Action of anti-bothropic factor isolated from Didelphis marsupialis on renal effects of Bothrops erythromelas venom

Acute renal failure is the most common complication in the lethal cases caused by snakebites in Brazil. Among the Brazilian venom snakes, Bothrops erythromelas is responsible for the majority of accidents in Northeastern Brazil. Didelphis marsupialis serum could inhibit myonecrotic, hemorrhagic, edematogenic hyperalgesic and lethal effects of envenomation determined by ophidian bites. In the present study, we evaluated the action of the anti-bothropic factor isolated from D. marsupialis on the renal effects promoted by B. erythromelas venom without systemic interference. Isolated kidneys from Wistar rats were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit solution containing 6% bovine serum albumin. We analyzed renal perfusion pressure (PP), renal vascular resistance (RVR), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urinary flow (UF), and the percentages of sodium and potassium tubular transport (%TNa +, %TK +). The B. erythromelas venom (10 μg mL -1) decreased the PP (ct=108.71±5.09 mmHg; BE=65.21±5.6 mmHg*) and RVR (ct=5.76±0.65 mmHg mL -1 g -1 min -1; BE=3.10±0.45 mmHg mL -1 g -1 min -1*) . On the other hand, the GFR decreased at 60 min (ct 60=0.76±0. 07 mL g -1 min -1; BE 60=0.42±0.12 mL g -1 min -1*) and increased at 120 min (ct 120=0.72±0.01 mL g -1 min -1; BE 120=1.24±0.26 mL g -1 min -1*). The UF increased significantly when compared with the control group (ct=0.14±0.01 mL g -1 min -1; BE=0.47±0.08 mL g -1 min -1*). The venom reduced the %TNa + (ct 90=79.18±0.88%; BE 90=58.35±4.86%*) and %TK + (ct 90=67.20±4.04%; BE 90=57. 32±5.26%*) The anti-bothropic factor from D. marsupialis (10 μg mL -1) incubated with B. erythromelas venom (10 μg mL -1) blocked the effects on PP, RVR, %TNa +, and %TK +, but was not able to reverse the effects in UF and GFR promoted by venom alone. However, the highest concentration of D. marsupialis serum (30 μg mL -1) reversed all the renal effects induced by the venom. In conclusion, B. erythromelas venom altered all the renal functional parameters evaluated and the anti-bothropic factor from D. marsupialis was able to inhibit the effects induced by the venom in isolated kidney. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Mortalidade e prognóstico específico em pacientes com insuficiência renal aguda

A variety of systems of risk factor stratification have been studied to predict the outcome in acute renal failure (ARF). OBJECTIVES. Assess and compare mortality and the Acute Tubular Necrosis Individual Severity Score (ATN-ISS) in patients with AFR treated in a university hospital. METHODS. A prospective analysis was made of 103 patients with a diagnosis of intrinsic ARF admitted to the Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, UNESP. Patients were followed up until recovery of renal function or death. The Score ATN-ISS was recorded during the first hours of the assessment by a nephrologist. Results were reported as median or mean ± SD, with statistical significance of p<0.05. RESULTS. Fifty-one percent of patients were male with a mean age of 58 ± 36 years. Forty-four percent died in the hospital. Mortality was higher in patients from the surgical wards (52.7%) and in patients who were treated with dialysis (63.8%). The score ATN-ISS showed a good confidence level, with high discriminatory power (area under the curve of 0.95) and good accuracy. CONCLUSIONS. Mortality in this study was comparable to that found in literature. The ATN-ISS was shown to be a prognostic index with a high confidence level that could be routinely applied by nephrologists to patients with AFR.

Treatment of atherosclerotic renovascular disease

Treatment of atherosclerotic renovascular disease is controversial and revascularization is not a beneficial approach to all patients. Conditions as progressive deterioration of renal function, refractory hypertension or accelerated cardiovascular disease, especially recurrent pulmonary edema, could profit from renal angioplasty with stent placement. Surgical revascularization is a good option for patients who will need concomitant surgical corrections of abdominal aortic lesions. Treatment of all other patients must be individualized. Medical therapy is indicated for all patients with atherosclerotic renovascular disease. Observational studies pointed out to the beneficial effect of controlling blood pressure (<130/80 mm Hg), glucose and lipids profile, lifestyle modifications, specific use of platelet antiaggregant therapy, Angiotensin Conversion Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEI) and statins. All others cardiovascular risk factors must be controlled. The evaluation and management of other systemic atherosclerotic vascular lesions is important, especially coronary, carotid and abdominal aortic. This paper presents a review of evidences to rationale the atherosclerotic renovascular disease treatment. © 2008 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

