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Med. reabil ; (58): 2-5, 2002.
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-302763

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The National Consense abot Spasticity by Brazilian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (SBMFR) and Brazilian Medical Association (AMB) was done based on critical analysis of epidemiological studies, showing that traditional terapeutic resources need more studies for posterior approving


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Muscle Spasticity
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Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992) ; 47(1): 70-77, jan.-mar. 2001. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-298633

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OBJETIVO: Determinar uma associaçäo entre o quadro clínico pré-operatório e os resultados das culturas de bile e da parece vesicular. CASUISTICA E METODOS: Foram estudadas 28 variáveis considerando-se história clínica, exame físico e investigaçäo laboratorial em 38 doentes portadores de colecistite aguda calculosa, submetidos à cirurgia de urgência. Este estudo prospectivo foi realizado em 19 meses, entre novembro de 1995 a maio de 1997. Foram realizadas culturas para agentes anaeróbios e aeróbios, em três diferentes meios de cultura (BACTEC 9240, BHI e HEMOBAC). RESULTADOS: Foram isoladas bactérias em pelo menos um meio de cultura em 68,2 por cento dos doentes. Pela anßlise univariada, foram identificadas cinco variáveis pré-operatórias como preditivas de bacteriobilia: idade acima de 55 anos, temperatura diferencial axilo-retal maior do que 0,4 C, leucocitose acima de 12000 cels/mmÝ, neutrofilia acima de 75 por cento e neutrófilos bastonetes acima de 4 por cento. Devido ao pequeno tamanho da amostra, näo pôde ser observada significância estatística por regressäo logística, embora pudesse ser observada em 98 por cento uma tendência para determinaçäo pré-operatória dos indivíduos com cultura positiva por meio do modelo baseado na idade e porcentagem de neutrófilos bastonetes. Pela análise em conjunto dos fatores preditivos, pôde-se observar que doentes com mais de um fator preditivo têm uma possibilidade significantemente maior para cultura positiva, quando comparado com aqueles com fator preditivo de bacteriobilia. CONCLUSAO: Conclui-se, portanto, que pela utilizaçäo de dados facilmente disponíveis em doentes com colecistite aguda calculosa, a bacteriobilia pode ser previsível no pré-operatório,


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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Bacterial Infections/microbiology , Cholecystitis/microbiology , Acute Disease , Aged, 80 and over , Bacterial Infections/diagnosis , Bile , Cholecystitis/surgery , Culture Media , Multivariate Analysis , Predictive Value of Tests , Prospective Studies , Risk Factors , Sensitivity and Specificity
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 95(5): 717-20, Sept.-Oct. 2000. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-267901

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This study was undertaken to evaluate an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for hepatitis C virus antibody detection (anti-HCV), using just one antigen. Anti-HCV EIA was designed to detect anti-HCV IgG using on the solid-phase a recombinant C22 antigen localized at the N-terminal end of the core region of HCV genome, produced by BioMérieux. The serum samples diluted in phosphate buffer saline were added to wells coated with the C22, and incubated. After washings, the wells were loaded with conjugated anti-IgG, and read in a microtiter plate reader (492 nm). Serum samples of 145 patients were divided in two groups: a control group of 39 patients with non-C hepatitis (10 acute hepatitis A, 10 acute hepatitis B, 9 chronic hepatitis B, and 10 autoimmune hepatitis) and a study group consisting of 106 patients with chronic HCV hepatitis. In the study group all patients had anti-HCV detected by a commercially available EIA (Abbott(r)), specific for HCV structural and nonstructural polypeptides, alanine aminotransferase elevation or positive serum HCV-RNA detected by nested-PCR. They also had a liver biopsy compatible with chronic hepatitis. The test was positive in 101 of the 106 (95 percent) sera from patients in the study group and negative in 38 of the 39 (97 percent) sera from those in the control group, showing an accuracy of 96 percent. According to these results, our EIA could be used to detect anti-HCV in the serum of patients infected with hepatitis C virus.


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Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Genome, Viral , Hepacivirus/genetics , Hepacivirus/immunology , Hepatitis C Antibodies/isolation & purification , Recombinant Proteins , Viral Core Proteins/immunology , Alanine Transaminase/blood , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Hepatitis C Antibodies/blood , Hepatitis C, Chronic/diagnosis , Immunoenzyme Techniques/methods , Immunoglobulin G/isolation & purification , Polymerase Chain Reaction , RNA/blood
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