Facultad de Medicina: Recent submissions

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    • Treatment of localized and locally advanced, high-risk prostate cancer: A report from the first prostate ... 
      Khauli, Raja; Ferrigno, Robson; Guimarães, Gustavo; Bulbulan, Muhammad; Serrano Uson, Pedro Luis Junior; Salvajoli, Bernardo; Freitas Palhares, Daniel Moore; Racy, Douglas; Gil, Erlon; Freire de Arruda, Fernando; Caserta Lemos, Gustavo; Carvalhal, Gustavo Franco; de Carvalho, Icaro Thiago; Fernandes Martins, Igor Agustín; Pinto Gimpel, Iván Frederico; Salvajoli, João Víctor; Chambo, José Luis; Pontes, José; Ribeiro Filho, Leopoldo Alves; Nogueira, Lucas; Pereira Freitas, Marcelo Roberto; Wroclawski, Marcelo; Arap, Marco Antonio; Sadi, Marcus Vinicius; Coelho, Rafael; Gadia, Rafael; Ledezma Rojas, Rodrigo Antonio; Moraes Hanriot, Rodrigo de; Baroni, Ronaldo; Zequi, Stenio; Nahas, William Carlos; Alfer, Wladimir; Cotait Maluf, Fernando (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2021)
      PURPOSE To generate and present survey results on important issues relevant to treatment and follow-up of localized and locally advanced, high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) focusing on developing countries. METHODS A panel ...
    • The relation between persistent poor health after COVID-19 and respiratory complications or initial disease ... 
      Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernan; Vilaró, Jordi; Torralba, Yolanda; Peroy Badal, Renata; Vasconcello Castillo, Luis Eduardo (American Thoracic Society, 2021)
    • The impact of socioeconomic and phenotypic traits on self‑perception of ethnicity in Latin America 
      Paschetta, Carolina; Azevedo, Soledad De; Ramallo, Virginia; Cintas, Celia; Pérez, Orlando; Navarro, Pablo; Bandieri, Lucas; Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha; Adhikari, Kaustubh; Bortolini, M. Catira; Poletti Ferrara, Giovanni; Gallo, Carla; Bedoya, Gabriel; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Acuña Alonzo, Víctor; Ruiz Linares, Andrés; González José, Rolando (Nature, 2021)
      Self-perception of ethnicity is a complex social trait shaped by both, biological and non-biological factors. We developed a comprehensive analysis of ethnic self-perception (ESP) on a large sample of Latin American ...
    • Effect of positive end-expiratory pressure on lung injury and haemodynamics during experimental acute ... 
      Araos, Joaquín; Alegría, Leyla; García, Aline; Cruces, Pablo; Soto, Dagoberto; Erranz, Benjamín; Salomón, Tatiana; Medina, Tania; García, Patricio; Dubo, Sebastián; Bachmann, Maria C.; Basoalto, Roque; Valenzuela, Emilio D.; Rovegno, Maximiliano; Vera, Magdalena; Retamal, Jaime; Cornejo Rosas, Rodrigo Alfredo; Bugedo, Guillermo; Bruhn, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Lung rest has been recommended during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Whether positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) confers lung protection ...
    • Video Intervention Therapy for primary caregivers in a child psychiatry unit: a randomized feasibility trial 
      Leyton, Fanny; Olhaberry, Marcia; Morán, Javier; Cerda, Cecilia de la; León, María José; Sieverson, Catalina; Alfaro, Ángela; Hernández, Camila; Alvardo, Rubén; Steele, Howard (BMC, 2021)
      Background During child psychiatry hospitalization, working with the families or attachment figures is a challenge, most of the children who are admitted to these units come from multi-problem families, with limited research ...
    • N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Their Lipid Mediators as A Potential Immune-Nutritional Intervention: ... 
      Herrera Vielma, Francisca; Valenzuela Báez, Rodrigo; Videla Cabrera, Luis Alberto; Zúñiga Hernández, Jéssica (MDPI, 2021)
      In recent years, the beneficial effect of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFAs) intake on human health has been widely accepted in the field of immunonutrition. Today, we find a diversity of supplements based on n-3 ...
