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CLINICS
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Clinics 2011 66(8):1307–1511
CLINICAL SCIENCES
High prevalence of chronic pelvic pain in women in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil and direct association with
abdominal surgery
Gabriela Pagano de Oliveira Gonçalves da Silva, Anderson Luı́s do Nascimento, Daniela Michelazzo, Fernando Filardi
Alves Junior, Marcelo Gondim Rocha, Júlio César Rosa-e-Silva, Francisco José Candidodos-Reis, Antonio
Alberto Nogueira, Omero Benedicto Poli-Neto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307
Expression of Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-a and Vascular endothelial growth factor-C in locally
advanced breast cancer patients
Luiz Gustavo Oliveira Brito, Viviane Fernandes Schiavon, Jurandyr Moreira de Andrade, Daniel Guimarães Tiezzi,
Fernanda Maris Peria, Heitor Ricardo Cosiski Marana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1313
Effects of thyroxine replacement on endothelial function and carotid artery intima-media thickness in
female patients with mild subclinical hypothyroidism
Monica Dias Cabral, Patricia Teixeira, Debora Soares, Sandra Leite, Elizabeth Salles, Mario Waisman . . . . . . . . . 1321
Color Doppler imaging of the superior ophthalmic vein in patients with Graves’ orbitopathy before
and after treatment of congestive disease
Mário L. R. Monteiro, Rodrigo B. S. Moritz, Hélio Angotti-Neto, Joseph E. Benabou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329
Improving the outcomes of elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia in a Brazilian University
Hospital
Alex Freire Sandes, Juliana Correa da Costa Ribeiro, Rodrigo S. Barroso, Maria R. R. Silva,
Maria L. L. F. Chauffaille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
Urinary incontinence and vaginal squeeze pressure two years post-cesarean delivery in primiparous
women with previous gestational diabetes mellitus
Angélica Mércia Pascon Barbosa, Adriano Dias, Gabriela Marini, Iracema Mattos Paranhos Calderon, Steven Witkin,
Marilza Vieira Cunha Rudge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341
Tonsil volume, tonsil grade and obstructive sleep apnea: is there any meaningful correlation?
Michel Burihan Cahali, Carolina Ferraz de Paula Soares, Danielle Andrade da Silva Dantas, Gilberto Guanaes
Simões Formigoni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347
Attenuation of neuropsychiatric symptoms and caregiver burden in Alzheimer’s disease by motor
intervention: a controlled trial
Florindo Stella, Ana Paula Canonici, Sebastião Gobbi, Ruth Ferreira Santos-Galduroz, João de Castilho Cação,
Lı́lian Teresa Bucken Gobbi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353
Pharmacogenetics of glucocorticoid replacement could optimize the treatment of congenital adrenal
hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency
Ricardo P. P. Moreira, Alexander A. L. Jorge, Larissa G. Gomes, Laura C. Kaupert, João Massud Filho,
Berenice B. Mendonca, Tânia A. S. S. Bachega. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1361
Subsequent reproductive outcome in women who have experienced a potentially life-threatening
condition or a maternal near-miss during pregnancy
Rodrigo S. Camargo, Rodolfo C. Pacagnella, José G. Cecatti, Mary A. Parpinelli, João P. Souza,
Maria H. Sousa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1367
The TNF-a -308 polymorphism may affect the severity of Crohn’s disease
Genoile Santana, Maria Teresita Bendicho, Tamara Celi Santana, Lidiane Bianca dos Reis, Denise Lemaire,
André Castro Lyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1373
Detection of cognitive impairment in the elderly by general internists in Brazil
Alessandro Ferrari Jacinto, Sonia Brucki, Cláudia Sellitto Porto, Milton de Arruda Martins, Ricardo Nitrini . . . . . 1379
The relationship between the oral and pharyngeal phases of swallowing
Rachel Aguiar Cassiani, Carla Manfredi Santos, Luana Casari Parreira, Roberto Oliveira Dantas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385
Comparison of pelvic floor muscle strength evaluations in nulliparous and primiparous women: a
prospective study
Mônica Orsi Gameiro, Vanessa Oliveira Sousa, Luiz Felipe Gameiro, Rosana Carneiro Muchailh, Carlos Roberto Padovani,
João Luiz Amaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1389
Effects of a multidisciplinar cognitive rehabilitation program for patients with mild Alzheimer’s
disease
Luciane F. Viola, Paula V. Nunes, Monica S. Yassuda, Ivan Aprahamian, Franklin S. Santos, Glenda D. Santos, Paula S.
