CLINICS

ISSN-1807-5932
CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2011 66(7):1125–1305
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Public awareness of testicular cancer and testicular self-examination in academic environments: a lost
opportunity
Henry A. A. Ugboma, H. L. S. Aburoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125
Reduced plasma adiponectin levels relative to oxidized low density lipoprotein and nitric oxide in
coronary artery disease patients
Gholam Basati, Morteza Pourfarzam, Ahmad Movahedian, Saed Ziaaldin Samsamshariat, Nizal Sarrafzadegan . . . 1129
Different ventilatory responses to progressive maximal exercise test performed with either the arms or
legs
Renata R. T. Castro, Sabrina Pedrosa, Antonio C. L. Nóbrega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137
Tgf-b1 expression as a biomarker of poor prognosis in prostate cancer
Sabrina Thalita dos Reis, José Pontes-Júnior, Alberto Azoubel Antunes, Juliana Moreira de Sousa-Canavez, Daniel
Kanda Abe, José Arnaldo Shiomi da Cruz, Marcos Francisco Dall’Oglio, Alexandre Crippa, Carlo Camargo Passerotti,
Leopoldo A Ribeiro-Filho, Nayara Izabel Viana, Miguel Srougi, Kátia Ramos Moreira Leite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143
Factors associated with medicine use and self medication are different in adolescents
Augusto César Ferreira de Moraes, Thayla Regina Mortean Delaporte, Carlos Alexandre Molena-Fernandes,
Mário Cı́cero Falcão . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149
A sigmoidal fit for pressure-volume curves of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients on mechanical
ventilation: clinical implications
Juliana C. Ferreira, Fabio E. M. Benseñor, Marcelo J. J. Rocha, Joao M. Salge, R. Scott Harris, Atul Malhotra,
Ronaldo A. Kairalla, Robert M. Kacmarek, Carlos R. R. Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1157
Respiratory exercise program for elderly individuals with asthma
Ludmila Tais Yazbek Gomieiro, Andréia Nascimento, Luciana Kase Tanno, Rosana Agondi, Jorge Kalil,
Pedro Giavina-Bianchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165
Intestinal microsporidiosis: a hidden risk in rheumatic disease patients undergoing anti-tumor
necrosis factor therapy combined with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs?
Nadia Emi Aikawa, Aline de Oliveira Twardowsky, Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Clovis A. Silva, Ivan Leonardo Avelino
França e Silva, Ana Cristina de Medeiros Ribeiro, Carla Gonçalves Schain Saad, Julio César Bertacini Moraes, Roberto
Acayaba de Toledo, Eloı́sa Bonfá . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1171
Risk of herpes zoster in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a three-year follow-up study
using a nationwide population-based cohort
Hsin-Hua Chen, Yi-Ming Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Joung-Liang Lan, Ching-Heng Lin, Der-Yuan Chen . . . . . . . . . . . 1177
Caries in Portuguese children with Down syndrome
Cristina Maria Areias, Benedita Sampaio-Maia, Hercilia Guimaraes, Paulo Melo, David Andrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
Dexmedetomidine for the prevention of shivering during spinal anesthesia
Burhanettin Usta, Muhammet Gozdemir, Ruveyda Irem Demircioglu, Bunyamin Muslu, Huseyin Sert,
Adnan Yaldız . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1187
Demographic, etiological, and histological pulmonary analysis of patients with acute respiratory
failure: a study of 19 years of autopsies
Alexandre de Matos Soeiro, Aline D. Ruppert, Mauro Canzian, Edwin R. Parra, Cecı́lia Farhat,
Vera L. Capelozzi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1193
The hammock: a reservoir of allergens
Francisca X. M. Rego, Pedro Giavina-Bianchi, Jorge Kalil, L. Karla Arruda, Myrthes Toledo-Barros . . . . . . . . . . 1199
Interleukin-10 but not interleukin-18 may be associated with the immune response against welldifferentiated thyroid cancer
Lucas Leite Cunha, Alfio José Tincani, Ligia Vera Montalli da Assumpção, Fernando Augusto Soares, José Vassallo,
Laura Sterian Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1203
A new method for the assessment of patient safety competencies during a medical school clerkship
using an objective structured clinical examination
Renata Mahfuz Daud-Gallotti, Christian Valle Morinaga, Marcelo Arlindo-Rodrigues, Irineu Tadeu Velasco,
