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BMJ Glob Health ; 3(3): e000533, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29989051

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INTRODUCTION: This study provides, for the first time, comparable national population-based estimates that describe the nature and magnitude of physical and emotional violence during childhood in Zimbabwe. METHODS: From August to September 2011, we conducted a national population-based survey of 2410 respondents aged 13-24 years, using a two-stage cluster sampling. Regression models were adjusted for relevant demographics to estimate the ORs for associations between violence, risk factors and various health-related outcomes. RESULTS: Respondents aged 18-24 years report a lifetime prevalence (before the age of 18) of 63.9% (among girls) to 76% (among boys) for physical violence by a parent or adult relative, 12.6% (girls) to 26.4% (boys) for humiliation in front of others, and 17.3% (girls) to 17.5% (boys) for feeling unwanted. Almost 50% of either sex aged 13-17 years experienced physical violence in the 12 months preceding the survey. Significant risk factors for experiencing physical violence for girls are ever experiencing emotional abuse prior to age 13, adult illness in the home, socioeconomic status and age. Boys' risk factors include peer relationships and socioeconomic status, while caring teachers and trusted community members are protective factors. Risk factors for emotional abuse vary, including family relationships, teacher and school-level variables, socioeconomic status, and community trust and security. Emotional abuse is associated with increased suicide attempts for both boys and girls, among other health outcomes. CONCLUSION: Physical and emotional violence often work in tandem causing poor mental and physical health outcomes. Understanding risk factors for violence within the peer or family context is essential for improved violence prevention.

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J Pain Symptom Manage ; 52(5): 637-645, 2016 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27664834

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CONTEXT: A region-based palliative care intervention (Outreach Palliative Care Trial of Integrated Regional Model Study) increased home death, access to specialist palliative care, quality of care, and quality of death and dying. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to examine changes in palliative care outcomes in different care settings (hospitals, palliative care units, and home) and obtain insights into how to improve region-level palliative care. METHODS: The intervention program was implemented from April 2008 to March 2011. Two bereavement surveys were conducted before and after intervention involving 4228 family caregivers of deceased cancer patients. Family-perceived quality of care (range 1-6), quality of death and dying (1-7), pain relief (1-7), and caregiver burden (1-7) were measured. RESULTS: Response rates were 69% (preintervention) and 66% (postintervention), respectively. Family-perceived quality of care (adjusted mean 4.89, 95% CI 4.54-5.23) and quality of death and dying (4.96, 4.72-5.20) at home were the highest and sustained throughout the study. Palliative care units were at the intermediate level between home and hospitals. In hospitals, both quality of care and quality of death and dying were low at baseline but significantly improved after intervention (quality of care: 4.24, 4.13-4.34 to 4.43, 4.31-4.54, P = 0.002; quality of death and dying: 4.22, 4.09-4.36 to 4.36, 4.22-4.50, P = 0.012). Caregiver burden did not significantly increase after intervention, regardless of place of death. CONCLUSIONS: The dual strategies of transition of place of death to home and improving quality of care in hospitals should be recognized as important targets for improving region-level palliative care.


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Cuidadores/psicologia , Efeitos Psicossociais da Doença , Família/psicologia , Manejo da Dor , Cuidados Paliativos , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Luto , Morte , Feminino , Serviços de Assistência Domiciliar , Hospitais , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias/terapia , Resultado do Tratamento
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ACS Nano ; 10(4): 4282-7, 2016 04 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27057619

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The optical properties of endohedral metallofullerene molecules can be tuned by changing the fullerene size as well as the number of metal atoms inside the fullerene cages. In this work we have synthesized and isolated a series of mono- and dithulium metallofullerenes, including Tm@C82 (isomers I, II, III, IV), Tm@C88 (I-IV), Tm2@C82 (I-III), and (Tm2C2)@C82 (I-III). Near-infrared photoluminescence is observed from the thulium metallofullerenes. By changing the number of Tm ion in the fullerene cage, we have found that one can vary and tune the photoluminescence from 1200 to 1300-2000 nm observed for Tm(2+) (4f(13)) in Tm@C88 and Tm(3+) (4f(12)) in (Tm2C2)@C82, respectively. The photoluminescence intensity depends sensitively on the fullerene cages. (Tm2C2)@C82 (III) exhibits the highest photoluminescence intensity among the three structural isomers because of its large HOMO-LUMO energy gap.

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Pediatr Radiol ; 46(2): 296-9, 2016 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26446305

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Bent bone dysplasia-fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 type (BBD-FGFR2) is a recently identified skeletal dysplasia caused by specific FGFR2 mutations, characterized by craniosynostosis and prenatal bowing of the long bones. Only a few cases have been published. We report an affected fetus terminated at 21 weeks of gestation. The clinical and radiologic manifestations mostly recapitulate previous descriptions; however we suggest additional hallmarks of this disorder in early gestation. These hallmarks include distinctive short, thick clavicles and wavy ribs, as well as vertebral bodies that showed striking anteroposterior shortening. Femoral fractures were also present in our case. Although craniosynostosis is a hallmark of the disease, clinicians should be aware that craniosynostosis might not be readily apparent on plain films early in gestation.


