Martínez V

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1983 to 1987 we studied 30 patients with leukemia searching for chromosomal alterations. Cytogenetic studies of bone marrow showed an abnormal karyotype in 19 (67%). Seven out of 14 cases of acute leukemia presented different chromosomic alterations. The Philadelphia chromosome was found in 11 patients with chron...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Conte G,Torrens M,Larraín C,Be C,Daher V,Youlton R

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do transsexual people in Chile have a right to have their gender identity or their sex reassignment legally recognized? The absence of any legislation on gender identity or transsexualism could lead us to believe that it is not the case. However, a quantitative review of decisions issued by Chilean courts during the l...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Muñoz León F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ANCA (anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) associated vasculitis or AAV are a group of diseases with predominant inflammation of small vessels and the presence of detectable ANCA in serum. Due to these common features, it is considered that AAV share pathogenic mechanisms. Consequently, a similar therapeutic approa...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Silva F,Cisternas M

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Self-efficacy refers to people's expectations about personal resources available for goal achievement. Higher self-efficacy expectations are correlated with higher academic performance. AIM:To analyze the psychometric properties of the Academic Behavior Self-Efficacy Scale (ABSES) and to describe Self-effic...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Hechenleitner-Carvallo MI,Jerez-Salinas AA,Pérez-Villalobos CE

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 501 prostitutes from the northern and eastern areas of Santiago in november and december, 1987. HIV infection was studied by the HIV antibody and also by HIV antigen. At that time no positive reactors were found. Prostitutes from the northern area were older, of a lower socioeconomic background and less pro...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Quero MS,Suárez M,Uribe J,Cerda P,Espoz H,Arroyave R

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Framingham risk score (FRS) has limitations and can underestimate risk. Carotid ultrasound to measure intima media thickness or plaques is recommended for cardiovascular risk assessment. AIM:To determine the prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic subjects classified as low and intermediat...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Varleta P,Concepción R,Julio P,Casanova H,Navarrete C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a family with three generations affected by an autosomal dominant centronuclear palsy. This gene is characterized by ptosis that begins in childhood and a slowly progressive weakness that starts in the second decade of life, involving face, neck and limbs. In this stage, muscle pan associated to exercise or ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Cartier L,Hernández JE

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The current recommendations for treatment of patients with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) include all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) and anthracycline based chemotherapy. AIM:To evaluate the results of the Chilean protocol following the LPA99 regimen of the Spanish PETHEMA group, except for ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Undurraga MS,Puga B,Cabrera ME,Palma T,Rossle A,Vergara CG,Rojas B,Aspillaga A

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：:One thousand women hospitalized at a maternity were surveyed after their delivery or abortion about their first sexual intercourse and pregnancy. Mean age at the first sexual intercourse was 18.7 years and only 9.2% used a contraceptive method in spite that 20% were not willing to become pregnant. The mean age of sexu...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Henríquez R,Vargas NA

更新日期：1995-07-01 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 association of gastric lymphoma and gastric adenocarcinoma in the same patient is uncommon. We report a 76 year-old male with a previous history of massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding who required a subtotal gastrectomy with Billroth II reconstruction in 1974. Pathology demonstrated a gastric lympho-histiocyti...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Butte JM,Torres J,Duarte I,Guzmán S,Llanos O

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HCAM or CD44 is a multifunctional cell adhesion molecule, related to cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix interactions and involved in tumor invasion. AIM:To study the importance of CD44 expression in subserous gallbladder carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS:One hundred five samples (93 female) of subserous ga...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Roa I,Villaseca M,Araya J,Roa J,de Aretxabala X,Ibacache G,García M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Host genetic predispositions may be important determinants of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). The association between Interferon-L 4 (IFNL4) rs12979860 C>T polymorphism and risk of liver fibrosis in CHC is contradictory. AIM:To evaluate the impact of IFNL4 rs12979860 polymorphism ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Brahm J,Urzúa A,Poniachik J,Cáceres DD,Carreño L,Venegas M

更新日期：2018-07-01 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

authors： Cárdenas V JL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history, objectives and aims of this programme are described in detail. The principal goals achieved on anticonception, reproductive biology and abortion are analyzed, with special reference to the research done in Chile. The strengthening of research capabilities at national level was pointed out with special men...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lavín P

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earth of ornamental plants is one of the main reservoirs of Aspergillus type of fungi in hospital areas. We studied 174 ornamental interior plants from a hospital at Santiago. Samples were obtained from the soil surface and sowed in Sabouraud-glucose agar, adding streptomycin and G-penicillin. After 72 h of cultur...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Thompson L,Castrillón MA,Delgado M,García M

更新日期：1994-12-01 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

authors： Ochsenius G,Ormeño A,Godoy L,Rojas R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00