Vol. 64 No. 5 (2009)

Editorial

In the May 2009 issue of Clinics

Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva

377-378
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Clinical Sciences

Sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma: clinical data from a university hospital

Joya Emilie M. Correia-Deur, Rodrigo A. Toledo, Alice T. Imazawa, Delmar M. Lourenço Jr., Marilza C. L. Ezabella, Marcos R. Tavares, Sergio P. A. Toledo

379-386
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Degree of risk related to procedures performed in conjunction with surgical myocardial revascularization in octogenarians

Jose Carlos Rossini Iglezias, Luis Alberto Oliveira Dallan, Artur Lourenção Jr., Alex Luiz Celullare, Raiane Pereira, Noedir Antonio Groppo Stolf

387-392
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Microsurgical testicular denervation for the treatment of chronic testicular pain initial results

Rafael Garcia de Oliveira, Cesar Camara, João de Magalhães Avancini Ferreira Alves, Rafael Ferreira Coelho, Antonio Marmo Lucon, Miguel Srougi

393-396
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New applications of radioguided surgery in oncology

Almir Galvão Vieira Bitencourt, Eduardo Nóbrega Pereira Lima, Paula Nicole Vieira Pinto, Eduardo Bruno Lobato Martins, Rubens Chojniak

397-402
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Short-term effects of positive expiratory airway pressure in patients being weaned from mechanical ventilation

Marcelo de Mello Rieder, Alexandre Doval da Costa, Silvia Regina Rios Vieira

403-408
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Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI): clinical, laboratory and genetic characterization of five Brazilian patients

Maria Helena Vaisbich, Juliana Carneiro, Wolfanga Bóson, Bruna Resende, Luiz De Marco, Rachel S Honjo, Chong Ae Kim, Vera H Koch

409-414
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Short-term treatment with metformin improves the cardiovascular risk profile in first-degree relatives of subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus who have a metabolic syndrome and normal glucose tolerance without changes in C-reactive protein or fibrinogen

Luis Mauro Alvim de Lima, Nicolas Wiernsperger, Luiz Guilherme Kraemer-Aguiar, Eliete Bouskela

415-420
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The role of fecal calprotectin in investigating inflammatory bowel diseases

Mustafa Erbayrak, Cansel Turkay, Elife Eraslan, Hulya Cetinkaya, Benan Kasapoglu, Mehmet Bektas

421-425
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Retinoblastoma: a three-year-study at a Brazilian medical school hospital

Maria Teresa Brizzi Chizzotti Bonanomi, Maria Tereza Assis de Almeida, Lilian Maria Cristofani, Vicente Odone Filho

427-434
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Short-term red wine consumption promotes differential effects on plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, sympathetic activity, and endothelial function in hypercholesterolemic, hypertensive, and healthy subjects

Ana CM Andrade, Fernando HY Cesena, Fernanda M Consolim-Colombo, Silmara R Coimbra, Alexandre M Benjó, Eduardo M Krieger, Protasio Lemos da Luz

435-442
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Effects of different peep levels on mesenteric leukocyte-endothelial interactions in rats during mechanical ventilation

Priscila Aikawa, Sandra Helena Poliselli Farsky, Maria Aparecida de Oliveira, Rogério Pazetti, Thaís Mauad, Paulina Sannomiya, Naomi Kondo Nakagawa

443-450
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Aging is not senescence: a short computer demonstration and implications for medical practice

Thiago Oliveira Monaco, Paulo Sergio Panse Silveira

451-457
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Review

Oral complications of HIV disease

Jair C. Leao, Camila M. B. Ribeiro, Alessandra A. T. Carvalho, Cristina Frezzini, Stephen Porter

459-470
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Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and endothelial dysfunction: implications for atherogenesis

Maurício Batista Paes Landim, Antônio Casella Filho, Antônio Carlos Palandri Chagas

471-478
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Letter to the Editors

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and multiple organ dysfunction in patients with acute tumor lysis syndrome

Márcio Soares, Guilherme A. Feres, Jorge I. F. Salluh

479-481
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Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: mini-review

Juliano Sacramento Mundim, Sabrina de Castro Lorena, Rosilene Motta Elias, João Egídio Romão Júnior

482-484
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Testicular tumor presenting as scrotal gangrene

Ernesto Reggio, Odival Timm Jr, Roberto Gomes Junqueira, Marcelo José Sette, Jose Bessa Jr.

485-486
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Appropriate utilization of quality of life outcomes in prostate and bladder cancer: practical considerations for Brazilian portuguese questionnaires

Flavio L. Heldwein, Ernani L. Rhoden, Antonio Hartmann, Claudio Teloken

487-488
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