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Valor predictivo de los criterios de Beers y los criterios STOPP para detectar eventos adversos a medicamentos, consultas a emergencias y hospitalizaciones
Predictive value of the Beers criteria and the STOPP criteria for adverse drug events, emergency consultations and hospitalizations

Estimated costs of advanced lung cancer care in a public reference hospital

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate the direct medical costs of advanced non-small cell lung cancer care. METHODS We assessed a cohort of 277 patients treated in the Brazilian National Cancer Institute in 2011. The costs were estimated from the perspective of the hospital as a service provider of reference ...

Survival benefits of interferon-based therapy in patients with recurrent hepatitis C after orthotopic liver transplantation

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 50 (1), 2017
Recurrent hepatitis C after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is universal and can lead to graft failure and, consequently, reduced survival. Hepatitis C treatment can be used to prevent these detrimental outcomes. The aim of this study was to describe rates of hepatitis C recurrence and sustained v...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with trastuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancer: pathologic complete response rate, predictive and prognostic factors

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 50 (2), 2017
The purpose of this study was to retrospectively review the pathologic complete response (pCR) rate from patients (n=86) with stage II and III HER2-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy at our institution from 2008 to 2013 and to determine possible predictive and prognostic factors...

Therapy of tacrolimus combined with corticosteroids in idiopathic membranous nephropathy

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 50 (4), 2017
We evaluated the efficacy and safety of tacrolimus (TAC) combined with corticosteroids in treating patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). One hundred seventy-seven biopsy-proven IMN patients were recruited in this retrospective clinical study. Sixty patients received TAC (target blood con...

Relationship between articular eminence inclination and alterations of the mandibular condyle: a CBCT study

Abstract This study aimed at verifying the correlation among angulation of the articular eminence (AE), shape of the condyle and its degenerative bone diseases (DBDs), according to age and sex, through Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT). Five hundred and twenty-eight temporomandibular joints (TMJ) were...

Conventional plate and screws in medial opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy: are they sufficiently stable? A retrospective study

Rev. bras. ortop; 52 (5), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: Opening-wedge osteotomy of the proximal tibia is a widely performed procedure for treating medial gonarthrosis in active patients and in the presence of varus malalignment of the lower limb. The fixation method is controversial, and the use of conventional implants has been abandone...

Fat embolism syndrome in femoral shaft fractures: does the initial treatment make a difference?

Rev. bras. ortop; 52 (5), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the risk factors correlated with the initial treatment performed. Methods: This is a retrospective study involving a total of 272 patients diagnosed with femoral shaft fractures. Of the patients, 14% were kept at rest until the surgical treatment, 52% underwent externa...

Efficacy evaluation of a protocol for safe hip surgery (total hip arthroplasty)

Rev. bras. ortop; 52 (supl.1), 2017
Abstract Objective To propose a multidisciplinary protocol to standardize the care of patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) and evaluate it effectiveness after implementation. Methods Retrospective evaluation of 95 consecutive patients undergoing THA divided into two groups, one group of 47 ...

Influence of proximal femur fractures in the autonomy and mortality of elderly patients submitted to osteosynthesis with cephalomedullary nail

Rev. bras. ortop; 52 (supl.1), 2017
Abstract Objective To determine the autonomy and mortality of elderly patients submitted to proximal femoral osteosynthesis with cephalomedullary nail after hip fracture. Methods Retrospective study with 61 patients with proximal femoral fractures submitted to cephalomedullary nail osteosynthesis. The ...