Browsing by Subject "Medicine (all)"
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(1991)50 patients with autonomous growth hormone excess (48 with adult acromegaly and 2 with gigantism) were studied between 1966 to 1986 (2.38 pts/year). Characteristic clinical presentation, an increase in growth hormone (GH) ...
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Active epidemiologic surveillance of tuberculosis Vigilancia epidemiológica activa en tuberculosis. (1994)With 5,000 new active cases each year, tuberculosis in Chile remains as the most important communicable disease in the country. Since the type of control programs are linked to the epidemiologic situation as far as infection, ...
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(1991)We evaluated the effect of dietary supplementation with eicosapentaenoic acid in 8 patients with active rheumatoid arthritis. An appropriate placebo was given in a randomized double blind fashion to 8 control subjects. ...
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(1993)Zipeprol is a non opioid antitussive agent derived from piperazine. In Chile there is an increasing abuse of this drug among youngsters. We report two cases, a 19-years old woman and a 42-years old male, both with personality ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)
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(1992)A sample of 823 adult morbidity consultations in four rural medical centers in the VI Region in Chile were studied according to age and group of diagnosis. There was a reduction in the number of consultations with age. The ...
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(1995)The results of balloon valvuloplasty as treatment for pulmonary stenosis in 8 adults (6 male) whose ages ranged from 17 to 58 years are presented. Three patients had been subjected to cardiac surgery 32, 40 and 10 years ...
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(1990)After a long period of research, a lot of elements of high technology have come to dentistry. Intraoral camaras, magnetic resonance imaging devices, digital radiographic equipment, laser, and computer systems that custom, ...
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(1990)In 160 girls from low and middle socio-economic class of Santiago we correlated the age at menarque with genetic markers such as ABO blood group, Rh, MN, Xg, haptoglobins, Esterase D and Phosphoglucomutase. No significant ...
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(1994)The etiology of alcoholism is under constant revision. This work critically examines the accumulated evidence on the degree of genetic determination of alcoholism, aiming to provide an updated view of the problem. The ...
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(1984)High resistance epithelia actively transport sodium from the luminal side to the blood. Aldosterone and vasopressin stimulate this sodium transport system; the diuretic drug amiloride inhibits it in a reversible fashion. ...
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(1975)THE microinjection technique perfected by Gurdon and his collaborators 1,2 represents an excellent method for the study of the in vivo effects of drastically changing the molecular contents of the injected cells. We have ...
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(1999)Background: Patients with depression, particularly those seen by primary care physicians, may report somatic symptoms, such as headache, constipation, weakness, or back pain. Some previous studies have suggested that ...
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(1992)Non q wave myocardial infarction has been attributed to occlusion of a vessel with no ECG representation, early reperfusion of the occluded artery or occlusion of a vessel with generous collateral flow. The coronary ...
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(1995)We report the analysis of 4892 parasitological stool samples coming from outpatients and patients of a nutritional recuperation center of north Santiago. Cryptosporidium parvum was detected in 21 samples (0.4%). The protozoan ...
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(Wiley-Liss Inc., 2017)© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the major cause of end stage renal disease. Sodium tungstate (NaW) exerts anti-diabetic and immunomodulatory activities in diabetic animal models. Here, we ...
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(1991)Anti-cardiolipin antibodies have been recently described in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and other autoimmune disorders. Venous and arterial thrombosis, thrombocytopenia and recurrent abortion have been ...
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(1995)Protective immunity against rotavirus infection is directed against antigenic epitopes on the outer capsid proteins VP7 and VP4. The aim of this study was to characterize the VP7 and VP4 antigenic types circulating in ...