ISSN-1807-5932
CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2010 65(9):823–933
EDITORIAL
In the September, 2010 issue of CLINICS
Mauricio Rocha e Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Metallo-beta-lactamases among imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a brazilian university
hospital
Maria Renata Gomes Franco, Hélio Hehl Caiaffa-Filho, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Flávia Rossi . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Regional intravenous anesthesia in knee arthroscopy
Mahmut Arslan, Mehmet Cantürk, Dilşen Örnek, Mehmet Gamlı, Yaşar Pala, Bayazit Dikmen, Melekşah Basaran. . . . . 831
Outpatient percutaneous treatment of deep venous malformations using pure ethanol at low doses
under local anesthesia
José Luiz Orlando, Jose Guilherme Mendes Pereira Caldas, Heloisa Galvão do Amaral Campos, Kenji Nishinari,
Nelson Wolosker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
Desaturation – distance ratio: a new concept for a functional assessment of interstitial lung diseases
Suzana Pinheiro Pimenta, Renata Barbosa da Rocha, Bruno Guedes Baldi, Alexandre de Melo Kawassaki,
Ronaldo Adib Kairalla, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841
Predictive complication factors for ct-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of pulmonary lesions
Marcos Duarte Guimarães, Marcony Queiroz de Andrade, Alexandre Calabria da Fonte, Gustavo Benevides,
Rubens Chojniak, Jefferson Luiz Gross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847
Inpatient dermatological consultations in a university hospital
Suzana Mancusi, Cyro Festa Neto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851
How to avoid discontinuation of antihypertensive treatment. The experience in São Paulo, Brazil
Katia Coelho Ortega, Josiane Lima de Gusmão, Angela Maria Geraldo Pierin, José Luiz Nishiura, Edna Caetano Ignez,
Carlos Alexandre Segre, Carlucci Gualberto Ventura, Gisele Peixoto Mano, Viviane Fontes, Francisco Mogadouro da
Cunha, Décio Mion, Jr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857
DiGeorge Syndrome: a not so rare disease
Angela BF Fomin, Antonio Carlos Pastorino, Chong Ae Kim, Alexandre C Pereira, Magda Carneiro-Sampaio,
Cristina Miuki Abe Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
Pulmonary metastasectomy from soft tissue sarcomas
Rodrigo Afonso da Silva Sardenberg, Luiz Poli de Figueiredo, Fábio José Haddad, Jefferson Luiz Gross,
Riad Naim Younes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871
BASIC RESEARCHES
Failure of carnitine in improving hepatic nitrogen content in alcoholic and non-alcoholic
malnourished rats
Luciana P. Rodrigues, Guilherme Vannucchi Portari, Gilberto João Padovan, Alceu Afonso Jordão, Vivian M. M. Suen,
Julio Sergio Marchini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877
The impact of antipsychotic drugs on food intake and body weight and on leptin levels in blood and
hypothalamic ob-r leptin receptor expression in wistar rats
Martina von Wilmsdorff, Marie-Luise Bouvier, Uwe Henning, Andrea Schmitt, Wolfgang Gaebel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 885
REVIEWS
Episodes of falling among elderly people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of social and
demographic pre-disposing characteristics
F. Bloch, M. Thibaud, B. Dugué, C. Brèque, AS. Rigaud, G. Kemoun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
Difficult-to-control asthma management through the use of a specific protocol
Pedro Giavina-Bianchi, Marcelo Vivolo Aun, Carla Bisaccioni, Rosana Agondi, Jorge Kalil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905
TECHNICAL NOTE
An evaluation of respiration and swallowing interaction after orotracheal intubation
Fernanda Pereira de Camargo, Jaime Ono, Marcelo Park, Pedro Caruso, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho . . . . . . . 919
LETTER TO THE EDITORS
Glioblastoma multiforme in childhood: a case report
Mauro Cruz Machado Borgo, Julio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Franklin Bernardes Faraj de Lima, Rafael Augusto Castro
Santiago Brandão, Gervásio Teles C. de Carvalho, Bruno Silva Costa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923
Cheyne-stokes respiration associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and normal left ventricular
ejection fraction
Rodrigo P. Pedrosa, Luciano F. Drager, Murillo O. Antunes, Edmundo Arteaga, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho . . . . . . . . . 927
Lipodystrophy during pegvisomant therapy: a case report and review of the literature
Buyuktas D, Celik O, Kantarcı F, Kadioglu P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931