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Doenças do Desenvolvimento Ósseo/diagnóstico , Doenças do Desenvolvimento Ósseo/genética , Craniossinostoses/diagnóstico , Craniossinostoses/genética , Receptor Tipo 2 de Fator de Crescimento de Fibroblastos/genética , Aborto Induzido , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único/genética , Gravidez , Primeiro Trimestre da Gravidez , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/métodos , Ultrassonografia Pré-Natal/métodos
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Gan To Kagaku Ryoho ; 39(8): 1295-9, 2012 Aug.
Artigo em Japonês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22902463

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An 82-year-old female on hemodialysis was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. She received 20 mg of controlled-release oral morphine per day for the relief of cancer pain. After a total dose of 30 mg was administered, she was hospitalized with disturbance of consciousness. The patient underwent hemodialysis the next day, but developed impaired consciousness and respiratory depression. On the third day of hospitalization, a continuous infusion of naloxone was started and administered for eleven days. Thereafter, she was given oxycodone during hemodialysis without any side effects. Morphine-6-glucuronide(M-6-G)can accumulate in the blood of renal failure and dialysis patients. Toxicity of M-6-G may persist even after this metabolite is removed by dialysis, causing potentially life-threatening opioid toxicity. Morphine is therefore not recommended for use in renal failure and dialysis patients. The use of fentanyl or oxycodone is recommended as an alternative opioid. It is essential that medical staff are aware that these patients have an increased risk of developing serious morphine-related toxicity.


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Estado de Consciência , Morfina/efeitos adversos , Naloxona/uso terapêutico , Antagonistas de Entorpecentes/uso terapêutico , Insuficiência Respiratória/tratamento farmacológico , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Neoplasias da Mama/etiologia , Preparações de Ação Retardada , Feminino , Humanos , Morfina/uso terapêutico , Antagonistas de Entorpecentes/efeitos adversos , Dor/complicações , Dor/tratamento farmacológico , Diálise Renal , Insuficiência Respiratória/induzido quimicamente , Fatores de Tempo
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Int J Hematol ; 95(4): 420-7, 2012 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22362009

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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is relatively common in the elderly, and aging of populations is progressing in developed nations, notably so in Japan. The major age group in Japan and Sado Island are distributed between 30 and 60 and between 50 and 80, respectively. The aim of this study was to analyze the features of MDS in the population of Sado Island to anticipate the characteristics of the disease in the near future. One-hundred and fifty-three patients (71 male, 82 female, 19-94 years old, median 73 years old) with de novo MDS between 1985 and 2005 were retrospectively evaluated. All patients were reclassified according to WHO-2001 criteria. The predictive power of the international prognostic scoring system and the WHO classification-based prognostic scoring system were evaluated. The major causes of death were leukemic transformation (38%) in refractory anemia with an excess of blasts and infection (48%) for total MDS. Age was another independent prognostic factor. Elderly patients exhibited a significantly poorer prognosis mainly due to infections such as pneumonia. Although novel remedies for MDS and hyperferremia have recently been developed, prevention of infection remains important in MDS, particularly for older patients.


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Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/diagnóstico , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/epidemiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Envelhecimento , Povo Asiático/genética , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Aberrações Cromossômicas , Análise Citogenética , Feminino , Humanos , Infecções/complicações , Japão/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/complicações , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/genética , Pré-Leucemia/etiologia , Pré-Leucemia/genética , Prognóstico , Estudos Retrospectivos
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Phys Chem Chem Phys ; 12(7): 1618-23, 2010 Feb 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20126778

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The ESR properties and crystal structures of solid-state La@C(82) in empty fullerene matrices were investigated by changing the concentration of La@C(82) and the species of an empty fullerene matrix: C(60), C(70), C(78)(C(2v)(3)), C(82)(C(2)) and C(84)(D(2d)(4)). The rotational correlation time of La@C(82) molecules tended to be shorter when La@C(82) is dispersed in larger fullerene matrices because large C(2n) molecules provide more space for La@C(82) molecules for rotating. La@C(82) dispersed in a hcp-C(82) matrix showed the narrowest hyperfine structure (hfs) due to the ordered nature of La@C(82) molecules in the C(82) crystal. On the other hand, in a C(60) matrix, La@C(82) molecules formed clusters because of the large different solubility, which leads to the ESR spectra being broad sloping features due to strong dipole-dipole and exchange interactions.