    • Association between gender inequality and population-level health outcomes: Panel data analysis of organization ... 
      Veas, Cecilia; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Gender plays a well-recognized role in shaping health inequities. However, the population-level health consequences of gender inequalities have not been measured comprehensively. The goal of this study was to ...
    • Systematic review: genetic, neuroimaging, and fluids biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia across Latin ... 
      Durán Aniotz, Claudia Andrea; Orellana, Paulina; Rodríguez, Tomas León; Henríquez, Fernando; Cabello, Victoria; Aguirre Pinto, María Francisca; Escobedo, Tamara; Takada, Leonel T.; Pina Escudero, Stefanie D.; López, Oscar; Yokoyama, Jennifer S.; Ibáñez, Agustín; Parra, Mario A.; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea Maria (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) includes a group of clinically, genetically, and pathologically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders, affecting the fronto-insular-temporal regions of the brain. Clinically, FTD is ...
    • Congenital transmission of apicomplexan parasites: a review 
      Rojas Pirela, Maura Lina; Medina, Lisvaneth; Rojas, María Verónica; Liempi Manquel, Ana Isabel; Castillo Rivas, Christian Raúl; Pérez Pérez, Elizabeth; Guerrero Muñoz, Jesús; Araneda, Sebastián; Kemmerling Weis, Ulrike (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Apicomplexans are a group of pathogenic protists that cause various diseases in humans and animals that cause economic losses worldwide. These unicellular eukaryotes are characterized by having a complex life cycle and the ...
    • Activation of the NLRP3 Inflammasome Increases the IL-1 beta Level and Decreases GLUT4 Translocation in ... 
      Americo Da Silva, Luan; Aguilera, Javiera; Quinteros Waltemath, Oscar Alberto; Sánchez Aguilera, Pablo Ignacio; Russell, Javier; Cadagan Fuentes, Cynthia Angelica; Meneses Valdés, Roberto Andrés; Sánchez Vergara, Jeannette Romina; Estrada Hormazábal, Manuel; Jorquera, Gonzalo; Barrientos Briones, Genaro Christian; Llanos Vidal, Paola (MDPI, 2021)
      Low-grade chronic inflammation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance (IR), and skeletal muscle has a central role in this condition. NLRP3 inflammasome activation pathways promote low-grade chronic ...
    • Gender disparities in access to care for time-sensitive conditions during COVID-19 pandemic in Chile 
      Pacheco, Jorge; Crispi Galleguillos, María Francisca; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal Alfonso (BMC, 2021)
      Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions in healthcare utilization are reported in different contexts. Nevertheless, studies have not explored specifically gender disparities in access to healthcare in the context ...
    • Frequency of CYP1A1*2A polymorphisms and deletion of the GSMT1 gene in a Peruvian mestizo population 
      Alvarado, Ángel Tito; Muñoz, Ana María; Saravia Bartra, María; Valderrama Wong, Milton; González Aristegui, Daniela; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel; Bendezú, María Rocío; García, Jorge Antonio; Loja Herrera, Berta (Pensoft, 2021)
      The polymorphic variants of CYP1A1 and the deletion of GSTM1 are present in the Peruvian mestizo population. Wild type and mutated genotypes (WT/*2A and *2A/ *2A) were identified, whose allele frequencies are 0.31 (T allele) ...
    • Damage control surgical management of combined small and large bowel injuries in penetrating trauma: ¿Are ... 
