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COVID-19 nas instituições de longa permanência para idosos: estratégias de rast...
Moraes,Edgar Nunes de; Viana,Luciana de Gouvêa; Resende,Letícia Maria Henriques; Vasconcellos,Leonardo de Souza; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Menezes,AndréResumo A pandemia da “novel coronavirus disease” 2019 (COVID-19), infecção causada pelo coronavírus 2 da síndrome respiratória aguda grave (SARS-CoV-2), tem descortinado uma realidade até então oculta: a vulnerabilidade da população residente em instituições de longa permanência para idosos (ILPI). Diversas publicações científicas têm revelado a concentração de até 60% dos óbitos atribuídos à COVID-19 em tais i...
Simulation-based Training for Pelvic and Breast Physical Examination: Effect on...
Orsi,Talles Dias; Valadares,Ana Lucia Ribeiro; Orsi,Paula Miranda Esteves; Orsi,Isabella Miranda Esteves; Moura,Alexandre SampaioAbstract Objective: To evaluate factors associated with anxiety and the effect of simulation-based training (SBT) on student anxiety, self-confidence and learning satisfaction in relation to pelvic and breast examination. Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted with 4th year medical students at the Universidade José do Rosário Vellano. A 12-item, self-report questionnaire on student anxiety at performing gy...
Risk factors for neurocognitive impairment in HIV-infected patients and compari...
Souza,Elisa Moreira de; Buoniconti,Caroline Schleiffer; Valim,Frederico Cunha; Moura,Alexandre SampaioHIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) is relatively frequent among HIV-infected patients and is often underdiagnosed. Assessment of HAND in daily clinical practice is challenging and different tools have been proposed. Objective : To evaluate risk factors and compare different screening tools for neurocognitive impairment in HIV-infected patients. Methods : HIV-infected patients were evaluated using the...
Sexual dysfunction and dissatisfaction in chronic hepatitis C patients
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Ávila,Renata Eliane de; Faria,Marjore Novaes; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antônio LúcioIntroductionThe prevalence of sexual dysfunction (SD) and dissatisfaction with sexual life (DSL) in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection (CHC) was jointly investigated via a thorough psychopathological analysis, which included dimensions such as fatigue, impulsiveness, psychiatric comorbidity, health-related quality of life (HRQL) and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.MethodsMale and fe...
Performance of a rapid diagnostic test for the detection of visceral leishmania...
Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Lopes,Helen Maria Ramos de Oliveira; Mourao,Maria Vitoria Assumpcao; Morais,Maria Helena FrancoIntroduction Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) may improve the early detection of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), but their real-world performance requires additional study. Therefore, we evaluated the performance of an rK39-based RDT (Kalazar Detect™) for the detection of VL in an endemic, large urban area. Methods Data were collected from a registry of rK39 RDT performed at 11 emergency care units in Belo Horizonte,...
Health related quality of life among patients with chronic hepatitis C: a cross...
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Ávila,Renata Eliane de; Faria,Marjore Novaes; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antonio LúcioINTRODUCTION: Chronic hepatitis C virus infection patients have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than the general population. Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is known to be associated with impaired health related quality of life. To our knowledge, there is no previous research of health related quality of life in chronic hepatitis C patients that combined structured psychiatric interview and careful ps...
Soluble inflammatory markers as predictors of hepatocellular damage and therape...
Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antonio Lucio; Rocha,Manoel Otávio da CostaHepatitis C is an important burden worldwide being an important cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer in different parts of the world. Host immune response, especially T helper type 1 (Th1) cell-mediated, seems to play an important role in disease progression but is also crucial for viral elimination following specific therapy. Immune activation can be evaluated using peripheral levels of different cytokines, suc...
Clinical management of a patient with drug dependence who attempted suicide whi...
Fábregas,Bruno Cópio; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Marciano,Renata Cristiane; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Teixeira,Antônio LúcioPegylated interferon-alpha combined with ribavirin is the current gold standard treatment for chronic hepatitis C. Illicit drug dependence is not a rare co-morbidity among chronic hepatitis C population, what can make antiviral treatment an outmost challenge. Despite high sustained virological response rate following antiviral treatment, serious psychiatric adverse reactions may occur, like depression and suici...
Clinical and radiographic features of HIV-related pulmonary tuberculosis accord...
Garcia,Guilherme Freire; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Ferreira,Cid Sérgio; Rocha,Manoel Otávio da CostaMedical charts and radiographs from 38 HIV-infected patients with positive cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage were reviewed in order to compare the clinical, radiographic, and sputum bacilloscopy characteristics of HIV-infected patients with pulmonary tuberculosis according to CD4+ lymphocyte count (CD4). The mean age of the patients was 32 years and 76% were male. The...
Syphilitic meningitis in HIV-patients with meningeal syndrome: report of two ca...
Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Moura,Alexandre Sampaio; Christo,Paulo Pereira; Morandi,Ana Cláudia; Oliveira,Marcelo SilvaFew patients with symptomatic neurosyphilis present with signs and symptoms of acute meningitis. Here we report two cases of syphilitic meningitis diagnosed in HIV patients with meningeal syndrome. The first case, a 30-year-old black bisexual male, had concurrent meningeal and ocular syphilis with persistent unusually low CSF glucose levels. He responded well to 21 days of intravenous penicillin therapy. The se...