The missing piece. The perceived marginalization of CSOs and HRGs in SOSTs' decision-making processes: a review.

This review represents the first contribution of a research diptych which stems from the activities implemented in the framework of the H2020 ARESIBO project (Augmented Reality Enriched Situation awareness for Border security). The general objective of ARESIBO is to improve the efficiency of border surveillance systems by providing the operational teams, as well as the tactical command and control level with accurate and comprehensive information related to border control considering different issues and perspectives. These perspectives also include the analysis of the level of engagement and the (possible) enhancement of citizens' involvement in the development and decision making related to border surveillance.

Towards the engagement of citizens in SOSTs decision-making: participatory models setting a common ground for border surveillance and respect of fundamental rights. Findings from ARESIBO H2020 project.

ARESIBO is an H2020 project aiming to improve the efficiency of border surveillance systems by providing the operational teams, as well as the tactical command and control level with accurate and comprehensive information related to border control by different perspectives. Human Rights Groups' (HRGs) and Civil Society Organisations' (CSOs) involvement and participation in decision making related Surveillance-Oriented Security Technologies (SOSTs) for border surveillance is considered as a key-factor to ensure the coexistence of two only apparently opposite needs: security and respect of fundamental rights (i.e.

Single-Stage Augmentation Mastopexy With Composite Reverse Inferior Muscle Sling Technique for Autologous Reinforcement of the Inferior Pole: Technical Refinements and Outcomes.

Background: Single-stage augmentation mastopexy (SAM) is a common procedure, but revision rates are high. Muscle slings have been used in SAM, but despite satisfactory outcomes, most studies do not include objective or accurate measurements of implant/breast position. This article describes a surgical technique for SAM employing a composite reverse inferior muscle sling (CRIMS).

TIME TRENDS OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI PREVALENCE IN ITAJAÍ - SC: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 25 YEARS BASED ON ENDOSCOPIC DATABASE.

Background: The bacterium Helicobacter pylori is strongly associated with the development of gastric adenocarcinoma. Currently, the prevalence in developed countries is 40%, but this value increases considerably in developing countries, which can reach rates bigger than 90%.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the mean and annual prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in patients from Itajaí during the period from July 1992 to April 2016, as well as the gender and age groups most affected.

Influence of advanced age on postoperative outcomes and total loss following breast reconstruction: a critical assessment of 560 cases.

Objective: to evaluate the role of age in the risk of postoperative complications in patients submitted to unilateral breast reconstruction after mastectomy, with emphasis on total reconstruction loss.

Methods: we conducted a retrospective study of patients submitted to breast reconstruction, whose variables included: oncological and reconstruction data, postoperative complications, including loss of reconstruction and complications of surgical wound. We divided the patients into two groups, according to the classification of the Brazilian National Elderly Policy and the Statute of the Elderly: young (age <60 years) and elderly (60 years or more).

Effects of 940 nm light-emitting diode (led) on sciatic nerve regeneration in rats.

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of 940 nm wavelength light emitting diode (LED) phototherapy on nerve regeneration in rats. Forty male Wistar rats weighing approximately 300 g each were divided into four groups: control (C); control submitted to LED phototherapy (CLed); Sciatic Nerve Lesion without LED phototherapy (L); Sciatic Nerve Lesion with LED phototherapy (LLed). The lesion was caused by crushing the right sciatic nerve.

Chronic variable stress impairs energy metabolism in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of rats: prevention by chronic antioxidant treatment.

Since chronic stress has been used widely for studying clinical depression and that brain energy metabolism and oxidative stress might be involved in the pathophysiology of this illness, the objective of this study was investigate the activities of pyruvate kinase, complex II and IV (cytocrome c oxidase) in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of rats submitted to chronic variable stress. We also evaluated if vitamins E and C administration could prevent such effects. During 40 days adult rats from the stressed group were subjected to one stressor per day, at a different time each day, in order to minimize predictability.

Multislice CT in emergency room management of patients with chest pain and medium-low probability of acute coronary syndrome.

Purpose: The main cause of acute chest pain, which accounts for 6.5% of urgent medical examinations in emergency rooms in Italy, is acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We performed this prospective study to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a 16-channel computed tomography (CT) scanner with dedicated software in a group of patients with chest pain and medium to low risk of ACS.

Left main coronary artery disease. Clinical and angiographic features. A retrospective study regarding two groups of patients with left main coronary artery disease and three-vessel disease.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the ability of clinical and instrumental features to identify patients with left main coronary artery disease (LMCD) compared with a three-vessel coronary artery disease group.

Methods: A cohort of 70 patients with LMCD was matched with another one of 66 patients with three-vessel disease. A history of angina before angiography was similar in both groups; the higher degrees of stable angina and the forms of unstable angina were moderately prevalent in the group with LMCD.

