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Organization of the cancer network in SUS: evolution of the care model

Clinics; 73 (supl.1), 2018
In the current context of epidemiological transition, demographic changes, changes in consumption and lifestyle habits, and pressure on care costs and organized health systems for acute conditions, the Integrated Care Model by Shortell has become a conceptual reference in the search for new methods to ma...

Cardiovascular risk and use of conicity index in patients submitted to autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the prevalence of overweight and the use of conicity index for cardiovascular risk assessment in individuals submitted to autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Methods The sample comprised 91 patients of both sexes, who underwent autologous hematopoietic stem...

The importance of dysphagia screening and nutritional assessment in hospitalized patients

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To determine frequency of dysphagia risk and associated factors in hospitalized patients as well as to evaluate nutritional status by using different methods and correlate the status with scores of the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study includ...

X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease): the first case described in the Brazilian Amazon

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (2), 2018
ABSTRACT The X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease) is a rare X-linked, recessive, lower motor neuron disease, characterized by weakness, atrophy, and fasciculations of the appendicular and bulbar muscle. The disease is caused by an expansion of the CAG repetition in the androgen...

Oral and oropharyngeal cancer: epidemiology and survival analysis

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (2), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the epidemiological profile and survival rate of oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients seen at a university hospital. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out by means of the pathological reports of patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer, seen at a university...

Oral colonization by Candida species in HIV-positive patients: association and antifungal susceptibility study

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate antifungal susceptibility and factors associated with oral colonization by Candida species in HIV-positive patients. Methods A prospective study based on convenience sampling of subjects recruited from a pool of confirmed HIV-positive individuals seen at a specialty ...

Factors associated with hospital admissions due to hypertension

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To study the temporality of hospital admissions due to arterial hypertension and its associated factors. Methods: An ecological study with secondary data on hospital admissions due to essential arterial hypertension - ICD 10, from the Hospital Information System, the Mortality Infor...

Latent tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis in children and adolescents

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 16 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients diagnosed with tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection. Methods: A retrospective study, between 2012 and 2015, with data from patients of Programa Einstein na Comunidade de Paraisópolis. To evaluate possible factors associated with...

Impact of malocclusion on oral health-related quality of life among schoolchildren

Abstract The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence and impact of malocclusion on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among schoolchildren aged 8 to 10 years and their parents in Diamantina, a town in the southeast of Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample o...

Enamel defects and tooth eruption disturbances in children with sickle cell anemia

Abstract Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease caused by a mutation in the beta-globin gene, can present oral manifestations such as delayed tooth eruption and hypomineralized enamel and dentin. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence and severity of developmental defects of enamel (D...