Electrophysiological Studies and Radiofrequency Ablations in Children and Adolescents with Arrhythmia

Background:Radiofrequency ablation is the standard non-pharmacological treatment for arrhythmias in pediatric patients. However, arrhythmias and their associated causes have particular features in this population.Objective:To analyze the epidemiological characteristics and findings of electrophysiological diagnostic studies and radiofrequency ablations in pediatric patients referred to the Electrophysiology Unit at Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, in order to characterize the particularities of this population.Methods:Cross-sectional study with 330 electrophysiological procedures performed in patients aged less than 20 years between June 1997 and August 2013.Results:In total, 330 procedures (9.6% of the overall procedures) were performed in patients aged less than 20 years (14.33 ± 3.25 years, age range 3 months to 19 years), 201 of which were males (60.9%). A total of 108 (32.7%) electrophysiological diagnostic studies were performed and of these, 48.1% showed abnormal findings. Overall, 219 radiofrequency ablations were performed (66.3%) with a success rate of 84.8%. The presence of an accessory pathway was the most prevalent finding, occurring in 158 cases (72.1%), followed by atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (16.8%), typical atrial flutter (3.1%) and extrasystoles originating from the right ventricular outflow tract (2.7%). Three patients developed complications during ablation (1.4%). Among congenital heart diseases, which occurred in 51 (15.4%) patients, atrial sept defect was the most frequent (27.4%), followed by ventricular sept defect (25.4%) and Ebstein's anomaly (17.6%).Conclusion:Electrophysiological study and radiofrequency ablation are effective tools for diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias in the pediatric population.

Alternatives to Aerobic Exercise Prescription in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Background: Exercise is essential for patients with heart failure as it leads to a reduction in morbidity and mortality as well as improved functional capacity and oxygen uptake (v̇O2). However, the need for an experienced physiologist and the cost of the exam may render the cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) unfeasible. Thus, the six-minute walk test (6MWT) and step test (ST) may be alternatives for exercise prescription. Objective: The aim was to correlate heart rate (HR) during the 6MWT and ST with HR at the anaerobic threshold (HRAT) and peak HR (HRP) obtained on the CPET. Methods: Eighty-three patients (58 ± 11 years) with heart failure (NYHA class II) were included and all subjects had optimized medication for at least 3 months. Evaluations involved CPET (v̇O2, HRAT, HRP), 6MWT (HR6MWT) and ST (HRST). Results: The participants exhibited severe ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction: 31 ± 7%) and low peak v̇O2 (15.2 ± 3.1 mL.kg-1.min-1). HRP (113 ± 19 bpm) was higher than HRAT (92 ± 14 bpm; p < 0.05) and HR6MWT (94 ± 13 bpm; p < 0.05). No significant difference was found between HRP and HRST. Moreover, a strong correlation was found between HRAT and HR6MWT (r = 0.81; p < 0.0001), and between HRP and HRST (r = 0.89; p < 0.0001). Conclusion: These findings suggest that, in the absence of CPET, exercise prescription can be performed by use of 6MWT and ST, based on HR6MWT and HRST

