Hospital Clínico: Recent submissions
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(Wiley Periodicals, 2009)Background Hydrating and emollient products are often recommended to patients under isotretinoin therapy to control the most frequent mucocutaneous side effects and to improve adherence to treatment. Aims To assess, using ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Medicina. Escuela de Terapia Ocupacional, 2009-12)El Accidente Cerebro Vascular (ACV) es la segunda causa de muerte en Chile y sus secuelas repercuten en el desempeño ocupacional; 50% necesita asistencia para bañarse, 30% para vestirse y 10% para higiene personal. La ...
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(2013-01-07)The objective of this paper is to analyze the consultations performed by the Ear, Nose and Throat service from Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile (HCUCH) in other services of the hospital during the year 2006. Using ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Streptococcal pharyngitis is common in children and adolescents. It is strongly suggested by the presence of fever, tonsillar exudate, tender enlarged anterior cervical lymph nodes and absence of cough (Centor criteria). ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Hospitalized adult patients frequently have sleep complaints. The majority of studies have principally focused in ICU patients. However, many medical and surgical disorders can disrupt the normal sleep architecture. Sleep ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Neural mechanisms involved in sleep and wakefulness generation are widely distributed in the central nervous system. Current models emphasize the pivotal role of the hypothalamus in controlling the activation and inhibition ...
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Diverticulitis perforada: alternativas de manejo quirúrgico. Caso clínico y revisión de literatura (Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Sigmoid diverticular disease is common in the occidental world and it is responsible for a great number of hospitalizations. The prevalence of diverticular disease increases with age and only in few cases it is manifest ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Infertility is now recognized as a disease by World Health Organization. It affects up to 15% of couples of childbearing age and un 4-8% of them will require high complexity assisted reproduction techniques. The delay of ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Alterations in plasma osmolality are related to changes in cell volume, which are the pathophysiological substrate of serious diseases. Under normal conditions sodium is the main determinant of plasma osmolality, and ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Gastrin is a polypeptide hormone secreted primarily by G cells of the gastric antrum. Its main function is the regulation of gastric acidity, through the release of histamine, which ultimately acts on the parietal cell. ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)This is a short review related with the current concepts and controversies in the diagnosis of intestinal bacterial overgrowth. This is a relatively complex entity present in diverse pathologies. Its adequate diagnosis has ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)The main purpose of urodynamic studies is to reproduce the patient’s symptoms and correlate them with the findings in the examination, so that we can answer the specific question that motivated it. Its success depends on ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)The safety and quality care are two attributes of the health care that are closely related. The critically ill patients are vulnerable to medical errors, and may experience preventable adverse events, often associated with ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Preeclampsia is an important cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality locally and globally. Diagnosis requires a 24 hours urine collection to determine the protein level. Current investigations had been focused on ...
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(Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2012)Objective: To systematically review all available studies that pursued the development of a questionnaire to evaluate the relationships between psychological, social and environmental characteristics and their relationship ...
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(Elsevier, 2012)Background: We sought to examine correlations between clinical validators and temperaments in clinical practice. Methods:We provided the self-report TEMPS-A (50 itemlong) to 123 consecutive patients seen in theMood ...
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(2012)Anomalous origin of coronary arteries is a rare anatomical defect and its association with acute myocardial infarction is unusual. We report a 58-year-old male with ST-Segment elevation. Myocardial infarction of the ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2012-02)Background: The presence of emotional problems may trigger drug abuse. Aim: To determine the association between illicit drug use and severity of depression symptoms among students of public secondary schools in Santiago, ...
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(2012)Background: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine-metabolic disorder commonly associated with insulin resistance (IR). Previous studies indicate about the expression of molecules involved in the insulin pathway in ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2012-01)Infection recurrence rates among hepatitis B virus infected liver allograft recipients, may be as high as 80%. Immunoprophylaxis with anti HBV gammaglobulin may reduce these rates and improve survival. The dose of anti HBV ...
