Publications by authors named "Felipe Theodoro Bezerra Gaspar Carvalho da Silva"
: To assess health-related (HR-) and vision-related (VR-) quality of life (QoL) in patients with long-standing Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKHD).: Cross-sectional study of 49 patients with disease duration ≥12 months followed at Uveitis Service, Universidade de São Paulo, BR, for at least 12 months. HR- and VR-QoL were evaluated using SF-36 and NEI VFQ-25 questionnaires, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To describe the ophthalmological characteristics in a group of Noonan syndrome patients with proven mutations in the PTPN11 gene.
Methods: Thirty-five Noonan syndrome patients with PTPN11 gene mutations underwent ophthalmological exams, which consisted of external inspection, slit-lamp biomicroscopy examination and an ophthalmoscopic examination after instillation of 1.0% tropicamide or 1.
Purpose: To assess the efficacy and side effects of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with Behçet's disease uveitis.
Methods: A nonrandomized retrospective case-series study analyzed data from 22 patients with Behçet's disease uveitis, from a single Uveitis Service, São Paulo, Brazil (period 1978-2007), under systemic chlorambucil and/or cyclosporine A, for at least 6 months with a minimum one-year follow-up. Drug efficacy was measured by reduction in relapse rate and reduction of prednisone dose.
Purpose: To evalulate the applicability of the Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease to Brazilian patients and to verify the association between different disease categories, clinical parameters, and the presence of HLA-DRB1*0405.
Design: A retrospective observational case series.
Methods: Medical charts of 67 patients (10 to 64 years in age; 12 men and 55 women), from the Uveitis Service, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo School of Medicine (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil were reviewed.
Background: Ocular toxocariasis is usually a unilateral posterior uveitis in otherwise asymptomatic children. The authors report the rare occurrence of presumed ocular toxocariasis presenting as a juxtapapillary lesion in a 52-year-old woman with systemic manifestations of visceral larva migrans.
Case Report: A 52-year-old woman presented with blurred vision in her right eye for 2 months.
Objective: To assess the association between cardiovascular risk factors and acute myocardial infarction as the first manifestation of ischemic heart disease, correlating them with coronary angiographic findings.
Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study of 104 patients with previous acute myocardial infarction, who were divided into 2 groups according to the presence or absence of angina prior to acute myocardial infarction. We assessed the presence of angina preceding acute myocardial infarction and risk factors, such as age >55 years, male sex, smoking, systemic arterial hypertension, lipid profile, diabetes mellitus, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and familial history of ischemic heart disease.