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    • Aedo Sánchez, Cristian; Aguilar Vidal, Enzo (Walter de Gruyter GMBH, 2020)
      In animal models, prolonged exposure (2 h) to high-level noise causes an irreparable damage to the synapses between the inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers within the cochlea. Nevertheless, this injury does not ...
    • Kusanovic, Juan Pedro; Vargas, Paula; Ferrer Márquez, Fernando; Díaz, Francisco; Córdova, Víctor; Martinovic Titiro, Carolina; Valdés, Rafael; Rosas, Alejandra; Luna, Daniela; Silva, Pablo; Silva, Karla; Nilo, María Elena; Silva, María José; Espejo, Eduardo; Zambrano, María Andrea; García, Jhon; Parra Lara, Luis Gabriel; Escobar, María Fernanda (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Objective:Ureaplasma urealyticumandMycoplasma hominisare the most common microorganisms found in the amniotic fluid of patients at risk for preterm delivery. However, culture techniques for genital mycoplasms require special ...
    • Martínez, Pablo; Magaña, Irene; Vohringer Cárdenas, Paul; Guajardo Tobar, Viviana; Rojas Castillo, María Graciela (Wiley, 2020)
      Objective To develop and validate a brief screening instrument for postpartum depression in resource-constrained primary care settings. Method Secondary data analysis of a cohort of 305 mothers (Mdn(age) = 26) attending ...
    • Blanco, Isabel; Valeiro, Beatriz; Torres Castro, Rodrigo; Barberán García, Anael; Torralba, Yolanda; Moisés, Jorge; Sebastián, Laura; Osorio, Jeisson; Ríos, José; Gimeno Santos, Elena; Roca, Josep; Barbera, Joan A. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Introduction: The impact of pulmonary hypertension (PH) on exercise tolerance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been fully elucidated. It is necessary to characterize pulmonary hemodynamics in patients ...
    • Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Cuadrado Nahum, Cristóbal; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea; Yohannessen Vásquez, Karla; Lefio Celedón, Luis Álvaro; Bertoglia Arredondo, María Paz; Eguiguren Bravo, Pamela; Siches, Izkia; Iglesias Álamos, Verónica; Arteaga Herrera, Óscar (Pan Amer Health, 2020)
      Objectives. To report the surveillance of COVID-19 pandemic in Chile and analyse the response to public health interventions implemented from 3 March to 30 June 2020 and to assess the risks of collapse of the health care ...
    • Anguita Henríquez, Rodrigo; Moya Behrens, René; Sáez Vergara, Víctor; Bhardwaj, Gaurav; Salinas Chau, Alejandro; Kobus Rivera, Rudolf; Nazar, Cristóbal; Manríquez Ortega, Rodolfo; Charteris, David G. (Springer, 2020)
      Objectives To describe, evaluate, and identify the characteristics, prognostic factors, and visual outcomes in patients with intraocular foreign body (IOFB) in a Latin American population. Methods A retrospective, observational ...
    • Huneeus, Andrea; Capella Sepúlveda, Daniela; Cabieses, Baltica; Cavada, Gabriel (Elsevier, 2020)
      Study Objective: The Chilean legislation forbids induced abortion, so little is known of the young women who have abortions and what determinants are associated with this practice. In this study we examined the association ...
    • Seijmonsbergen Schermers, Anna E.; van den Akker, Thomas; Rydah, Eva; Beeckman, Katrien; BogaertsI, Annick; Binfa Esbir, Lorena; Frith, Lucy; Gross, Mechthild M.; Misselwitz, Björn; Hálfdánsdóttir, Berglind; Daly, Deirdre; Corcoran, Paul; Calleja Agius, Jean; Calleja, Neville; Gatt, Miriam; Anne, Anne Britt Vika; Declercq, Eugene; Gissler, Mika; Heino, Anna; Lindgren, Helena; de Jonge, Ank (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2020)
      In this multinational cross-sectional study, existing data on 4,729,307 singleton births at >= 37 weeks in 2013 from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany (Hesse), ...
    • Artaza, Osvaldo; Santacruz, Javier; Girard, Jacques; Álvarez, Daniela; Barría Iroume, Soledad; Tetelboin, Carolina; Tomasina, Fernando; Medina, Arnaldo (Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2020)
      El desafío de avanzar hacia la materialización del derecho a la salud para todos a través de la estrategia para el acceso y la cobertura universal de salud (salud universal) requiere de múltiples condiciones y acciones. Una ...
    • O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Torres Torreti, Juan Pablo (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2020)
    • Reyes, María E.; Fuente López, Marjorie de la; Hermoso Ramello, Marcela; Ili, Carmen G.; Brebi, Priscilla (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Cancer is a significant medical issue, being one of the main causes of mortality around the world. The therapies for this pathology depend on the stage in which the cancer is found, but it is usually diagnosed at an advanced ...
