Repositorio Académico de la Universidad de Chile: Recent submissions
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(2013)BACKGROUND: Rapid early ponderal growth is associated with adverse metabolic risks in young adults born at term. AIM: To determine whether there are differences in body composition, resting energy expenditure (REE) ...
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(2013)BACKGROUND: In chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, malnutrition is common with loss of muscle mass and decreased bone mineral density (BMD), increasing the risk of morbidity. OBJECTIVE: To compare body composition, bone ...
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(2013)INTRODUCTION: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by the presence of chronic airflow obstruction and associated endocrinometabolic disorders, which usually worsen the clinic and prognostic of the ...
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(2013)The p21Waf1/Cip1 protein (hereafter, p21) and the c‑Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) are two well-characterized cell modulators that play a crucial role in cell differentiation, senescence and apoptosis. Here, we report that ...
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Selective chemoembolization with adriamycin-Urografin-Lipiodol in the treatment of hepatocarcinoma (1990)Various methods of regional chemotherapy have been used in patients with non resectable heptic carcinoma. We report our preliminary experience with embolization using adriamycin-urographin-lipiodol in 2 patients with this ...
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(1990)Epithelial alterations in pancreatic ducts may have a premalignant nature. We compared the incidence of different lesions in 49 pancreatic cancer specimens compared to 100 controls. Simple hyperplasia, mucosecretory ...
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(1990)The great diversity of commercially available products for the serologic diagnosis of Chagas disease led us to conduct a study of these products in comparison with the indirect immunofluorescence test. Percent agreement ...
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(1990)In 160 girls from low and middle socio-economic class of Santiago we correlated the age at menarque with genetic markers such as ABO blood group, Rh, MN, Xg, haptoglobins, Esterase D and Phosphoglucomutase. No significant ...
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(2013)Context: The long-term effects of pure 17β-estradiol (E₂) depending on route of administration have not been well characterized. Objective: Our objective was to assess metabolic effects of oral vs transdermal (TD) 17β-E₂ ...
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(2013)BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE: Trapping with distal revascularization is a therapeutic option for giant aneurysms that cannot be clipped or coiled. In skull base lesions such as meningiomas, arterial encasement is often ...
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(2013)The etiology of brain abscesses is mostly polymicrobial. Streptococci and anaerobic bacteria are the most commonly isolated pathogens. We report a previously healthy female without predisposing factors, presenting with a ...
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(2013)The activity in the WGS reaction of Cu/ZrO2 catalysts prepared by a method of refluxing in an aqueous NH4OH solution is studied. It is shown that at 3% Cu load the methods of impregnation over monoclinic or tetragonal ZrO2 ...
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(1990)A 16 year old man developed progressive swelling at the left hypochondrium over a 3 month period. Non painful splenomegaly was shown by physical examination and confirmed by ultrasonography and scintigraphy. Successful ...
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(2012)Background Trials of imatinib have provided evidence of activity in adults with Philadelphia-chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), but the drug's role when given with multidrug chemotherapy to children ...
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(1990)Outbreaks of measles have occurred in Chile in 1979, 1985 and 1988. A greater proportion of cases affected babies under 1 year of age and patients above age 14. However, the increase in mortality was small. Low quality of ...
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(2012)Background: Chronic hepatitis C is an important health problem in Chile. In 2005, the Ministry of Health started a pilot treatment program with peg interferon and ribavirin, to be developed in public hospitals all over ...
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(1990)The autoimmune polyglandular syndrome is characterized by the association of 2 or more endocrine disorders of autoimmune origin which may coexist with autoimmune disorders in other organs. Roughly 25% of patients with an ...
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(1990)Linkage imbalance for the B and DR loci (HLA) was found in a Chilean sample of families where a member had been proposed for transplantation. The B7-DR2 and B14-DR1 haplotypes were significantly more frequent than expected. ...
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(1990)Four patients with thallium toxicity were treated with Prussian blue, 125 mg/kg/day. The diagnosis was made on clinical grounds and confirmed by detection of thallium in the urine. Electromyographic, evoked potentials and ...
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(1990)DNA isolated from the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi has been found to contain 5-methylcytosine. Analysis of T. cruzi DNA by both HpaII and MspI restriction endonucleases suggests that the sequence -CCGG- is not methylated. ...