Milton Arruda Martins, Iolanda Calvo Tiberio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1209
A close association of body cell mass loss with disease activity and disability in Chinese patients with
rheumatoid arthritis
Yi-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hua Chen, Chia-Wei Hsieh, Tsu-Yi Hsieh, Joung-Liang Lan, Der-Yuan Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217
Ratio of weight to height gain: a useful tool for identifying children at risk of becoming overweight or
obese at preschool age
Viviane G. Nascimento, Ciro João Bertoli, Claudio Leone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223
Metabolic effects of an entero-omentectomy in mildly obese type 2 diabetes mellitus patients after
three years
Fábio Quirilo Milleo, Antonio Carlos Ligocki Campos, Sérgio Santoro, Arnaldo Lacombe, Marco Aurélio Santo,
Marcelo Ricardo Vicari, Viviane Nogaroto, Roberto Ferreira Artoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227
Twenty-four-hour repeatability of diurnal intraocular pressure patterns in glaucomatous and ocular
hypertensive individuals
Marcelo Hatanaka, Mirko Babic, Remo Susanna Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235
BASIC RESEARCHES
The therapeutic effect of a pulsed electromagnetic field on the reproductive patterns of male Wistar
rats exposed to a 2.45-GHz microwave field
Sanjay Kumar, Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Jitendra Behari. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237
Efficacy of vitamin E and selenium for the prevention of intra-abdominal adhesions in rats: uterine
horn models
Ali Said Durmus, Hamit Yildiz, Ihsan Yaman, Halil Simsek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1247
Sildenafil preserves diastolic relaxation after reduction by L-NAME and increases phosphodiesterase-5
in the intercalated discs of cardiac myocytes and arterioles
Silvia Elaine Ferreira-Melo, Caroline Demacq, Silvia Lacchini, José Eduardo Krieger, Maria Cláudia Irigoyen,
Heitor Moreno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253
Thermographic evaluation of hind paw skin temperature and functional recovery of locomotion after
sciatic nerve crush in rats
Viviane Z. Sacharuk, Gisele A. Lovatel, Jocemar Ilha, Simone Marcuzzo, Alexandre Severo do Pinho, Léder L. Xavier,
Milton A. Zaro, Matilde Achaval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259
REVIEW
Pharmacokinetics of cephalosporins in the neonate: a review
Gian Maria Pacifici . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Disease-modifying medications in heart failure: more than ACE inhibitors and beta blockers
Chia-Ter Chao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Strength capacity in young patients who are receiving maintenance therapy for acute lymphoblastic
leukemia: a case-control study
Mavi Diehl Muratt, Maria Beatriz Perondi, Julia Maria D’Andréa Greve, Hamilton Roschel, Ana Lúcia de Sá Pinto,
Bruno Gualano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277
Thrombolysis treatment for submassive pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a safe
therapeutic tool
Juliano Pinheiro de Almeida, Filomena Regina Barbosa Gomes Galas, Roberto Kalil Filho, Rosana Ely Nakamura,
Daniele Nagaoka, Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283
CASE REPORTS
Hypoparathyroidism mimicking ankylosing spondylitis and myopathy: a case report
Thayana Ribeiro Kajitani, Renata Viana da Silva, Eloisa Bonfá, Rosa M. R. Pereira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287
Coronary atherosclerotic plaque rupture following thoracic trauma – an uncommon cause of angina
and ventricular tachycardia (‘‘torsade de pointes’’)
Luı́s Henrique Wolff Gowdak, Márcio Sommer Bittencourt, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte, Luı́s Alberto Oliveira Dallan,
Luiz Antonio Machado César . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291
The management of knee dislocation in a child with Larsen syndrome
Ali Al Kaissi, Rudolf Ganger, Klaus Klaushofer, Franz Grill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1295
Pulmonary arterial involvement leading to alveolar hemorrhage in lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Bruno Guedes Baldi, Suzana Pinheiro Pimenta, Alexandre de Melo Kawassaki, Fabı́ola Del Carlo Bernardi,
Marisa Dolhnikoff, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305