CLINICS

ISSN-1807-5932
CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2011 66(1):1–181
EDITORIALS
The stability of fish populations: how changes in the environment may affect people with epilepsy
Roberta M. Cysneiros, Ricardo M. Arida, Vera C. Terra, Mariana B. Nejm, Fulvio A. Scorza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Reflexões crı́ticas sobre os três erres, ou os periódicos brasileiros excluı́dos
Mauricio Rocha e Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Prevalence of potential drug interactions in patients in an intensive care unit of a university hospital in
Brazil
Adriano Max Moreira Reis, Silvia Helena De Bortoli Cassiani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Evolution of critically ill patients with gastroschisis from three tertiary centers
Ana Cristina A. Tannuri, Lourenço Sbragia, Uenis Tannuri, Luanna M. Silva, Antonio José G. Leal,
Augusto Frederico S. Schmidt, Antonio G. Oliveira-Filho, Joaquim Murray Bustorff-Silva, Yvone A. M. V. A. Vicente,
Maria de Fátima G. S. Tazima, Flávio O. Pileggi, Alexandra L. Camperoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Entrapped victims in motor vehicle collisions: characteristics and prehospital care in the city of São
Paulo, Brazil
Adriano Rogério Navarro Dias, Simone de Campos Vieira Abib, Luiz Francisco Poli-de-Figueiredo,
João Aléssio Juliano Perfeito. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Clinically low-risk prostate cancer: evaluation with transrectal doppler ultrasound and functional
magnetic resonance imaging
Maria Inês Novis, Ronaldo Hueb Baroni, Luciana Mendes de Oliveira Cerri, Romulo Loss Mattedi,
Carlos Alberto Buchpiguel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Identification of platelet refractoriness in oncohematologic patients
Aline Aparecida Ferreira, Roberto Zulli, Sheila Soares, Vagner de Castro, Helio Moraes-Souza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Results of the surgical treatment of non-advanced megaesophagus using Heller–Pinotti’s surgery:
Laparotomy vs. Laparoscopy
Luiz Roberto Lopes, Nathália da Silva Braga, Gustavo Carvalho de Oliveira, João de Souza Coelho Neto, Marcelo Amade
Camargo, Nelson Adami Andreollo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Effect of physiological overload on pregnancy in women with mitral regurgitation
Vera T. M. Borges, Beatriz B. Matsubara, Claudia G. Magalhães, Jose C. Peraçoli, Marilza V. C. Rudge . . . . . . . . . . 47
Comparison between proximal row carpectomy and four-corner fusion for treating osteoarthrosis
following carpal trauma: a prospective randomized study
Edgard Novaes França Bisneto, Maura Cristina Freitas, Emygdio José Leomil de Paula, Rames Mattar Jr.,
Arnaldo Valdir Zumiotti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Impact of MELD allocation policy on survival outcomes after liver transplantation: a single-center
study in northeast Brazil
Thales Paulo Batista, Bernardo David Sabat, Paulo Sérgio V. Melo, Luiz Eduardo C. Miranda,
Olival Cirilo L. Fonseca-Neto, Américo Gusmão Amorim, Cláudio Moura Lacerda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
A real-life study of the effectiveness of different pharmacological approaches to the treatment of
smoking cessation: re-discussing the predictors of success
Gustavo Faibischew Prado, Elisa Maria Siqueira Lombardi, Marco Antônio Bussacos, Frederico Leon Arrabal-Fernandes,
Mário Terra-Filho, Ubiratan de Paula Santos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Fallopian tube origin of supposed ovarian high-grade serous carcinomas
Patricia Martini Diniz, Jesus Paula Carvalho, Edmund Chada Baracat, Filomena M. Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
IL-2, IL-5, TNF-a and IFN-c mRNA expression in epidermal keratinocytes of systemic lupus
erythematosus skin lesions
José Ronaldo M. Carneiro, Hellen T. Fuzii, Cristiane Kayser, Fernando L. Alberto, Fernando A. Soares, Emı́lia I. Sato,
Luı́s Eduardo C. Andrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Prevalence and related factors for anorgasmia among reproductive aged women in Hesarak, Iran
Mitra Tadayon Najafabady, Zahra Salmani, Parvin Abedi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Sensitivity and specificity of auditory steady-state response testing
