Results: 1708

Complicaciones postoperatorias y resultados clínicos en pacientes operados por cáncer torácico y gastrointestinal: Estudio de cohorte prospectivo

RESUMEN Objetivo: Determinar la influencia de las complicaciones postoperatorias sobre los resultados clínicos en pacientes operados por cáncer torácico y gastrointestinal. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio de cohorte prospectivo de 179 pacientes consecutivos que fueron operados de tórax o vías d...

Potentially malignant oral lesions: clinicopathological correlations

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 14 (1), 2016
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the incidence of potentially malignant oral lesions, and evaluate and correlate their clinical and pathological aspects. Methods The sample consisted of cases clinically diagnosed as oral leukoplakia, oral erythroplakia, erythroleukoplakia, actinic cheilitis, and oral ...

Infections and systemic lupus erythematosus

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 14 (1), 2016
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the incidence of infections in a population of systemic lupus erythematosus individuals and the characteristics of infections regarding original site, as well as to study the possible associations between infections and treatment. Methods An analytical retrospective st...

Esophageal carcinoma: is squamous cell carcinoma different disease compared to adenocarcinoma? A transversal study in a quaternary high volume hospital in Brazil

Arq. gastroenterol; 53 (1), 2016
ABSTRACT Background Esophageal cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among the neoplasms that affect the gastrointestinal tract. There are several factors that contribute for development of an epidemiological esophageal cancer profile in a population. Objective This study aims to describe bo...

Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 74 (3), 2016
ABSTRACT Zika virus (ZIKV) is now considered an emerging flavivirosis, with a first large outbreak registered in the Yap Islands in 2007. In 2013, a new outbreak was reported in the French Polynesia, with associated cases of neurological complications including Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). The inciden...

Síndrome de Rett: uma revisão da literatura

J. Health Sci. Inst; 34 (1), 2016
Síndrome de Rett (SR) é uma desordem neurológica severa do desenvovimento, e a sua incidência é de 1:10.000 nascimentos do sexo feminino, uma das causas genéticas mais comuns de atraso mental severo em mulheres. O desenvolvimento é aparentemente normal nos primeiros seis a 18 meses de vida até qu...

Occurrence of Lutzomyia longipalpis andhuman and canine cases of visceral leishmaniasis and evaluation of their expansion in the Northwest region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract: INTRODUCTION This paper aims to describe the dispersion of Lutzomyia longipalpis and the autochthonous occurrence of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Northwest region of the State of São Paulo between 2007 and 2013 and to analyze their expansion. METHODS Information about the vector and asso...

Síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus en Buenos Aires, 2009-2014
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Buenos Aires, 2009-2014

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (1), 2016
El virus Andes es el agente causante del síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus en Argentina y países limítrofes. Existen varios genotipos característicos en las cuatro regiones endémicas del país. En la provincia de Buenos Aires, zona central, co-circulan tres genotipos: AND-BsAs, AND-Lechiguanas y AND-...

Dermatitis cercarial en bañistas del norte de la Patagonia Argentina
Cercarial dermatitis of bathers in northern Argentine Patagonia

Medicina (B.Aires); 76 (1), 2016
La dermatitis cercarial es una enfermedad cutánea, zoonótica y estival, causada por una larva nadadora de trematodes de la familia Schistosomatidae, llamada cercaria. Esta larva penetra accidentalmente la piel de personas que se encuentran en el agua, generando una reacción alérgica que generalmente ...