Publications by authors named "Dinaldo Cavalcanti Oliveira"
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- The study explores the effects of topical nifedipine on skin wound healing, focusing on the role of certain immune cells, blood vessel growth, and collagen production.
- The research used three pigs with created skin wounds, applying different concentrations of nifedipine cream and comparing them to saline-treated controls over several days.
- Results indicated that nifedipine increased immune cell activity and vascular growth while decreasing collagen formation, suggesting it could positively influence wound healing, but further research is required to validate these findings.
Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a set of clinical conditions such as insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), dyslipidemia, obesity and high abdominal circumference. Some of these clinical characteristics have been associated with caveolin-1, a caveolae structural protein, responsible for insulin activation, storage and degradation of cholesterol, and so on. Herein we assessed CAV-1 mRNA levels in MS patients comparing to healthy controls (HC) and according patients' clinical features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGalectin-3 (Gal-3) is a biomarker of fibrosis that has been associated with atrial remodeling. Acknowledging the presence of a biomarker in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) can allow for a better clinical treatment. The aim of this study was to assess the association of Gal-3 with atrial fibrosis in patients with AF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is defined by a state of hypercoagulability secondary to an autoimmune disorder. There are evidences that approximately 2.8-5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the impact of pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in the indication for uterine-artery embolization in women with fibroids, as well as the correlation between MRI and ultrasound (US) examinations for diagnosing adenomyosis.
Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study was performed through the analysis of the medical records of 263 women referred for uterine-artery embolization as treatment for fibroids after undergoing US and MRI examinations. To compare uterine volume and fibroid measurement in US and MRI, the Wilcoxon test was used; for the number of fibroids, the McNemar test was used.
Background: The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a simple, non-invasive, and inexpensive method used in the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and can identify individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease in other arteries of the body, especially the coronary and carotid arteries. The primary objective of this study was to assess whether patients with an ABI < 0.9 have more severe coronary artery disease detected on coronary angiography compared to patients with a normal ABI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is no consensus regarding the impact of stenting on long-term endothelial function. There have been reports of increased endothelial dysfunction with sirolimus-eluting stents as compared to bare metal stenting (BMS).
Objective: This study aims to assess the impact of BMS and the effect of oral sirolimus on endothelial function.
Objectives: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous thrombus fragmentation (PTF) for massive pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with contraindications to the administration of thrombolytics.
Methods: Between July 1999 and August 2005, 10 patients (7 males, 3 females, age 57+/-18 years) with massive PE and contraindications to the administration of thrombolytics underwent PTF. A transthoracic doppler echocardiogram was used to evaluate arterial oxygen saturation (Sat O2), the Walsh index (WI), mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), mean systemic blood pressure (SBP) and right ventricular function (RVF) before and after the procedure.
Noncompaction of the myocardium (NCM) is a rare congenital heart defect. It was first described 15 years ago, and few cases are published. The purpose of this study is to describe a NCM case.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate CAD prevalence in patients with aortic aneurysm, as well as differences related to aneurysm topographies. To describe the primary risk factors for CAD related to this association and their occasional differences according to AA topographies.
Methods: This was an open, prospective, nonrandomized study that evaluated 95 patients (66 men and 33 women, mean age 63 +/- 11.