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(SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2011-02)Background: An extremely clean area is required for preparation of sterile pharmaceutical compounds, in compliance with international standards, to minimize the probability of microbial contamination. Aim: To evaluate the ...
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(SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2011-02)Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing public health issue. Creation of surveillance networks is a matter of major importance for antimicrobial resistance understanding and monitoring. Also, they contribute to design ...
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(SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2011-02)Invasive infections by Candida strains are a relevant pathology in critically ill patients. Candida should be considered where a high risk of infection is present for a critical early diagnosis. Despite the incorporation ...
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(MEXICAN ASSOC HEPATOLOGY, 2011-03)Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEH) is an unusual, low-grade malignant vascular tumor of the liver. Here we describe a case of a 40-year-old woman who presented with abdominal pain in the upper right quadrant ...
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(SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2011-04)The best strategy to resolve the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is unsettled, and periodic reviews of new evidence are necessary. An update was performed to renew the 2001 recommendations on the diagnosis ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Preeclampsia is an important cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality locally and globally. Diagnosis requires a 24 hours urine collection to determine the protein level. Current investigations had been focused on ...
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(2012)Background: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine-metabolic disorder commonly associated with insulin resistance (IR). Previous studies indicate about the expression of molecules involved in the insulin pathway in ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)This is a short review related with the current concepts and controversies in the diagnosis of intestinal bacterial overgrowth. This is a relatively complex entity present in diverse pathologies. Its adequate diagnosis has ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Streptococcal pharyngitis is common in children and adolescents. It is strongly suggested by the presence of fever, tonsillar exudate, tender enlarged anterior cervical lymph nodes and absence of cough (Centor criteria). ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)The safety and quality care are two attributes of the health care that are closely related. The critically ill patients are vulnerable to medical errors, and may experience preventable adverse events, often associated with ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Neural mechanisms involved in sleep and wakefulness generation are widely distributed in the central nervous system. Current models emphasize the pivotal role of the hypothalamus in controlling the activation and inhibition ...
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(2012)Anomalous origin of coronary arteries is a rare anatomical defect and its association with acute myocardial infarction is unusual. We report a 58-year-old male with ST-Segment elevation. Myocardial infarction of the ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Infertility is now recognized as a disease by World Health Organization. It affects up to 15% of couples of childbearing age and un 4-8% of them will require high complexity assisted reproduction techniques. The delay of ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)The main purpose of urodynamic studies is to reproduce the patient’s symptoms and correlate them with the findings in the examination, so that we can answer the specific question that motivated it. Its success depends on ...
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(Elsevier, 2012)Background: We sought to examine correlations between clinical validators and temperaments in clinical practice. Methods:We provided the self-report TEMPS-A (50 itemlong) to 123 consecutive patients seen in theMood ...
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(Elsevier, 2012)Background: Mixed depression reflects the occurrence of a major depressive episode with subsyndromal manic symptoms. Not recognized in DSM-IV, it is included in the proposed changes for DSM-5. Observational and cross-sectional ...
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Diverticulitis perforada: alternativas de manejo quirúrgico. Caso clínico y revisión de literatura (Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Sigmoid diverticular disease is common in the occidental world and it is responsible for a great number of hospitalizations. The prevalence of diverticular disease increases with age and only in few cases it is manifest ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Alterations in plasma osmolality are related to changes in cell volume, which are the pathophysiological substrate of serious diseases. Under normal conditions sodium is the main determinant of plasma osmolality, and ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Gastrin is a polypeptide hormone secreted primarily by G cells of the gastric antrum. Its main function is the regulation of gastric acidity, through the release of histamine, which ultimately acts on the parietal cell. ...
