Methods Total nasal symptom score (TNSS), NW and turbinate biopsy specimens were obtained from 36 AR and 20 NAR patients. Atopic patients had positive skin prick test to D.pteronyssinus (35/97%) and L.perenne (18/50%) extracts from Hollister-Stier. Total and differential cell counts were evaluated by a quantitative method of nasal cytology; albumin and IL-8 concentrations were determined in the...

Methods: Ninety-eight (98) students enrolled in a public school in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, participated in this study. For motor evaluation, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children Second Edition (MABC-2) was used; the assessment of physical fi tness was performed using the guidelines of the Brazil Sport Project (PROESP-BR). Data were tabulated in the Statistical Packa...

For a doctor, being on call typically involves stress and fatigue associated with moments of anxiety and sleeplessness. Resident physicians (MIR) are on call more than 4 times per month and during those periods may have to work for 24 h at a stretch. Several studies have associated being on call with increased cardiovascular risk, and alteration in blood pressure (BP) is one of the causal mecha...

For a doctor, being on call typically involves stress and fatigue associated with moments of anxiety and sleeplessness. Resident physicians (MIR) are on call more than 4 times per month and during those periods may have to work for 24 h at a stretch. Several studies have associated being on call with increased cardiovascular risk, and alteration in blood pressure (BP) is one of the causal mecha...

To decide upon the need for partitioning, Students t test or Mann-Whitney^ U test are usually applied to compare the reference samples under study. But these tests may be too sensitive for this purpose: if the sizes of the two subgroups compared are large enough, small differences between subgroups without clinical importance may become statistically significant. For this reason, Harris & Boyd ...

Methods Prospective, observational, multicenter study conducted in 148 Spanish ICUs. Individuals with A(H1N1) confirmed using RT-PCR during the 2009 to 2014 influenza seasons were included and compared with those patients with SpCoI. Patients ́ demographic, clinical, radiologic features, laboratory values, ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS) and outcomes were recorded. Discrete variables are e...

TPX2 is a microtubule-associated protein and is required for microtubule formation at kinetochores in mammalian cells. The purpose of this study was to clarify the expression of TPX2 mRNA and correlation between TPX2 and clinicopathological factors in salivary gland carcinomas. The expression of TPX2 mRNA was investigated in 20 human salivary gland carcinomas (8 mucoepidermoid carcinomas, 7 ade...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of a computerised protocol management system on the number, cost, and appropriateness of laboratory investigations requested. DESIGN A before and after intervention. SETTING A supraregional liver unit in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS 1487 consecutive patients admitted during 1990 and 1991 (one year before and one year after introduction of the system). IN...

background: postoperative periorbital edema and ecchymosis are common after rhinoplasty. we studied the effect of local injection of lidocaine/adrenaline immediately before osteotomy on prevention of post-operative periorbital edema and ecchymosis in rhinoplasty. m aterials and methods: thirty healthy candidates for rhinoplasty were enrolled in the self-controlled clinical trial study. lidocain...

introduction: in this study, the authors aimed to examine the effects of cooperative learning methods using web quest and team-based learning on students’ self-direction, self-regulation, and academic achievement. methods: this is a comparative study of students taking a course in mental health and psychiatric disorders. in two consecutive years, a group of students were trained using the web q...