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... mortality in severe ...management in elderly patients with ...15 leptospirosis elderly cases (age 60–78 years) treated at the Clinic of Infectious Diseases of University Hospital ... See full document

... The frailty was assessed through the application of the instrument Edmonton Frail Scale - in elderly constructed by a Canadian group, culturally adapted and validated to Brazil in 2009. This ... See full document

... pharmacotherapy in patients in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV, with reduced ejection fraction and a QRS width of at least 120 ...However, in almost all randomized clinical ... See full document

... interventions in hospitalized elderly with impaired renal function, and perform differentiations possible types of interventions as the level of renal impairment ...results in a multidisciplinary ... See full document

... asthmatic patients in our study had rhinitis, which is consistent with a predominant atopic phenotype, in the case of the non-elderly ...asthmatics. In fact, we observed that the ... See full document

... approach, in which the conduct is defined by the findings of organic ...diagnosis in the prognosis of elderly patients who present associated ...the Elderly; Prognosis; International ... See full document

... high in MUFA, paradoxical results from experiments in mon- keys show that a diet high in MUFA causes atheroscler- osis equivalent to that observed in animals fed a diet high in SFA ... See full document

... levels in the exhaled breath of our patients. Levels were normal, in most cases, suggesting a low probability of an underlying active bronchial eosinophilic ...asthma, in terms of cellular ... See full document

... AML in an elderly Brazilian population. Since Brazilian patients differ in ethnic background, endemic infec- tious diseases, socioeconomic aspects and medical support from North American or ... See full document

... However, patients with polypharmacy at admission or dis- charge did not have a significantly lower BI, in comparison with patients without polypharmacy (at admission, median score of 65 in ... See full document

... accidents in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease ...20 patients and data collection occurred from April to August ...organized in thematic ...with patients: falls (35%), ... See full document

... of฀ leptospirosis฀ admitted฀ to฀ the฀ Walter฀ Can- tídio฀ University฀ Hospital฀ and฀ São฀ José฀ Infec- tious฀ Diseases฀ Hospital,฀ in฀ Fortaleza฀ city,฀ a฀ metropolitan฀ area฀ in฀ Northeast฀ Brazil,฀ ... See full document

... years). Elderly patients were more likely to be in an ICU at the time of diagnosis of candidemia and less likely to be in a medical or hematology ward compared to younger ...patients. ... See full document

... eutrophic. In contrast, according to NSI [12] recommendations, the fre- quencies of undernutrition and eutrophia were ...are in agreement with values recently reported from other countries, especially ... See full document

... severe leptospirosis in ...death in leptospirosis: changes in the clinical and anatomicopathological patterns [in ...Epidemic leptospirosis associated with pulmonary ... See full document

... reduction in serum urea and creatinine in the patients included in the present ...3) in each decade was also shown, suggesting early diagnosis and ...decrease in mortality, since ... See full document

... highlighted in this study, for being one of the most common diseases and one of the main causes of worldwide mortality in the ...proposed, in order to promote the quality of life of the ... See full document

... and/or in the life habits of the elderly, aiming to prevent further ...role in the care of elderly persons needs to be centered at the stimulus to functional independence and the maximum of ... See full document

... estimated in this study is much smaller than in previous ...variables in those studies was likely insufficient to account for most of the differences between statin users and ... See full document

... caregiver/family in the care of elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease ...scenario in which this study was the practice of nursing at the Institute of Psychiatry, University Federal of Rio ... See full document