Browsing by Subject "mortality"

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    • Abnormal heart rate recovery and deficient chronotropic response after submaximal exercise in young Marfan syndrome patients 

      Peres, Paulo Alberto Tayar [UNIFESP]; Carvalho, Antonio Carlos [UNIFESP]; Perez, Ana Beatriz Alvarez [UNIFESP]; Medeiros, Wladimir Musetti [UNIFESP] (Cambridge Univ Press, 2016)
      Background: Marfan syndrome patients present important cardiac structural changes, ventricular dysfunction, and electrocardiographic changes. An abnormal heart rate response during or after exercise is an independent ...

    • Abordagem estereotáxica guiada por imagem de lesões do sistema nervoso central: precisão diagnóstica, morbidade, mortalidade 

      Hisatugo, Marcelo Ken-iti; Stávale, João Norberto [UNIFESP]; Bidó, José Orlando; Ferraz, Fernando Patriani [UNIFESP] (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 1999-09-01)
      We studied seventy-five patients with brain lesions biopsied by stereotaxis from March 1993 to December 1998 at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) - Escola Paulista de Medicina. The three most frequent lesions ...

    • Acceptance for chronic dialysis treatment: Insufficient and unequal 

      Sesso, Ricardo de Castro Cintra [UNIFESP]; Fernandes, Paula Frassinetti Castelo Branco Camurca; Anção, Meide Silva [UNIFESP]; Drummond, Michael; Draibe, Sergio Antonio [UNIFESP]; Sigulem, Daniel [UNIFESP]; Ajzen, Horacio [UNIFESP] (Oxford Univ Press United Kingdom, 1996-06-01)
      Background. Evidence suggests that a number of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients die without receiving dialysis. We investigated and compared ESRD patients who died without receiving treatment and those who were ...

    • Albumina sérica como marcador nutricional de pacientes em hemodiálise 

      Santos, Nelma Scheyla José dos; Draibe, Sergio Antonio [UNIFESP]; Kamimura, Maria Ayako [UNIFESP]; Cuppari, Lilian [UNIFESP] (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, 2004-09-01)
      The prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition is high in patients with chronic renal failure on long-term hemodialysis therapy. Among several parameters available for the assessment of nutritional status, albumin has been ...

    • Autonomic impairment after myocardial infarction: Role in cardiac remodelling and mortality 

      Mostarda, C. [UNIFESP]; Rodrigues, B.; Vane, M.; Moreira, E. D.; Rosa, K. T.; Moraes-Silva, I. C.; Lacchini, S.; Casarini, D. E. [UNIFESP]; De Angelis, K.; Irigoyen, M. C. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-04-01)
      P>1. Impairmant of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) has been implicated in the reduction of heart rate variability (HRV) and in the increased risk of death after myocardial infarction (MI). in the present study, we investigated ...

    • Avaliacao da espessura medio-intimal em pacientes com doenca renal cronica nao dialitica: estudo prospectivo de 24 meses 

      Marcos, Andrea Gaspar; Watanabe, Renato; Lemos, Marcelo Montebello [UNIFESP]; Canziani, Maria Eugênia Fernandes [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia, 2014-03-01)
      Introduction:Increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is considered a marker of early-onset atherosclerosis and it seems to predict cardiovascular events in general population. The prognostic value of IMT in patients ...

    • Avaliação da mortalidade após o tranplante renal 

      Ruiz, Priscila Ruppel [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2016-12-31)
      Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center, case-control study which assessed 324 primary recipients of kidney transplant to evaluate the incidence of infection related deaths in the first 5 years after kidney ...

    • Characterization of cardiac arrest in the emergency department of a Brazilian University Reference Hospital: A prospective study 

      Vancini-Campanharo, Cassia Regina [UNIFESP]; Vancini, Rodrigo Luiz; Barbosa de Lira, Claudio Andre; Andrade, Marlia dos Santos [UNIFESP]; Lopes, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira [UNIFESP]; Okuno, Meiry Fernanda Pinto [UNIFESP]; Batista, Ruth Ester Assayag [UNIFESP]; Atallah, Álvaro Nagib [UNIFESP]; Gois, Aecio Flavio Teixeira de [UNIFESP] (Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd, 2016)
      Background & objectives: Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) represents one of the greatest challenges for medicine due to the vast number of cases and its social and economic impact. Despite advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

    • A cohort study to assess the impact of depression on patients with kidney disease 

      Zimmermann, Paulo Roberto; Camey, Suzi Alves; Mari, Jair de Jesus [UNIFESP] (Baywood Publ Co Inc, 2006-01-01)
      Aims: This study assessed the impact of depression on mortality and quality of life of patients with kidney disease. Material: This study was conducted at Hospital Sao Lucas of Pontificia Universidade Catolica of Rio Grande ...

    • Complicaciones pulmonares y mortalidad en el postoperatorio de pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica leve y moderada sometidos a cirugía general electiva 

      Medeiros, Renato de Albuquerque [UNIFESP]; Faresin, Sonia Maria [UNIFESP]; Jardim, José Roberto [UNIFESP] (Ediciones Doyma S A, 2001-05-01)
      Objective: To verify the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) and mortality in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who undergo elective general surgery. Incidence ...