Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation and the impact of postoperative complications on hospitalization cost.

Objective: considering simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation cases, to evaluate the financial impact of postoperative complications on hospitalization cost.

Methods: a retrospective study of hospitalization data from patients consecutively submitted to simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT), from January 2008 to December 2014, at Kidney Hospital/Oswaldo Ramos Foundation (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The main studied variables were reoperation, graft pancreatectomy, death, postoperative complications (surgical, infectious, clinical, and immunological ones), and hospitalization financial data for transplantation.

Check-up and cardiovascular risk progression: is there a room for innovation?

Objective: To evaluate the impact of traditional check-up appointment on the progression of the cardiovascular risk throughout time.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 11,126 medical records of asymptomatic executives who were evaluated between January, 2005 and October, 2008. Variables included participants' demographics characteristics, smoking habit, history of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dyslipidemia, total cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, glucose, c-reactive protein, waist circumference, hepatic steatosis, Framingham score, metabolic syndrome, level of physical activity, stress, alcohol consumption, and body mass index.

Financial cost of the admissions for simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant in a Brazilian hospital.

Purpose: To perform a cost analysis of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPKT) in a Brazilian hospital.

Methods: Between January 2008 and December 2011, 105 consecutive SPKTs at the Hospital of Kidney and Hypertension in Sao Paulo were evaluated. We evaluated the patient demographics, payment source (public health system or supplementary system), and the impact of each hospital cost component.

Breath hydrogen test in the diagnosis of environmental enteropathy in children living in an urban slum.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the breath hydrogen test in the diagnosis of small intestine bacterial overgrowth associated with asymptomatic environmental enteropathy in children living in an urban slum. Fifty school-age children living in a slum and 50 children who attended a private health clinic in the same town were included in the study. Breath hydrogen test was carried out after the administration of lactulose or glucose on two different days.

[Nutritional status and body composition of two South American native populations -- Alto Xingu and Ikpeng].

Objectives: To assess the nutritional and body composition of two Brazilian indigenous populations by comparing their nutritional status.

Methods: 95 children from Alto Xingu and 69 from Ikpeng were evaluated, ages ranged from 24 to 117 months. The study was performed in the Xingu Indigenous Park.

[Evaluation of the nutritional status of Indian children from Alto Xingu, Brazil].

Objective: To evaluate the nutritional status and estimate body composition of Indian children from Xingu Indigenous Park (XIP), rain forest Amazon region, by using anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance (BI) tests.

Methods: One hundred and sixty-four Indian children (89 girls and 75 boys) of unknown age were evaluated by means of anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance. Weight and height were used to calculate z-score for weight-for-height (W/H) index.