Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(Elsevier Doyma, 2018)© 2018 SEICAPBackground: Asthma hospitalization rates in Chilean children have increased in the last 14 years, but little is known about the factors associated with this. Objective: Describe clinical characteristics of ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Imaging with F18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT is used to determine sites of abnormal glucose metabolism and can be used to characterize and localize many ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2018)© 2018 Reyes, Castillo-Galán, Hernandez, Herrera, Ebensperger and Llanos. The pulmonary arteries are exquisitely responsive to oxygen changes. They rapidly and proportionally contract as arterial PO2 decrease, and they ...
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(Springer Netherlands, 2018)© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Obesity is characterized by a chronic inflammatory process, with an increased volume of total adipose tissue, especially visceral, which secretes ...
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(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018)© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel method to analyse dynamic interactions of stakeholders to explain how a set of agents can act by considering the power/influence ...
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(Interciencia Association, 2018)© 2018 Interciencia Association. All rights reserved. The revision and evaluation of the teaching practice is a demand of the society that every time demands a better formation of competent professionals in its area. An ...
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(S. Karger AG, 2018)© 2018 S. Karger AG, Basel.Introduction: The laparoscopic approach for the treatment of gastric cancer has many advantages. However, outside Asia there are few large case series. Aim: To evaluate postoperative morbidity, ...
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(John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2018)© 2017 by the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. We illustrate the color Doppler sonographic findings in primary cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma. Eight cases (4 female and 4 male; mean age, 75.4 years) were ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The gut microbiome has a significant impact on host health, especially at the metabolic level. Dietary compounds arriving at the colon have a large influence on the composition of the gut microbiome. ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: There is conflicting evidence regarding the role of salt intake in blood pressure (BP). Aim: To estimate the impact of salt consumption on the BP level ...
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(Kowsar Medical Publishing Company, 2018)© 2018, Asian Journal of Sports Medicine.Background: Anearly recovery of Achilles TendonRupture Score (ATRS)andsingle-leg heel raises after Achilles rupture is a desirable aim to favor the sport return, but is unknown if ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: It is widely known that infertility and its treatment have a negative impact on patients´ well-being, yet not much is known about patients´ satisfaction ...
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(Thomas Land Publishers Inc., 2018)© 2018 Thomas Land Publishers, Inc. Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) above T6 is followed by a loss of sympathetic supraspinal control of the heart, disturbing the autonomic balance and increasing cardiovascular risk. ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: The use of psychoactive substances among adolescents is a major social and public health concern. Aim: To analyze association of substance abuse and ...
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(Sociedad de Anestesiologia de Chile, 2018)© 2018 Sociedad de Anestesiologia de Chile.All Recived. Corrective surgery is a therapeutic alternative for patients with scoliosis Cobb angle > 40-45. This surgery offers a solution to aesthetic deformities, prevents ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)© 2017, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. The prevalence and mortality of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing in Chile, constituting a public health problem. Pulmonary and systemic ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2017)Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women in the world. In 2005, it was incorporated to the Explicit Guaranties Health System (GES) in Chile. Aim: To describe the demographic and clinical ...
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(Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2018)© 2018 SENPE y Arán Ediciones S.L. Introduction: obesity is a global pandemic and it is the biggest risk factor for death worldwide nowadays. Studies suggest that both cardiorespiratory fitness and fat oxidation in exercise ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2017)Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare autoimmune disease of the neuromuscu-lar junction. It is characterized by variable weakness and excessive fatigability of skeletal muscles. In the last few years, numerous reports have been ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2018)© 2018 Pokrant et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
