Publications by authors named "I S Salles"

Unlabelled: Education in basic life support is widely proposed to increase survival in out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest. The authors aimed to assess knowledge, skills, and attitudes, including willingness to help, regarding myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac arrest among university students of all fields of knowledge.

Methods: An Ethical Research Committee approved this cross-sectional study.

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Seed water imbibition is critical to seedling establishment in tropical forests. The seeds of the neotropical tree Hymenaea courbaril have no oil reserves and have been used as a model to study storage cell wall polysaccharide (xyloglucan - XyG) mobilization. We studied pathways of water imbibition in Hymenaea seeds.

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  • Sarcopenia refers to the loss of muscle mass and strength, while frailty indicates increased vulnerability in elderly individuals, but their interrelationship isn't well understood in surgical contexts.
  • An observational study was conducted on 125 elderly patients undergoing non-emergency surgery to assess frailty (using a modified index) and sarcopenia (through muscle thickness, handgrip strength, and gait speed), along with tracking postoperative complications for a year.
  • Results showed 12% of participants were frail and 14% had sarcopenia; frailty was linked to advanced age, polypharmacy, multimorbidity, and poorer surgical outcomes, including increased hospital stays and complications.
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by gene mutations, and its molecular diagnosis is widely used in clinical practice to confirm the hormonal diagnosis. Hence, considering the miscegenation of the Brazilian population, it is important to determine a mutations panel to optimise the molecular diagnosis. The objective was to review the mutations' distribution among Brazilian regions.

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Tuberculosis (TB) causes 1 in 3 deaths among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Diagnosing and treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is critical to reducing TB incidence and mortality. Blood-based screening tests (e.

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