American visceral leishmaniasis: Factors associated with lethality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

Objectives. To identify factors associated with death in visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases. Patients and Methodology. We evaluated prognostic factors for death from VL in São Paulo state, Brazil, from 1999 to 2005. A prognostic study nested in a clinical cohort was carried out by data analysis of 376 medical files. A comparison between VL fatal cases and survivors was performed for clinical, laboratory, and biological features. Association between variables and death was assessed by univariate analysis, and the multiple logistic regression model was used to determine adjusted odds ratio for death, controlling confounding factors. Results. Data analysis identified 53 fatal cases out of 376 patients, between 1999 and 2005 in São Paulo state. Lethality was 14.1 (53/376), being higher in patients older than fifty years. The main causes of death were sepsis, bleeding, liver failure, and cardiotoxicity due to treatment. Variables significantly associated with death were severe anemia, bleeding, heart failure, jaundice, diarrhea, fever for more than sixty days, age older than fifty years, and antibiotic use. Conclusion. Educational health measures are needed for the general population and continuing education programs for health professionals working in the affected areas with the purpose of identifying and treating early cases, thus preventing the disease evolution towards death. © 2012 Geraldine Madalosso et al.

Congenital diaphragmatic Bochdaleck hernia: Case report

Congenital diaphragmatic Bochdaleck hernia is an anatomical defect of the diaphragm, which allows protrusion of abdominal viscera into the chest, causing serious pulmonary and cardiac complications in the neonate. In this study we aimed to present a case of congenital Bochdaleck hernia. We investigated a 40 weeks old child, with a pregnancy carried out in a public hospital in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We suggest that if diagnosis occurs in the prenatal period, the prognosis of this disease improves. As a consequence, it allows the parity of the fetus to occur in a higher complexity center, optimizing the chances of survival. © 2012 Lava et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Bothrops leucurus venom induces nephrotoxicity in the isolated perfused kidney and cultured renal tubular epithelia

Bites from snake (Bothrops genus) cause local tissue damage and systemic complications, which include alterations such as hemostatic system and acute renal failure (ARF). Recent studies suggest that ARF pathogenesis in snakebite envenomation is multifactorial and involves hemodynamic disturbances, immunologic reactions and direct nephrotoxicity. The aim of the work was to investigate the effects of the Bothrops leucurus venom (BlV) in the renal perfusion system and in cultured renal tubular cells of the type MDCK (Madin-Darby Canine kidney). BlV (10 μg/mL) reduced the perfusion pressure at 90 and 120 min. The renal vascular resistance (RVR) decreased at 120 min of perfusion. The effect on urinary flow (UF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) started 30 min after BlV infusion, was transient and returned to normal at 120 min of perfusion. It was also observed a decrease on percentual tubular transport of sodium (%TNa+) at 120 min and of chloride (%TCl-) at 60 and 90 min. The treatment with BlV caused decrease in cell viability to the lowest concentration tested with an IC50 of 1.25 μg/mL. Flow cytometry with annexin V and propidium iodide showed that cell death occurred predominantly by necrosis. However, a cell death process may involve apoptosis in lower concentrations. BlV treatment (1.25 μg/mL) led to significant depolarization of the mitochondrial membrane potential and, indeed, we found an increase in the expression of cell death genes in the lower concentrations tested. The venom also evoked an increase in the cytosolic Ca2+ in a concentration dependent manner, indicating that Ca2+ may participate in the venom of B. leucurus effect. The characterization of the effects in the isolated kidney and renal tubular cells gives strong evidences that the acute renal failure induced by this venom is a result of the direct nephrotoxicity which may involve the cell death mechanism. © 2012.

