Introduction. The brachial plexus injuries have serious repercussions on the functionality, family life and quality of life. Method. Crosssectional, descriptive and exploratory study with quantitative methodological strategy developed in 15 volunteers with brachial plexus injury in Clinical physical therapy school in Fortaleza/CE. Pulmonary function was evaluated by ventilometry, manovacuometry, and spirometry....
Background: Liver transplantation (LT) is the current standard therapy for patients with irreversible liver failure, both acute or chronic. Pulmonary complications postoperatively (CPP) are an important cause of disease in liver transplant recipients and contribute substantially to mortality. Objective: To evaluate the respiratory functional evaluation and exercise capacity as independent risk factors for pulmo...
Objective: To validate a Portuguese-language version of the COPD assessment test (CAT) for use in Brazil and to assess the reproducibility of this version. Methods: This was multicenter study involving patients with stable COPD at two teaching hospitals in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. Two independent observers (twice in one day) administered the Portuguese-language version of the CAT to 50 patients with COPD....
Introdução: O câncer de pulmão é uma doença altamente letal, geralmente detectado em estágios avançados. Corresponde ao terceiro tipo de tumor mais incidente no sexo masculino e no sexo feminino é o quinto tumor mais frequente. O tratamento depende do histórico do paciente, sua idade, estado geral, estágio e tipo do tumor. O fisioterapeuta detém métodos e recursos que são imensamente úteis nos cuidados paliativ...
Objective: To determine the incidence of preterm newborn infants in mechanical ventilation who developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia in a public hospital at Fortaleza/CE. Method: Descriptive, retrospective and longitudinal quantitative analysis with 1192 pre-term infants admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, Dr. César Cals General Hospital, at Fortaleza, from July 2006 to June 2007. Data collection occurred durin...
The aim of this study was to conduct a literature review on the usefulness of aerobic exercise in pulmonary rehabilitation. This is an exploratory study of literature through the electronic databases Medline, Lilacs, Scielo, Pubmed and Google Scholar, published between 1996 and 2012, conducted during the period February to May 2012 with the following keywords: COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation, aerobic exercises, ...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable respiratory disease characterized by the presence of chronic airflow obstruction. The Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a program of inter/multidisciplinary care with actions planned in order to enable the user to optimize autonomy for activities of daily living, improving the quality of life and the physical and social performance. Thus, thi...
With the advent of ever increasing technology, the imaging techniques have been improved in order to provide more information about the various types of diseases. Currently, the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is one such promising techniques that act incorporating the dynamic image to the study of regional lung ventilation. The TIE has advantages because it is a noninvasive technique and allowing its use...