Neutropenic enterocolitis in children and young adults with cancer: prognostic value of clinical and image findings.

Intensive chemotherapy regimens can result in severe toxicities, particularly those that involve the digestive systems, leading to morbidity and mortality in this group of patients. Acute enterocolitis can be a frequent complication. The authors performed a retrospective review or patients treated at their institution to ascertain the prognostic value of the clinical symptoms and signs of acute enterocolitis, the corresponding abdominal ultrasonographic findings, and the impact of previous chemotherapy.

Association of concomitant fibromyalgia with worse disease activity score in 28 joints, health assessment questionnaire, and short form 36 scores in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Objective: To study the association of the presence of fibromyalgia (FM) with the Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28), the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), and the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) health survey in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: A total of 270 outpatients with RA were enrolled in a prospective cross-sectional study. The patients underwent clinical evaluation and application of the HAQ and SF-36 questionnaires.

Circuit weight training and cardiac morphology: a trial with magnetic resonance imaging.

Background: Aerobic training (AT) and circuit weight training (CWT) improve peak oxygen uptake (VO(2)peak). During CWT the circulatory system is exposed to higher pressure, which could induce left ventricle morphological adaptations, possibly distinct from those derived from aerobic training.

Objective: To compare the effects of aerobic training and CWT upon morphological and functional cardiac adaptations detected by magnetic resonance imaging.

Development of educational tools to demonstrate the effects of hyper and microgravity on different test bodies.

Educational and outreach programs in space sciences have been a major concern since the beginning of the Space Era. Education curricula in Brazil rarely consider topics related to manned and unmanned space flight. This lack in the Brazilian education system has motivated the development of educational tools, used to demonstrate the effects of hyper- and microgravity on test bodies, both gravitational environments commonly found in aerospace missions.