ISSN-1807-5932 CLINICS CONTENTS Clinics 2012 67(3):205–299 CLINICAL SCIENCES Gender differences in drinking patterns and alcohol-related problems in a community sample in São Paulo, Brazil Camila Magalhães Silveira, Erica Rosanna Siu, Yuan-Pang Wang, Maria Carmen Viana, Arthur Guerra de Andrade, Laura Helena Andrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Postmortem diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with acute respiratory failure demographics, etiologic and pulmonary histologic analysis Alexandre de Matos Soeiro, Aline D. Ruppert, Mauro Canzian, Vera L. Capelozzi, Carlos V. Serrano, Jr. . . . . . . . . 213 Metabolic syndrome in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 infection who do not have obesity or type 2 diabetes Lucivalda Pereira Magalhães Oliveira, Rosangela P. de Jesus, Ramona SSB Boulhosa, Carlos Mauricio C. Mendes, Andre Castro Lyra, Luiz Guilherme C. Lyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Applying the new concept of maternal near-miss in an intensive care unit Fátima Aparecida Lotufo, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Samira Maerrawi Haddad, Fernanda Garanhani Surita, Jose Guilherme Cecatti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Wilson’s disease: an analysis of 28 Brazilian children Rodolpho Truffa Kleine, Renata Mendes, Renata Pugliese, Irene Miura, Vera Danesi, Gilda Porta . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Isolated limb perfusion with hyperthermia and chemotherapy: predictive factors for regional toxicity João Pedreira Duprat Neto, Fernanda Oliveira, Eduardo Bertolli, Andre Sapata Molina, Kenji Nishinari, Luciana Facure, Jose Humberto Fregnani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Evaluation of serial C-reactive protein measurements after surgical treatment of pleural empyema Israel Lopes Medeiros, Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Esther Mihwa Choi, Paulo Manuel Pego-Fernandes, Fabio Biscegli Jatene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Prevalence of eye disease in Brazilian patients with psoriatic arthritis Fernanda B. F. de Lima, Maria Fernanda Abalem, Danilo G. Ruiz, Beatriz de A. F. Gomes, Mário N. L. de Azevedo, Haroldo V. Moraes, Jr, Ariyah Seth Yeskel, Newton Kara-Junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 BASIC RESEARCHES Isolated total RNA and protein are preserved after thawing for more than twenty-four hours Ivone Braga de Oliveira, Débora Rothstein Ramos, Karen Lucasechi Lopes, Regiane Machado de Souza, Joel Claudio Heimann, Luzia Naôko Shinohara Furukawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Reporting on health-related research in two prestigious Brazilian newspapers Ricardo Afonso Teixeira, Marcela Carlini, Arthur de Carvalho Jatobá e Sousa, Paula Teixeira Fernandes, Vera Regina Toledo Camargo, Carlos Vogt, Li Min Li . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Growth hormone response to growth-hormone-releasing peptide-2 in growth-hormone-deficient Little mice Cibele N. Peroni, Cesar Y. Hayashida, Nancy Nascimento, Viviane C. Longuini, Rodrigo A. Toledo, Paolo Bartolini, Cyril Y. Bowers, Sergio P.A. Toledo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 REVIEW Endothelial function in pre-pubertal children at risk of developing cardiomyopathy: a new frontier Aline Cristina Tavares, Edimar Alcides Bocchi, Guilherme Veiga Guimarães. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 RAPID COMMUNICATIONS Surgery with intraoperative botulinum toxin-A injection for the treatment of large-angle horizontal strabismus: a pilot study Nilza Minguini, Keila M. M. de Carvalho, Fábio L. S. Bosso, Fábio Endo Hirata, Newton Kara-José . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Assessing the benefits of rosiglitazone in women with polycystic ovary syndrome through its effects on insulin-like growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 and insulin resistance: a pilot study José Gomes Batista, José Maria Soares-Jr, Carla Cristina Maganhin, Ricardo Santos Simões, Geraldez Tomaz, Edmund Chada Baracat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 TECHNICAL NOTE Evaluation of bacterial infections in organ transplantation Sı́lvia Figueiredo Costa, Maristela Pinheiro Freire, Leonardo Borges B, & Silva, Edson Abdala, Lı́gia Pierrotti, Luis Sérgio Fonseca de Azevedo, Pedro Enrique Dorhiac-Ilacer, Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, Comissão de Infecção em Imunodeprimidos, Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 CASE REPORTS Sclerosing mesenteritis as an unusual cause of fever of unknown origin: a case report and review Vivian Iida Avelino-Silva, Fabio Eudes Leal, Caio Coelho-Netto, Guilherme Cutait de Castro Cotti, Ricardo A. S. Souza, Rodrigo Lautert Azambuja, Manoel de Souza Rocha, Esper Georges Kallas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Poststernotomy aspergillosis: successful treatment with voriconazole, surgical debridement and vacuum-assisted closure therapy Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano, Daniel Reis Waisberg, Marcos Naoyuki Samano, Paulo Ferreira Leite, Paulo Tuma Júnior, Guilherme Cardinali Barreiro, Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297