O estado da arte da cirurgia do baço, no início do século XXI

In the last fifty years evolution of scientific knowledge on the spleen provoked an entirely new approach to splenic surgery. It was shown that virulence may emerge as a significant consequence of environmental and evolutionary changes of some microbial communities, and devastating pathogenetic results of these changes become visible in human hosts without the splenic function. In other words: the spleen plays a pivotal role in the dynamic balance between biodiversity, microorganisms and immunogenecity in human hosts. Therefore, to preserve the "splenic immunologic repertoire" became an increasing commitment among surgeons. Understanding the integration of these multiple information on spleen, seems central to understand the new splenic surgery. Partial splenectomies (Réglées) - based on anatomical, experimental and clinical studies, developed at the University of Minas Gerais since the fifties - were successfully applied initially to treat the traumatic injuries of the spleen; in a following step, partial splenectomy were used to control hematological diseases. "Réglées" techniques on the spleen have conquered "ethical support, consilience status and clinical governance" to give birth to surgical therapeutic decisions on the spleen, in order to spare the structural integrity of the immune system. Splenic réglées procedures became a seminal achievement of splenic surgical practice. Initial results of "Partial splenectomies" - with conventional surgical armamentaria and techniques - were confirmed and improved by the introduction of techniques based on laparoscopic and endovascular approaches. And current usage of surgical splenic saving procedures propitiated the emergence of an appropriate lexicon for medical communication and became an "end point" of a "long-standing surgical inhibition" over the spleen.

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12 x 20 cm

Muutosprojektin tarina projektipäällikön silmin

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Ajan haasteisiin vastaavaa laitosdiakoniaa Viipurissa ja Lahdessa

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Estaria o catolicismo na França do século XXI caminhando em direção a um perfil comunitário?

Este artigo busca discutir, a partir do exame de uma literatura sociológica e antropológica produzida atualmente na França, a experiência comunitária no catolicismo francês contemporâneo. Partindo da ideia de crise das grandes religiões institucionalizadas com o consequente advento de uma religião do self, que cada vez mais se consagra como chave de análise de uma sociologia da religião moderna, pergunta-se qual a pertinência das coletividades e comunidades religiosas no cenário francês. Observando as situações do quadro paroquial, das recentes tensões e mudanças no regime de laicidade francesa (cujo aspecto universalista se direciona-se uma acomodação com o comunitarismo), e da Renovação Carismática, pretende-se expor os arranjos e compromissos que, no seio do catolicismo francês atual, permitem articular individualismo e coletivismo, modernidade e tradição.