Intervenção dietética com suco de laranja sobre o estado nutricional e oxidativo em pacientes com hepatite C crônica

Pós-graduação em Alimentos e Nutrição - FCFAR

Insuficiência renal aguda no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP: descrição da população e análise dos fatores de risco associados a mortalidade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Influência da nifedipina sobre a incidência de insuficiência renal aguda no pós-operatório de revascularização do miocárdio com circulação extracorpórea

Pós-graduação em Bases Gerais da Cirurgia - FMB

A contagem de plaquetas pré-operatória é fator de risco em pacientes cirróticos com hepatocarcinoma submetidos a hepatectomia?: revisão sistemática e metanálise de estudos coorte

Pós-graduação em Bases Gerais da Cirurgia - FMB

Insuficiência renal aguda pela hemodiluição acentuada na extracopórea

Pós-graduação em Bases Gerais da Cirurgia - FMB

Co-infecção vírus da imunodeficiência humana e vírus da hepatite C (HIV/HCV): aspectos epidemiológicos, clínicos e laboratoriais de uma população atendida em um serviço de hepatopatias na cidade de Belém-Pará

A infecção pelo Vírus da imunodeficiência humana 1 (HIV -1) em associação com a do Vírus da hepatite C (HCV) representa, atualmente, uma comorbidade que pode interferir principalmente na história natural da hepatite C. Este trabalho tem como objetivo descrever aspectos demográfico, clínico e laboratorial, incluindo exame histopatológico de pacientes coinfectados HIV/RCV. No período de agosto de 2004 a dezembro de 2006, 36 pacientes coinfectados, foram selecionados para o estudo. Noventa e dois por cento desses pacientes eram procedentes de Belém, com média de idade de 42 anos. Entre as principais informações demográficas da população estudada, foram identificados 72,52% solteiros, 83,5% do sexo masculino e 61,1% relataram ser heterossexuais. Entre os fatores de risco para o HCV o uso de drogas ilícitas injetáveis foi identificado em 41,7% dos casos, o uso de cocaína intranasal foi relatado por 38,9% dos pacientes, e o compartilhamento de seringas e material pessoal, em 38,9% dos casos. A história de etilismo em 77,8% e o uso de TARV foram os possíveis fatores agravantes mais frequentes para a doença hepática. Apenas um paciente apresentou sinais clínicos de insuficiência hepática crônica. Entre os testes bioquímicos hepáticos, a mediana de ALT e AST foi de 68UI/L e 61UI/L, respectivamente. Os níveis de linfócitos T CD4+ apresentaram mediana de 327 células/mm³, a carga viral do HIV com mediana de 2,53 logl0 cópias/mL (ep=0,34), carga viral do HCV com mediana de 5,9 log10UI/mL. O genótipo 1 do HCV foi o mais frequente (58,82%). Cinqüenta e sete por cento dos pacientes submetidos à biópsia hepática apresentavam fibrose de moderada a severa, e 11% não apresentaram fibrose pela classificação MET AVIR. Houve associação entre níveis de linfócitos T CD4+ e níveis de ALT e de AST (p=0,0009 e p=0,0002, respectivamente), assim como associação entre genótipo 1 do HCV e HCV-RNA maior ou igual a 6 log10 UI/mL (p=0.0039). Foi observada também associação entre HCV-RNA e HIV-RNA (p=0,039). Os pacientes apresentam estado geral bom, imunologicamente estáveis, sem sinais de descompensação hepática, mas com alterações estruturais hepáticas importantes, sendo portanto bons candidatos à terapia antiviral para o HCV. Futuros estudos, talvez de caso controle, com casuística maior são necessários para melhor entendimento da co-infecção HIV/HCV.

Avaliação da mortalidade e recuperação renal de pacientes com insuficiência renal aguda submetidos à diálise com diferentes níveis de uréia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeitos da dexmedetomidina em rins isquêmicos e sobre a concentração plasmática do hormônio antidiurético: estudo experimental em cães anestesiados e hipovolêmicos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Cor triatriatum sinister e hipertensão arterial pulmonar secundária em cão

This paper describes the occurrence of cor triatriatum sinister, a rare cardiac malformation in dogs, associated with pulmonary edema and pulmonary hypertension in a 5-year-old Poodle female with history of acute dyspnea and cyanosis. The animal presented acute respiratory failure, heart failure with low cardiac output, progressing to acute tubular necrosis and death. The diagnosis was made posmortem due to the clinical instability of the dog. This malformation was diagnosed by the subdivision of the left atrium into two compartments separated by an abnormal fibromuscular membrane, absence of structural abnormalities of the mitral valve and thickening of pulmonary artery tunica media associated with renal tubular degeneration. The occurrence of cor triatriatum in dogs is most common in the right atrium, defined as cor triatriatum dexter. Additionally, pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with this malformation is described only in humans with this heart defect.