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Gan To Kagaku Ryoho ; 34(11): 1793-8, 2007 Nov.
Artigo em Japonês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18030012

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Fifty-seven patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) received the following treatment in our hospital between May 1992 and April 2005. Group A: combination of enocitabine, daunorubicin, 6-mercaptopurine riboside and prednisolone (BHAC-DMP) for remission induction, BHAC-DMP or idarubicin (IDR)+cytarabine (Ara-C) for first consolidation, combination of prednisolone, Ara-C, mitoxantrone and etoposide (PAME) for second consolidation, and PAME for late intensification; Group B: IDR+Ara-C for remission induction, PAME for first consolidation, and high-dose Ara-C+mitoxantrone for second consolidation; Group C (acute promyelocytic leukemia, APL) : all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) for remission induction, BHAC-DMP or IDR+Ara-C for first consolidation, and PAME for second consolidation. The complete remission (CR) rate was 77% in Group A, 76% in Group B, and 71% in Group C. Five-year relapse-free survival rate of the CR patients was 35% in Group A, 49% in Group B, and 70% in Group C. All of the patients had severe neutropenia, but the number of infectious death was small. A short duration treatment with intensive consolidation therapy was effective for patients with AML and improved their quality of life (QOL).


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Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/tratamento farmacológico , Adulto , Idoso , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/administração & dosagem , Citarabina/administração & dosagem , Citarabina/análogos & derivados , Daunorrubicina/administração & dosagem , Esquema de Medicação , Etoposídeo/administração & dosagem , Medicina Baseada em Evidências , Feminino , Humanos , Idarubicina/administração & dosagem , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/mortalidade , Masculino , Mercaptopurina/administração & dosagem , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mitoxantrona/administração & dosagem , Prednisolona/administração & dosagem , Prednisona/administração & dosagem , Qualidade de Vida , Estudos Retrospectivos , Taxa de Sobrevida , Vincristina/administração & dosagem
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Transfusion ; 43(2): 241-5, 2003 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12559020

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BACKGROUND: Delayed hemolysis mediated by long-term production of pre-existing recipient-derived antibodies directed against donor RBC antigens after allogenic BMT is an unusual complication of hematopoietic transplantation. CASE REPORT: A 26-year-old man with aplastic anemia had pre-existing alloantibodies to E and c. He received BMT from a donor, whose Rh phenotype was E+, c+. From about 1 month after the transplant, he showed mild hemolysis due to the antibodies. RESULTS: The patient was typed as group B, CCDee and had anti-E and c alloantibodies before BMT. The donor was typed as group O, ccDEE. Although MNCs from the donor marrow were infused into the patient, DAT became positive on Day 21, and the patient-origin antibodies remained detectable by both DAT and IAT even 20 months after BMT. However, immunomagnetically isolated peripheral circulating B cells were 100 percent donor origin. The patient received prednisolone from Day 221, and thereafter, the signs of hemolysis disappeared. CONCLUSION: It is likely that the long-term production of alloantibodies is due to the existence of long-lived recipient plasma cells, which survive the conditioning regimen. This case suggests that patients with pre- existing alloantibodies that do not belong to the ABO system should be carefully followed up after BMT.


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Sistema ABO de Grupos Sanguíneos/imunologia , Anemia Aplástica/terapia , Anemia Hemolítica/imunologia , Transplante de Medula Óssea , Isoanticorpos/sangue , Adulto , Anemia Hemolítica/etiologia , Formação de Anticorpos , Humanos , Masculino , Reação Transfusional , Transplante Homólogo
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Leuk Res ; 27(3): 285-90, 2003 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12537982

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Therapy related acute myelogenous leukemia in a 55-year-old Japanese woman is described. She had been treated for a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 2 years before the onset of the secondary leukemia. She was diagnosed as AML (FAB: M2) with monosomy 7, and successfully treated by an intensive combination chemotherapy followed by an autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. The disease relapsed shortly after the treatment, and the karyotype analysis revealed a complex abnormality accompanied with t(9;11)(p22;q23), however, monosomy 7 was absent. Southern blotting analysis was performed, and MLL rearrangement was evident in both the bone marrow samples obtained at that time and the cryopreserved marrow cells obtained at the onset of the disease. The bone marrow sample stored in a Carnoy solution at the onset was further analyzed, and three karyotype panels showing 45,XX, -7, t(9;11)(p22;q23) were found. Like this situation, a masked MLL rearrangement may have existed in some cases with hematopoietic malignancies, and appear to be disclosed in the clinical course.


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Aberrações Cromossômicas , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/genética , Segunda Neoplasia Primária/genética , Proto-Oncogenes , Fatores de Transcrição , Transformação Celular Neoplásica/genética , Cromossomos Humanos Par 11 , Cromossomos Humanos Par 7 , Cromossomos Humanos Par 9 , Análise Citogenética , Feminino , Rearranjo Gênico , Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase , Humanos , Imunofenotipagem , Leucemia Linfoide/genética , Leucemia Mieloide/genética , Leucemia Mieloide Aguda/etiologia , Linfoma não Hodgkin/patologia , Linfoma não Hodgkin/terapia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Monossomia , Proteína de Leucina Linfoide-Mieloide , Segunda Neoplasia Primária/etiologia , Translocação Genética
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