Year 2001 - Volume 27 - Issue 3 (May/June)

Editorial

1 - Jornal de Pneumologia

Luiz Carlos Corrêa da Silva

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):5-

Original Article

2 - Reasons for the admission, length of stay and type of discharge in tuberculosis hospitals in the State of São Paulo, Brazil - 1981 to 1995

Motivos e tempo de internação e o tipo de saída em hospitais de tuberculose do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil - 1981 a 1995

Péricles Alves Nogueira

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):123-129

3 - Spirometry evolution assessment of cystic fibrosis

Avaliação evolutiva da espirometria na fibrose cística

Elenara da Fonseca Andrade, Deisi Letícia Oliveira da Fonseca, Fernando Antônio de Abreu e Silva, Sérgio Saldanha Menna-Barreto

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):130-136

Objectives: To evaluate the evolution pattern of dynamic pulmonary flow and volume in cystic fibrosis patients and analyze the relation between the severity of ventilatory attacks and age, gender, genotype and pulmonary colonization. Methods: At the Pediatric Pulmonary Unit and Pulmonary Service of Hospital de Clínicas of Porto Alegre, 243 spirometries performed between 1987 and 1999 in 52 cystic fibrosis patients older than four years of age were reviewed. From the patients' medical records the following informations were extracted: age at diagnosis, genetic data, bronchial colonization and absolute as well as percent values of the flows and volumes of the best annual spirometry. Results: The age of the patients ranged from four to 26 years (mean = 13.04 ± 4.82). Out of the 52 patients, 49 (94%) had at least one sputum culture with P. aeruginosa, 45 (86%) with S. aureus and 13 (25%) with B. cepacia. At initial evaluation, that included patients four to six years old (n = 40), mean values for FVC and FEV1 were 114.24% and 112.25%, respectively. Mean FVC remained above baseline until 18 years of age, when it abruptly dropped to 67.2% (p = 0.0002). Mean FEV1 values dropped to less than 80% at ten years and was 50% at 18 years (p < 0.00001). The FEV1/FVC% relationship, the most obstruction sensitive index, was observed to be reduced as early as initial evaluation. It was 85% between four and six years and gradually decreased to 63% at 18 years. The mean values of FEF50, FEF75 and FMEF were initially normal (94%, 80% and 90%, respectively), showed a greater and earlier statistically significant decline, and reached to 37%, 12.5% and 19%, respectively, at 18 years. Although a tendency to lower terminal flow was seen in the girls, the differences were not statistically significant. Significant correlations between pulmonary function and the airway colonizator or genotype were not detected statistic. Conclusion: The evolution pattern of pulmonary function alterations found in these patients is consistent with those reported in the literature, where obstructive ventilatory disorders with early terminal flow reduction and late FVC onset predominate.

Keywords: Spirometry. Cystic fibrosis. Pulmonary ventilatory.

4 - Cardiorespiratory response to incremental progressive maximal exercise in asthmatic patients

Resposta cardiorrespiratória na asma induzida pelo exercício máximo com incrementos progressivos

Ruy Amazonas Lamar Filho, Antonio Augusto Soares da Fonseca, Maria Alice Melo Neves, Laércio Moreira Valença

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):137-142

5 - Endoscopic diagnosis of stridor in childhood

Diagnóstico endoscópico de estridor na infância

Vítor Emanuel Cassol

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):143-147

6 - Home oxygen therapy in children: seven years experience

Oxigenoterapia domiciliar em crianças: relato de sete anos de experiência

Helena Teresinha Mocelin, Gilberto Bueno Fischer, Lilian Cristine Ranzi, Rosângela Dias Rosa, Maria Regina Philomena

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):148-152

7 - Surgical treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax on the first episode

Tratamento cirúrgico do pneumotórax espontâneo primário no primeiro episódio

Darcy Ribeiro Pinto Filho, André Germano Leite, Fabíola Délia Perin, Ronaldo Barbieri

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):153-157

Case Report

8 - Renal sarcoidosis

Sarcoidose renal

Maria Enedina Claudino de Aquino, Roberta Karla Barbosa de Sales, José Antônio Freire dos Santos, Ana Lidia Régis, Nelson Morrone

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):163-166

9 - Organized pneumonia secondary to amiodarone use

Pneumonia em organização secundária ao uso de amiodarona

Lia Augusta de Souza Gulmini, Carlos Alberto de Castro Pereira, Ester N.A.M. Coletta

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):167-170

10 - Pulmonary Rhodococcus equi infection: report of the first two Brazilian cases

Infecção pulmonar por "Rhodococcus equi": relato dos dois primeiros casos brasileiros

Luiz Carlos Severo, Patricia Ritter, Victor Flávio Petrillo, Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias, Nelson da Silva Porto

J Bras Pneumol.2001;27(3):

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