4 results match your criteria: "Surgery Department of the Medical School[Affiliation]"
Prospective cohort of parameters of glycemic and lipid metabolism after abdominoplasty in normal weight and formerly obese patiens.
JPRAS Open
September 2023
Surgery Department and Coordinator of the Sciences Applied to Surgery and Ophtalmology graduate program of the Medical School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Background: Obesity poses a major risk for cardiovascular diseases, while it is almost a consensus that intra-abdominal adiposity has a more deleterious effect for metabolic syndrome. In this sense, it is speculated that lipectomy or liposuction would be metabolically harmful, as it changes the abdominal-superficial adipose tissue ratio. However, the literature has shown conflicting evidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLymphatic Drainage of Legs Reduces Edema of the Arms in Children with Lymphedema.
Case Rep Pediatr
February 2018
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Department of the Medical School in São Jose do Rio Preto (FAMERP) and CNPq (National Council for Research and Development), Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.
Objective: The aim of the present study is to report on the reduction of edema of lymphedematous arms just by treating the lower limbs.
Methods: A 16-year-old girl reported that she has started having right lower limb edema at the age of three. At age 13, she performed a lymphoscintigraphy that confirmed the diagnosis of primary lymphedema of the four limbs.
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor as cause of hepatic mass.
Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr
August 2016
Surgery Department of the Medical School, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile ;
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the treatment of stenosis of arteriovenous fistulae for hemodialysis.
Int Arch Med
September 2008
Livre Docente of the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Department of the Medical School in São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), Professor of the Graduation and post graduation courses of FAMERP and CNPq researcher, Brazil.
Background: Thrombosis following stenosis of arteriovenous fistulae resulting in the loss of vascular access for hemodialysis is an important complication in patients with chronic renal failure. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty is being used more frequently in the treatment of stenosis aiming at increasing the patency of arteriovenous fistulae.
Objective: To evaluate the primary patency of arteriovenous fistulae following percutaneous transluminal angioplasty.