BACKGROUND Conflicting results are reported about the contribution of maternal, obstetric and fetal characteristics to postpartum fecal incontinence (FI), which is hampering prevention and management of FI. OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review identifying delivery-related etiological factors for postpartum FI. Search strategy. Literature searches of PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, DocOnline and r...

1professor of psychology, school of education, federal university of goiás and doctoral student of the post graduate program in neurosciences at the federal university of Minas gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 2professor of Mental Health department and psychiatry, federal university of Minas gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 3professor of Mental Health department and psychiatry, federal university...

AIM The analysis of the predisposing and precipitating factors encountered in the anamnesis of the patients hospitalized with acute pulmonary oedema, in order to establish some correlations with the evolution and prognosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 50 patients, 32 males and 18 females, admitted to the Cardiology I Clinic between 2009 and 2013, diagnosed with acute pulmonary oed...

Theoretical models of childhood anxiety have emphasized temperamental vulnerability, principally behavioral inhibition, and its interaction with various environmental factors promoting anxiety (for example, overprotective parenting, insecure attachment, life stress). Although clearly establishing the importance of both nature and nurture in anxious psychopathology, these models have not adequat...

UNLABELLED Out of the many forms of therapy for sudden deafness, some require hospitalization and present significant risks. AIM This prospective study analyzes etiology and evolution in cases of sudden deafness (SD) where outpatient oral treatment was used. STUDY DESIGN Clinical with transversal cohort. MATERIAL AND METHOD Forty cases of sudden hearing loss were followed for at least one...

The objective of this study was to estimate the level and frequency of non carious cervical lesion with in patient’s dentition reporting with this condition and to investigate factors that might played frequent role in its etiology. Targeting these factors and severity levels, an accurate treatment modalities can be designed. This descriptive cross sectional study was conducted at Outpatient De...

Introduction: Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is defined as a chronic inflammation of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, which presents with recurrent ear discharges or otorrhoea through a tympanic perforation. The disease usually begins in childhood as a spontaneous tympanic perforation due to an acute infection of the middle ear known as Acute Otitis Media (AOM). The objective of this...

In the last few decades, increasing understanding of the pathomechanisms involved in chronic urticaria has highlighted the heterogeneity of different subtypes, and chronic urticaria is now classified as chronic spontaneous urticaria and inducible urticaria. Although many factors are thought to be involved in chronic urticaria, the etiology is yet to be clarified. The purpose of this study was t...

UNLABELLED ETIOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION: Causal factors related with cognitive disability are multiples and can be classified as follows: Genetic, acquired (congenital and developmental), environmental and sociocultural. Likewise, in relation to the classification, cognitive disability has as a common denominator a subnormal intellectual functioning level; nevertheless, the extent to which an in...