CLINICS

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CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2012 67(9):987–1123
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Contrasting diagnosis performance of forced oscillation and spirometry in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis and respiratory symptoms
Alvaro Camilo Dias Faria, Wellington Ribeiro Barbosa, Agnaldo José Lopes, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro,
Pedro Lopes de Melo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 987
Low mechanical ventilation times and reintubation rates associated with a specific weaning protocol
in an intensive care unit setting: a retrospective study
Cilene Saghabi de Medeiros Silva, Karina T. Timenetsky, Corinne Taniguchi, Sedila Calegaro, Carolina Sant’Anna A.
Azevedo, Ricardo Stus, Gustavo Faissol Janot de Matos, Raquel A.C. Eid, Carmen Silvia Valente Barbas . . . . . . . . 995
Etiological diagnosis reduces the use of antibiotics in infants with bronchiolitis
Ângela Esposito Ferronato, Alfredo Elias Gilio, Alexandre Archanjo Ferraro, Milena de Paulis, Sandra E. Vieira . . . . 1001
Reduced salivary flow and colonization by mutans streptococci in children with Down syndrome
Cristina Areias, Benedita Sampaio-Maia, Maria de Lurdes Pereira, Álvaro Azevedo, Paulo Melo, Casimiro Andrade,
Crispian Scully. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
Prevalence of celiac disease among blood donors in SÃO PAULO – the most populated city in Brazil
Marı́lia Lage Alencar, Carmen Lucia Ortiz-Agostinho, Iêda Nishitokukado, Adérson O.M.C. Damião, Clarice P.
Abrantes-Lemos, André Zonetti de Arruda Leite, Thales de Brito, Dalton de Alencar Fischer Chamone, Maria Elizabeth
Rossi da Silva, Daniel Giannella-Neto, Aytan Miranda Sipahi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013
Evaluation of the mean platelet volume in patients with cardiac syndrome X
Sait Demirkol, Sevket Balta, Murat Unlu, Uygar Cagdas Yuksel, Turgay Celik, Zekeriya Arslan, Ugur Kucuk,
Mehmet Yokusoglu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
Isokinetic analysis of ankle and ground reaction forces in runners and triathletes
Natália Mariana Silva Luna, Angelica Castilho Alonso, Guilherme Carlos Brech, Luis Mochizuki, Eduardo Yoshio Nakano,
Júlia Maria D’Andréa Greve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023
Hyperventilation accelerates the rise of arterial blood concentrations of desflurane in gynecologic
patients
Chih-Cherng Lu, Tso-Chou Lin, Che-Hao Hsu, Mu-Hsien Yu, Ta-Liang Chen, Ruei-Ming Chen, Chih-Hung Ku,
Shung-Tai Ho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029
Comparison of standard 4-row versus 6-row 3-D linear cutter stapler in creation of gastrointestinal
system anastomoses: a prospective randomized trial
Alper Sozutek, Tahsin Colak, Ahmet Dag, Tolga Olmez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035
Increased fibroblast telomerase expression precedes myofibroblast a-smooth muscle actin expression
in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Daniel Reis Waisberg, Edwin Roger Parra, João Valente Barbas-Filho, Sandra Fernezlian, Vera Luiza Capelozzi . . . . 1039
Helicobacter pylori as a potential target for the treatment of central serous chorioretinopathy
Antonio Marcelo Barbante Casella, Rodrigo Fabri Berbel, Gláucio Luciano Bressanim, Marcus Rudolph Malaguido,
José Augusto Cardillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047
The influence of tourniquet use and operative time on the incidence of deep vein thrombosis in total
knee arthroplasty
Arnaldo José Hernandez, Adriano Marques de Almeida, Edmar Fávaro, Guilherme Turola Sguizzato . . . . . . . . . . 1053
A clinical comparison between DisCoVisc and 2% hydroxypropylmethylcellulose in phacoemulsification: a fellow eye study
Rodrigo F. Espı́ndola, Emerson F.S. Castro, Marcony R. Santhiago, Newton Kara-Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059
BASIC RESEARCHES
The effect of beta-blockade on myocardial remodelling in Chagas’ cardiomyopathy
Walace de Souza Pimentel, Felix José Alvarez Ramires, Barbara Maria Ianni, Vera Maria Cury Salemi, Angelina Morand
Bianchi Bilate, Edécio Cunha-Neto, Adriana Morgan de Oliveira, Fábio Fernandes, Charles Mady . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
Correlation of lifetime progress of atherosclerosis and morphologic markers of severity in humans:
new tools for a more sensitive evaluation
Mara Lúcia da Fonseca Ferraz, Douglas Montielle Silva Nascimento, João Paulo Hanel Rorato, Ana Paula Espindula,
Lı́via Ferreira Oliveira, Luciana Santos Ramalho, Maria Helena Soares, Camila Lourencine Cavellani, Flávia
Aparecida Oliveira, Sanı́via Aparecida de Lima Pereira, Rosana Rosa Miranda Corrêa, Vicente de Paula Antunes
Teixeira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071
The effects of alpha-tocopherol supplementation on fracture healing in a postmenopausal
osteoporotic rat model
Sharlina Mohamad, Ahmad Nazrun Shuid, Norazlina Mohamed, Fazalina Mohd Fadzilah, Sabarul Afian Mokhtar,
Shahrum Abdullah, Faizah Othman, Farihah Suhaimi, Norliza Muhammad, Ima Nirwana Soelaiman . . . . . . . . . . 1077
Exercise alleviates hypoalgesia and increases the level of calcitonin gene-related peptide in the dorsal
horn of the spinal cord of diabetic rats
Patrı́cia Severo do Nascimento, Gisele Agustini Lovatel, Jocemar Ilha, Léder L. Xavier, Beatriz D’Agord Schaan,
Matilde Achaval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087
Synergistic growth inhibition by sorafenib and vitamin K2 in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Yafei Zhang, Bicheng Zhang, Anran Zhang, Yong Zhao, Jie Zhao, Jian Liu, Jianfei Gao, Dianchun Fang,
Zhiguo Rao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093
Comparison of lung preservation solutions in human lungs using an ex vivo lung perfusion
experimental model
Israel L. Medeiros, Paulo M. Pêgo-Fernandes, Alessandro W. Mariani, Flávio G. Fernandes, Fernando V. Unterpertinger,
Mauro Canzian, Fabio B. Jatene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
REVIEW
What types of unintentional injuries kill our children? Do infants die of the same types of injuries? A
systematic review
Janete Honda Imamura, Eduardo Juan Troster, Carlos Augusto Cardim de Oliveira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
RAPID COMMUNICATION
Inflammation and circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with coronary artery disease and
residual platelet reactivity
Antonio Eduardo P. Pesaro, Carlos V. Serrano Jr, Marcelo Katz, Alexandre H. Campos, Renato D. Lopes, Luciana C.
Marti, Herlon S. Martins, Rodrigo S. Sunahara, Raul C. Maranhao, José C. Nicolau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1117
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123