Using bioelectrical impedance analysis to compare the treatment of edema with the Unna's boot and noncompression in individuals with venous ulcers.

Venous insufficiency is related to aging. Edema, pathological evolution of venous insufficiency, favors the appearance of venous ulcers as the main complication. Leg ulcers can be treated with compression, the Unna's boot being one of them, and noncompression therapies (conventional dressing).

Compression therapy: Unna boot applied to venous injuries: an integrative review of the literature.

Objective: To analyze the literature related to the types of therapies for venous injuries with emphasis on use of the Unna boot, and to investigate and discuss the main aspects related to its use compared to other techniques.

Method: Integrative review of the literature of the last five years through searches in the following databases: VHL, LILACS, BDENF, SciELO, MEDLINE/PubMed.

Results: Twenty-two publications were identified, with 15,931 cases among adult or elderly individuals, whose mean age was 60 (35-78) years or greater with no sex differences.

Opportunistic infections among individuals with HIV-1/AIDS in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era at a Quaternary Level Care Teaching Hospital.

Introduction: In this study, clinical-laboratory and epidemiological characteristics are described for a group of 700 individuals with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)/AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in the ART (antiretroviral therapy) era at a teaching hospital that provides a quaternary level of care, with an emphasis on opportunistic infections (OIs), co-infections and immune profile.

Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study of AIDS cases was conducted from 1998 to 2008 by reviewing medical records from the Base Hospital/FUNFARME (Fundação Faculdade Regional de Medicina), São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

Results: The individuals were 14 to 75 years of age, and 458 were males.

Enteric parasites in HIV-1/AIDS-infected patients from a Northwestern São Paulo reference unit in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era.

Introduction: We describe the epidemiology of intestinal parasites in patients from an AIDS reference service in Northeastern São Paulo, Brazil.

Methods: Retrospective evaluation was done for all HIV-1/AIDS-positive patients whose Hospital de Base/São José do Rio Preto laboratorial analysis was positive for enteroparasites after diagnosis of HIV-1 infection, from January 1998 to December 2008. Statistical analysis was performed using the R statistical software version 2.

Bacterial, yeast, parasitic, and viral enteropathogens in HIV-infected children from São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil.

We present here the frequency of enteropathogens in an HIV-infected children group and investigate their correlation with clinical and sociodemographic characteristics by collecting 100 stool samples from 55 HIV-seropositive Brazilian children. All specimens were processed according to standard methods for bacterial and yeast detection. A commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to detect protozoan, and to perform virus detection, molecular tests were applied.

Performance of an immunoenzymatic assay for Cryptosporidium diagnosis of fecal samples.

We evaluated the diagnostic performance of a Cryptosporidium immunoenzymatic assay (ELISA). Fecal samples were collected from 94 HIV-seropositive patients. All specimens were processed with a commercially-available ELISA to detect C.