scholarly journals The spectrum of myopathies in the city of São Paulo

1976 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-365
Author(s):  
José A. Levy ◽  
Abram Topczewski ◽  
Lucia Iracema Z. de Mendonça ◽  
Mayana Zatz ◽  
Ruth Blay Levisky
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Myasthenia Gravis ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Myotonia Congenita ◽  
Progressive Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

A review of all myopathic patients treated at the Neurologic Clinic of the Medical School of the University of São Paulo during the past 15 years is reported. A total of 466 cases were examined and distributed as follows: 56% of progressive muscular dystrophy; 31% of myasthenia gravis; 6% of polymyositis; 4% of myotonic dystrophy; and the remainder of several different diseases (central core disease, Kearns-syndrome, myotonia congenita, adynamia episodica hereditaria, diabetic myopathy and Eaton-Lambert syndrome). Enzymatic dosages, electromyography, muscle biopsy, electrocardiography and genetic counselling are also reported.

scholarly journals Familial myasthenia gravis: report of four cases

1976 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Lamartine de Assis ◽  
Milberto Scaff
Keyword(s):  
Myasthenia Gravis ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past

Two pairs of siblings with myasthenia gravis, belonging to two different families, are reported. This is the only record of familial myasthenia during the past twenty years, in a total of 145 patients seen at the Neurological Clinic of the São Paulo Medical School. In spite of the fact that myasthenia gravis does not show hereditary characteristics, the peculiar features of the four cases justify the present report. The two pairs of siblings were born from non myasthenic nor consanguineous parents. The disease started at birth showing bilateral partial eyelid ptosis in all patients. The course of the illness has been favorable. There was no thymoma.

“Ballet” is a Dirty Word

2021 ◽  
pp. 373-388
Author(s):  
Henrique Rochelle
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Professional Dance ◽  
Dance Companies ◽  
The City

Professional dancing in São Paulo, Brazil, developed from the 1950s on, with a constant and strong influence from modern dance. As modernism looked disapprovingly at ballet, seeing it as something from the past, prejudice grew in the city toward the form. Directors and choreographers of dance companies currently speak about ballet and contemporary ballet as something that is done, but always by others, never themselves. Even the word “ballet” is avoided, since it seems to diminish the works being discussed, as it became something strictly associated with dance training, and not professional dance. This chapter investigates the roots of ballet in São Paulo, discussing both its origins and the origins of its rejection, while pointing to the recent indications of its newfound public interest.

scholarly journals Registry of Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo Medical School: first official solid organ and tissue transplantation report - 2008

Clinics ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estela Azeka ◽  
José Otavio Costa Auler Júnior ◽  
Paulo Manuel Pego Fernandes ◽  
Willian Carlos Nahas ◽  
Alfredo Inácio Fiorelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Tissue Transplantation ◽  
Solid Organ ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Internationalization at the University of São Paulo

2016 ◽  
Vol 95 (spe3) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Raul Machado Neto
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Law School ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
College Of Agriculture ◽  
Engineering School ◽  
The University

The University of São Paulo, founded in 1934, started under the influence of important foreigners academicians in our campuses. The beginning of our university was the result of a fusion of the already existing colleges – Law School, School of Engineering, School of Pharmacy and Dentistry, College of Agriculture, Medical School, and School of Veterinary Medicine. In addition, in 1934, the School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters was created being responsible for human sciences – Philosophy, History, Geography, Sociology – and hard sciences – Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry – that academically amalgamated the professional existing colleges. In the thirties, we benefited from the instabilities in Europe and important professors came to the University of São Paulo contributing remarkably to our successful trajectory.[...]

