Browsing by Author "Cifuentes Ovalle, Lucía"
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(Universidad de Chile, 2012)La relación entre la audición y el desarrollo del lenguaje ha sido ampliamente demostrada, se aprende a hablar imitando los sonidos oídos y dándole la interpretación que oralmente los padres enseñan. Por ello, todos los ...
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(2013)Background: The Chilean Ministry of Health has reported a meaningful increase of births from teenager mothers (aged less than 20 years) in the period 1990-2008. On the contrary, there was a decrease of births from teenage ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)La mayoría de los individuos latinoamericanos son producto de la mezcla entre amerindios, africanos y europeos. Factores históricos han dado lugar a diversas proporciones de las contribuciones ancestrales continentales ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2015)Background: Holoprosencephaly is a structural anomaly of the brain that consists in a defect of the prosencephalon development that leads to face and neurological defects of variable intensity. Aim: To estimate holoprosencephaly ...
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(2007)Background: The effects of folic acid fortification on neural tube defects is well known. Other reports show a beneficial effect of the fortification on orofacial clefts, urinary malformations and defects caused by limb ...
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(SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, 2013-02-08)To determine the prevalence of South Amerindian Y chromosome in Chilean patients with spermatogenic failure and their association with classical and/or AZFc-partial Y chromosome deletions. We studied 400 men, 218 with ...
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(1997)Background: The Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations is an epidemiological surveillance system for congenital malformations that operates in 11 Latin American Countries. Aim: To report the incidence ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2008-02)The role of advanced maternal age as a risk factor for congenital malformations in offspring is known. However, the influence of paternal age is not clear. Aim: To evaluate the association between advanced paternal age ...
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(2006)Background: A significant increase in the frequency of twins has been described in the literature as a secondary effect of perinatal supplementation with folic acid. Aim: To verify if the frequency of twins increased in ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2011-01)The Latin American Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC) has performed an epidemiological surveillance of congenital malformations since 1967. This allows to detect any unexpected change in the incidence of ...
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(2014)Muir-Torre syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis caused by mutations in the mismatch repair genes. It is characterized by the presence of sebaceous skin tumors and internal malignancies, affecting mainly ...
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(2013)Hearing loss is the most common inherited sensorial defi ciency in humans; about 1 in 1000 children suff er from severe or profound hearing loss at birth. Mutations in the GJB2 gene are the most common cause of prelingual, ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2006-10)Background: Microtia is a congenital defect characterized by disturbances in the size and form of the ear lobe. Anotia corresponds to the absence of the ear lobe. Aim: To study the prevalence of microtia and anotia at the ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2006-10)Background: Microtia is a congenital defect characterized by disturbances in the size and form of the ear lobe. Anotia corresponds to the absence of the ear lobe. Aim: To study the prevalence of microtia and anotia at the ...
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(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2006-03)The average exclusion probability is a measure of efficiency in paternity testing; it refers to the a priori ability of a battery of tests to detect paternity inconsistencies. This parameter measures the capacity of the ...
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(2013)Background: Congenital malformations (CMF) have an important role in infant mortality. Neural tube defects (NTD) have great relevance from both social and public health points of view. The ECLAMC (Collaborative Latin ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2006-12)Background: There are some records shrowing that the frequency of Down syndrome is experiencing an increase over time. Aim: To verify whether the frequency of Down syndrome is increasing in the maternity of the University ...
