Knowledge about human papillomavirus transmission and prevention among physicians in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

Objective: This study aimed to assess physicians' knowledge about human papillomavirus infection and its prevention.

Methods: Descriptive web-based survey with 15 objective questions targeted to physicians affiliated with the Regional Council of Medicine from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Participants were invited by e-mail and the Council social networks, between January and December 2019.

Evaluation of sensitivity profiles to fosfomycin in bacterial urine samples from outpatients.

Objective: To evaluate and compare the susceptibilities of bacteria found in outpatient cultures to fosfomycin and other main antibiotics commonly available in clinical practice.

Study Design: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using 2,673 positive urine cultures collected between 2014 and 2017 at private laboratories located in the cities of Niterói and São Gonçalo. Susceptibilities to fosfomycin and other antibiotics were tested using the McNemar test with the level of significance set at 5 %.

Predictors for de novo stress urinary incontinence following pelvic reconstructive surgery with mesh.

Objective: The aims of this study are to describe the postoperative incidence of de novo stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women who underwent anterior vaginal compartment prolapse repair using synthetic polypropylene mesh and to identify risk factors for this outcome.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study of 146 women who underwent anterior vaginal repair from 2007 to 2017 and followed by a minimum period of 12 months was performed. The incidence of de novo SUI was evaluated at 3 and 12 months of follow-up.

Urinary tract infection and indwelling urinary catheters: prospective study in gynecological surgery with antibiotic prophylaxis.

Context And Objectives: Urinary tract infections are the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections, and the use of indwelling urinary catheters is a predisposing factor for their development. The aims of this study were to estimate the frequency of pre and postoperative bacteriuria, identify the microorganisms involved, count the colony-forming units, determine the antibiotic sensitivity profile and compare the results from pre and postoperative urinalyses among women undergoing gynecological surgery with implantation of a urinary catheter.

Design And Setting: Non-controlled prospective observational single-cohort epidemiological study carried out at a university hospital.

[Effect of the type of urinary incontinence on the quality of life of patients in the public healthcare system in Southeastern Brazil].

Purpose: To identify the impact of urinary incontinence (UI) on quality of life (QoL), to compare the scores of QoL domains in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), overactive bladder (OAB) and mixed incontinence (MUI) and to establish the association between the clinical type of UI and the impact on QoL.

Methods: Data of 181 incontinent women attended at a public hospital were collected regarding age, body mass index (BMI) and co-morbidities. King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ) was applied and patients were classified into two groups according to the self-assessment of incontinence impact.

Influence on prognosis and prevalence of stress hyperglycemia in a cohort of patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Objective: To demonstrate the prevalence of stress hyperglycemia in a cohort of patients with acute coronary syndrome and to determine the correlation of stress hyperglycemia with death, heart failure and/or left ventricular systolic dysfunction during the intrahospital phase.

Methods: A prospective initial cohort study of hospitalized patients with acute coronary syndrome with or without ST segment elevation. The groups were compared to demonstrate the correlation between stress hyperglycemia and cardiovascular events.

Childbearing in adolescence: intergenerational dejà-vu? Evidence from a Brazilian birth cohort.

Background: Pregnancy in adolescence tends to repeat over generations. This event has been little studied in middle and low-income societies undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition. To assess this association it is important to adjust for socioeconomic conditions at different points in lifetime.

AGT*M235T polymorphism in acute ischemic cardiac dysfunction: the gisca project.

Background: AGT*M235T polymorphism has been associated with high serum angiotensinogen (AGT) levels, systemic hypertension and cardiac dysfunction (CD).

Objective: To test the hypothesis of AGT*M235T polymorphism being associated with the risk of developing cardiac dysfunction (heart failure or asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction) after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) during hospitalization.

Methods: A total of 363 patients (mean age of 62 ± 12 years), of whom 233 (64%) were men and 130 (36%) were women, all from the same cohort and hospitalized for ACS, were studied.

[Cardiometabolic abnormalities in patients with Berardinelli-Seip syndrome].

Background: Berardinelli-Seip syndrome (BSS) or Generalized Congenital Lipodystrophy often affects the cardiovascular system and also promotes metabolic abnormalities involving glycidic and lipid metabolisms.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of cardiometabolic abnormalities in patients with BSS.

Methods: Twenty-two patients from the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, diagnosed with BSS, underwent clinical evaluation, resting electrocardiogram, echodopplercardiogram, chest X-ray, 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring, exercise testing and laboratory analysis.

Severity of angiographic coronary obstruction and the apolipoprotein E polymorphism in acute coronary syndromes.

Background: There is evidence of the association between the apolipoprotein E (APOE) and coronary disease; however, there are controversies.

Objective: To evaluate the association between the number of coronary vessels with significant obstruction defined by angiography, the APOE polymorphism and clinical variables.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study with 207 patients (138 men), with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), in the city of Niteroi, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who underwent coronary angiography and genotype determination for the APOE *2*3*4 polymorphism by the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) method.

Treatment of a cohort of patients with acute myocardial infarction and ST-segment elevation.

Background: Although thrombolysis and primary CTA are well-established procedures, they are not administered in a large proportion of the patients with STEMI who arrive to the emergency rooms.

Objective: Describe initial and final the results in a cohort of STEMI patients

Methods: The study included, from hospital admission to the discharge, 158 patients diagnosed with STEMI, from a total of 351 patients with ACS admitted to hospitals in Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil, between 2004 and 2006.

Results: Of the 158 patients with STEMI, 67.

Autonomic modulation in patients with congenital generalized lipodystrophy (Berardinelli-Seip syndrome).

Aims: This study was designed to assess cardiac autonomic regulation in congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) patients using 24 h heart rate variability (HRV).

Methods And Results: A cross-sectional study was carried out to evaluate 18 patients with CGL and 19 healthy controls matched by sex and age. We measured blood pressure, plasma concentrations of glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, insulin resistance by the homeostatic model assessment (HOMA-R), left ventricular mass (LVM) (by two-dimensional echocardiography), and 24 h HRV (by the time domain indices MeanRR, SDNN, and rMSSD).

[Subaortic stenosis associated with perimembranous ventricular septal defect. Clinical follow-up of 36 patients].

Objective: To study the clinical pattern of subaortic stenosis associated with perimembranous ventricular septal defect.

Methods: From January 1979 to June 2000, 36 children with perimembranous ventricular septal defect and fixed subaortic stenosis were followed-up regarding anatomic characteristics, evolvement, and clinical events.

Results: Age at diagnosis of subaortic stenosis ranged from 6 months to 170 months, and it was less than 1 year in only 2 children.

Effects of tamoxifen on Doppler velocimetry parameters of periurethral vessels in postmenopausal women.

The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of tamoxifen on periurethral vessels by Doppler velocimetry examination. Increase in the number of these vessels as well as decrease in resistance and pulsatility indices by tamoxifen were observed.