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    • Oyaneder Terrazas, Javiera; Polanco, Cassandra; Figueroa, Diego; Barriga, Andrés; García, Carlos (Taylor and Francis, 2020)
      Lipophilic marine toxins (LMTs) are made up of multiple groups of toxic analogues, which are characterised by different levels of cellular and toxic action. The most prevalent groups in the southern Pacific zone are: a) ...
    • Balcells, María Elvira; Carvajal, Camila; Fernández, Paula; Ruiz-Tagle, Cinthya; Pizarro, Alejandra; García, Patricia; Peña, Carlos; Cuevas, Gerardo; Naves Pichuante, Rodrigo (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
      Background: Contact investigation is cardinal in the control of tuberculosis (TB) since it helps to stop its transmission. In Chile, the National TB Program strategy does not include latent TB infection testing, regular ...
    • Ríos, Ulises; Moya, Pablo R.; Urrejola, Óscar; Hermosilla, Jimena; González, René; Muñoz, Paulina; Morán, Javier; Solervicens, Paula; Jiménez de la Jara, Juan (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
      Background: A history of child abuse is common and has a significant impact in the clinical course of patients diagnosed with bipolar disorders (BD). Aims: To assess the frequency of child abuse experiences in patients BD ...
    • Lolas Stepke, Víctor (Univ. Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2020)
    • Rivera Krstulović, Catalina; Durán Aniotz, Claudia Andrea (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2020)
      The clinical features of Alzheimer's disease (AD), for example the progressive memory loss, are produced by neuronal loss and synaptic dysfunction. These events have been associated with histopathological alterations in ...
    • Traipe, Leonidas; Gauro, Fuad; Goya Lizana, María; Cartes, Cristian; López Ponce, Daniela; Salinas, Daniela; Cabezas, Mauricio; Zapata, Claudia; Flores, Patricia; Matus, Gonzalo; Segovia, Christian; León, Alba; López Solis, Remigio (Soc Medica Santiago, 2020)
      Background: Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) is the most commonly used questionnaire worldwide to detect dry eye disease. Although it is massively used in clinical practice in Chile, its use has not been validated yet ...
    • Banda, Ricardo; Castillo, Jéssica; Vélez, Juan Carlos (Hanley & Belfus Elsevier, 2020)
      People with proximal transhumeral amputation usually choose prosthesis as an alternative to improve occupational performance, but frequently presenting difficulties in the distal control, poor elevation to reach some object, ...
    • Warady, Bradley A.; Schaefer, Franz; Bagga, Arvind; Cano Schuffeneger, Francisco; McCulloch, Mignon; Yap, Hui-Kim; Shroff, Rukshana (Sage, 2020)
      Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains the most widely used modality for chronic dialysis in children, particularly in younger children and in lower and middle income countries (LMICs). We present guidelines for ...
    • Luarte Navarro, Alejandro; Henzi, Roberto; Fernández, Anllely; Gaete, Diego; Cisternas, Pablo; Pizarro, Matías; Batiz, Luis Federico; Villalobos, Isabel; Masalleras, Matías; Vergara, Rodrigo; Varas Godoy, Manuel; Abarzúa Catalán, Lorena; Herrera Molina, Rodrigo; Lafourcade, Carlos; Wyneken, Úrsula (MDPI, 2020)
      In the last few decades, it has been established that astrocytes play key roles in the regulation of neuronal morphology. However, the contribution of astrocyte-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) to morphological ...
    • Vélez, María Victoria; Colello, Rocío; Etcheverría, Analía Inés; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto Mauricio; Montero Forero, David Arturo; Acuña, Patricia; Guillén Fretes, Rosa María; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; Padola, Nora Lía (Springer, 2020)
      Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are zoonotic food pathogens associated with foodborne diarrheal illness, hemorrhagic colitis, and complications such as hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). The ability to adhere ...