Estudos experimentais sôbre a origem do milho

1) It may seem rather strange that, in spite of the efforts of a considerable number of scientists, the problem of the origin of indian corn or maize still has remained an open question. There are no fossil remains or archaeological relics except those which are quite identical with types still existing. (Fig. 1). The main difficulty in finding the wild ancestor- which may still exist - results from the fact that it has been somewhat difficult to decide what it should be like and also where to look for it. 2) There is no need to discuss the literature since an excellent review has recently been published by MANGELSDORF and REEVES (1939). It may be sufficient to state that there are basically two hypotheses, that of ST. HILAIRE (1829) who considered Brazilian pod corn as the nearest relative of wild corn still existing, and that of ASCHERSON (1875) who considered Euchlaena from Central America as the wild ancestor of corn. Later hypotheses represent or variants of these two hypotheses or of other concepts, howewer generally with neither disproving their predecessors nor showing why the new hypotheses were better than the older ones. Since nearly all possible combinations of ideas have thus been put forward, it har- dly seems possible to find something theoretically new, while it is essential first to produce new facts. 3) The studies about the origin of maize received a new impulse from MANGELSDORF and REEVES'S experimental work on both Zea-Tripsacum and Zea-Euchlaena hybrids. Independently I started experiments in 1937 with the hope that new results might be obtained when using South American material. Having lost priority in some respects I decided to withold publication untill now, when I can put forward more concise ideas about the origin of maize, based on a new experimental reconstruction of the "wild type". 4) The two main aspects of MANGELSDORF and REEVES hypothesis are discussed. We agree with the authors that ST. HILAIRE's theory is probably correct in so far as the tunicata gene is a wild type relic gene, but cannot accept the reconstruction of wild corn as a homozygous pod corn with a hermaphroditic tassel. As shown experimentally (Fig. 2-3) these tassels have their central spike transformed into a terminal, many rowed ear with a flexible rachis, while possessing at the same time the lateral ear. Thus no explanation is given of the origin of the corn ear, which is the main feature of cultivated corn (BRIEGER, 1943). The second part of the hypothesis referring to the origin of Euchlaena from corn, inverting thus ASCHERSON's theory, cannot be accepted for several reasons, stated in some detail. The data at hand justify only the conclusion that both genera, Euchlaena and Zea, are related, and there is as little proof for considering the former as ancestor of the latter as there is for the new inverse theory. 5) The analysis of indigenous corn, which will be published in detail by BRIEGER and CUTLER, showed several very primitive characters, but no type was found which was in all characters sufficiently primitive. A genetical analysis of Paulista Pod Corn showed that it contains the same gene as other tunicates, in the IV chromosome, the segregation being complicated by a new gametophyte factor Ga3. The full results of this analysis shall be published elsewhere. (BRIEGER). Selection experiments with Paulista Pod Corn showed that no approximation to a wild ancestor may be obtained when limiting the studies to pure corn. Thus it seemed necessary to substitute "domesticated" by "wild type" modifiers, and the only means for achieving this substitution are hybridizations with Euchlaena. These hybrids have now been analysed init fourth generation, including backcrosses, and, again, the full data will be published elsewhere, by BRIEGER and ADDISON. In one present publication three forms obtained will be described only, which represent an approximation to wild type corn. 6) Before entering howewer into detail, some arguments against ST. HILAIRE's theory must be mentioned. The premendelian argument, referring to the instability of this character, is explained by the fact that all fertile pod corn plants are heterozygous for the dominant Tu factor. But the sterility of the homozygous TuTu, which phenotypically cannot be identified, is still unexplained. The most important argument against the acceptance of the Tunicata faetor as wild type relic gene was removed recently by CUTLER (not yet published) who showed that this type has been preserved for centuries by the Bolivian indians as a mystical "medicine". 7) The main botanical requirements for transforming the corn ear into a wild type structure are stated, and alternative solutions given. One series of these characters are found in Tripsacum and Euchlaena : 2 rows on opposite sides of the rachis, protection of the grains by scales, fragility of the rachis. There remains the other alternative : 4 rows, possibly forming double rows of female and male spikelets, protection of kernels by their glumes, separation of grains at their base from the cob which is thin and flexible. 