Publications by authors named "Elaine Favaro Pipi Sabino"
Effectiveness of a resistance exercise program for lower limbs in chronic renal patients on hemodialysis: A randomized controlled trial.
Hemodial Int
March 2021
Article Synopsis
- The study examined how an intradialytic resistance exercise program affects chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients undergoing hemodialysis, with a focus on improving physical activity levels.
- One hundred seven sedentary patients participated, divided into a stretching group and a resistance exercise group, over an 8-week period with assessments before and after the program.
- The findings indicated that the resistance exercise group had significant improvements in lower limb muscle strength, the distance walked in a 6-minute test, and reductions in creatinine and calcium levels, suggesting that resistance training can enhance functional capacity and overall health in CKD patients.
Background: Immunoprophylaxis with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is still the most effective intervention in the prevention of leprosy among household contacts (HHCs) of leprosy patients.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study using data of 5.061 HHCs for a period of 16 years (follow-up of 7 years per leprosy HHCs), evaluating the occurrence of disease as the main outcome and the presence or absence of BCG scars verified at the first evaluation.
Background: Household contacts constitute the highest risk group for leprosy development, and despite significant progress in the disease control, early diagnosis remains the primary goals for leprosy management programs.
Methods: We have recruited 175 seropositive and 35 seronegative household contacts from 2014 to 2016, who were subjected to an extensive protocol that included clinical, molecular (peripheral blood qPCR, slit-skin smear qPCR, skin biopsy qPCR) and electroneuromyographic evaluations.
Results/principal Findings: The positivity of peripheral blood qPCR of seropositive contacts was 40.
Background: Leprosy neuropathy is considered the most common peripheral neuropathy of infectious etiology worldwide, representing a public health problem. Clinical diagnosis of primary neural leprosy (PNL) is challenging, since no skin lesions are found and the slit skin smear bacilloscopy is negative. However, there are still controversial concepts regarding the primary-neural versus pure-neural leprosy definition, which will be explored by using multiple clinical-laboratory analyses in this study.
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