CONTEXT: Adequate knowledge of images consistent with tuberculosis activity is an important resource for tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the structural alterations caused by tuberculosis in the pulmonary parenchyma, both during the active phase of the disease and after the en...
CONTEXT: The high-complexity features of intensive care unit services and the clinical situation of patients themselves render correct prognosis fundamentally important not only for patients, their families and physicians, but also for hospital administrators, fund-providers and controllers. Prognostic i...
CONTEXT: The speech rate is one of the parameters considered when investigating speech fluency and is an important variable in the assessment of individuals with communication complaints. OBJECTIVE: To correlate the stuttering severity index with one of the indices used for assessing fluency/speech rate....
BACKGROUND: Approximately 80 per cent of Argentine children have pediculosis, making it imperious to detect the defects in the prevention and control actions for this parasitosis. OBJECTIVES: To study the infestation level by P. h. capitis, its temporal variation, and the association between infestation ...
Fine's severity prediction index (SPI), was retrospectively analyzed in community acquired pneumonia (CAP), in patients at Concepción Regional Hospital, from June to August 2000. We studied 57 CAP patients: 23 as low risk and 34 as high risk patients. In comparison to low risk patients the main features...
CONTEXT: Recent population-based surveys suggest that the prevalence of erectile dysfunction is between 30 percent and 56 percent among men over the age of 40. Most of these studies, however, are from the United States or Europe. We need estimates of erectile dysfunction from samples of Brazilian populat...
Objetivo. Estudo retrospectivo dos resultados tardios dos pacientes submetidos a miotomia e fundoplicatura para o tratamento do megaesôfago. Casuística e Métodos. Foram estudados 83 pacientes com seguimento de um a 186 meses (média de 40,0 + 47,4 meses). A fundoplicatura em três planos, proposta por...
CONTEXT: The performance of each ICU needs to be assessed within the overall context of medical care, as well as by the institution which the ICU forms part of. Evaluation mechanisms in the field of intensive care have been developed that are recognized worldwide within the scientific literature. OBJECTI...