8) Three successive stages in the reconstruction of wild corn, obtained experimentally, are discussed and illustrated, all characterized by the presence of the Tu gene. a) The structure of the Fl hybrids has already been described in 1943. The main features of the Tunicata hybrids (Fig. -8), when compared with non-tunicate hybrids (Fig. 5-6), consist in the absence of scaly protections, the fragility of the rachis and finally the differentiation of the double rows into one male and one female spikelet. As has been pointed out, these characters represent new phenotypic effects of the tunicate factor which do not appear in the presence of pure maize modifiers. b) The next step was observed among the first backcross to teosinte (Fig. 9). As shown in the photography, Fig. 9D, the features are essencially those of the Fl plants, except that the rachis is more teosinte like, with longer internodes, irregular four-row-arrangement and a complete fragility on the nodes. c) In the next generation a completely new type appeared (Fig. 10) which resembles neither corn nor teosinte, mainly in consequence of one character: the rachis is thin and flexible and not fragile, while the grains have an abscission layer at the base, The medium sized, pointed, brownish and hard granis are protected by their well developed corneous glumes. This last form may not yet be the nearest approach to a wild grass, and I shall try in further experiments to introduce other changes such as an increase of fertile flowers per spikelet, the reduction of difference between terminal and lateral inflorescences, etc.. But the nature of the atavistic reversion is alveadwy such that it alters considerably our expectation when looking for a still existing wild ancestor of corn. 9) The next step in our deductions must now consist in an reversion of our question. We must now explain how we may obtain domesticated corn, starting from a hypothetical wild plant, similar to type c. Of the several changes which must have been necessary to attract the attention of the Indians, the following two seem to me the most important: the disappearance of all abscission layers and the reduction of the glumes. This may have been brought about by an accumulation of mutations. But it seems much more probable to assume that some crossing with a tripsacoid grass or even with Tripsacum australe may have been responsible. In such a cross, the two types of abscission layer would be counterbalanced as shown by the Flhybrids of corn, Tripsacum and Euchlaena. Furthermore in later generations a.tu-allele of Tripsacum may become homozygous and substitute the wild tunicate factor of corn. The hypothesis of a hybrid origin of cultivated corn is not completely new, but has been discussed already by HARSHBERGER and COLLINS. Our hypothesis differs from that of MANGELSDORF and REEVES who assume that crosses with Tripsacum are responsible only for some features of Central and North American corn. 10) The following arguments give indirects evidence in support of our hypothesis: a) Several characters have been observed in indigenous corn from the central region of South America, which may be interpreted as "tripsacoid". b) Equally "zeoid" characters seem to be present in Tripsacum australe of central South-America. c) A system of unbalanced factors, combined by the in-tergeneric cross, may be responsible for the sterility of the wild type tunicata factor when homozygous, a result of the action of modifiers, brought in from Tripsacum together with the tuallele. d) The hybrid theory may explain satisfactorily the presence of so many lethals and semilethals, responsible for the phenomenon of inbreeding in cultivated corn. It must be emphasized that corn does not possess any efficient mechanism to prevent crossing and which could explain the accumulation of these mutants during the evolutionary process. Teosinte which'has about the same mechanism of sexual reproduction has not accumulated such genes, nor self-sterile plants in spite of their pronounced preference for crossing. 11) The second most important step in domestication must have consisted in transforming a four rowed ear into an ear with many rows. The fusion theory, recently revived byLANGHAM is rejected. What happened evidently, just as in succulent pXants (Cactus) or in cones os Gymnosperms, is that there has been a change in phyllotaxy and a symmetry of longitudinal rows superimposed on the original spiral arrangement. 12) The geographical distribution of indigenous corn in South America has been discussed. So far, we may distinguish three zones. The most primitive corn appears in the central lowlands of what I call the Central Triangle of South America: east of the Andies, south of the Amazone-Basin, Northwest of a line formed by the rivers São Prancisco-Paraná and including the Paraguay-Basin. The uniformity of the types found in this extremely large zone is astonishing (BRIEGER and CUTLER). To the west, there is the well known Andian region, characterized by a large number of extremely diverse types from small pop corn to large Cuszco, from soft starch to modified sweet corn, from large cylindrical ears to small round ears, etc.. The third region extends along the atlantic coast in the east, from the Caribean Sea to the Argentine, and is characterized by Cateto, an orange hard flint corn. The Andean types must have been obtained very early, and undoubtedly are the result of the intense Inca agriculture. The Cateto type may be obtained easily by crosses, for instance, of "São Paulo Pointed Pop" to some orange soft corn of the central region. The relation of these three South American zones to Central and North America are not discussed, and it seems essential first to study the intermediate region of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The geograprical distribution of chromosome knobs is rapidly discussed; but it seems that no conclusions can be drawn before a large number of Tripsacum species has been analysed.

