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M H Lopes

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[Varicella during pregnancy: report of 13 cases and review of the recent literature].

Varicella occurs infrequently during pregnancy, but its natural history is not well defined and it is not certain that it is more severe in pregnant women that in other adults. For this reason a survey of 34 adult patients with varicella, admitted to Hospital das Clínicas--FMUSP from 1976 to 1986 was carried out. There were included 13 pregnant women and 21 other immunocompetent adults (11 males and 10 females). Average age in pregnant patients was 21.4 years; 24.6 years in adult females and 25.9 in adult males. In the latter group 10 patients had complications (47.6%) and in the pregnant group only four (30.7%). In three pregnant women (23%) and in four non pregnant women (36.3%) pneumonitis occurred. Pregnant women with pneumonitis developed respiratory failure, a feature not seen among immunocompetent adults.

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[Typology of performance of graduate course disciplines in medicine at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo].

The results of the program for the evaluation of the curriculum of the graduation course of the Medical Faculty of the University of São Paulo are presented and discussed. Following disciplines received special attention: practice in a hospital for infections diseases, orthopedics and traumatology, medical imagery, propedeutics and preventive and social pediatrics. These disciplines were chosen in an aleatory way among those that correspond to the four models of the behaviour: increasing, decreasing, decreasing/increasing and increasing/decreasing.

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[Intestinal parasitosis and hepatic cirrhosis].

The authors describe their experience, in a prospective survey, with the prevalence rates of intestinal parasites in patients with hepatic cirrhosis admitted to the Gastroenterology Unit of University Hospital of Federal University in Juiz de Fora, Brazil, whose fresh stools were examined by Hoffman-Pons-Janner, Baermann-Moraes and Willis methods. They compare the results of stool exams with two control groups and look for a relation with cirrhosis' etiology. A higher prevalence of some parasites was observed in cirrhosis than in people with other digestive diseases (group I). mainly for the Strongyloides stercoralis, found in 40.2%, chiefly in alcoholic cirrhosis. Oddly no one of the group I admitted in the same period had strongyloidiasis. Another group including all the people who had stool samples examined in the same period at the hospital had 1.91% of that helmintic infection (group II). A comparison is also made with the prevalence in schoolchildren between the ages of 7 and 14 studies eight years before (13.16%). Other parasites were also observed in different incidence between those with cirrhosis and the other groups and the results are presented. They conclude that hepatic cirrhosis must be included in the list of conditions which increases the risk of Strongyloides stercoralis infection.

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[Hepatic puncture biopsy in the outpatient clinic].

The authors present the results of a prospective study on percutaneous needle biopsy of the liver conducted at the Hepatology Outpatients' Ward of the Gastroenterology Unit of the University Hospital -" Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora", MG, Brazil. In 16 months 61 biopsies were made in patients with chronic liver disease according to the technique described by menghini. The inclusion criteria were established by The Patient Care Committee of The American Gastroenterological Association. Abdominal ultrasound was done before and after the procedure. The patients stayed six hours under control (blood pressure and pulse rate) in the hospital. After 24 hours other clinical, laboratorial and ultrasonic control were performed. The main complication was local pain or in the right shoulder (32 patients--52.5%). Abdominal ultrasound after 24 hours revealed only one hematoma of the abdominal wall (1.8%). This study shows that the outpatient needle liver biopsy is a safe procedure with low complication rate when performed in a judicious way, by specialized personnel and under strict clinical control.

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