    • Gómez Ortega, Álvaro Rodrigo; Carrasco, Loreto (SAGE, 2020)
    • Jara, Claudia; Oyarzún Ampuero, Felipe; Carrión, Flavio; González Echeverría, Esteban; Cappelli, Claudio; Caviedes Fernández, Pablo (BMC, 2020)
      Background: In type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM) pancreatic beta cells are destroyed. Treatment entails exogenous insulin administration and strict diet control, yet optimal glycemic control is hardly attainable. Islet ...
    • Quintanilla González, María Elena; Ezquer, Fernando; Morales Retamales, Paola; Ezquer, Marcelo; Olivares, Belén; Santapau, Daniela; Herrera-Marschitz Muller, Mario; Israel Jacard, Yedy (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Chronic ethanol intake results in brain oxidative stress and neuroinflammation, which have been postulated to perpetuate alcohol intake and to induce alcohol relapse. The present study assessed the mechanisms involved in ...
    • Ávila Smirnow, Daniela; Vargas Leal, Carmen; Beytía Reyes, María de los Ángeles; Cortés Zepeda, Rocío; Escobar, Raúl G.; Kleinsteuber Saa, Karin; Lagos Lucero, Marcela; Avaria Benapres, María de los Ángeles; Padilla Pérez, Oslando; Casar Leturia, Juan Carlos; Mellado Sagredo, Cecilia; Sternberg, Damien (Elsevier, 2020)
      Non-dystrophic myotonias are a group of rare neuromuscular diseases linked to SCN4A or CLCN1 . Among the subtypes, myotonia permanens, associated with the Gly1306Glu variant of SCN4A , is a relatively less frequent but ...
    • Ramírez Santana, Muriel; Zúñiga Venegas, Liliana; Corral Zavala, Sebastián; Roeleveld, Nel; Groenewoud, Hans; Van der Velden, Koos; Scheepers, Paul T. J.; Pancetti, Floria (BMC, 2020)
      Background Previous biomonitoring studies have shown that people in the rural population of Coquimbo, the major agricultural area in northern Chile are being occupationally and environmentally exposed to organophosphate/carbamate ...
    • Moreno, Elizabeth; García, S. Diana; Bainto, Emelia; Salgado, Andrea P.; Parish, Austin; Rosellini, Benjamín D.; Ulloa Gutiérrez, Rolando; Garrido García, Luis; Dueñas, Lourdes; Estripeaut, Dora; Luciani, Kathia; Rodríguez Quiroz, Francisco; Águila, Olguita del; Camacho Moreno, Germán; Gómez, Virgen; Viviani Salgado, Tamara; Álvarez Olmos, Martha; de Souza Marques, Heloisa Helena; Faugier Fuentes, Enrique; Saltigeral Simental, Patricia; López Medina, Eduardo; Miño León, Greta; Beltrán, Sandra; Martínez Medina, Lucila; Pirez, María C.; Cofré, Fernanda; Tremoulet, Adriana H. (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Objective:To characterize the clinical presentation and outcomes of Kawasaki disease (KD) in infants Methods:We evaluated 36 infants <6 months old and 940 infants >= 6 months old diagnosed with KD in Latin America. We ...
    • Reyes Catalán, Víctor; Herrera Videla, Emilio; Ebensperger Darrouy, Germán; Sanhueza Reinoso, Emilia; Giussani, D. A.; Llanos Mansilla, Jorge (American Physiological Society, 2020)
      Most mammals have a poor tolerance to hypoxia, and prolonged O-2 restriction can lead to organ injury, particularly during fetal and early postnatal life. Nevertheless, the llama (Lama Glama) has evolved efficient mechanisms ...
    • Labrosse, Roxane; Chu, Julia; Armant, Myriam; Van der Spek, Jet; Miggelbrink, Alexandra; Fong, Johnson; Everett, John; Raymond, Hayley; Kessler, Lyanna; Dansereau, Colleen; Mackinnon, Brenda; Koo, Stephanie; Morris, Emily; London, Wendy; Ozen, Ahmet; Baris, Safa; Despotovic, Jenny; Forbes, Lisa; Saitoh, Akihiko; Takachi, Takayuki; King Domínguez, Alejandra; Nguyen, Mai Anh Thi; Do, Uyen Vy Vu; Bushman, Frederic; Galy, Anne; Notarangelo, Luigi; Williams, David; Pai, Sung-Yun (Springer, 2020)
    • Fuentes, A.; Sequeira, K.; Muñoz, A.; Tapia Pizarro, A. (Oxford University Press, 2020)