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Obstrucción intestinal en pacientes con apendicitis

Rev. chil. cir; 69 (4), 2017
Introducción: La apendicitis aguda como causa de obstrucción intestinal es una situación clínica infrecuente. Los objetivos de este estudio son los de definir la incidencia de obstrucción intestinal de acuerdo con la clasificación de obstrucción intestinal en apendicitis y la caracterización de s...

Functional decline in the elderly with MCI: Cultural adaptation of the ADCS-ADL scale

Summary Objective: Translate, transcultural adaptation and application to Brazilian Portuguese of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study - Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) scale as a cognitive screening instrument. Method: We applied the back translation added with pretest and bilingual methods...

Fetoscopic tracheal occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia: retrospective study

Rev. bras. anestesiol; 67 (4), 2017
Abstract Background and objectives: The temporary fetal tracheal occlusion performed by fetoscopy accelerates lung development and reduces neonatal mortality. The aim of this paper is to present an anesthetic experience in pregnant women, whose fetuses have diaphragmatic hernia, undergoing fetoscopic tr...

The correlation among the Ramsay sedation scale, Richmond agitation sedation scale and Riker sedation agitation scale during midazolam-remifentanil sedation

Rev. bras. anestesiol; 67 (4), 2017
Abstract Background and objectives: Sedative and analgesic treatment administered to critically ill patients need to be regularly assessed to ensure that previously stated goals are well achieved as the risk of complications of oversedation is minimized. We revised and prospectively tested the Ramsay Se...

The place of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and ozone therapy in sudden hearing loss

Abstract Introduction: It is difficult to evaluate the effect of drugs clinically used for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, mainly because its underlying mechanism remains unknown. Objective: This study assessed the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy or ozone therapy in the treatment of...

Effect of cigarette smoke on counts of immunoreactive cells to eotaxin-1 and eosinophils on the nasal mucosa in young patients with perennial allergic rhinitis

Abstract Introduction: In teenagers with perennial allergic rhinitis, exposure to tobacco cigarette smoke increases the count of eosinophils in the nasal mucosa; the recruitment of eosinophils arises from the combined action of a number of cellular and molecular signals, including eotaxin. Objective: T...

Higher MELD score increases the overall cost on the waiting list for liver transplantation: a micro-costing analysis based study

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The pre-transplant period is complex and includes lots of procedures. The severity of liver disease predisposes to a high number of hospitalizations and high costs procedures. Economic evaluation studies are important tools to handle costs on the waiting list for liver transplantat...

Resultados preliminares de hipotermia tópica do fígado em modelo de isquemia/reperfusão hepática em ratos

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Ischemia/reperfusion causes organ damage but it is mandatory in hepatic transplantation, trauma and other complex liver surgeries, when Pringle maneuver is applied to minimize bleeding during these procedures. It is well known that liver ischemia/reperfusion leads to microcirculator...

Prognóstico e avaliação nutricional de doentes com doença hepática crônica com recurso à antropometria e avaliação global subjetiva

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Protein-calorie malnutrition is common in chronic liver disease (CLD) but adequate clinical tools for nutritional assessment are not defined. OBJECTIVE: In CLD patients, it was aimed: 1. Characterize protein-calorie malnutrition; 2. Compare several clinical, anthropometric and func...

Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis Score: a Brazilian multicenter study for translation, cultural adaptation and validation

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (7), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective To perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis Score (QMGS) to Brazilian Portuguese in accordance with international ethical standards. Methods The following steps were taken: (1) implementation of the translation protocol...