Vol. 64 No. 8 (2009)

Editorials

In the August 2009 issue of Clinics

Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva

719-720
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O Novo Qualis, que não tem nada a ver com a ciência do Brasil: carta aberta ao presidente da CAPES

Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva

721-724
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Clinical Sciences

Visual impairment secondary to congenital glaucoma in children: visual responses, optical correction and use of low vision AIDS

Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Ernst Werner Oltrogge, Newton Kara-José, Alberto Jorge Betinjane

725-730
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Influence of late treatment on how chronic myeloid leukemia responds to imatinib

Ana Carolina Costa Scerni, Leonardo Azevedo Alvares, Ana Cristina Beltrão, Iê Regina Bentes, Tereza Cristina Azevedo, Alessandra Quinto Bentes, José Alexandre Rodrigues Lemos

731-734
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Self-medication: initial treatments used by patients seen in an ophthalmologic emergency room

Regina Souza Carvalho, Newton Kara-José, Edméa Rita Temporini, Newton Kara-Junior, Regina Noma-Campos

735-741
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Twenty months of evolution following sympathectomy on patients with palmar hyperhidrosis: sympathectomy at the T3 level is better than at the T2 level

Guilherme Yazbek, Nelson Wolosker, Paulo Kauffman, José Ribas Milanez de Campos, Pedro Puech-Leão, Fábio Biscegli Jatene

743-749
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An assessment of maternal quality of life in the postpartum period in southern Brazil: a comparson of two questionnaires

Carlos Zubaran, Katia Foresti, Marina Verdi Schumacher, Mariana Rossi Thorell, Lucia Cristina Muller, Aline Luz Amoretti

751-756
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The value of calcaneal bone mass measurement using a dual X-ray laser calscan device in risk screening for osteoporosis

Gulseren Kayalar, Alev Cevikol, Gunes Yavuzer, Yavuz Sanisoglu, Aytul Cakci, Tansu Arasıl

757-762
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Vascular calcifications seen on mammography: an independent factor indicating coronary artery disease

Evelling L. C. Oliveira, Ruffo Freitas-Junior, Abrahão Afiune-Neto, Eddie F.C. Murta, Júlio E. Ferro, Aline F. B. Melo

763-767
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Comorbidities in severe asthma: frequency of rhinitis, nasal polyposis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, vocal cord dysfunction and bronchiectasis

Carla Bisaccioni, Marcelo Vivolo Aun, Edcarlos Cajuela, Jorge Kalil, Rosana Câmara Agondi, Pedro Giavina-Bianchi

769-773
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Surgical management of spontaneous ruptured hepatocellular adenoma

Marcelo Augusto Fontenelle Ribeiro Junior, Eleazar Chaib, William Abrão Saad, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D'Albuquerque, Ivan Cecconello

775-779
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Body composition alterarions, energy expenditure and fat oxidation in elderly males suffering from prostate cancer, pre and post orchiectomy

Cristiana Reis, Sami Liberman, Antonio Carlos Pompeo, Miguel Srougi, Alfredo Halpern, Wilson Jacob Filho

781-784
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Comorbidities are frequent in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease in a tertiary health care hospital

Joaquim Prado P Moraes-Filho, Tomás Navarro-Rodriguez, Jaime N Eisig, Ricardo C Barbuti, Decio Chinzon, Eamonn M M Quigley

785-790
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Can quiet standing posture predict compensatory postural adjustment?

Gabriel Bueno Lahóz Moya, Cássio Marinho Siqueira, Renê Rogieri Caffaro, Carolina Fu, Clarice Tanaka

791-796
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Effects of buflomedil and pentoxifylline on hamster skin-flap microcirculation: prediction of flap viability using orthogonal polarization spectral imaging

Denise Salles Coelho da Mota, Eliane Furtado, Daniel Alexandre Bottino, Eliete Bouskela

797-802
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Review

A review of blood substitutes: examining the history, clinical trial results, and ethics of hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers

Jiin-Yu Chen, Michelle Scerbo, George Kramer

803-813
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Rapid Communication

The composite aortic wall graft technique: an option for a short coronary artery bypass graft

João Bosco de Oliveira, Roberto Rocha e Silva, Dennys Marcel Sanches Martins, Ricardo De Mola, Marcos Vinicius Henriques de Carvalho

815-818
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Letters to the Editor

Downstaging of a rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumor by neoadjuvant imatinib therapy allowing for a conservative surgical approach

Gustavo dos Santos Fernandes, Guilherme Cutait de Castro Cotti, Daniela Freitas, Raul Cutait, Paulo M. Hoff

819-821
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Coronary artery bypass surgery, angioplasty and long term anti-platelet treatment in a type B hemophilia patient

Antonio Eduardo Pesaro, Marcus Vinicius Gaz, Ralf Karbstein, Marco Perin, Carlos Vicente Serrano Jr., Élbio Damico

822-823
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Hydrotherapy in heart failure: a case report

Vitor Oliveira Carvalho, Edimar Alcides Bocchi, Guilherme Veiga Guimarães

824-827
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Vol. 64 No. 8 (2009)

Editorials

Clinical Sciences

Review

Rapid Communication

Letters to the Editor

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