Aortic stenosis is becoming one of the most common diagnoses in cardiology in Western countries. A high percentage of patients with severe aortic stenosis remains asymptomatic, and management is not clearly established. In this article, we review the natural history of such patients and those factors wit...
Apesar de o câncer de mama ser doença mais comum entre as mulheres, homens também podem desenvolvê-lo. A incidência de câncer de mama feminino para masculino é de aproximadamente 125:1. Em homens, a doença tende a ser diagnosticada em estágios mais avançados que em mulheres e incide predominant...
Clinical evolution in patients affected by community acquired pneumonia varies from a mild and low risk infectious disease to an extremely severe, life threatening disease. Commonly, immunocompetent adults without co-morbidities or severe risk factors cared for at out patient clinic have low risk of comp...
Prognostic factors in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are used to predict patients survival, to plan the right therapeutic scheme, to select the subgroups of patients who would take benefit from new therapies in clinical trials or avoid ineffective treatments. A classical distinction divides patient-related (...
Laryngeal neoplasms represent 2% of all human cancers. They befall mainly the male sex, especially between 50 and 70 years of age, but exceptionally may occur in infancy or extreme old age. Their occurrence has increased considerably inclusively due to progressive population again. The present work aims ...
Objetivos: Avaliar a evolução de casais que consultaram um serviço de infertilidade
por até 10 anos e os métodos de investigação e tratamento utilizados.
Pacientes e Métodos: Pelo número telefônico registrado em prontuário (1991-2000)
localizaram-se 73 pacientes, das quais 68 participaram do e...
El presente trabajo tiene por objeto realizar una revisión de una enfermedad infrecuente como es el cáncer de ano. Se hace particular énfasis en los aspectos epidemiológicos y en los factores pronósticos. Así mismo, se incorpora un análisis descriptivo de la casuística personal de pacientes con c...
CONTEXT: Tumor suppressor genes act on the control of cell cycle progression. In pediatric neoplasias, some of these genes may be considered to be markers for diagnosis or relapse, thus probably representing prognostic indicators. OBJECTIVE: To study the inactivation of the p15 gene in children with acut...
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...
