ISSN-1807-5932
CLINICS
CONTENTS
Clinics 2011 66(2):183–365
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Serum levels of hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis hormones in men with or without prostate
cancer or atypical small acinar proliferation
Caio da Silva Schmitt, Ernani Luis Rhoden, Gilberto Laurino Almeida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Renal function in children with congenital neurogenic bladder
Karen Previdi Olandoski, Vera Koch, Flavio Eduardo Trigo-Rocha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Cognitive awareness of carbohydrate intake does not alter exercise-induced lymphocyte apoptosis
James Wilfred Navalta, Brian Keith McFarlin, Scott Lyons, Scott Wesley Arnett, Mark Anthony Schafer. . . . . . . . . 197
Long-term stability of the oxygen pulse curve during maximal exercise
Ricardo Brandão Oliveira, Jonathan Myers, Claudio Gil Soares de Araújo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Effectiveness and safety of outpatient pleurodesis in patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion
and low performance status
Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Lisete Ribeiro Teixeira, Benoit Jacques Bibas, Paulo Manuel Pego-Fernandes, Francisco
Suso Vargas, Fabio Biscegli Jatene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Longitudinal study of Cystatin C in healthy term newborns
Ana Carolina de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Ferreira Novo, Lı́lian dos Santos Rodrigues Sadeck, Thelma Suely Okay,
Cléa Rodrigues Leone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Post-resistance exercise hypotension in patients with intermittent claudication
Gabriel Grizzo Cucato, Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias, Nelson Wolosker, José Maria Santarém, Wilson Jacob Filho,
Cláudia Lúcia de Moraes Forjaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Fequency distribution of HLA DQ2 and DQ8 in celiac patients and first-degree relatives in Recife,
northeastern Brazil
Margarida Maria Castro-Antunes, Sergio Crovella, Lucas André Cavalcanti Brandão, Rafael Lima Guimarães,
Maria Eugênia Farias Almeida Motta, Giselia Alves Pontes da Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Psychiatry - life events and social support in late life depression
Clóvis Alexandrino-Silva, Tânia Ferraz Alves, Luı́s Fernando Tófoli, Yuan-Pang Wang, Laura Helena Andrade . . . . 233
Predictors of low cardiac output in decompensated severe heart failure
Marcelo Eidi Ochiai, Juliano Novaes Cardoso, Kelly Regina Novaes Vieira, Marcelo Villaça Lima, Euler Cristovan
Ochiai Brancalhao, Antonio Carlos Pereira Barretto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Early nephrology care provided by the nephrologist alone is not sufficient to mitigate the social and
psychological aspects of chronic kidney disease
Ana Amélia Fayer, Rosemeire Nascimento, Regina C R M Abdulkader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Gender differences in ankylosing spondylitis-associated cumulative healthcare utilization:
a population-based cohort study
Hsin-Hua Chen, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Yi-Ming Chen, Chiu Ying-Ming, Der-Yuan Chen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Negative addiction to exercise: are there differences between genders?
Vladimir Bonilha Modolo, Hanna Karen M. Antunes, Paula Regina Borba de Gimenez, Marisa Lucia De Mello Santiago,
Sergio Tufik, Marco Túlio de Mello. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Effect of progressive resistance exercise on strength evolution of elderly patients living with HIV
compared to healthy controls
Paula Maria Loiola de Souza, Wilson Jacob-Filho, José Maria Santarém, Adriana Almeida Zomignan,
Marcelo Nascimen to Burattini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Endovascular and open repair for blunt aortic injury, treated in one clinical institution in Brazil.
