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    • Cuzco, Cecilia; Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernán; Torralba, Yolanda; Manzanares, Isabel; Muñoz Rey, Pilar; Romero García, Marta; Martínez Momblan, Ma. Antonia; Martínez Estalella, Gemma; Delgado Hito, Pilar; Castro, Pedro (MDPI, 2021)
      Intensive care unit discharge is an important transition that impacts a patient's wellbeing. Nurses can play an essential role in this scenario, potentiating patient empowerment. A systematic review was conducted using the ...
    • Marín Valdés, Arnaldo Andrés; Bull, Leonardo; Kinzie, Matthew; Andresen, Max (BMJ, 2021)
      The adequate handling of central venous catheters is a key element in the management of patients with cancer. Catheter-associated deep vein thrombosis is frequently observed in patients with malignant diseases; ...
    • Mazzucco Vezzera, Guillermo Andres; Pilon, Leonardo; Escalante, Juan Pablo; Chichizola, Nicolás; Torres Castro, Rodrigo Hernán (Cureus Inc, 2021)
      The treatment of choice for patients with advanced heart failure (HF) and with limiting symptoms with evidence of a poor prognosis despite optimal conventional treatment is a heart transplant. However, there is little ...
    • Zamorano, Mauricio; Castillo Peñaloza, Rodrigo Luis; Beltran, Jorge F.; Herrera, Lisandra; Farías, Joaquín A.; Antileo, Christian; Aguilar Gallardo, Cristóbal; Pessoa, Adalberto; Calle, Yolanda; Farías, Jorge G. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Ischemia is a severe condition in which blood supply, including oxygen (O), to organs and tissues is interrupted and reduced. This is usually due to a clog or blockage in the arteries that feed the affected organ. ...
    • Orellana, Omar; Amster Choder, Orna; Banerjee, Rajat; Ling, Jiqiang (Frontiers Media, 2021)
    • Irarrázaval Domínguez, Matías; Norambuena, Pablo; Montenegro, Cristian; Toro Devia, Olga; Vargas, Belén; Caqueo Urizar, Alejandra (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Objectives: This paper reviews the mental health policies that have been implemented in Chile in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the international context of countries' responses. Even before the start of the pandemic, ...
    • González Jara, Matías; Norambuena Norambuena, Scarlette; Inostroza Allende, Luis Felipe; Lennon Zaninovic, Loreto; Quezada Gaponov, Camilo Ernesto; Cornejo Farías, Javiera (Univ Castilla-La Mancha, 2021)
      Babies with cleft palate manifest problems in sucking dynamics, due to the communication between the nasal and oral cavity. The aim of the study was to characterize and compare general and feeding history in babies between ...
    • Altimir, Carolina; Jiménez, Juan Pablo (2021)
      After more than a century of existence, theoretical development, research, and clinical practice within the psychoanalytic movement have consistently demonstrated that psychoanalysis is not a unitary and autonomous ...
    • COVIDSurg Collaborative (Oxford Univ Press, England, 2021)
      To support the global restart of elective surgery, data from an international prospective cohort study of 8492 patients (69 countries) was analysed using artificial intelligence (machine learning techniques) to develop a ...
    • Fernández González, Loreto; Russo Namías, Moisés; Lagos, Rodrigo; Bravo, Paulina; Troncoso Vicencio, Alexis Ildefonso; Acevedo Echeverría, Claudia (Cancer Intelligence Ltd, England, 2021)
      Introduction: Developing instruments to screen for relevant aspects of advanced illness is key to identifying palliative needs and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in this population. The objective of this ...
    • Cirillo Totera, Juan I.; Fleiderman Valenzuela, José G.; Garrido Arancibia, Jorge A.; Pantoja Contreras, Samuel Tomas; Beaulieu Lalanne, Lyonel Andre; Álvarez Lemos, Facundo L. (British Editorial Soc Bone & Joint Surgery, England, 2021)
      Adequate sagittal balance (SB) is essential to maintain an upright, efficient, and painless posture. It has been shown that sagittal profile alterations affect quality of life of patients with a similar or even greater ...
    • Mendez, María Pía (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2021)
      Epistocracy, roughly amounts to distributing political power in accordance with each citizen's competence for political decision-making. The problem, epistocrats hold, is that most voters in democracies are incompetent to ...
    • Hernández San Martín, M. J.; Kaplan Zapata, Viera Tamara; Morales Huber, Claudia Marcela (Elsevier, 2021)
    • Graña, María Gabriela; Cavada Chacón, Gabriel Alfredo; Vásquez, Marjorie; Shen, Jing; Maervoet, Johan; Klint, Johan; Gómez, Jorge A. (Taylor & Francis Inc, 2021)
      Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an uncommon yet unpredictable, severe, and life-threatening disease with the highest burden in young children. In Chile, most IMD is caused by meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) and ...
    • Figueroa, Fabián; Vega Gibson, Alonso Gonzalo; Catrileo, Joseline; Gaete Argel, Aracelly Janis; Riquelme Barrios, Sebastián Andrés; Alonso Palomares, Luis Antonio; Tapia Faúndes, Lorena; Valiente Echeverría, Fernando Andrés; Soto Rifo, Ricardo Andrés; Acevedo Acevedo, Mónica Loreto (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      N 6 -methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant internal modification described in eukaryotic mRNA and several viral RNA including human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV). Here, we evaluated the impact of m6A writers, ...
    • Leal, Bryan; Torres, Héctor; Roco, Angela; Román, Ricardo; Rojo, Mario; Nieto, Elena; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel (Soc. Médica Santiago, 2021)
      Background: Vitamin K antagonists such as acenocoumarol and warfarin are usually indicated for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF). The Therapeutic Range Time (TRT) is a quality of treatment indicator. Values greater ...
    • Oyarzún Gómez, Manuel Jesús; Lanas Zanetti, Fernando Tomás; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo José; Quezada, Arnoldo L. (Soc. Medica Santiago, 2021)
      Climate changes evidenced by an increase in our planet’s mean temperature, changes in rainfall, increased sea level and extreme weather conditions, favor air and soil contamination, ocean acidification, droughts, floods, ...
    • Labra, Antonieta; Reyes Olivares, Claudio; Moreno Gómez, Felipe Nicolás; Velásquez, Nelson A,; Penna Varela, Mario Claudio; Délano Reyes, Paul Hinckley; Narins, Peter M. (Wiley, 2021)
      Effective communication requires a match among signal characteristics, environmental conditions, and receptor tuning and decoding. The degree of matching, however, can vary, among others due to different selective pressures ...
    • Alvarado, Ángel T.; Ybáñez Julca, Roberto; Muñoz, Ana María; Tejada Bechi, César; Cerro, Roberto; Quiñones Sepúlveda, Luis Abel; Varela Figueroa, Nelson Miguel; Alvarado, César André; Alvarado, Erick; Bendezú, María R.; García, Jorge A. (Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria, 2021)
      Wild type genotypes (CYP2D6) and their allelic variants have been described in a sample of a Peruvian mestizo population. The global allele frequency was 0.015 for CYP2D6*3 and 0.051 for CYP2D6*4. The percentages of ...
    • Soto, Rubén; Díaz, Luis Antonio; Rivas, Violeta; Fuentes López, Eduardo; Zalaquett, Macarena; Bruera, María José; González, Cecilia; Mezzano Puentes, Gabriel Alejandro; Benítez, Carlos (Elsevier, 2021)
      ntroduction and objectives: Frailty is characterized by a poor restoration of homeostasis after a stressor event. Although it is not usually diagnosed, it has been associated with decreased survival in cirrhotic patients. ...