Improving Preventive Healthcare with an User-centric Mobile Tele-monitoring Model.

Chronic diseases are an important field to tackle due to increasing healthcare risk factors, including population nutritional habits, lack of physical exercise, and population aging. Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity currently affect millions of people, and this statistic grows every year and is responsible for numerous deaths everyday. Many of those deaths could be delayed by following a steady monitoring strategy over such a population, which would prevent vital signs from reaching critical stages and providing knowledge for these patients about their health. This paper introduces Mobilicare, a mobile health promotion system designed to: (i) monitor remotely a patient's vital signs in real time; (ii) support a health service in a Healthcare Center; and (iii) allow self-awareness of the disease and improve motivation. Our approach was applied to two distinct chronic patient management programs. The results showed the commitment of elder patients and the contribution of Mobilicare to the maintenance of a patient's health stability.

Agenesia das vesículas seminais / Seminal vesicles agenesis

A agenesia das vesículas seminais é uma patologia pouco freqüente, podendo ser causa de infertilidade masculina. Os autores relatam um caso de infertilidade masculina em que o paciente apresentava baixo volume de ejaculado e azoospermia. O diagnóstico de agenesia bilateral das vesículas seminais foi feito pelo ultra-som transrretal, que se apresenta como um excelente método para avaliaçäo anatômica dessas estruturas. Portanto, diante de um caso de infertilidade masculina, deve-se ter em mente esta hipótese diagnóstica, especialmente quando acompanhado de hipospermia. Neste caso, o uso do ultra-som transrretal poupa o paciente de procedimentos diagnósticos mais agressivos