Sinais e sintomas de complicações agudas e crônicas do diabetes [exercício]

Aula narrada que apresenta As intervenções para Mudança de Estilo de Vida e Autocuidado Apoiado no Diabetes Mellitus, com ênfase aos sinais e sintomas de complicações agudas e crônicas do diabetes.

Avaliação da saúde mental: sinais e sintomas

Material utilizado na unidade 2 do módulo de Saúde Mental do curso de especialização em Saúde da Família produzido pela UNA-SUS/UFMA, com apresentação visual trabalhada para atender aos alunos participantes do programa Mais Médicos. Neste material aborda-se alguns sinais e sintomas mais comuns em saúde mental. Além disso, informa que os cuidadores estão suscetíveis à problemas mentais e, portanto, devem estar em constante avaliação.

Identificação de sinais e sintomas de violência

Apresenta as principais crenças que dificultam a abordagem do problema por partes tanto dos envolvidos quanto por parte dos profissionais de saúde. Mostra os desafios de conhecer sinais e sintomas de violência em homens e mulheres e nas relações homoafetivas. Considerando a violência uma síndrome crônica, aponta, também: os sinais e sintomas mais frequentes; as repercussões das situações de violência nos serviços de saúde; as consequências e efeitos da violência para a saúde física e mental; os sete Ps da violência; o trabalho do Instituto Pro Mundo para promoção do equilíbrio entre os gêneros; a necessidade de as equipes de saúde discutirem papéis sociais, reverem conceitos culturais e construção de relações afetivas saudáveis.

Sinais e sintomas de complicações agudas e crônicas do diabetes

Exercício de caça palavras que objetiva revisar as complicações agudas do diabetes, elaborado com base no material da aula Intervenções para Mudança de Estilo de Vida e Autocuidado Apoiado no Diabetes Mellitus: Sinais e sintomas de complicações agudas e crônicas do diabetes - produzida pela UNASUS UFCSPA, para o curso Qualidia.

Sinais e sintomas oculares comuns

Este infográfico faz parte do curso de Oftalmologia na Atenção Básica à Saúde (2016) e tem como objetivo apresentar as principais queixas oculares ambulatoriais que são: o olho vermelho, a dor e/ou sensação de corpo estranho, a presença de secreção ocular, a redução da acuidade visual, a visão dupla (ou diplopia), o olho torto (estrabismo) e a proptose (protrusão do globoocular, exoftalmia)

Odontologia na puericultura: evidências dos sinais e sintomas associados à erupção dos dentes decíduos

A erupção dentária é um processo que permite que o dente se movimente da sua posição original na maxila ou mandíbula para a sua posição oclusal na cavidade oral. Vários são os relatos e estudos sobre as evidências de sinais e sintomas associados á erupção dos dentes decíduos. Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral elaborar um plano de ação para que a equipe odontológica que atenda a puericultura dos bebês de 0-2 anos o faça embasada em princípios científicos, com foco nos principais sinais e sintomas associados à esse processo, bem como o estudo acerca das possibilidades de tratamentos destes.Optou-se para elaboração deste trabalho a modalidade de pesquisa de revisão bibliográfica narrativa, realizada em bases de dados eletrônicos: Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde(BVS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) e da Literatura Latino-Americana em Ciências da Saúde ( LILACS), além de consultas aos livros de odontopediatria e odontologia. De acordo com a literatura consultada verifica-se que os sinais e sintomas mais comuns são: sialorreia, diarreia, febre, irritabilidade, mas este é ainda um assunto controverso, que necessita de maiores estudos. Espera-se, portanto, que a implementação do plano de ação possibilite melhorias no cuidado ao binômio bebê/mãe tanto pela equipe de saúde da família quanto pelo odontopediatra.

Febre amarela: sinais de alerta - quando suspeitar?

Infográfico contento informações sobre como identificar casos de infecção por febre amarela a partir da observação de sinais e sintomas.

