A Renovação Carismática Católica, através do Seminário de Vida no Espírito Santo-Adamantina - (1997-2003)

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome in Switzerland: a nationwide surveillance 1997-2003

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is a leading cause of acute renal failure in childhood. In its typical presentation, it is preceded by an episode of diarrhea mostly due to Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli. There is important geographical variation of many aspects of this syndrome. Nationwide data on childhood HUS in Switzerland have not been available so far. In a prospective national study through the Swiss Pediatric Surveillance Unit 114 cases (median age 21 months, 50% boys) were reported between April 1997 and March 2003 by 38 pediatric units (annual incidence 1.42 per 10(5) children < or =16 years). Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli were isolated in 32 (60%) of tested stool samples, serotype O157:H7 in eight. Sixteen children presented with only minimal renal involvement, including three with underlying urinary tract infection. Six patients presented with atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome, and six with HUS due to invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Mortality was 5.3%, including two out of six children with S. pneumoniae infection. The severity of thrombocytopenia and the presence of central nervous system involvement significantly correlated with mortality. In conclusion, childhood HUS is not rare in Switzerland. Contrasting other countries, E. coli O157:H7 play only a minor role in the etiology. Incomplete manifestation is not uncommon.

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Switzerland. Report from the Swiss Transplant Working Group Blood and Marrow Transplantation (STABMT) Registry 1997-2003

In 1997, the Swiss Transplant Working Group Blood and Marrow Transplantation (STABMT) initiated a mandatory national registry for all haematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) in Switzerland. As of 2003, information was collected of 2010 patients with a first HSCT (577 allogeneic (29%) and 1433 autologous (71%) HSCT) and 616 additional re-transplants. This included 1167 male and 843 female patients with a median age of 42.4 years (range 0.2-76.6 years). Main indications were leukaemias (592; 29%) lymphoproliferative disorders (1,061; 53%), solid tumours (295; 15%) and non-malignant disorders (62; 3%). At the time of analysis 1,263 patients were alive (63%), 747 had died (37%). Probability of survival, transplant related mortality or relapse at 5 years was 52%, 21%, 36% for allogeneic and 54%, 5%, 60% for autologous HSCT. Outcome depended on indication, donor type, stem cell source and age of patient. HSCT is an established therapy in Switzerland. These data describe current practice and outcome.

Aspectos sociales de la vivienda rural en Mendoza : concentración o dispersión

Fil: Lentini de Inchaurraga, Iris.

Las memorias que seremos : Memoria y olvido en el discurso oficial sobre el conflicto armado colombiano en el pasado reciente

Fil: Zuluaga Aristizábal, Marda Ucaris. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

De difuntos prestados, viudas errantes y cuerpos remendados : La narrativa como dispositivo de construcción de memorias sociales en Colombia

Sin nombres, sin rostros ni rastros es un cuento escrito por Jorge Eliécer Pardo Rodríguez, ganador del concurso nacional de cuento sobre desaparición forzada, Sin Rastro, realizado en el 2008. Este texto narrativo que sirve como dispositivo de memoria, permite analizar las formas que adquiere la ausencia y el pasado traumático en la literatura colombiana; reflexionar en torno a la "ampliación del espacio biográfico" y la construcción de memorias sociales de la violencia política en Colombia y, debatir en torno al carácter estético, político y comunicativo que constituyen este tipo de soportes de memoria. Es por esto, que se describen los hechos violentos ocurridos entre 1986 y 1994 en el departamento de Valle del Cauca, noroccidente colombiano, conocidos como la "Masacre ampliada de Trujillo". La referencia a estos hechos violentos, posibilita al lector interrogar el cuento de Pardo Rodríguez y acercarse a la forma en que se comunica una experiencia particular de dolor en medio de la guerra. De otro lado, se presentan algunas reflexiones en torno al relato y a la tensión entre realidad y ficción, para hacer un breve análisis de este cuento a partir de algunas de las categorías que expone Bruner en el texto Los usos del relato

Las memorias que seremos : Memoria y olvido en el discurso oficial sobre el conflicto armado colombiano en el pasado reciente

Fil: Zuluaga Aristizábal, Marda Ucaris. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.