[Bacterial endocarditis in pregnancy. Report of a clinical case diagnosed postpartum].

Bacterial endocarditis in pregnancy shows a low incidence; it is often associated with a prior history of rheumatic or congenital heart disease. In the large part of reports the illness tends to run a subacute course and to recognize a major frequency in the third trimester of pregnancy. We presented the case of a 29 year-old woman with mitral and aortic bacterial endocarditis.

[Prognostic significance of thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients with previous myocardial infarct].

With the purpose of ascertaining the predictive value of residual myocardial ischemia, in stable clinical conditions at a distance after myocardial infarction, on the incidence of late cardiac events, we evaluated 55 patients 24.2 +/- 11.4 months after myocardial infarction with thallium-201 stress test imaging.

Doppler study of precordial musical murmurs.

Using phonocardiography, continuous- and pulsed-wave Doppler, 51 patients with precordial "musical" murmurs (49 with cardiac abnormalities) and 21 patients with noisy murmurs were examined. With M-mode echocardiography, fine fluttering of the structure generating the murmur was evident in 23 patients with musical murmurs and in 5 with noisy murmurs. A continuous-wave Doppler spectral signal characterized by parallel harmonics (Doppler musical signal) was evident in all patients with musical murmurs and in none with a noisy murmur.

[Echo-Doppler study of musical heart murmurs].

The origin of systolic or diastolic musical murmurs was investigated by means of echo-doppler examination in 51 patients with various cardiac diseases. In all cases a typical doppler spectrum was identified, showing bi-directional clusters of frequencies which were concentric in systole and parallel in diastole. The doppler audio signal was musical.

[Doppler echocardiography in assessing mechanical and biological heart valve prostheses].

The study was performed to assess Doppler echocardiographic features of mitral and aortic prosthetic valves of different types with both normal and abnormal function. Two hundred and twenty-three patients with 250 prostheses were studied. Two hundred eight valves (111 mitral, 95 aortic and 2 tricuspid) were considered to be functioning normally after clinical examination, phonocardiography and M-mode and 2D echocardiography.

[Experience with intravenous amiodarone in hyperkinetic supraventricular arrhythmias].

The Authors tested the effectiveness of amiodarone hydrochloride i.v. in 50 cases of supraventricular hyperkinetic arrhythmias recently aroused.

[The carotidogram in the diagnosis of the juxtavalvular fibrotic aortic stenosis. Report of 47 cases (author's transl)].

The morphological aspect of the carotid pulse has been under study in 47 cases of juxtavalvular aortic stenosis previously confirmed through hemodynamic and surgical examinations. The study included 39 cases of subvalvular fibrous stenosis (subaortic fibrous stenosis) (SAsV) and 8 cases of supravalvular annular aortic stenosis (S AsV). In 75% of both SAsV and SAsV cases the carotid pulse showed a rapid ascent and a finely notched apex, while in 25% of the cases it followed the pattern of a typical valvular stenosis.

[Cooperia curticei Giles, 1892 (nematoda: trichostrongylidae) parasite of goats (capra hircus) in the State of São Paulo, Brazil (author's transl)].

Cooperia curticei Giles, 1892 (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) is reported, for the first time, parasitizing the small intestine of goats (Capra hircus) in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The animals came from the Region of the Alta Araraquarense. The spicules of the worms were well chitinized and measured, on the average, 153,68 micrometer with a standard error of 0,91 micrometer.

[Species of cooperia ranson, 1907, (nematoda: trichostrongylidae), parasite of bovines in the State of São Paulo, Brasil (author's transl)].

The authors verified for the first time in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, the presence of Cooperia curticei Giles, 1892 (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae), parasitizing the small intestine of cattle at the Region of Alta Araraquarense.

[Considerations on the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (author's transl)].

Several physiopathological, diagnostic and therapeutic considerations have arisen from the observation of an operated case of hypertrophic subaortic stenosis associated with mitralic insufficiency and fibrosis of the interventricular septum. Keeping in mind the variability of the clinical pictures and the functional and anatomical factors which determine the clinical picture of the hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, it is concluded that a careful, unbiassed, clinical approach is necessary to determine the therapeutic procedure in each individual case.

[Systolic time intervals in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The effects of adrenergic beta-stimulation and beta-blockade in 38 cases (author's transl)].

The authors report on the behaviour of systolic time intervals, studied with a noninvasive poligraphic technique, under normal conditions, after adrenergic beta stimuls (orciprenaline) and successive beta blocker (pindolole) in 38 patients with obstructive cardiomyopathy. Under normal conditions, the authors observed a marked dispersion of PEP and TEVS data, which have, however, average normal values. The IPEP was reduced in 29% of cases, was normal in 47.