Jatene, Fábio B;
Fernandes, Paulo M. Pego;
Stolf, Noedir A. G;
Kalil, Roberto;
Hayata, A. L. S;
Assad, Renato;
Mady, Charles;
Hueb, Whady;
Oliveira, Sérgio Almeida de;
Pileggi, Fulvio;
Jatene, Adib D.
PURPOSE: In order to associate the major benefits of the coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) with a less aggressive procedure minimally invasive coronary artery bypass graft (MICABG) has been utilized. The aim of the work is to report our initial experience with this technical approach, using video assis...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine prevalence and the underlying mechanism of persistent palpitations after successful radiofrequency ablation of reentrant nodal tachycardia and atrioventricular tachycardia. METHODS: One hundred twenty consecutive patients (mean age of 36 +/- 16 years) who u...
The therapeutic and prognostic evaluation of malignant neoplasias depends largely upon a precise morphologic diagnosis. Several papers have focused on the importance of fine-needle aspiration under computed tomography guidance in the diagnosis of unresectable neoplasms and in the investigation of metasta...
O câncer apresenta uma crescente causa de mortalidade em nosso país, chegando a ocupar a segunda ou terceira posiçäo, dependendo da regiäo estudada. Sua prevençäo vem sendo relacionada à identificaçäo e controle dos fatores de risco presentes no estilo de vida dos indivíduos, tais como dieta a...
Este trabalho teve como objetivos caracterizar um grupo de mulheres idosas com incontinência urinária; caracterizar o tipo de incontinência relatada pelas idosas; descrever como as mulheres convivem com a incontinência urinária e elaborar uma proposta de intervençäo de enfermagem para assistir pes...
Se revisaron 395 historias clínicas de pacientes geriátricos seleccionando 182 casos de depresión funcional atendidos en el Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi" (Lima, Perú). Las características de la población evaluada fueron: edad promedio de 65,4 años al momento d...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of etofibrate in primary hyperlipidemia in patients from clinical centers representative of all main Brazilian cities. METHODS: One thousand, nine hundred and fourty three hyperlipidemic patients were submitted to diet and drug treatment with etofibrate (500 mg/...
PURPOSE: To evaluate the immediate and long term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary balloon angioplasty (PTCA) in patients over 80 years old. METHODS: From 1/1/89 to 6/31/95, 97 patients with 80 years of age or older were submitted to PTCA and were divided into three groups: group A (GrA)-30 p...
A series of five consecutive patients with stercoral perforation of the colon is presented. Four of the patients had free perforation and one had an abscess between the splenic flexure, spleen and surrounding organs, a yet unreported entity. All patients underwent emergency surgery including laparostomy ...
INTRODUCTION: Chordoma is a rare and slow-growing tumor, with local aggressiveness and preferential localization in the vertebral column. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study is to evaluate natural history and results of treatment of chordomas. METHODOLOGY: This is a retrospective study from 1953 ...
