Sao Paulo Med. J. vol.121 número3

Keywords: COMPLICATIONS, Postoperative: respiratory failure; DISEASES, Muscular: myotonic dystrophy; SURGERY, abdominal:

analyzed the complications that increase the permanence of the patients submitted to cardiac surgery at intensive care unit and conclude that they are related to respiratory

This case illustrates that neu- roleptic drugs can cause neuroleptic malignant syndrome associated with acute respiratory dis- tress syndrome.. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is

CONCLUSION: Although in some particular cases spu- tum can be positive for acid-fast bacilli in chil- dren, limitations to the sputum test have forced pediatricians to

The differences between the ability of the low and high-risk HPV types to induce im- mortalization and transformation therefore may well lie in their abilities to interact with the

The results have been used at the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, to elucidate the basis of Beckwith-Wiedemann syn- drome and

Medical examiner, Instituto Médico Legal of São Paulo and Fellow, Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil.

Our objective was to identify factors associated with the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV) postoperative to cardiac surgery and assess the association between duration