Publications by authors named "Andrea Fernandes de Oliveira"
Introduction: Reviewing the profile of patients admitted at the Burns Intensive Care Unit at São Paulo Hospital - UNIFESP, as well as the available literature, it becomes evident the need for tools able to predict those patients' outcomes. Distinct score models are used in different health centers, not only as prognostic models, but also as research and quality control tools. Amongst these prognostic scores, there are two strands, the burns specific scores - which consider the injury's characteristics - and the general critical patient's scores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To conduct a scope review of the experimental model described by Walker and Mason, by identifying and analyzing the details of the method.
Methods: The authors searched Pubmed-Medline, Cochrane-Bireme and PEDro databases for articles published between January 2016 and December 2018, using the following search queries: burns, burn injuries, models animal, and animal experimentation. All articles whose authors used Walker and Mason's model - with or without changes to the method in Wistar rats - were included in this study.
Purpose: A major fire occurred on January 27, 2013, at 02:30 at Kiss nightclub in the city of Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, in Southern Brazil. In this retrospective report, we aimed to describe the nightclub fire event, its immediate consequences, and evaluated its impact on legislation. Our objective was to disseminate the lessons we learned from this large-scale nightclub fire disaster.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To propose an experimental burn model in NIH-3T3 cell line.
Methods: Induction of thermal injury in cultures of mouse fibroblast - NIH-3T3- cell line and determination of cell viability by MTT and immunofluorescence.
Results: The heating of the Petri dish increased proportionally to the temperature of the base and the time of exposure to microwave.
Purpose: To simulate a lymph node metastasis in an animal model using activated carbon, assess their identification in frozen section analysis and compare with histopathological examination in paraffin.
Methods: Thirty two adult female rats were used. They received the carbon injection on its hind legs.
Purpose: To qualify the FT-Raman spectral data of primary and metastatic cutaneous melanoma in order to obtain a differential diagnosis.
Methods: Ten normal human skin samples without any clinical or histopathological alterations, ten cutaneous melanoma fragments, and nine lymph node metastasis samples were used; 105, 140 and 126 spectra were obtained respectively. Each sample was divided into 2 or 3 fragments of approximately 2 mm³ and positioned in the Raman spectrometer sample holder in order to obtain the spectra; a monochrome laser light Nd:YAG at 1064 nm was used to excite the inelastic effect.
Purpose: To assess the importance of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with cutaneous melanoma.
Methods: Ninety consecutive non-randomized patients with stages I and II melanoma who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy were followed up prospectively for six years.
Results: Patients were followed up for a mean period of 30 months.
Purpose: Establish an experimental model of metastatic melanoma primary culture cells from fine-needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB).
Methods: Two metastatic melanoma primary culture cells from (FNAB) have been developed from patients who had been submitted to excision of metastatic lesions and they were identified by immunohistochemical analyses using S-100 and MB-45 melanoma markers.
Results: The culture diagnostic was confirmed by immunohistochemical.