Comparative Analysis of Conventional and Speckle Tracking Echocardiographic Variables between Patients with Unrejected Heart Transplants and Healthy Individuals.

Background: Echocardiography is essential for the assessment of patients with heart transplants. However, normal values in such individuals are not clearly defined.

Objectives: To compare conventional echocardiographic and speckle tracking variables between patients with unrejected heart transplants and healthy individuals.

Acute Cellular Rejection in Heart Transplant Patients: Insights of Global Longitudinal Strain, Myocardial Work, and an Exclusive Group of Chagas Disease.

Background: Echocardiographic markers associated with asymptomatic acute cellular rejection (ACR) in patients with orthotopic heart transplant (HT) are still under investigation. The aim of our study was to determine clinical and myocardial strain imaging (MSI) variables evaluated by echocardiography associated with ACR in the first year of HT. A separate analysis was performed to compare variables during the first 6 months of HT, when ACR has a prevalence in 60% of patients.

Uterine cavity calcifications: a report of 7 cases and a systematic literature review.

We report 7 uterine cavity calcification cases and systematically review the literature on cases presenting this finding. In our series of cases, the mean age of patients was 31.6 ± 5.

Antimicrobial resistance of uropathogens in women with acute uncomplicated cystitis from primary care settings.

We assessed the antimicrobial resistance patterns of all urine samples submitted for culture from outpatient women aged ≥14 years with diagnosis of uncomplicated cystitis over a 24-month period (2007-2009) in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. Only bacterial growth of a single uropathogen with ≥10(5) CFU/mL was considered for analysis. The Pearson's chi-square test was used for bivariate correlations.

Cervical cancer screening program of Paraná: cost-effective model in a developing country.

The purpose of this study is to report the organization of a cost-effective screening program for cervical cancer in a developing country such as Brazil. The Cervical Cancer Screening Program of Paraná (CCSPP) was launched in October 1997 and was the result of a joint collaboration between the government of Paraná (Secretary of Health of the State of Paraná), scientific societies (pathologists, gynecologists, and nurses), and a non governmental organization called the Women's Popular Forum of Paraná. The main goal of the program was to enhance the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening to coverage up to 85% of female adult population with a 3-yr interval between examinations, as well as to reduce the incidence and mortality from cervical cancer in the state of Paraná, a Southern state of Brazil.