Browsing by Title Facultad de Medicina
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Health-related quality of life after pediatric liver transplant: Single-center experience in Chile (2013)Introduction Orthotopic liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for most terminal liver diseases in children. Currently, the improved survival of these patients is well documented, but their quality of life ...
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(2015)Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide fi nancial risk protection. In particular, ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2020)
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2020)
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(2010-03)Background—Dengue fever is one of the most significant re-emerging tropical diseases, despite our expanding knowledge of the disease, viral tropism is still not known to target heart tissues or muscle. Methods—A prospective ...
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(2010)It is unknown why heart failure progresses even when patients are treated with the best therapy available. Evidences suggest that heart failure progression is due to loss of neurohumoral blockade in advanced stages of the ...
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(1994)To assess the influence of intrauterine growth retardation on heart rate (HR) and HR variability during sleep, we performed polygraphic recordings in 10 small-for-gestational age (SGA) and 16 appropriate-for-gestational ...
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(Biomed Central, 2013)Background Heart transplantation is the therapy of choice for advance heart failure. Our group developed two transplant programs at Instituto Nacional del Torax and Clinica Davila. We report our clinical experience ...
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(1993)To investigate the influence of prematurity and postnatal age on the maturation of the autonomic nervous system function, we analysed heart-rate and heart-rate variability in twelve prematurely born infants (<37 weeks ...
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(Springer-Verlag, 1995)A two dimensional numerical investigation of the unsteady laminar flow pattern and forced convective heat transfer in a channel with a built-in rectangular cylinder is presented. The channel in the entrance region has a ...
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(AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH, 2011-04-15)Purpose: This study characterizes, biologically and clinically, a novel type of dendritic cells (DC) produced in the short term and called tumor antigen–presenting cells (TAPCells). In particular, we identified factors ...
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(1994)The Chilean mine El Teniente is the world's largest underground copper mine. It operates a giant smelter at Caletones (34° 7′ S, 70° 27′ W) and we have found it is the major source of air contamination in the region. In ...
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(2012)We prospectively identified 96 women consuming at least 4 drinks/day during pregnancy by screening 9628 pregnant women. In these women with heavy prenatal alcohol use, there were three stillbirths and one preterm delivery; ...
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(JOHN WILEY & SONS, 2004-09-05)Serotonin (5HT) plays major roles in the physiological regulation of many behavioral processes, including sleep, feeding, and mood, but the genetic mechanisms by which serotonergic neurons arise during development are ...
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(WJG Press, 2015)© The Author(s) 2015. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. The sequence of events associated with the development of gastric cancer has been described as "the gastric precancerous cascade". ...
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Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer: adaptive cellular mechanisms involved in disease progression (Frontiers Media SA, 2018)Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is the major risk factor associated with the development of gastric cancer. The transition from normal mucosa to non-atrophic gastritis, triggered primarily by H. pylori infection, ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2017)Background: Mechanisms underlying the high clinical and histological diversity of celiac disease (CD) remain elusive. Helicobacter pylori (Hp) chronically infects gastric and duodenal mucosa and has been associated with ...
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(2011)Background: Helicobacter pylori colonizes the acid environment of the gastric mucosa. Like other enteric bacterial pathogens, including Salmonella enterica, which must survive a brief exposure to that environment, H. pylori ...
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Helicobacter pylori in human health and disease: Mechanisms for local gastric and systemic effects (Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited, 2018)© The Author(s) 2018. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori ) is present in roughly 50% of the human population worldwide and infection levels reach over 70% in developing countries. The infection has classically been associated ...