Provável posição do Gen Y7 no cromossomo 7 do milho

This paper deals with the genetic relations among y7, gl1 and ij, in chromosome 7. The data obtaneid suggest the relative order in that chromosome as follows: y7 10 gl1 16 ij.

Estudo de 7 cultivares de gladíolos (Gladiolus grandiflorus L.) em duas profundidades de plantio

Bulbos de 2º ciclo dos , cultivares: Havaii, Snowprincess, Han Van Megeren, Alfred Nobel, Aristocrat, Happy end e Rosa de Lima, foram cultivados a 5 e 15 cm de profundidade em latossol vermelho escuro de boa fértilidade na ESALQ - Piracicaba, SP. Os resultados foram analisados para: quantidade e peso médio dos bulbos e cormilhos; quantidade e qualidade das hastes e espigas florais. Verificou-se que: a profundidade de 15 cm foi a melhor; a profundidade de 5 cm causa excessivo tombamento; apresentou alguma vantagem somente na produção de cormilhos; é significativa a diferença de performance entre os cultivares .

Época de semeadura nos teores de óleo e proteína de dois cultivares de soja, UFV-1 e IAC-7, de ciclos tardios de maturidade

Estudou-se os efeitos de épocas antecipadas, normais e retardadas de semeadura, nos teores de óleo e proteína da semente de dois cultivares da soja, UFV-1 e IAC-7, de ciclos tardios de maturidade. O trabalho foi conduzido em condições de campo, no município de Campinas,S.P., em um Latossolo Roxo eutrófico, durante os anos agrícolas de 1979/80 e 1980/81, sendo as semeaduras a cada vinte dias no primeiro ano e mensais, à partir de 17/09, no segundo ano, sendo consideradas oito e sete épocas respectivamente a cada ano. A época de semeadura afetou o teor de óleo dos cultivares, nos dois anos do experimento. Os teores de óleo apresentaram maior variação com o ano agrícola do que com a época de semeadura. Dentro do mesmo ano, a variação através das épocas foi aleatória. A época de semeadura afetou o teor de proteína da semente apenas do cultivar IAC-7, nos dois anos. A variação não apresentou tendência definida através das épocas. Nas épocas antecipadas e normais de semeadura, a composição química da semente, com relação aos teores de ó leo e proteína não diferiu nos dois anos, para os dois cultivares. As diferenças apareceram em épocas retardadas.

Características fisiológicas dos cultivares de soja, UFV-1 e IAC-7, no florescimento, em diferentes épocas de semeadura e sua relação com a produção

Estudou-se os efeitos antecipadas, normais e retardadas de semeadura, nas características fisiológicas no florescimento, dos cultivares de soja, UFV-I e IAC-7, de ciclos tardios de maturidade e sua relação coma produção final de sementes. As características avaliadas foram: altura da planta, número de nós frutíferos, índice de área foliar e peso da matéria seca de folhas. O trabalho foi conduzido em condições de campo, no município de Campinas, SP, em um Latossolo Roxo eutrófico, durante os anos agrícolas de 1979/80, sendo as datas de semeadura a cada vinte dias no primeiro ano, ã partir de 05/10, e no segundo ano, mensais, à partir de 17/09, sendo consideradas oito e sete épocas respectivamente a cada ano. A antecipação afetou os valores de todas as características avaliadas, sendo menores, comparativamente àqueles obtidos nas épocas normais, no cultivar UFV-I. Os valores obtidos pelo cultivar IAC-7 foram idênticos nas épocas antecipadas e normais. 0 retardamento da época de plantio diminuiu drasticamente os valores de todas as características estudadas, nos dois culti vares. Todas as características avaliadas no florescimento correlacionaram-se com a produção de sementes, nos dois anos de experimento. Na comparação entre cultivares, em cada época, verificou-se que as diferenças observadas entre os mesmos não corresponderam à diferenças na produção de sementes. Concluiu-se que as características fisiológicas no florescimento são adequadas para avaliação do potencial produtivo dos cultivares nas diferen tes épocas, mas não entre cultivares numa mesma época.

