Objective To establish a profile of periodontal conditions in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis and their periodontal risk. Methods We included 115 patients on hemodialysis. Clinical periodontal parameters assessed were: plaque index, gingival index, probing depth and clinical attachment level. Patients were classified according to presence/absence and severity of periodontal di...

Les auteurs presentent quatre cas familiaux de l'ictcre chronique, non hemolytique, benin, avec une hyperbilirubinemie a predominance conjuguee. Deux malades ont ete soumis a des investigations plus poussees. Les. voies biliaires etaient visib1es a la cholecystographie ora1e et le taux plasmatique de la BSP, elevc au depart, presentait une pente d'elimination progressive sans remontee secon­dai...

Un gargon de 13 ans fut hospitalise dans le Service de Pediatrie du C.H.U. de Pahlavi de la Faculte de Medicine de Teheran, pour une insuf­fisance cardiaque. Les signes auscultatoires, radiologiques et electriques evoquaient une stenose mitrale. Le malade deceda <lans le tableau d'oedeme pulmonaire aigli, apres quel­ques episodes d'hemiparesies resolutives.  A l'autopsie, il existait un myxcme...

Objective: assess the autonomy, control over environment, and organizational support of nurses' work process and the relationships between physicians and nurses in critical care units. Method: cross-sectional study conducted with 162 nurses working in the intensive care units and emergency service of a university hospital. The workers' satisfaction with their work environment was assessed usi...

We propose a formalism for higher-order rewriting in de Bruijn notation. This notation not only is used for terms (as usually done in the literature) but also for metaterms, which are the syntactical objects used to express general higher-order rewrite systems. We give formal translations from higher-order rewriting with names to higher-order rewriting with de Bruijn indices, and vice-versa. Th...

Objective: assess the perception of the nursing team about the environment of practice in critical care services and its relation with the safety attitude, perceived quality of care and burnout level. Method: cross-sectional study involving 114 nursing professionals from the intensive care unit of a teaching hospital. The following instruments were used: Nursing Work Index-Revised, Maslach Bu...

We used a relatively simple and direct remote-sensing approach to determine biodiversity values in arid ecosystems and thus identify potential conservation sites. We developed indices based on regression models between grass, shrub, litter, exposed-soil groundcover components, and Landsat thematic mapper satellite imagery reflectance values over a reference site in the northern Chihuahuan Deser...

This book is based on a course given by the author at the university ofLisbon during the academic year 1997–1998. Its aim is to give the readeran idea of how the theory of characteristic classes can be applied to solveindex problems. Starting from the Lefschetz fixed point theorem and itsapplication to the computation of the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of acompact orientab...

"Etude etiologique de la circulation ra.pide iutra-rena-le"  Le but de l'angiographle renale n'est pas '.seu­lement le controle anatomique de l'organe, une etude physiologique (Hemodynamique) doit toujours etre prise en consideration.  Le temps normal de la circulation intra-renale selon les differents auteurs varie entre 6 a 8, 8 a 10 et 10 a 12 secondes, mais le temps moyen est de 6 a 8 seco...