Gastrointestinal bezoars are a concretion of indigested material that can be found in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and some animals. This material forms an intraluminal mass, more commonly located in the stomach. During a large period of history animal bezoars were considered antidotes to poisons...
Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and progressive disease. Long-term survival remains poor despite of advances in specific vasodilator therapy. Aim: To describe the survival rate in a cohort of PAH patients in two referral centers in Chile. Patients and Methods: One hundred fift...
Background: High quality practice guidelines are of utmost importance in clinical medicine. Aim: To evaluate the methodological quality of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for 80 high burden health conditions included in the Explicit Guarantees in Healthcare (EGH) program available on July 2014, el...
Background: Family behavior models may influence health promoting conducts among adolescents. Aim: To determine the association between health promoting behaviors among parents and healthy behaviors of early adolescents. Material and Methods: Analysis of the baseline assessment of a longitudinal study of...
Background: Parasitic infections in children reflect social inequalities throughout the world, especially in urban and rural territories. Aim: To assess inequalities in the prevalence of infections by protozoa and intestinal helminths and associated factors in children of different geographical areas fro...
This article analyses and compares the epidemiology of mental disorders and relevant public policies in Chile and Finland. In Chile, a specific mental health law is still lacking. While both countries highlight the role of primary care, Finland places more emphasis on participation and recovery of servic...
Se adaptó al contexto chileno la escala de Incremento de la Felicidad (HIS, de Tkach y Lyubomirsky, 2006) para medir estrategias conductuales de incremento de la felicidad, con el nombre de cuestionario de estrategias para aumentar los estados de Ánimo positivos (CEA-EAP) con 44 ítems en formato Liker...
ANTECEDENTES Y OBJETIVO
Las ecografías se utilizan para la observación de los órganos internos y el diagnóstico de diversas condiciones de salud. La precisión tiene una gran dependencia del profesional o técnico que maneja el equipo que interpreta las imágenes capturadas.
En este contexto el Depa...