Variação dos componentes da produção de dois cultivares de soja, UFV-1 e IAC-7, em função da época de semeadura

Estudaram-se os efeitos de épocas de semeadura antecipadas, normais e retardadas, na produção e em seus componentes, em dois cultivares de soja, UFV-1 e IAC-7. O trabalho foi desenvolvido em condições de campo, no município de Campinas, SP, em um Latossolo Roxo eutrófico, durante os anos agrícolas de 1979/ /80 e 1980/81. No primeiro ano, as semeaduras foram efetuadas a cada 20 dias, à partir de 5/10 e no segundo ano, mensais à partir de 17/09, sendo consideradas oito e sete épocas respectivamente à cada ano. Foram determinadas as seguintes características: produção de sementes, número de nós por planta, número de vagens por planta e peso de 100 sementes. A época de semeadura influenciou a produção e seus componentes, nos dois cultivares. Dos componentes avaliados o número de nós e o número de vagens por planta foram mais afetados do que o peso da semente. Cada cultivar apresentou o mesmo tipo de comportamento quanto ao número de nós e de vagens por planta, não ocorrendo o mesmo com o peso da semente, que no primeiro ano não foi afetado pela época de semeadura e no segundo, diminuiu de valor com o atraso na semeadura. As variações nos componentes da produção são mais acentuadas nas épocas de maior produção. O número de nós e de vagens por planta são características de maior determinação na produção de sementes.

Programação do gladíolo (Gladiolus grandiflorus) andr. cv. Snow Princess, através de cormilhos tipo 7 e 8

Os cormilhos tipo 7 produziram bulbos e cormilhos dos tipos de 1 a 8 em maior quantidade que o tipo 8 e os bulbos tipos 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5 mais pesados. Os cormilhos tipo 8 também produziram bulbos e cormilhos dos tipos 1 a 8, porém seus cormilhos foram mais pesados que os cormilhos produzidos pelo tipo 7.

7ª Contribuição ao estudo dos Flebotomus (Diptera: Psychodidae): descrição dos machos de 24 novas espécies

