[PDF] Top 20 J. bras. pneumol. vol.30 número3

... Fine particles (particles less than 2.5 micrometers) are derived chiefly from combustion or are secondary particles such as sulfate and nitrate particles generated by conversion from pri[r] ... See full document

... GUSTAVO DE SOUZA PORTES MEIRELLES UNIFESP-EPM, São Paulo, SP e Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury, São Paulo, SP. NESTOR MÜLLER[r] ... See full document

... 3. Menezes A, Horta BL, Oliveira AL. Attributed risk to smoking for lung cancer, laryngeal cancer and esophageal cancer. Rev Saude Publica. 2002;36:129-34. 4. Trkulja V, Zivcec Z, Cuk M, Lackovic Z. Use of psychoactive ... See full document

... Higher 30-day mortality was found for patients with higher PSI scores (IV and V) treated in accordance with the guidelines than for patients whose treatments did not adhere to the guidelines and who presented the ... See full document

... In conclusion, when we reassess our experience over the last 3.5 years employing bedside percutaneous tracheostomy, using either the progressive dilatation technique or the forceps tec[r] ... See full document

... The traditional diagnostic imprecision in the detection of pulmonary TB in children, due to the absence of positive results from sputum smear microscopy, may call into question several[r] ... See full document

... In rare cases, SLE patients present a syndrome characterized by dyspnea, chest pain and abnormalities in pulmonary function testing, although there may be no evidence of major parenchym[r] ... See full document

... Background: There is currently no consensus regarding which factors influence the quality of life of patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).. However, ide[r] ... See full document

... A 30-year-old man, living in the urban area and working on the assembly line in a large-scale compressor factory, sought medical attention from the company nurse in the third week of May, 2002, reporting pain in ... See full document

... Acute disseminated histoplasmosis is a systemic granulomatous disease caused by Histoplasma capsulatum and can be misdiagnosed as severe community-acquired pneumonia.. This disease is [r] ... See full document

... margin for error, it is the bronchodilator of last resort. We considered the use of inhaled corticosteroids to be improper in 30% of cases. We based this viewpoint that their potential effect is not related to ... See full document

... In 1973, Taussig created the National Institutes of Health (NIH) score, a clinical scoring system for the assessment of CF severity which was intended to be objective and was defined by the authors as simple, easily ... See full document

... UNIFESP-EPM, São Paulo, SP and Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury, São Paulo, SP. NESTOR MÜLLER[r] ... See full document

... Histiocytosis of Langerhans cells is the main differential diagnosis, although also found mainly in the upper lobes and rarely involves the costophrenic sulci, producing cysts that are[r] ... See full document

... Thomas’ Hospital in London, presented bronchographic and radiological evidence of 9 cases of unilateral emphysema documented over several years, thereby establishing a new syndrome tha[r] ... See full document

... Method : Between January 1999 and May 2000, 17 patients diagnosed with loculated or diffuse pleural empyema were submitted to thoracentesis, followed by thorough washing of the pleural [r] ... See full document

... accreditation of teaching units in the area: the service structure must have physical facilities suitable for hospitalization, ambulatory consultation, endoscopy and pleural procedures, pulmonary function tests and the ... See full document

... However, when they analyzed the differences of the means of immunoglobulins in the group of workers exposed to silica, the authors reported a significant difference in IgM values bet[r] ... See full document

... pelo professor Carneiro, fundador do Pavilhão Pereira Filho, e que estagiou no Brompton Hospital em 1965, onde o incidente era de conhecimento público, tendo culminado com a expulsão de [r] ... See full document

... Rodrigo Bortoli - Hospital Santo Ângelo e Hospital de Guarnição de Santo ângelo, Santo Rogério de Mattos Bártholo - Hospital Municipal Cardoso Fontes, Rio de Janeiro - RJ Rubens Altair[r] ... See full document