Browsing by Subject "treatment outcome"

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    • Avaliação clínica e por imagem da cirurgia artroscópica em articulação temporomandibular 

      Moreno, Roberto [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2016-08-23)
      Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of surgical treatment with arthroscopy , the dysfunctions of the temporomandibular joints ( TMD ) . Method : We evaluated 450 patients with temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD ) , ...

    • Biological therapy in the treatment of moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis patients: can colectomy be prevented? 

      Teixeira, Fábio Vieira; Hossne, Rogério Saad; Kotze, Paulo Gustavo; Denadai, Rafael; Miszputen, Sender Jankiel [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Coloproctologia, 2011-12-01)
      Ulcerative colitis treatment intends to induce remission, and its maintenance. Biological drugs, such as infliximab, have been indicated in moderate and severe cases of the disease, which are unresponsive to conventional ...

    • Cochrane report - A systematic review of mannitol therapy for acute ischemic stroke and cerebral parenchymal hemorrhage 

      Bereczki, Daniel; Liu, Ming; Prado, Gilmar Fernandes do [UNIFESP]; Fekete, Istvan (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000-11-01)
      Background-Mannitol was reported to decrease cerebral edema associated with tissue damage and is used to treat acute stroke in many countries.Summary of Review-We tested whether there is any evidence from unconfounded ...

    • Does valsalva leak point pressure predict outcome after the distal urethral polypropylene sling? Role of urodynamics in the sling era 

      Rodriguez, L. V.; De Almeida, F.; Dorey, F.; Raz, S. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004-07-01)
      Purpose: Recently sling procedures have been shown to be effective in the treatment of all types of incontinence. in this study we evaluated the role of preoperative Valsalva leak point pressure (VLPP) in predicting the ...

    • A double-blind, randomized, controlled study of amitriptyline, nortriptyline and placebo in patients with fibromyalgia. An analysis of outcome measures 

      Heymann, Roberto Ezequiel [UNIFESP]; Helfenstein Junior, Milton [UNIFESP]; Feldman, D. [UNIFESP] (Clinical & Exper Rheumatology, 2001-11-01)
      Objective To study the efficacy and tolerability of amitriptyline and nortriptyline in a Brazilian population with fibromyalgia and to evaluate the instruments used to measure the efficacy, of the treatment.Methods A total ...

    • Functional impact of hospitalization among elderly patients 

      Siqueira, Ana Barros [UNIFESP]; Cordeiro, Renata Cereda [UNIFESP]; Perracini, Monica Rodrigues [UNIFESP]; Ramos, Luiz Roberto [UNIFESP] (Revista de Saude Publica, 2004-10-01)
      Objective To describe functional capacity changes of elderly during hospitalization and to assess the correlation of these changes at the time of hospital discharge and sociodemographics and clinical variables.Methods There ...

    • Gene expression pattern contributing to prognostic factors in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia 

      Silveira, Vanessa S.; Scrideli, Carlos Alberto; Moreno, Daniel A.; Yunes, Jose Andres; Queiroz, Rosane Gomes P.; Toledo, Silvia Regina Caminada de [UNIFESP]; Lee, Maria Lucia de Martino [UNIFESP]; Petrilli, Antonio S. [UNIFESP]; Brandalise, Silvia R.; Tone, Luiz Gonzaga (Informa Healthcare, 2013-02-01)
      The present study evaluated the expression profile of 19 genes previously reported in microarray studies and associated with resistance or sensitivity to vincristine (RPLP2, CD44, TCFL5, KCNN1, TRIM24), prednisolone (F8A, ...

    • Hypoxia-related gene expression profile in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: prognostic implications 

      Silveira, Vanessa S.; Freire, Bruno M. R.; Borges, Kleiton S.; Andrade, Augusto F.; Cruzeiro, Gustavo A. V.; Sabino, Joao Paulo J.; Glass, Mogens Lesner; Yunes, Jose Andres; Brandalise, Silvia Regina; Tone, Luiz Gonzaga; Scrideli, Carlos Alberto (Informa Healthcare, 2014-08-01)
      A cellular hypoxic condition is a key event in several human cancers, but knowledge about its role in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is very limited. in the present study, the gene expression profile of ...

    • Is the number of microembolic signals related to neurologic outcome in coronary bypass surgery? 

      Malheiros, Suzana Maria Fleury [UNIFESP]; Massaro, Ayrton Roberto; Gabbai, Alberto Alain [UNIFESP]; Pessa, Clodualdo J. N. [UNIFESP]; Gerola, Luís Roberto [UNIFESP]; Branco, João Nelson Rodrigues [UNIFESP]; Lira Filho, Edgar Bezerra; Christofalo, Dejaldo Marcos de Jesus; Federico, Darwin; Carvalho, Antonio Carlos [UNIFESP]; Buffolo, Enio [UNIFESP] (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2001-03-01)
      Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) may potentially reduce the number of microembolic signals (MES) associated with aortic manipulation or generated by the pump circuit, resulting in ...

    • Prostatic carcinomas with neuroendocrine differentiation diagnosed in needle biopsies, a morphologic study of 7 cases among 465 sequential biopsies in a tertiary cancer center 

      Lima, M. V. A.; Nogueira, C.; Oliveira, J. A. A.; Muniz Neto, F. J.; Franco, M. [UNIFESP]; Tavora, Fabio Rocha Fernandes [UNIFESP] (Brazilian Soc Urol, 2011-09-01)
      Purpose: Neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC) of the prostate are rare, with only a few series hitherto reported. the objective of this study was to assess in a single institution the clinical and morphologic characteristics ...