Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2020
Observational Study[Features of 50 patients with SARS-CoV2 admitted to an intensive care unit and requiring mechanical ventilation].
Since March, Chile experienced an exponential increase in SARS-CoV2 cases, which led to an almost full occupancy of the intensive care units (ICU). ⋯ The information obtained in this study provides characteristics and early outcomes of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 and IMV, admitted to the ICU of our center.
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2020
Association between fitness, anthropometric indices and laboratory parameters in elderly women.
Aging causes an involution of anthropometric and health indices that can affect physical fitness. ⋯ Anthropometric variables, serum lipid levels and blood glucose were predictors of different physical fitness parameters in these women.
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2020
Observed Frequency and Characteristics of Hearing Loss in Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare group of genetic disorders affecting connective tissue, with consequent bone fragility, frequent fractures and skeletal deformity. Depending on the type, patients can have blue sclera, dentinogenesis imperfecta, and hearing loss. ⋯ In this group of patients with OI, 30% had hearing loss and among those ears with normal hearing, 13% did not have an acoustic stapedial reflex. Patients with OI should be monitored for hearing loss.
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Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2020
Case Reports[COVID-19 infection presenting as a myocardial infarction. Report of one case].
Isolated cardiac involvement of COVID-19 is an infrequent presentation, and myocardial infarction is even less common. We report a 30-year-old man presenting with retrosternal pain of insidious onset whose intensity increases suddenly. On admission, the patient had tachycardia and an EKG showed a 1 mm ST-elevation and diffuse PQ segment depression. ⋯ A coronary angiography showed a distal occlusion of the circumflex artery. Consequently, anticoagulation and double platelet anti-aggregation were started. The patient evolved favorably, with a decreasing troponin curve (last at discharge 0.49 ng/ml) and a control EKG with pathological Q in DIII and AvF, and symmetrically inverted T in DII, DIII, AvF, V4, V5, and V6.