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The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between personality, stress and cervical dysplasia. Twenty women with cervical dysplasia were compared to a control group of 23 healthy women. An evaluation of their personality was made by the 16 PF questionnaire; stressing events were investigated with the Paykel scale; hormonal repercussions were studied by using serum and urinary cortisol titers. Significant differences were found in intellectual capability and fancifulness, as well as in cortisol levels. Considering the significant issues that have emerged, we feel that this research is worthy of further investigation and that new evaluation parameters are necessary.
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Personalidade/fisiologia , Estresse Psicológico/fisiopatologia , Displasia do Colo do Útero/etiologia , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/etiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Hidrocortisona/sangue , Determinação da Personalidade , Fatores de Risco , Displasia do Colo do Útero/sangue , Neoplasias do Colo do Útero/sangueRESUMO
The pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) can be caused by various germs. Of the two thousand seven hundred thirty one women screened for different microbiological agents in the genitourinary tract and for PID, three hundred sixty nine patients were Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) positive; one hundred and three patients were affected by PID. Seventy out of them were resulted to be Ct positive. One hundred twenty two women were Ct positive but not affected by PID. The antibiotic treatment resulted to be less effective in women Ct positive but affected by PID. Results of the present study demonstrate that Ct is the primary cause of PID.
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Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Infecções por Chlamydia/epidemiologia , Chlamydia trachomatis/isolamento & purificação , Josamicina/uso terapêutico , Doença Inflamatória Pélvica/tratamento farmacológico , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Infecções por Chlamydia/microbiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Incidência , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Doença Inflamatória Pélvica/microbiologia , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
In 34 patients treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), central nervous system (CNS) damage was assessed by clinical evaluation and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Twenty-seven of them had been off therapy from 5 to 109 months (median 64 months) while 7 had not completed the maintenance phase of their treatment. All the patients were disease-free when evaluated. None of the 3 patients who showed clinical CNS damage during the follow-up was symptomatic when submitted to MRI, while periventricular hyperintensity in T2-weighted images, suggestive of leukoencephalopathy, was present in 8 of the 34 patients. These subclinical abnormalities appear to be more frequent, transient in nature and treatment-related in patients evaluated shortly after the induction phase. Similar MRI findings seem, on the contrary, to be consequences of the disease on the CNS when appearing in long-term survivors.