Browsing by Author "Brahm Barril, Javier"
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(1993)BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B vaccine has demonstrated to be very effective and safe preventing hepatitis B virus infection. Long term protection induced by hepatitis B vaccination depends on the initial immune response and the ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2004-04)We report a girl with a chronic hepatitis caused by C virus diagnosed at the age of nine, unsuccessfully treated with interferon and ribavirine. Two years later, she was subjected to a liver transplantation. She maintained ...
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(Elsevier Doyma, 2016)
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(1994)Thirty two patients (18 males whose ages ranged from 32 to 68 years old) with hepatitis C virus chronic hepatitis (positive anti-HCV by ELISA, confirmed by RIBA II) that were followed by the authors during 2 to 25 years, ...
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(1992)Collagenous and microscopic colitis have been described as causes for abundant watery diarrhea with a normal radiologic and endoscopic aspect of the colonic mucosa. Microscopic colitis is characterized by diffuse intraepithelial ...
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(1997)Altered small intestinal motility has been observed in patients with liver cirrhosis. Its pathophysiology remains to be defined. Our aim was to investigate the effect of orthotopic liver transplantation on small intestinal ...
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(1994)We studied 20 female patients, aged 51 +/- 13.6 years old, with the diagnosis of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) to assess osteopenia, main involved sites and its relation to menopause, some parameters of mineral metabolism ...
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(1990)We randomized 31 cirrhotic patients with tense ascites to a Group A receiving only diuretic therapy (spironolactone, furosemide, n = 14) or a Group B treated with paracentesis and intravenous albumin infusion (n = 17). ...
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(1995)Pre S1 antigen was measured using an ELISA technique in patients with different forms of hepatitis B virus infection. It was detected in 10 of 19 patients with acute hepatitis B (53%), 12 of 15 chronic hepatitis B virus ...
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(1992)Pre S2 was investigated using a monoclonal ELISA in 100 samples from 52 patients with different forms of infection with Hepatitis B virus. Pre S2 was present in 18 of 19 patients with acute hepatitis. Its persistence for ...
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(Fundacion Clinica Medica Sur, 2018)
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(1990)Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic, progressive and often fatal cholestatic liver disease. We report clinical characteristics and follow up in 33 consecutive patients studied at a single university hospital during the ...
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Selective chemoembolization with adriamycin-Urografin-Lipiodol in the treatment of hepatocarcinoma (1990)Various methods of regional chemotherapy have been used in patients with non resectable heptic carcinoma. We report our preliminary experience with embolization using adriamycin-urographin-lipiodol in 2 patients with this ...
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(1998)Objective: Previous studies have shown small bowel motor activity abnormalities in patients with liver cirrhosis of different etiologies, but motility has not been studied in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. Our ...
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(1991)One hundred and twenty consecutive patients with liver cirrhosis and ascites were prospectively studied in order to analyze the frequency, clinical and bacteriological features, recurrence, and prognosis of spontaneous ...
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(1991)We report 4 episodes of spontaneous bacterial pleuritis observed in 3 patients with liver cirrhosis complicated by ascites and pleural effusion. This infection mimics spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. Three episodes were ...