Camila Maia Rabelo, Eliane Schochat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Outcome of children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia treated with aqueous
penicillin G
Raquel Simbalista, Marcelo Araújo, Cristiana M. Nascimento-Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Recombinant factor VIIA is associated with an improved 24-hour survival without an improvement in
inpatient survival in massively transfused civilian trauma patients
Bartolomeu Nascimento, Yulia Lin, Jeannie Callum, Marciano Reis, Ruxandra Pinto, Sandro Rizoli . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Echocardiographic evaluation during weaning from mechanical ventilation
Luciele Medianeira Schifelbain, Silvia Regina Rios Vieira, Janete Salles Brauner, Deise Mota Pacheco,
Alexandre Antonio Naujorks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Relationship between depression and apolipoproteins A and B: a case–control study
Masoumeh Sadeghi, Hamidreza Roohafza, Hamid Afshar, Fereshteh Rajabi, Mohamadarash Ramzani, Hasan Shemirani,
Nizal Sarafzadeghan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Prediction of large esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients using classification and regression tree
analysis
Wan-dong Hong, Le-mei Dong, Zen-cai Jiang, Qi-huai Zhu, Shu-Qing Jin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Neurophysiological Aspects and their relationship to clinical and functional impairment in patients
with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Carolina Chiusoli de Miranda Rocco, Luciana Maria Malosá Sampaio, Roberto Stirbulov,
João Carlos Ferrari Corrêa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
BASIC RESEARCHES
Histomorphometric and sympathetic innervation of the human internal thoracic artery
Sreenivasulu Reddy, Pramod Kumar, Keerthana Prasad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Protective effect of sildenafil citrate on contralateral testis injury after unilateral testicular torsion/
detorsion
Hamit Yıldız, Ali Said Durmus, Halil Şimşek, Mine Yaman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Gynura procumbens Merr. decreases blood pressure in rats by vasodilatation via inhibition of calcium
channels
See-Ziau Hoe, Chen-Neng Lee, Shiueh-Lian Mok, Mohd Yusoff Kamaruddin, Sau-Kuen Lam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Cardioprotection conferred by exercise training is blunted by blockade of the opioid system
Tatiana F. G. Galvão, Katt C. Matos, Patrı́cia C. Brum, Carlos E. Negrão, Protásio Lemos da Luz, Antônio Carlos P.
Chagas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
REVIEW
Limits to clinical trials in surgical areas
Marco Kawamura Demange, Felipe Fregni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
IDH1 mutations in a Brazilian series of Glioblastoma
Miyuki Uno, Sueli Mieko Oba-Shinjo, Roseli da Silva, Flavio Miura, Carlos Afonso Clara, José Reynaldo Walther de
Almeida, Suzana M. F. Malheiros, André Macedo Bianco, Reynaldo Brandt, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Halim Feres,
Carlos Dzik, Sérgio Rosemberg, João Norberto Stavale, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Suely K. N. Marie . . . . . . . . . . 163
New HNF-1a nonsense mutation causes maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 3
Viviane Nogaroto, Paulo Vinicius Svidnicki, Naieli Bonatto, Fábio Quirillo Milléo, Mara Cristina de Almeida, Marcelo
Ricardo Vicari, Roberto Ferreira Artoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
CASE REPORTS
An unusual case of a tortuous abdominal aorta with a common celiacomesenteric trunk:
demonstrated by angiography
Engin Kara, Baris Celebi, Altan Yildiz, Nail Ozturk, Deniz Uzmansel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Celiac crisis with ataxia in a child
Jane Oba, Ana Maria Escobar, Benita G. S. Schvartsman, José Luiz Gherpelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Totally laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomy with intracorporeal tailoring for primary obstructive
megaureter
Anuar Ibrahim Mitre, Jean Felipe Prodocimo Lestingi, Marco Antonio Arap, Antonio Marmo Lucon,
Miguel Srougi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Re: comparison between two shock wave regimens using frequencies of 60 and 90 impulses per minute
for urinary stones
Christopher C. K. Ho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181