Periodontal conditions in juvenile idiopatic arthritis.

Background: The possible relationship between periodontitis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is now mostly unknown but there are common characteristics in these two diseases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate etanercept (Enbrel®) effects on periodontal conditions of children affected by JIA.

Methods: For this study three group of patients were selected.

Atypical swallowing: a review.

Aim: Atypical swallowing is a myofunctional problem consisting of an altered tongue position during the act of swallowing. High incidence in population, multifactorial etiology and the recurring connection with the presence of malocclusions made it a topic of strong interest and discussion in science. The purpose of this review is to illustrate the current orientation on the topic of atypical swallowing, trying in particular to answer two questions: 1) what kind of connection is there between atypical swallowing and malocclusion; 2) what kind of therapy should be used to solve it.

[Analysis of the bariatric surgery impact in a population from the center area of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, using the BAROS method].

Context: Due to metabolic alterations caused by overweight, the bariatric surgery has been a largely used procedure in order to propitiate long term weight loss and maintenance in a population with morbid obesity.

Objective: To analyze the impact of bariatric surgery in a population from the center area of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, using the BAROS method.

Method: It was carried out a retrospective study with 32 patients from both sexes, aging between 19 and 44 years old who were patients from a private clinic at the city of Santa Maria, RS.

[Di George's syndrome with neutropenia in an adult patient].

The clinical data of a thirty-nine old inpatient woman are reported, whose main complaints were non-operable vulvo-vaginal condylomata, recurrent bacterial infections, complicated chickenpox and prominent lymphopenia. The peculiar facies get us to suggest the diagnosis of a case of the Di George syndrome in an adult patient. Was probably the associated neutropenia congenital and combined with immunodeficiency syndrome?

[A case of resistant sideropenic anemia. Adult celiac disease].

We report a case of a woman affected by sideropenic anaemia (SA) for about thirty years and never restored with a therapy with iron per os. At the age of 60 years a malabsorption syndrome appears and an adult celiac disease was diagnosed (ACD). The SA was therefore and since the beginning the only symptom of the malabsorption.