Year 2005 - Volume 31 - Issue 6 (November/December)

Editorial

1 - The soul of the business!

A alma do negócio!

José Antônio Baddini Martinez

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):

2 - Advances in the treatment of lung cancer

Avanços no tratamento do câncer pulmonar

Teresa Yae Takagaki

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):iii-v

3 - Defining asthma for epidemiologic studies: can this objective be attained?

Definir asma para estudos epidemiológicos: essa meta pode ser alcançada?

Márcia Margaret Menezes Pizzichini

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):vi-viii

Original Article

4 - Determining the score and cut-off point that would identify asthmatic adults in epidemiological studies using the asthma module of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire

Determinação de escore e nota de corte do módulo de asma do International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood para discriminação de adultos asmáticos em estudos epidemiológicos

Elayne de Fátima Maçãira, Eduardo Algranti, Rafael Stelmach, Marcos Ribeiro, Maria do Patrocínio Tenório Nunes, Elizabete Medina Coeli Mendonça, Marco Antônio Bussacos

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):477-485

5 - Prevalence of bronchial asthma and related symptoms in schoolchildren in the Federal District of Brazil: correlations with socioeconomic levels

Prevalência de asma brônquica e de sintomas a ela relacionados em escolares do Distrito Federal e sua relação com o nível socioeconômico

Maria Luisa Brangeli Maia Felizola, Carlos Alberto de Assis Viegas, Marcelo Almeida, Fernando Ferreira, Martinho Candido A. Santos

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):486-491

6 - Climate variations and health services use for the treatment of asthmatic children under five years of age: an ecological study

Variações climáticas e uso de serviços de saúde em crianças asmáticas menores de cinco anos de idade: um estudo ecológico

Celso Taques Saldanha, Ageo Mário Cândido da Silva, Clovis Botelho

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):492-498

7 - The effect of psychotherapy provided as part of a pulmonary rehabilitation program for the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

O efeito da assistência psicológica em um programa de reabilitação pulmonar para pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

Dagoberto Vanoni de Godoy, Rossane Frizzo de Godoy, Benno Becker Júnior, Paula Fernanda Vaccari, Maurício Michelli, Paulo José Zimermann Teixeira, Bruno Carlos Palombini

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):499-505

Objective: To assess the effect of psychotherapy on levels of anxiety and depression, as well as on quality of life and exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease enrolled in a pulmonary rehabilitation program. Methods: A randomized, controlled, blind clinical trial was conducted involving 49 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Patients were randomized into three groups: those submitted to the complete pulmonary rehabilitation program, which included psychotherapy and an exercise regimen (group 1); those submitted to the program minus physical exercise (group 2); and those submitted to the program minus psychotherapy (group 3). The three groups underwent a 12-week treatment program. All patients were evaluated at baseline and at completion of the pulmonary rehabilitation program through four instruments: The Beck Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire were applied. The distance walked-weight product was also calculated. Results: Statistically significant absolute improvements in exercise capacity were found for groups 1 and 2, although not for group 3 (p = 0.007, p = 0.008 and p = 0.06, respectively). In groups 1 and 2, levels of anxiety and depressions were also significantly reduced (group 1: p = 0.0000 and p < 0.0003; group 2: p = 0.0001 and p = 0.0014), and quality of life was significantly improved (p = 0.0007 and p = 0.002, respectively). Anxiety levels were also reduced in group 3 (p = 0.03), although levels of depression were not, and quality of life was unaffected. Conclusion: Psychotherapy sessions provided as part of a pulmonary rehabilitation program assist patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in coping with disease-related limitations by reducing behavioral symptoms, especially depression, thereby influencing exercise capacity and health-related quality of life.

Keywords: Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive/rehabilitation; Pullmonary diseases, chronic obstructive/psychology; Anxiety; Depression; Quality of Life; Exercise therapy

8 - Experimental myocardial infarction and increased oxidative stress in the rat diaphragm

Infarto do miocárdio experimental e aumento do estresse oxidativo em diafragma de ratos

Fabiano Leichsering Silva, Nicolle Gollo Mazzotti, Marcus Picoral, Daniella Meirelles Nascimento, Maria Isabel Morgan Martins, Adriane Belló Klein

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):506-510

9 - Effect of perillyl alcohol on gene expression of human pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells

Efeito do álcool perílico na expressão gênica de células de adenocarcinoma de pulmão humano

Juliana de Saldanha da Gama Fischer, Marcelo Soares da Mota e Silva, Marcos Eduardo Paschoal, Cerli Rocha Gattass, Paulo Costa Carvalho, Maria da Gloria da Costa Carvalho

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):511-515

10 - Smoking among physicians in a specific region of the greater metropolitan area of São Paulo

Tabagismo entre médicos da Região do ABC Paulista

Adriano Cesar Guazzelli, Mário Terra Filho, Elie Fiss

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):516-522

11 - Spatial and temporal patterns of tuberculosis in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil from 1998 to 2002

Evolução espaço-temporal dos casos de tuberculose em Ribeirão Preto (SP), nos anos de 1998 a 2002

Paula Hino, Claudia Benedita dos Santos, Tereza Cristina Scatena Villa

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):523-527

Review Article

12 - The challenge of diagnosing acute pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

O desafio de diagnosticar tromboembolia pulmonar aguda em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

Sérgio Saldanha Menna-Barreto

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):528-539

13 - Treatment of superior vena cava syndrome

Tratamento da síndrome da veia cava superior

Luís Marcelo Inaco Cirino, Rafael Ferreira Coelho, Ivan Dias da Rocha, Bernardo Pinheiro de Senna Nogueira Batista

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):540-550

14 - Respiratory therapy in pleural empyema. A systematic review of the literature

Fisioterapia respiratória no empiema pleural. Revisão sistemática da literatura

Murilo Carlos Amorim de Britto, Maria do Carmo Menezes Bezerra Duarte, Silvia Maria Mendes da Conceição Silvestre

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):551-554

Case Report

15 - Endobronchial lipoma

Lipoma endobrônquico

Antônio Mauro Bof, Abrão Rapoport, Luiz Carlos Paier, Yara Lopes Diaz, Luiz Carlos Filgueiras Leiro, Roberto Ruben Pando-Serrano, Márcio Rogério Alcalá Gomes, Emílio Scafura Lomonte

J Bras Pneumol.2005;31(6):555-558