The A. and his co-workers captured in trips in the hinterland of Brazil more tham 17.000 flebotomi from which 35 are new ones, 11 discribed by, him in previous papers. The A. found these insects in groups of species living in different habitats, some ones of them not yet known: ondoors, or outdoors attracted by light or animal baits, without Shannon’s trap, in great or small caves, in the jungle in tree’s holes, holes in stones, holes in the soil habited by animals like armadillos, pacas (Aguti paca), wild rats, cururú toad (Bufo sp.). He observed the life history of 13 species: Flebotomus longipalpis Lutz& Neiva, 1912, Flebotomus intermedius Lutz & Neiva, 1912, Flebotomus avellari Costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus aragãoi costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus lutzianus Costa Lima, 1932, Flebotomus limai fonseca, 1935, Flebotomus rickardi Costa Lima, 1936, Flebotomus dasipodogeton Castro, 1939, Flebotomus oswaldoi n. sp., Flebotomus villelai n. sp., Flebotomus triacanthus n. sp., Flebotomus longispinus n. sp. And flebotomus travassosi n. sp. He describes the male of 24 n. sp., explaining the differential diagnose of group or nearly allied species. He inclued F. rooti n. sp. And F. hirsutus n. sp. In the sub-genus Shannonomyia. The first one, very allied to F. davisi Root is different from it, for presenting in the dorsal side of the abdomen bristles and not scales and to have the median claspers longer than his inner appendage and F. hirsutus quite different from the others which show 3 spines on distal segment of the upper clasper and for being the only one who presents the bristles of inner appendage of median clasper longer than it. Only the females of F. amazonensis Root and f. chagasi Costa Lima, are known and then it is possible that they belong to one of the species of this sub-genus from whom only the male have been described. F. choti Floch & Abonnenc, captured also at Pará, F. triacanthus n. sp. F. trispinosus n. sp. And F. equatorialis n. sp. Are very related and to this group the A. proposes the same of Pressatia as sub-genus in honor to whom demonstrated the medical importance of the flebotomi, considering F. triacanthus as the type specie of this sub-genus. In this sub-genus the V papal joint is very long, longer than III + IV, the antennae with geniculated spines without posterior outgrowth. At the genitalia the basal segment of the upper clasper presents two types of bristles ou the inner face, arranged in tuft; the distal segment with 3 spines and 2 thin bristles something difficult to see one of them situated near the apical spine and the other on the base of tubercle where the median spine is articulated; the median clasper is unarmed and compressed; the inferior clasper is also unarmed and longer than de basal segment of the upper clasper; the pompeta is longer than the basal segment of the upper clasper. Following it is presented a key for the determination of the males of the four species of this sub-genus. F. micropygus n. sp., F. minasensis n. sp. e F. dandrophylus n. sp., f. shannoni, F. monticolus, F. pestanai, F. lanei and F. cayenensis constitute a group with many similars characters. F. micropygus is the only American species who present α smaller than β and for that reason and others is allied to. F. minuts and others related species, but presents two terminal spines on the distal segment of the upper clasper. F. micropygus and f. minasensis are quite different because they have very small genitalia, smaller than their heads. F. dendrophylus presents on the median clasper a naked area near the apex and for this and others characters is different from the others of the group. F. flaviscutellatus n. sp., F. oliverioi, F. intermedius and whithmani, are very allied but the first one can be very easily distinguished because it’s scutellum is light. Flebotomus barrettoi n. sp., F. coutinhoi n. sp., F. aragãoi, F. brasiliensis, F. lutzianus, F. texanus, F. pascalei, F. atroclavatus and F. tejeraae are very allied forming a natural group. The two last ones are not well known but the A. A. who have studied them described very long clipeus so long as the head and for that reason can be distinguished from all the others included the two new ones. F. coutinhoi is the only one who presents the apecis of the penis filaments twisted. F. barrettoi n. sp., can be distinguished from aragãoi, texamus and coutinhoi by the length of the penis filaments and from atrocavatus, tejeraae, lutzianus and brasiliensis by the arrangement of the spines of distal segment of the upper clasper. Flebotomus ubiquitalis n. sp., F. auraensis n. sp., F. affinis and F. microps e F. antunesi have many common characters. F. microps n. sp., can be distinguished from any one by the size of the eyes and the presence od well developed genae. This species and other new species are different from F. antunesi by the arrangement of the spines of the distal segment of the upper clasper of the latter. F. ubiquitalis n. sp. can be distinguished from others by the figure of the median clasper. F. auraensis n. sp. Can be distinguished from F. affinis n. sp. By the tuft hairs on the inner face of the basal segment and by arrangement of the spines of the sital segment of the upper clasper. Flebotomus brachipygus n. sp. Seemed to be F. rostrans, specie not well known, by the characters of the genitalia but can not be identified to her by the clypeus size and the palpi’s characters. Flebotomus costalimai, n. sp., f. tupynambai n. sp., and f. castroi Barreto & Coutinho, 1941, are very allied species and the A. proposes to included them the new sub-genus Castromyia, in honor to Dr. G. M. de Oliveira Castro, appointing like typespecies F. castroi with the V joint longer than III + IV; antennae with geniculated spines without posterior prolongation. Genitalia: the basal segment of the upper clasper with a tuft of hairs and the distal segment with 4 spines, one of them at the apex and near it a thin and straight bristle difficult to see; the median clasper with one spinous hair isolated...

Pesquisas sobre a imunidade da Framboesia tropica no homem: observações feitas em 33 superinoculações e 7 reinoculações

