[Toxic pictures produced spiders bites in Chile: latrodectism and loxoscelism].

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are doubts wether generic medications have the same bioavailability and efficacy compared with the original drugs developed by pharmaceutical companies with research capabilities. AIM:To compare the pharmacokinetics and clinical (motor) responses of Sinemet and Grifoparkin (generic carbidopa/levodopa ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Chaná P,Fierro A,Reyes-Parada M,Sáez-Briones P

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney graft loss because arterial thrombosis is not common and is related to risk factors such as recurrent vascular hemodialysis access thrombosis, collagen-vascular disease, repeated miscarriage, diabetes mellitus and thrombophilia. Patients having this last disorder have an increased risk of repeated thrombosis in...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Vega S J,Goecke S H,Vásquez G A,Peña M A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) in the treatment of choice for adult obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The diagnosis is established with polysomnography, but this study is expensive and must be repeated in those patients that require CPAP, to titrate the pressure of the therapy. Split p...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Jorquera A J,Santín J,Godoy J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technology for diabetes care has undergone major development during recent decades. These technological advances include continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII), also known as insulin pumps, and real-time continuous glucose monitoring system (RT-CGMS). The integration of CSII and RT-CGMS into a single device h...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Apablaza P,Soto N,Codner E

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have described a high percentage of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, the prevalence of SIBO has not been well established in other functional disorders. AIM:To evaluate the prevalence of SIBO in patients with different func...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Madrid AM,Defilippi C C,Defilippi G C,Slimming A J,Quera P R

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：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

authors： Bello S,Soto M,Michalland S,Salinas J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteoporotic hip fractures are devastating events in older women. There is a genetic modulation of bone phenotypic parameters including bone density (BMD) and bone fragility fractures. Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms explain a small part of the genetic influence on BMD, whereas their effect on fr...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Quevedo L I,Martínez B M,Castillo N M,Rivera F N

更新日期：2008-04-01 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:Basedow Graves disease (BGD) is the leading cause of hyperthyroidism. The characteristics of patients seen at a university hospital may differ from those described in the general population. AIM:To describe the clinical features of patients with BGD seen at a university hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Revie...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Lanas A,Díaz P,Eugenin D,González F,Cid P,Cordero F,Araya V,Liberman C,Barberan M,Gac P,Saldías N,Pineda P

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45 year old male who manipulated tropical fish ponds developed painless nodular plaques in both hands. Biopsy showed mononuclear infiltrate of the dermis with few granulomata. Repeated cultures revealed M. marinum (diagnosis confirmed at the WHO/PAHO Reference Center in Canada). Good initial results were obtained wi...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Guarda R,Gubelin W,Gajardo J,Rohmann I,Valenzuela MT

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:The first and so far the only form of isolated growth hormone deficiency to accede to molecular genetic analysis is IGHD 1A, which has an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Several sizes of growth hormone gene deletions, ranging from 6.7 to 8.5 Kb are responsible for IGHD 1A. It has been reported that children w...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Aguirre E,Benítez R,Youlton R,Carvallo P

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regardless of the diagnostic criteria, the metabolic syndrome is found at least in 20% of the population. The adipose tissue plays an important role in the insulin resistance found in this syndrome. Free fatty acids released by intra-abdominal adipocytes produce an inflammatory and pro-thrombotic response and the pers...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Martínez R G,Alonso K R,Novik A V

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes important changes in medical practice, focusing in those most deeply perceived by a group of physiciansfrom the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, included in a joint research conducted by the Departments of Psychiatry and Mental Health (East) of the Medical Faculty at the University of Chile and P...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Horwitz N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the concentration of cefotaxime in the exudate from ischemic leg ulcers in 9 subjects with severe obstructive arterial disease. The administration of the drug was either systemic (1 g in 250 ml of saline given in 30 min) or regional at a vein of the foot while a tourniquet was applied at the level of the ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Acevedo A,Schoop W

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:In order to increase awareness of the pandemic and to streamline control measures before any new outbreak of influenza we analyze the behavior of the cases of Chile and from 9 countries with more cases in 2009. Reproductive numbers, doubling times and estimations of susceptible and infected at the end of the epidemic ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Canals L M

更新日期：2010-09-01 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:Since February 2002, Flextend electrode catheters are used at the Cardiovascular Unit of the Catholic University Clinical Hospital. These transvenous catheters have an IS-1 connector, silicone coating, active fixation and retractile helix with dexamethasone acetate. AIM:To report early and one year results ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Frangini P,Vergara I,González R,Baeza M,Cambón AM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS:Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) has been traditionally used as an adjunctive therapy in severe ulcerative colitis patients. We performed a prospective study to ascertain the safety, nutritional efficiency, tolerance and costs of total enteral nutrition in this situation. METHODS:After 48 hours of...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Klaassen J,Zapata R,Mella JG,Aguayo G,Alvarado D,Espinosa O,Maíz A,Zúñiga A,Quintana C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral vasodilators (CVD) account for 1.6% of the annual expenditure on drugs in Chile. Two kinds are typified: what we have called orthodox CVD and calcium-channel blockers. They have two main uses in neurology: firstly, in acute ischaemic stroke where orthodox CVD (buflomedil, codergocrine mesylate, and nicergolin...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Alvarez G,Vacarezza R

更新日期：1990-07-01 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：:The mortality of acute bacterial meningitis (BM) has remained stable in the last decades in spite of the use of new antibiotics, probably due to vascular complications. We report a 68-year-old woman with BM who had a malignant infarction of left middle cerebral artery territory 72 hours after admission to the hospital...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： López MG,Mellado PT,Huete IL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Struma ovarii is a teratoma composed of thyroid tissue and can be a rare cause of hyperthyroidism. We report a 35 years old woman with a left ovarian mass whose pathology revealed a Struma ovarii. This tumor was partially excised initially to avoid fertility problems and after a successful gestation, the tumor was com...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sapunar J,Roa JC,Meissner A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic fungal infections and specifically invasive aspergillosis (IA) are associated with a high morbi-mortality rate in patients with hematologic malignancies. Itraconazole kinetic studies show that plasma levels are not satisfactory, even though there is a reduction of the severity in clinical cases. AI...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Andrade M A,Puga L B,Guerra C C,Molina E J,Capurro C M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several groups have studied the influence of possible noxious elements present in the intrauterine environment which may favor the development of several diseases in the adult. There is evidence of an increased prevalence of some disorders in special risk groups of fetuses. In the small for gestational age p...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Aros S,Cassorla F

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer will develop in one out of ten women during their lifetime. Early diagnosis has increased in recent years. AIM:To describe a population of women with breast cancer stage T1N0M0. To analyze radiation therapy toxicity and to evaluate treatment results. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective review ...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Sánchez C,Bustos M,Camus M,Alvarez M,Goñi I,León A,Besa de C P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clients and providers of health care can have contrasting perceptions about the quality of service. Provider perceptions are mostly devoted to design and delivery of services while those of clients are focused in the attention received. AIM:To assess perceptions of health care providers and clients about cl...

journal_title：Revista medica de Chile

authors： Riveros J,Berné C,Múgica JM

更新日期：2010-05-01 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