Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2006)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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(2006)Background: There are great geographical differences in the incidence of type I diabetes mellitus. Aim: To determine the incidence rate of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile from ...
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(2006)Background: Insects of the subfamily triatominae are the biological vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causal agent of Chagas disease. Aim: To search for wild colonies of triatomines in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. ...
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(2006)Background: The optimal dose of Streptokinase in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction is not well established. Apparently, the thrombolytic efficacy would not increase with doses over 750.000 units. Aim: To compare ...
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(2006)Accidental ingestion of foreign bodies in childhood is an increasing problem. Although many of them can be treated with an expectant approach, allowing their passage through the gastrointestinal tract, magnets must be ...
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(2007)The endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is a critical regulator of cardiovascular homeostasis, whose dysregulation leads to different vascular pathologies. Endoglin is a component of the transforming growth factor ...
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(2006)The objective of high activity antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in patients with AIDS, is to obtain immune restoration. This means a reduction of the viral load and restitution of the CD4 cell count. A decreased rate of HIV ...
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(2006)Leuconostoc is a grampositive cocci, quite ubiquitous in nature. It is used in wine industry, and for aroma and texture of dairy products. Occasionally it has been isolated from humans in cases of bacteremia, catheter ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2006)We report a case of bacteraemia by Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus in a 77 year-old woman with immunosuppression secondary to steroid use. Diagnosis was suspected by finding Gram negative curved rods in blood cultures ...
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2006)Streptococcus pneumoniae is a rarely recognized cause of neonatal sepsis and/or meningitis, but it is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Traditionally, S. pneumoniae is identified in the laboratory by ...
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(2007)The formation of gallstones in a urethral diverticulum is a rare clinical entity and is usually seen in males. The case of a 50 year old woman is presented, who consults for hard vaginal mass and dispareunia associated ...
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(1996)In vitro mouse blastocysts produce a serum dependent outgrowth of trophoblast considered similar to in utero implantation. We observed in this system that EGF induces morphological and biochemical modifications on implanted ...
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(2006)Purpose: To describe the technique of laparoscopy-assisted undiversion of an ileal conduit into a continent orthotopic ileal neobladder performed on a patient with a previous radical cystoprostatectomy and ileal conduit. ...
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(Ene Ediciones S.A., 2006)Objective: To report the complications and their respective management in our series of laparoscopic nephrectomy. Material and methods: Between November 1992 and March 2004, 319 patients underwent laparoscopic ablative ...
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(2006)Background : Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) has an increased expression in the adipose tissue of obese subjects and is involved in insulin resistance. Aim: To screen for associations between -308G/A, -238G/A, ...
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(2007)Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) regulate gene expression in response to hypoxia and in vertebrates they are known to participate in several developmental processes, including angiogenesis, vasculogenesis, heart and central ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2006)Background: The hormonal alterations observed in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) may promote implantation failure as well as disruption of their endometrial homeostasis. To evaluate cell survival of mid-secretory ...
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(2006)Background: Gastric cancer (GaC) is the second cause of death by cancer in the world and one of the first causes in Chile. However, the burden of this disease shows remarkable worldwide variation probably explained by ...
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(2006)Introduction: The objective of this study was to explore which are the limits to confidentiality that 31 psychiatrists, from Santiago (Chile) and Medellín (Colombia), consider as appropriate when dealing with information ...
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(Society of Biology of Chile, 2006)We used the single-microelectrode voltage-clamp technique to record ionic currents from pancreatic β-cells within intact mouse islets of Langerhans at 37C, the typical preparation for studies of glucose-induced "bursting" ...