Como resultado das 40 experiências relatadas neste trabalho, as seguintes conclusões podem ser tiradas: 1) Dos 2 até aos 8 meses de molestia há na bouba uma grande resistência á superinoculação (13 experiências negativas em 15). Nas 2 experiências positivas, foram obtidas lesões atípicas (pianides): a) Tal resistência parece independer da presença de lesões boubaticas cutaneas e se fez sentir mesmo em casos com a lesão inicial exclusiva. b) Dentro desse período de molestia, tal resistência pode desaparecer com o tratamento: 2 doentes tratados aos 6 meses e reinoculados adquiriram bouba em tempo normal. Porém, um caso tratado aos 7 meses e reinoculado, desenvolveu uma pianide. Êste fato parece mostrar que essa resistência depende principalmente da presença da infecção ativa ou latente, raramente traduzindo uma imunidade no verdadeiro sentido do têrmo. c) No caso de emprego de homo-virus, essa resistência prolongou-se até um ano d molestia, havendo apenas um caso duvidoso em 10 inoculações. 2) Do 10º mês ao 4º ano de molestia, em 8 superinoculações observou-se uma resistência parcial que se traduziu de 2 modos, quanto à natureza da lesão atípica que se obteve no ponto inoculado; "lesão frustra papulo-eritematosa" (7 meses); e lesão semelhante ás "pianides" da infecção natural (1 vez), a qual permaneceu localizada sem manifestações metastaticas, até 4 meses de observação. a) Também este estado de resistência parcial, parece independer da presença de lesões boubaticas aparentes. b) Com o tratamento esse estado parece não se modificar: um doente tratado nesse período da molestia, reagiu à inoculação de modo semelhante, embora sem nenhuma manifestação clínica e com a R. Wa. negativa. Inegavelmente, essas "lesões frustras" e também as "pianides" obtidas, representam respostas de organismos que obtiveram vantagens na luta com a doença, possuindo um certo grau de imunidade, que é muitíssimo maior no caso das primeiras. 3) Depois do 5º ano de molestia, a resposta á superinoculação traduziu um estado de maior sensibilidade do organismo infectado. Observou-se no ponto inoculado uma reação precoce papulo-eritemato-ulcerosa, francamente necrotica e destrutiva, ao mesmo tempo que se verificou exacerbação das lesões dos pacientes, com grande infartamento gangliomar satélite. Até 18 meses depois, em um caso, a lesão obtida permaneceu localizada sem manifestações generalizadas. a) O tratamento não modificou tal estado. Doentes tratados ( e parcial ou totalmente curados), reagiram da mesma maneira à reinoculação dentro desse período da molestia. Apenas em um caso de mais de 5 anos (nº 40) não se obteve a lesão ulcero-necrotica. Era o único dos 13 experimentados que não tinha nem tivera lesões ulcero-gomoides destrutivas. por outro lado, 2 pacientes apresentando lesões gomo-ulcerativas, mas tendo menos de 3 anos de molestia, não deram a lesão ulcerativo-necrotica em resposta à superinoculação. (Experiências ns. 38 e 39). Interessante é que esta lesão ulcerativo-necrotica contém treponemas embora raros, e em evolução pode tomar o carater das lesões destrutivas gomo-ulcerativas peculiares ao chamado "período terciario" da doença, com as quais também se assemelha histopatológicamente. Sob o ponto de vista imunológico, esta lesão representa um estado de maior sensibilidade do organismo para o agente infeccioso. 4) Como o tratamento precoce perturba o desenvolvimento da imunidade, sob o ponto de vista epidemiológico, seria aconselhável aguardar o período terminal do chamado secundarismo, isto é da fase de generalização boubatica, para tratar os pacientes em Postos, hospitais ou ambulatórios pois, tais doentes poderiam se reinfestar uma vez retornados ao fóco. Claro que em campanhas terapeuticas profilaticas, as lesões "abertas" primo-secundarias, devem ser rapidamente eliminadas uma vez que são as mais contagiantes, por mais ricas em germes. 5) Existe na framboesia trópica uma verdadeira imunidade além de uma simples resistência á superinoculação devido a presença da infecção ativa ou latente. Com efeito, pacientes tratados em determinado período da molestia e curados clinica e sorologicamente, mostraram resistência parcial á reinoculação, reagindo de modo semelhante a outros do mesmo período de molestia e não tratados. 6) A imunidade na framboesia tropica se manifesta seja como uma resistência á superinoculação ou reinoculação seja como uma modificação da lesão boubatica inicial, seja, finalmente, como uma resistência á generalização da doença. 7) Os resultados das esperiências sugerem que as diferentes manifestações cutaneas da molestia são condicionadas até certo ponto pelo estado imunitario do organismo infectado. 8) Os diferentes gráus de imunidade, encontrados na framboesia trópica, estão até certo ponto relacionados com o tempo de doença. Porém, são atingidos mais ou menos ràpidamente, segundo o organismo infectado e, talvez segundo a virulência do treponema, do mesmo modo como os chamados "secundarismo" e 'terciarismo" da doença.