Brum, Sheila M. Borges, Alexandra M. Oliveira, Gisele F. S. Chaves, Eliane C. Ciasca, Rita C. R. Ferreira, Vanessa J. R. de
Paula, Oswaldo H. Takeda, Roberta M. Mirandez, Ricky Watari, Deusivania V. S. Falcão, Meire Cachioni,
Orestes V. Forlenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395
Association analysis of anti-Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen-1 antibodies, anti-cyclic citrullinated
peptide antibodies, the shared epitope and smoking status in Brazilian patients with rheumatoid
arthritis
Michel Alexandre Yazbek, Silvia de Barros-Mazon, Cláudio Lúcio Rossi, Ana Carolina Londe, Lilian Tereza
Lavras Costallat, Manoel Barros Bértolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1401
BASIC RESEARCHES
Role of cGMP and cAMP in the hemodynamic response to intrathecal sildenafil administration
Gabriela Bombarda, João Paulo J. Sabino, Carlos Alberto A. da Silva, Rubens Fazan Jr, Maria Cristina O. Salgado,
Helio C. Salgado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1407
The impact of previous para-areolar incision in the upper outer quadrant of the breast on the
localization of the sentinel lymph node in a canine model
Paulo Henrique Diógenes Vasques, Luiz Gonzaga Porto Pinheiro, João Marcos de Meneses e Silva, José Ricardo de Moura
Torres-de-Melo, Karine Bessa Porto Pinheiro, João Ivo Xavier Rocha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1413
Effects of diabetes on myocardial capillary density and serum angiogenesis biomarkers in male rats
Majid Khazaei, Ali Reza Fallahzadeh, Mohammad Reza Sharifi, Noushin Afsharmoghaddam, Shaghayegh
Haghjooy Javanmard, Ensieh Salehi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1419
Endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial injury with covered stents: an experimental study in pigs
Sergio Belczak, Erasmo Simão da Silva, Ricardo Aun, Igor Rafael Sincos, Alessandro Rodrigo Belon, Ivan
Benaduce Casella, Vitor Gornati, the late Luiz Francisco Poli de Figueiredo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1425
The metabolic dynamics of cartilage explants over a long-term culture period
E. K Moo, N.A Abu Osman, B. Pingguan-Murphy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431
Short-term diabetes attenuates left ventricular dysfunction and mortality rates after myocardial
infarction in rodents
Bruno Rodrigues, Diego Mendrot Taboas Figueroa, Jiao Fang, Kaleizu Teodoro Rosa, Suzana Llesuy, Kátia De Angelis,
Maria Cláudia Irigoyen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1437
The effect of subconjunctival bevacizumab on corneal neovascularization, inflammation and
re-epithelization in a rabbit model
Glauco Reggiani Mello, Marcos Longo Pizzolatti, Daniel Wasilewski, Marcony R. Santhiago, Vinı́cius Budel,
Hamilton Moreira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443
Effects of mycophenolate sodium on mucociliary clearance using a bronchial section and anastomosis
rodent model
Viviane Ferreira Paes e Silva, Rogerio Pazetti, Sonia de Fatima Soto, Mariana Moreira Quinhones Siqueira, Aristides
Tadeu Correia, Fabio Biscegli Jatene, Paulo Manuel Pêgo-Fernandes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451
Rosuvastatin prevents proteinuria and renal inflammation in nitric oxide–deficient rats
José Marcos Girardi, Rogério Estevan Farias, Ana Paula Ferreira, Nádia Rezende Barbosa Raposo. . . . . . . . . . . . 1457
REVIEW
Surgical treatment of male infertility in the era of intracytoplasmic sperm injection – new insights
Sandro C. Esteves, Ricardo Miyaoka, Ashok Agarwal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1463
LETTER TO THE EDITORS
Caveats in the interpretation of natriuretic peptide levels
Chia-Ter Chao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1479
Alopecia areata incognita: a comment
Alfredo Rebora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1481
Diastolic dysfunction in end-stage renal disease patient: what the ticking clock has told us?
Mustafa Duran, Aydin Unal, Mehmet Tugru Inanc, Fatma Esin, Yucel Yilmaz, Ender Ornek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1483
RAPID COMMUNICATION
Frequency of HLA B*5701 allele carriers in abacavir treated-HIV infected patients and controls from
northeastern Brazil
Sergio Crovella, Lara Biller, Sergio Santos, Ana Salustiano, Lucas Brandao, Rafael Guimaraes, Ludovica Segat, José Luiz de
Lima Filho, Luiz Claudio Arraes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1485
TECHNICAL NOTE
Polyvinyl alcohol as a viable membrane in artificial tissue design and development
Nahrizul Adib Kadri, Mat Ghazali Raha, Belinda Pingguan-Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1489
CASE REPORTS
Gastropleural fistula from gastric perforation due to renal cell carcinoma after bevacizumab
chemotherapy: a case report
Olı́via Meira Dias, Caroline Chaul de Lima Barbosa, Lisete Ribeiro Teixeira, Francisco S. Vargas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1495
Endovascular treatment for iliac artery pseudoaneurysm with arteriovenous fistula after abdominal
aortic aneurysm open repair
Rodrigo Bono Fukushima, Nelson Wolosker, Daniel Augusto Benitti, Pedro Puech-Leao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1499
Clinical and cytogenetic aspects of giant cell tumor of the sternum
Edgard Eduard Engel, Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa, Maurı́cio Eiji de Almeida Santos Yamashita,
Federico Enrique Garcia Cipriano, Elvis Terci Valera, Maria Sol Brassesco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1501
Primary progressive aphasia beginning with a psychiatric disorder
Leonardo Caixeta, Marcelo Caixeta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1505
Contact-lens-related corneal ulcer caused by klebsiella pneumoniae
Tongabay Cumurcu, Pembegul Firat, Ercan Özsoy, Mufide Cavdar, Yusuf Yakupogullari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1509
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1511