AIMC Topic: Chile

Clear Filters Showing 21 to 26 of 26 articles

How to Design a (Cybernetic) Revolution: Chileans Remember Salvador Allende's Techno-Utopian Project.

Technology and culture
The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet offered an opportunity to explore unknown aspects of daily life before and during the dictatorship. This essay focuses on one particular exhibit...

Plasma insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) and IGF-II/IGF-I ratio in a chilean case of Doege-Potter Syndrome.

Revista medica de Chile
INTRODUCTION: Doege-Potter syndrome is a rare clinical entity characterized by recurrent hypoglycemic events caused by non-pancreatic tumors secreting an incompletely processed high-molecular-weight form of Insulin-like Growth factor-II (IGF-II).

[Stage at diagnosis of prostate cancer in an institutional hospital. Review and comparison of national and international data].

Revista medica de Chile
INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer (PCa) is a disease with a high prevalence and incidence worldwide. Screening has pursued the early diagnosis of this disease to provide early treatment. We sought to characterize patients from a local hospital with respe...

[Prevalence of transmitted drug resistance in HIV-infected treatment-naive patients in Chile].

Revista medica de Chile
BACKGROUND: Transmitted drug resistance (TDR) occurs in patients with HIV infection who are not exposed to antiretroviral drugs but who are infected with a virus with mutations associated with resistance.

[Automatic keyword retrieval from clinical texts: an application of natural language processing to massive data of Chilean suspected diagnosis].

Revista medica de Chile
BACKGROUND: Free-text imposes a challenge in health data analysis since the lack of structure makes the extraction and integration of information difficult, particularly in the case of massive data. An appropriate machine-interpretation of electronic...

Virological and immunological outcomes to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients of an academic medical center in Chile.

Revista chilena de infectologia : organo oficial de la Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia
INTRODUCTION: Red Salud UC is an Academic health network where HIV-infected patients from the public and private health system are followed by a multidisplinary team.