    • Weitzel, Thomas; Rodríguez, Fernanda; Noriega, Luis Miguel; Marcotti, Alejandra; Durán, Luisa; Palavecino Oñate, Carla; Porte, Lorena; Aguilera, Ximena; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo; Cortés Moncada, Claudia (Public Library Science, 2020)
      Background Coinfections of HIV patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are mayor public health problems, contributing to the emerging burden of HIV-associated hepatic mortality. Coinfection ...
    • Viscaino, Michelle; Maass Oñate, Juan Cristóbal; Délano Reyes, Paul; Torrente Avendaño, Mariela; Stott Caro, Carlos; Auat Cheein, Fernando (Public Library Science, 2020)
      In medicine, a misdiagnosis or the absence of specialists can affect the patient's health, leading to unnecessary tests and increasing the costs of healthcare. In particular, the lack of specialists in otolaryngology in ...
    • Delgado Araneda, Matías; Valenzuela Cortés, Romina; Maza León, Verónica de la; Rabello Gaitero, Marcela; Álvarez Neyra, Ana María; Contardo Pérez, María Verónica; Zubieta, Marcela; Gutiérrez, Valentina; Claverie, Ximena; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Salgado Muñoz, Carmen; Tordecilla Cadiu, Juan; Varas Palma, Mónica; Avilés Lohmann, Carmen; Venegas F., Marcela; Villarroel Cickovic, Milena; Santolaya de Pablo, María Lorena (Wiley, 2020)
      Background Invasive fungal disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia (HRFN). Repeated serum galactomannan (sGM) measurements have been described as an ...
    • Marmel, Frederic; Cortese Barrios, Daniela; Kluk, Karolina (Elsevier, 2020)
      his study aimed to advance towards a clinical diagnostic method for detection of cochlear synaptopathy with the hypothesis that synaptopathy should be manifested in elevated masked thresholds for brief tones. This hypothesis ...
    • Coloma Tirapegui, Carmen Julia; De Barbieri, Zulema; Quezada Gaponov, Camilo; Barboza Bravo, Carolina Andrea; Chaf, Gabriela; Araya Castillo, Claudia (Elsevier, 2020)
      Predictors of reading comprehension among children with SLI have been rarely studied in Spanish. Even more sparse are longitudinal studies inspecting the evolution of their reading abilities. The aim of the present study ...
    • Jiménez Molina, Álvaro (Assoc Amades, 2020)
      Les blessures auto-infligées (grattages, coupures et brûlures sur le tissu corporel) sont devenues un problème majeur chez les adolescents et les adolescentes. La recherche en psychiatrie et en sciences sociales a rarement ...
    • Soto, Julio; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Busch, Alexander Siegfried; Almstrup, Kristian; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Iñíguez Vila, Germán; Juul, Anders; Mericq Guila, Verónica (Wiley, 2020)
      Context Transient thelarche (TT), that is, the appearance, regression and subsequent reappearance of breast buds, is a frequent phenomenon, but little is known about pubertal transition in these girls. Objective To describe ...
    • Valenzuela Bassi, Rodrigo; Flores, Iván Godoy; Urrutia Ramírez, María; Fuentes, Francisca; Sabat Opazo, Pablo E.; Llanos, Carolina; Cuitiño Tride, Loreto; Urzúa Salinas, Cristhian A. (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Non-infectious uveitis (NIU) is a group of disorders characterized by intraocular inflammation at different levels of the eye. NIU is a leading cause of irreversible blindness in working-age population in the developed ...
    • Domínguez Cancino, Karen A.; Palmieri, Patrick A.; Martínez Gutiérrez, María Soledad (SAGE, 2020)
      Introduction: Chilean policy makers reformed the national health policy for primary health care (PHC), shifting from the traditional biomedical model to the integral family and community health model with a biopsychosocial ...
    • Araneda, O. F.; Calderón, A.; Terreros, L.; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel (RedIRIS, 2020)
      OBJECTIVE: to determine the effect of an aerobic swimming test in a chlorinated indoor swimming pool on the concentration of NO2-, H2O2 and pH in exhaled breath condensate. METHODS: ten amateur swimmers swam 2.5 km in a ...