Vol. 63 No. 2 (2008)

Clinical Sciences

• Prognostic factors for mortality among patients above the 6th decade undergoing non-cardiac surgery: cares - clinical assessment and research in elderly surgical patients

  Adriana Nunes Machado, Maria do Carmo Sitta, Wilson Jacob Filho, Luíz Eugênio Garcez-Leme

  151-156

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• Prognostic factors and expression of MDM2 in patients with primary extremity liposarcoma

  Rosalvo Zósimo Bispo Júnior, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Cláudia Regina G. C. M. de Oliveira, Renée Zon Filippi, André Mathias Baptista, Marcelo Tadeu Caiero

  157-164

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• Difficulties reported by hiv-infected patients using antiretroviral therapy in brazil

  Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães, Gustavo Machado Rocha, Lorenza Nogueira Campos, Felipe Melo Teixeira de Freitas, Felipe Augusto Souza Gualberto, Ramiro d’Ávila Rivelli Teixeira, Fábio Morato de Castilho

  165-172

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• Turner syndrome: searching for better outcomes

  Adauto Versiani Ramos, Ivani Novato Silva, Eugênio Marcos Andrade Goulart

  173-178

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• Development of Elderly Quality of Life Index - EqoLI: item reduction and distribution into dimensions

  Sérgio Márcio Pacheco Paschoal, Wilson Jacob Filho, Júlio Litvoc

  179-188

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• Endoscopic lumbar sympathectomy for women: effect on compensatory sweat

  Marcelo de Paula Loureiro, José Ribas Milanez de Campos, Paulo Kauffman, Fábio Biscegli Jatene, Sheila Weigmann, Aline Fontana

  189-196

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• Energy expenditure during cane-assisted gait in patients with knee osteoarthritis

  Anamaria Jones, Ana Claudia Monteiro Alves, Leda Magalhães de Oliveira, Marcelo Saad, Jamil Natour

  197-200

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• Reproducibility of the self-controlled six-minute walking test in heart failure patients

  Guilherme Veiga Guimarães, Vitor Oliveira Carvalho, Edimar Alcides Bocchi

  201-206

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• Intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow cells as an adjunctive therapy to incomplete myocardial revascularization: safety issues

  Luís Henrique W. Gowdak, Isolmar T. Schettert, Eduardo Baptista, Nailú L. G. Lopes, Carlos Eduardo Rochitte, Marcelo Luiz C. Vieira, César José Grupi, Luiz Antonio M. César, José Eduardo Krieger, Sérgio A. de Oliveira

  207-214

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• The disease burden attributable to smoking in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2000

  Andreia Ferreira Oliveira, Joaquim Gonçalves Valente, Iuri Costa Leite

  215-222

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• Analysis of the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma

  Claudio B. Murta, Alberto A. Antunes, Marcos F. Dall'Oglio, Alcides Mosconi, Kátia R. Leite, Miguel Srougi

  223-228

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Basic Research

• Self-expandable nitinol stent placement in homocysteinemic porcine aorta

  Luís Henrique Gil França, Adamastor Humberto Pereira, Sílvio César Perini

  229-236

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• Utilization of the lower inflection point of the pressure-volume curve results in protective conventional ventilation comparable to high frequency oscillatory ventilation in an animal model of acute respiratory distress syndrome

  Felipe S. Rossi, Renata Suman Mascaretti, Luciana B. Haddad, Norberto A. Freddi, Thais Mauad, Celso M. Rebello

  237-244

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Review Articles

• Strategies for cardiopulmonary exercise testing of pectus excavatum patients

  Moh H. Malek, Jared W. Coburn

  245-254

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• Is brain banking of psychiatric cases valuable for neurobiological research?

  Andrea Schmitt, Eleni Parlapani, Manfred Bauer, Helmut Heinsen, Peter Falkai

  255-266

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Letters to the Editors

• Necrolytic migratory erythema associated with glucagonoma: a report of 2 cases

  Renata Câmara Teixeira, Marcello Menta Simonsen Nico, Anelise Casillo Ghideti

  267-270

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• The occurrence of post-operative delirium in Brazil

  Pedro Vieira da Silva Magalhães, Cibele Vargas da Silva

  271-272

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• Henoch-Schönlein Purpura in adults

  María José López Meiller, Javier Alberto Cavallasca, María del Rosario Maliandi, Gustavo Guillermo Nasswetter

  273-276

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• Treatment of hardware exposure after severe infections in spine surgery with pedicled muscular flaps

  Alvaro Baik Cho, Luciano Miller Reis Rodrigues, Rodrigo Junqueira Nicolau, Gustavo Mantovani Rugiero, Walter Yoshinori Fukushima, Carlo Milani

  277-280

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• Bisphosphonates and osteonecrosis of the jaw: a case report

  André Borba Reiriz, Patrícia de Moraes De Zorzi, Cristian Patrik Lovat

  281-284

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• Rapunzel syndrome of a cotton bezoar in a multimorbid patient

  Ali Ugur Emre, Oge Tascilar, Guldeniz Karadeniz, Oktay Irkorucu, Kemal Karakaya, Mustafa Comert

  285-288

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• Pulmonary thromboembolism after renal laparoscopic cryoablation: a case report

  Anuar Ibrahim Mitre, Rafael Ferreira Coelho, Miguel Srougi

  289-290

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• Errata

  291-292

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