Desmoid tumor in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis

CONTEXT: Desmoid tumors constitute one of the most important extraintestinal manifestations of familial adenomatous polyposis. The development of desmoids is responsible for increasing morbidity and mortality rates in cases of familial adenomatous polyposis. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the occurrence of desmoid tumors in familial adenomatous polyposis cases following prophylactic colectomy and to present patient outcome. METHODS: Between 1984 and 2008, 68 patients underwent colectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis at the School of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, University of Campinas, SP, Brazil. Desmoid tumors were found in nine (13.2%) of these patients, who were studied retrospectively by consulting their medical charts with respect to clinical and surgical data. RESULTS: Of nine patients, seven (77.8%) were submitted to laparotomy for tumor resection. Median age at the time of surgery was 33.9 years (range 22-51 years). Desmoid tumors were found in the abdominal wall in 3/9 cases (33.3%) and in an intra-abdominal site in the remaining six cases (66.7%). Median time elapsed between ileal pouch-anal anastomosis and diagnosis of desmoid tumor was 37.5 months (range 14-60 months), while the median time between colectomy with ileorectal anastomosis and diagnosis was 63.7 months (range 25-116 months). In 6/9 (66.7%) patients with desmoid tumors, the disease was either under control or there was no evidence of tumor recurrence at a follow-up visit made a mean of 63.1 months later (range 12-240 months). CONCLUSIONS: Desmoid tumors were found in 13.2% of cases of familial adenomatous polyposis following colectomy; therefore, familial adenomatous polyposis patients should be followed-up and surveillance should include abdominal examination to detect signs and symptoms. Treatment options include surgery and clinical management with antiestrogens, antiinflammatory drugs or chemotherapy.

Dyskinesia induced by phenytoin

Phenytoin is an effective antiepileptic drug, although, it can be associated with many side effects, including dyskinesia. OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical characteristics of phenytoin induced dyskinesia. METHODS: We investigated the occurrence of involuntary movements in patients followed at our adult and pediatric epilepsy clinics during the period of one year. RESULTS: Three patients presented with phenytoin-induced dyskinesia: one adult with axial and orofacial dyskinesia, and two children with choreoathetosis. They did not have other signs of phenytoin intoxication and had complete recovery after phenytoin withdrawal. CONCLUSION: Phenytoin induced dyskinesia may occur during either chronic or initial treatment and with normal serum phenytoin levels. However, it occurs most often in patients on polytherapy, usually after increasing dosage and with toxic serum levels. Other signs of phenytoin intoxication may be present in these patients, but often the dyskinesia is the only side effect, which may delay the diagnosis and treatment. The clinical characteristics of the involuntary movements vary and may be focal or generalized, most often characterized by choreoathetosis and dyskinesias. These may last for hours, days or even years, but frequently disappear completely after phenytoin withdrawal.

Whipple's disease with neurological manifestions: case report

Whipple's disease (WD) is an uncommon multisystem condition caused by the bacillus Tropheryma whipplei. Central nervous system involvement is a classical feature of the disease observed in 20 to 40% of the patients. We report the case of a 62 yeards old man with WD that developed neurological manifestations during its course, and discuss the most usual signs and symptoms focusing on recent diagnostic criteria and novel treatment regimens.

Uso de redes neurais artificiais na identificação de vocalização de suínos

Animal welfare has been an important research topic in animal production mainly in its ways of assessment. Vocalization is found to be an interesting tool for evaluating welfare as it provides data in a non-invasive way as well as it allows easy automation of process. The present research had as objective the implementation of an algorithm based on artificial neural network that had the potential of identifying vocalization related to welfare pattern indicatives. The research was done in two parts, the first was the development of the algorithm, and the second its validation with data from the field. Previous records allowed the development of the algorithm from behaviors observed in sows housed in farrowing cages. Matlab® software was used for implementing the network. It was selected a retropropagation gradient algorithm for training the network with the following stop criteria: maximum of 5,000 interactions or error quadratic addition smaller than 0.1. Validation was done with sows and piglets housed in commercial farm. Among the usual behaviors the ones that deserved enhancement were: the feed dispute at farrowing and the eventual risk of involuntary aggression between the piglets or between those and the sow. The algorithm was able to identify through the noise intensity the inherent risk situation of piglets welfare reduction.