      Ordóñez, Carlos A.; Parra, Michael W.; Caicedo, Yaset; Padilla, Natalia; Angamarca, Edison; Serna, José Julián; Rodríguez Holguín, Fernando; García, Alberto; Salcedo, Alexander; Pino, Luis Fernando; González Hadad, Adolfo; Herrera, Mario Alain; Quintero, Laureano; Hernández, Fabián; Franco, María Josefa; Aristizábal, Gonzalo; Toro, Luis Eduardo; Guzmán Rodríguez, Mónica Andrea; Coccolini, Federico; Ferrada, Ricardo; Ivatury, Rao (Corporación Editora Medica Valle, Colombia, 2021)
      Hollow viscus injuries represent a significant portion of overall lesions sustained during penetrating trauma. Currently, isolated small or large bowel injuries are commonly managed via primary anastomosis in patients ...
    • RvE1 Impacts the gingival inflammatory infiltrate by inhibiting the t cell response in experimental periodontitis 
      Álvarez, Carla; Abdalla, Henrique; Sulliman, Salwa; Rojas, Paola; Wu, Yu-Chiao; Almarhoumi, Rawan; Huang, Ren-Yeong; Galindo Díaz, Mario Alex; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando Marcelo; Kantarci, Alpdogan (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with the formation of dysbiotic plaque biofilms and characterized by the progressive destruction of the alveolar bone. The transition from health to disease is ...
    • Respiratory function in patients post-infection by COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis 
      Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernán; Vasconcello Castillo, Luis Eduardo; Alsina Restoy, X.; Solís Navarro, Lilian Verónica; Burgos, F.; Puppo Gallardo, Homero Luis; Vilaró, J. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: Evidence suggests lungs as the organ most affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The literature on previous coronavirus infections reports that patients may experience persistent impairment in ...
    • Relationship between everyday discrimination and substance use among adolescents in Northern Chile 
      Caqueo Urízar, Alejandra Andrea; Urzúa, Alfonso; Mena Chamorro, Patricio; Flores, Jerome; Irarrázaval Domínguez, Matías; Graniffo, Ellen; Williams, David R. (MDPI, 2021)
      Substance use is a public health problem that affects the normal physical, neurological, and psychological development of adolescents. Apparently, discrimination is an important variable for explaining the initiation and ...
    • Correction to: Study protocol and rationale of the “Cogniaction project” a crosssectional and randomized ... 
      Solís Urra, Patricio; Olivares Arancibia, Jorge; Suárez Cadenas, Ernesto; Sánchez Martínez, Javier; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Fernando; Ortega, Francisco B.; Esteban Cornejo, Irene; Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina; Castro Piñero, José; Veloz, Alejandro; Chabert, Steren; Sadarangani, Kabir P.; Zavala Crichton, Juan Pablo; Migueles, Jairo H.; Mora González, José; Quiroz Escobar, Milton Renán; Almonte Espinoza, Diego; Urzúa, Alfonso; Dragicevic Rebolledo, Constantino Danilo; Astudillo, Aland; Méndez Gassibe, Eduardo; Riquelme Uribe, Daniel Alejandro; Jarpa Azagra, Marcela; Cristi Montero, Carlos (BMC, 2021)
    • Sleep duration, physical activity, and caloric intake are related to weight status in Mexican American ... 
      Martínez, S. M.; Blanco, E.; Tschann, J. M.; Butte, N. F.; Grandner, M. A.; Pasch, L. A. (BMC, 2021)
      Background: Obesity is a serious issue, spanning all ages, and, in the U.S., disproportionately affects Latinos and African Americans. Understanding sleep, physical activity and dietary behaviors that may predict childhood ...
    • Patrón de uso de alcohol y su asociación con problemas sociales en población general 
      Pizarro Muñoz, Esteban (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      Antecedentes: El consumo de alcohol es un factor de riesgo para múltiples enfermedades, sin embargo, se conoce poco sobre la relación del uso de alcohol y consecuencias sociales. Objetivo: Determinar asociación entre ...
    • Perfil de morbimortalidad en población adolescente chilena entre 2001-2017 
      Espinoza Farías, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      Introducción: El período adolescente es concebido como aquella etapa del ciclo vital que experimenta el mejor nivel de salud en comparación a sus períodos posteriores. No obstante, constituye un período crítico desde el ...