A case series
Igor Rafael Sincos, Ricardo Aun, Sergio Quilici Belczak, Luciano Dias Nascimento, Boulanger Mioto Netto, Ivan Casella,
Erasmo Simao da Silva, Pedro Puech-Leão. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
The association of anthropometric measures and osteoarthritis knee in non-obese subjects: a cross
sectional study
Divya Sanghi, Rajeshwar Nath Srivastava, Ajai Singh, Reema Kumari, Rachna Mishra, Abhishek Mishra . . . . . . . . 275
Prognostic factors of a good response to initial therapy in children and adolescents with differentiated
thyroid cancer
Fernanda Vaisman, Daniel Alves Bulzico, Cencita Hosannah Cordeiro Noronha Pessoa, Maria Alice Neves Bordallo,
Ullyanov Bezerra Toscano de Mendonça, Fernando Luiz Dias, Claudia Medina Coeli, Rossana Corbo,
Mario Vaisman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Predictor variablesfor half marathon race time in recreational female runners
Beat Knechtle, Patrizia Knechtle, Ursula Barandun, Thomas Rosemann, Romuald Lepers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Speech and non-speech processing in children with phonological disorders: an electrophysiological
study
Isabela Crivellaro Gonçalves, Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner, Alessandra Giannella Samelli, Carla Gentile Matas . . . . . . 293
Strategy for respiratory exercise pattern associated with upper limb movements in COPD patients
Dirceu Costa, Karina Maria Cancelliero, Daniela IKE, Thais Lima Laranjeira, Camila Bianca Falasco Pantoni,
Audrey Borghi-Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Adipocyte morphometric evaluation and angiogenesis in the omentum transposed to the breast:
a preliminary study
Sirlei Santos Costa, Rosa Maria Blotta, Luise Meurer, Maria Isabel Albano Edelweiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Isokinetic muscle assessment after treatment of pectoralis major muscle rupture using surgical or
non-surgical procedures
Anna Maria Fleury, Antonio Carlos da Silva, Alberto Pochini, Benno Ejnisman, Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira,
Marilia dos Santos Andrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
BASIC RESEARCHES
Effect of glibenclamide on antinociceptive effects of antidepressants of different classes
Valiollah Hajhashemi, Bahareh Amin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Radiolabeled nano-peptides show specificity for an animal model of human PC3 prostate
cancer cells
Bluma Linkowski Faintuch, Gustavo Eutimio Fernández Núñez, Rodrigo Teodoro, Ana M. Moro, Jair Mengatti . . . 327
Validity of Qualis database as a predictor of evidence hierarchy and risk of bias in randomized
controlled trials - a case study in dentistry
Christiane Alves Ferreira, Carlos Alfredo Salles Loureiro, Humberto Saconato, Alvaro Atallah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Effect of massage in postmenopausal women with insomnia – A pilot study
Helena Hachul, Denise Oliveira, Sergio Tufik, Lia Bittencourt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Impact of topically-applied Ipd-glucose on tracheal mucociliary clearance after warm and cold
ischemia: short communication
Artur Eugênio de Azevedo-Pereira, Juliana Akemi Saka, Karina Andrighetti de Oliveira, Rogerio Pazetti, Paulo
Manuel Pêgo-Fernandes, Fabio Biscegli Jatene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
TECHNICAL NOTE
A new device to measure isometric strength in upper limbs: comparison between dominant and
non-dominant limbs
Paulo José Oliveira Cortez, José Elias Tomazini, Vitor E. Valenti, José Rubens Correa, Erica E. Valenti,
Luiz Carlos de Abreu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
CASE REPORTS
Changing pattern of gonadotropins in a patient with an adrenal-androgen secreting tumor
José Antonio Miguel Marcondes, Cristiano R G Barcellos, Michelle P Rocha, Hélio Bisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Metanephric Adenoma: clinical, imaging, and Histological findings
Fábio César Miranda Torricelli, Giovanni Scala Marchini, Rodrigo Sousa Madeira Campos, Antônio Otero Gil . . . . 359
Colonic anastomosis leakage related to taenia saginata infestation
Alper Sozutek, Tahsin Colak, Ahmet Dag, Ozgur Turkmenoglu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
ERRATA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365