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The challenge of concomitant infections in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemi...
Kurizky,Patricia Shu; Cerqueira,Selma Regina Penha Silva; Cunha,Débora Vilela; Albuquerque,Cleandro Pires de; Aires,Rodrigo BarbosaAbstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first officially described in Brazil on February 26th, 2020. The accumulation of reports of concomitant infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and pathogens that cause diseases endemic to tropical countries, such as dengue and chikungunya fever, has started to draw attention. Chagas disease and leprosy remain public health pr...
Avaliação anestésica pré-operatória de pacientes com artrite reumatoide
Aires,Rodrigo Barbosa; Carvalho,Jozélio Freire de; Mota,Licia Maria Henrique daO manejo e as intervenções cirúrgicas de problemas decorrentes direta ou indiretamente da artrite reumatoide variam drasticamente. O anestesiologista e o reumatologista devem estar atentos às peculiaridades da avaliação anestésica pré-operatória desses pacientes, incluindo a avaliação de possíveis distúrbios das vias aéreas, além do manejo intraoperatório e da análise dos parâmetros farmacológicos pertinentes. ...
Differing phagocytic function of monocytes and neutrophils in Chagas' cardiopat...
Muniz-Junqueira,Maria Imaculada; Mota,Lícia Maria; Aires,Rodrigo Barbosa; Junqueira Júnior,Luiz FernandoWe evaluated the in vitro phagocytic function and the production of microbicidal oxygen radicals by monocytes and neutrophils of 9 Chagas' heart disease subjects with heart failure and 9 without the syndrome in comparison with 11 healthy subjects, by assessing phagocytosis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and NBT reduction by peripheral blood phagocytes. Phagocytic index of monocytes of chagasics without heart failu...