Listar Medicina, ciencias biomédicas y salud pública por autor "de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos"
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Comparison of sucrose with glucose in oral therapy of infant diarrhea
Mata Jiménez, Leonardo; Vargas, William; Loría, Alba Rosa; Levine, Myron M.; Lizano, Cecilia; de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos; Nalin, David R.; Simhon Edgar, Alberto (The Lancet, 312, 277-279, 1978-08)In a randomised double-blind trial, 51 5-10% dehydrated infants were rehydrated with oral electrolyte solutions containing sucrose or glucose. Most infants in both groups were successfuUy rehydrated, but the sucrose ... -
Frecuencia y demanda de atención médica de las enfermedades genéticas en el Hospital Nacional de Niños “Dr. Carlos Saénz Herrera”
de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos; Umaña, Lila; Yock Cabezas, Isabel; Bustamante, Mariela; Atkins, A. Tommy (1996)Objetivo: Determinar la frecuencia relativa y la demanda de atención medica de las enfermedades genéticas en el Hospital Nacional de Niños "Dr. Carlos Sáenz Herrera". Diseño: Estudio retrospectivo analítico con una muestra ... -
Hepatic metabolites and uric excretion in fructose -1,6- diphosphatase deficiency
Velázquez, A.; DeVivo, D. C.; Costin, C.; Shaw, K. N. F.; de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos (1988)There have been a small number of patients reported with inherited disorders of gluconeogenesis. We studied a female patient with fructose-1,6-diphosphatase (FDPase; EC 3.1.3.11) deficiency (McKusick 22970), born of ... -
Leucine and tissue distribution of bulky and small neutral amino acids in rats: dissociation between transport and insulin-mediated effects
de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos; Thoene, J. G.; Lowler, K.; Chritensen, H. N. (1992)The mechanism of the observed decrease in the plasma concentration of several amino acids in the presence of high levels of Leu has remained unexplained. In the present study a decrease in the plasma concentration of Ile, ... -
Phenylketonuria in Costa Rica: preliminary spectrum of PAH mutations and their associations with highly polymorphic haplotypes
Santos Pasamontes, María; Kuzmin, Alexei I.; Eisensmith, Randy C.; Goltsov, Alexei A.; Savio, Woo L.C; Barrantes Mesén, Ramiro; de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos (1996)A preliminary evaluation of the molecular basis of phenylketonuria (PKU) in Costa Rica was made by performing mutational analyses in the six PKU families identified to date. These studies revealed the presence of the ... -
Problems in implementing newborn screening in Costa Rica
de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos (1987)In Costa Rica, concern for public education early in this century, together with specific public health actions in the early 1970's, have resulted in fairly good control of infectious and nutritional diseases. As a ... -
Tamizaje de deleciones en pacientes con distrofia muscular de Duchenne (DMD) o Becker-Kiener (BMD) mediante PCR multiplex en Costa Rica, 1998-2000
Sancho Fernández, Vanessa M.; Saborio, Manuel; de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos; Azofeifa Navas, Jorge (Acta Pediátrica Costarricense ;15 (2) p. 78-85, 2001)Objetivo: Iniciar los estudios genético moleculares sobre las distrofinopatías en Costa Rica. Materiales y Métodos: Treinta y un pacientes varones, diagnosticados con distrofia muscular, que podrían ser distrofinopáticos ... -
Terapia génica humana
de Céspedes Montealegre, Carlos (1993)Como señala W. Franchi Anderson, pionero prominente de la terapia genica, esta modalidad de tratamiento ha progresado de la especulación a la realidad en poco tiempo. El principio basico de la terapia génica es la introducción ...