Mães ouvintes com filhos surdos: concepção de surdez e escolha da modalidade de linguagem

The aim of this study was to analyze the conceptions that hearing mothers of deaf children have about deafness and relate it to the language mode used by the mother and the child. We interviewed 10 mothers of deaf children, five of whom were prescholars and five of school age. The content was analyzed as to thematic and category types, with emphasis on the categories conception of deafness and choice of language mode . Data analysis showed that one mother seems to see deafness as a disease, another as a difference and the other mothers were found to be somewhere between these two views. In relation to the preferred language mode, half the mothers reported that their children predominantly use signs, the other half uses speech and signs, with the exception of one child who uses only speech. The child whose mother acts as if deafness is a disease uses speech while another one whose mother acts as if deafness is a difference uses speech as well as signs.

Compreensão da sexualidade por jovens com diagnóstico de deficiência intelectual

The study describes the comprehension of concepts about sexuality by youths diagnosed with intellectual deficiency, during classes on sexual education. The analysis of selected episodes from video transcriptions of five classes (Human Body, Kiss, Flirting, Coitus, Condom/STD) showed: the appropriation and understanding of concepts, partial difficulties of comprehension, and inhibition. The analysis of the transcripts indicated that all students were attentive to the classes, participated in the proposed tasks, and answered the questions. The observed signs of inhibition and the expression of values were similar to those observed in other youngsters, indicating the appropriation of culturally established values. The obtained evidences contrast with mythical visions related to sexuality in these youngsters, and suggest more studies about their competences.

Thermolysed and active yeast to reduce the toxicity of aflatoxin

Aflatoxins are hepatotoxic metabolites produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus on a number of agricultural commodities. This research was carried out to evaluate the ability of thermolysed and active Saccharomyces cerevisiae to attenuate liver damage caused by aflatoxin. Diets were prepared containing 0 aflatoxin; 400 mug kg-1 aflatoxin; 400 mug kg-1 aflatoxin plus 1% of dehydrated active yeast, and 400 mug kg-1 aflatoxin plus 1% of thermolysed yeast. A bioassay with Wistar rats was conducted for 28 days, and body organs were weighted and analyses of the liver tissue of the animals were performed. The relative weight of heart, kidneys and liver from animals submitted to the different treatments did not show any difference, and liver tissue of animals feeding on the aflatoxin-free diet was adopted as a toxicity-free pattern. Hepatic tissue of animals feeding on diets containing 400 mug kg-1 aflatoxin or the diet supplemented with 1% thermolysed yeast showed clear signs of toxicity and damage. Hepatic tissue of animals feeding on the diet containing 1% of dehydrated active yeast showed less toxicity signs and damage than those receiving the diet containing 400 mug kg-1 aflatoxin. Active, dehydrated yeast had the ability to reduce toxic effects caused by aflatoxin, but thermolysed yeast was not able to alleviate the effects of aflatoxin toxicity.

Evaluation of the performance of different plastics used to seal nylon cDNA arrays

cDNA arrays are a powerful tool for discovering gene expression patterns. Nylon arrays have the advantage that they can be re-used several times. A key issue in high throughput gene expression analysis is sensitivity. In the case of nylon arrays, signal detection can be affected by the plastic bags used to keep membranes humid. In this study, we evaluated the effect of five types of plastics on the radioactive transmittance, number of genes with a signal above the background, and data variability. A polyethylene plastic bag 69 μm thick had a strong shielding effect that blocked 68.7% of the radioactive signal. The shielding effect on transmittance decreased the number of detected genes and increased the data variability. Other plastics which were thinner gave better results. Although plastics made from polyvinylidene chloride, polyvinyl chloride (both 13 μm thick) and polyethylene (29 and 7 μm thick) showed different levels of transmittance, they all gave similarly good performances. Polyvinylidene chloride and polyethylene 29 mm thick were the plastics of choice because of their easy handling. For other types of plastics, it is advisable to run a simple check on their performance in order to obtain the maximum information from nylon cDNA arrays.