Francisco Fuentes

Ages and cooling history of the Early Cretaceous Caleu pluton: testimony of a switch from a rifted to a compressional continental margin in central Chile (2005)

Parada, Miguel, Féraud, Gilbert, Fuentes, Francisco, Aguirre, Luis, Morata, Diego, Larrondo, Paula

The Caleu pluton, in the Coastal Range of central Chile, represents the last magmatic event related to the Early Cretaceous rifting along the western margin of South America. The pluton was emplaced...

Ar-40/Ar-39 dating of volcanism and subsequent very low-grade metamorphism in a subsiding basin: example of the Cretaceous lava series from central Chile (2005)

Fuentes, Francisco, Féraud, Gilbert, Aguirre, Luis, Morata, Diego

Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronological method is applied to date both emplacement and subsequent very low-grade metamorphism of a thick lava series, the Veta Negra Formation from the Cordon de Chacana area, in...

Efecto de la dieta mediterránea en los valores plasmáticos de factor VII activado en personas sanas (2005)

Castro, Pedro, López-Miranda, José, Marín, Carmen, Fuentes, Francisco, Pérez-Martínez, Pablo, ...

Introducción y objetivos. Numerosos estudios clínicos y epidemiológicos sugieren que el factor VII activado puede estar implicado en la patogenia de la enfermedad coronaria. Nuestro objetivo es...

Butter and walnuts, but not olive oil, elicit postprandial activation of nuclear transcription factor κB in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy men (2004)

Bellido, Cecilia, López Miranda, José, Blanco Colio, Luis Miguel, Pérez Martínez, Pablo, Muriana, Francisco José, Martín Ventura, José Luis, ...

Background:Nuclear transcription factor {kappa}B (NF-{kappa}B) plays an important role in atherosclerosis by modulating gene expression. Postprandial lipemia has been correlated with an increase in...

Degradation of Benzothiophene and Related Compounds by a Soil Pseudomonas in an Oil-Aqueous Environment

Sagardía, Fermín, Rigau, Juan J., Martínez-Lahoz, Agnes, Fuentes, Francisco, Waldemar, Carmen, Flores, Waldemar

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PRG-1, an isolate from oil-contaminated soil, degrades benzothiophene (BT) and other related compounds in a 5% oil-basal medium system. The organism cannot grow on BT alone;...

Left Coronary Artery Spasm Causing Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Without Myocardial Infarction

Freedman, Robert J., Fuentes, Francisco, Smalling, Richard W., Kirkeeide, Richard L., Sterling, Rosalyn P., Walker, William E., ...

This report describes a patient with persistent, recurrent left anterior descending coronary artery spasm, which causes marked left ventricular dysfunction in a clinical course that is typical of...

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: The Value of Endomyocardial Biopsy in Diagnosis, Prognostication, and Therapy

Fuentes, Francisco, Sybers, Harley D.

We describe the case of a 21-year-old black female who was readmitted postpartum because of increasing exertional dyspnea, orthopnea, pleuritic chest pain, and pedal edema. The patient underwent a...

Left Atrial Rhabdomyosarcoma Mimicking Mitral Valve Stenosis

Villasenor, Hector R., Fuentes, Francisco, Walker, William E.

A rare case of left atrial rhabdomyosarcoma is presented in a patient with symptoms of congestive heart failure mimicking a hemodynamically obstructive mitral stenosis and secondary pulmonary...

Hemopericardium and Tamponade Following Intracoronary Thrombolysis with Streptokinase

Walker, William E., Fuentes, Francisco, Adams, Phillip R., Kuykendall, R. Craig, McArthur, John D., Weiland, Anne P.

Two patients underwent surgery for hemopericardium and pericardial tamponade after intracoronary thrombolysis by streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction. In both instances, the artery had...

Degradation of Benzothiophene and Related Compounds by a Soil Pseudomonas in an Oil-Aqueous Environment

Sagardía, Fermín, Rigau, Juan J., Martínez-Lahoz, Agnes, Fuentes, Francisco, Waldemar, Carmen, Flores, Waldemar

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PRG-1, an isolate from oil-contaminated soil, degrades benzothiophene (BT) and other related compounds in a 5% oil-basal medium system. The organism cannot grow on BT alone;...

Left Coronary Artery Spasm Causing Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction Without Myocardial Infarction

Freedman, Robert J., Fuentes, Francisco, Smalling, Richard W., Kirkeeide, Richard L., Sterling, Rosalyn P., Walker, William E., ...

This report describes a patient with persistent, recurrent left anterior descending coronary artery spasm, which causes marked left ventricular dysfunction in a clinical course that is typical of...

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: The Value of Endomyocardial Biopsy in Diagnosis, Prognostication, and Therapy

Fuentes, Francisco, Sybers, Harley D.

We describe the case of a 21-year-old black female who was readmitted postpartum because of increasing exertional dyspnea, orthopnea, pleuritic chest pain, and pedal edema. The patient underwent a...

Left Atrial Rhabdomyosarcoma Mimicking Mitral Valve Stenosis

Villasenor, Hector R., Fuentes, Francisco, Walker, William E.

A rare case of left atrial rhabdomyosarcoma is presented in a patient with symptoms of congestive heart failure mimicking a hemodynamically obstructive mitral stenosis and secondary pulmonary...

Hemopericardium and Tamponade Following Intracoronary Thrombolysis with Streptokinase

Walker, William E., Fuentes, Francisco, Adams, Phillip R., Kuykendall, R. Craig, McArthur, John D., Weiland, Anne P.

Two patients underwent surgery for hemopericardium and pericardial tamponade after intracoronary thrombolysis by streptokinase for acute myocardial infarction. In both instances, the artery had...

Biatrial Myxoma and Cerebral Ischemia Successfully Treated with Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy and Surgical Resection

Ibrahim, Morhaf, Iliescu, Cezar, Safi, Hazim J., Buja, Maximilian L., McPherson, David D., Fuentes, Francisco

We report what we believe is the 1st case in the medical literature in which an intravenous thrombolytic agent was used successfully—without massive intracranial bleeding—to treat acute stroke...