Tentative friendships among low-income migrants in São Paulo’s commercial districts

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megha Amrith
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Municipal Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Networks Of Support

The city of São Paulo, historically important as a destination for migrants from across the world, has experienced newer waves of immigration in the past few decades. As Brazilian national legislation and municipal policies have been ill prepared to handle these recent flows, migrants find themselves without much institutional support and rely instead on other networks to find their way in the city. This article is based on ethnographic research among low-income migrants in São Paulo, many of whom are employed as tailors and garment vendors in the city’s thriving central commercial neighbourhoods. Migrants from Bolivia, Peru, China, Pakistan and Nepal co-exist alongside working-class Brazilians. This article traces the everyday forms of conviviality among these migrants who find themselves in precarious conditions in São Paulo. It will consider the lines along which friendships and networks of support and sociability are built and the depth of such relationships. It also considers the points of tension which divide people and strain potential friendships, for instance, when migrants compete to sell their goods and are exploited by ‘fellow migrants’ to survive in the city. What we see is an ambivalent field of interaction that is convivial yet competitive and distrustful.

scholarly journals Tennina, Lucía. Cuidado com os poetas! Literatura e periferia na cidade de São Paulo, translated by Ary Pimentel, Zouk, 2017.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kacey Carter
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
First Person ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Cuidado com os poetas! Literatura e periferia na cidade de São Paulo shows how urban peripheral communities of the city, often all referred to erroneously as favelas in the media, are spaces where cultural and literary production flourish. A professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires with a background in anthropology, Tennina combines literary analysis with first-person interviews to effectively counter popular discourses that associate these communities solely with criminality and drug trafficking.

scholarly journals Why deep drilling in the Colônia Basin (Brazil)?

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.-P. Ledru ◽  
W. U. Reimold ◽  
D. Ariztegui ◽  
E. Bard ◽  
A. P. Crósta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Rainforest ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
South American ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Deep Drilling ◽  
Scientific Drilling ◽  
Southwestern Margin ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Drilling Project

Abstract. The Colônia Deep Drilling Project held its first International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) workshop in September 2014 at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Twenty-seven experts from six countries discussed the feasibility and the expectations of a deep drilling in the structure of Colônia located at the southwestern margin of the city of São Paulo. After presenting the studies performed at the site during the last decades, participants focused on the objectives, priorities and detailed planning for a full deep-drilling proposal. An excursion to the site and new auger coring showed the importance of the Colônia site for studying the evolution of a tropical rainforest and to evaluate the interplay between the South American summer monsoon, the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the southern Westerlies belt during the last 5 million years. In addition, deep drilling will eventually solve the still unresolved issue of the origin of the structure of Colônia as a result of meteorite impact or endogenous processes.

scholarly journals Acute postsurgical suppurative parotitis: current prevalence at Hospital das Clínicas, São Paulo University Medical School

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 303-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Quilici Belczak ◽  
Roberto de Cleva ◽  
Edivaldo M. Utiyama ◽  
Ivan Cecconello ◽  
Samir Rasslan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Common Complication ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Prevalence ◽  
Therapeutic Measures ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
Prolonged Immobilization

Postsurgical acute suppurative parotitis is a bacterial gland infection that occurs from a few days up to some weeks after abdominal surgical procedures. In this study, the authors analyze the prevalence of this complication in Hospital das Clínicas/São Paulo University Medical School by prospectively reviewing the charts of patients who underwent surgeries performed by the gastroenterological and general surgery staff from 1980 to 2005. Diagnosis of parotitis or sialoadenitis was analyzed. Sialolithiasis and chronic parotitis previous to hospitalization were exclusion criteria. In a total of 100,679 surgeries, 256 patients were diagnosed with parotitis or sialoadenitis. Nevertheless, only three cases of acute postsurgical suppurative parotitis associated with the surgery were identified giving an incidence of 0.0028%. All patients presented with risk factors such as malnutrition, immunosuppression, prolonged immobilization and dehydration. In the past, acute postsurgical suppurative parotitis was a relatively common complication after major abdominal surgeries. Its incidence decreased as a consequence of the improvement of perioperative antibiotic therapy and postoperative support. In spite of the current low incidence, we believe it is important to identify risks and diagnose as quick as possible, in order to introduce prompt and appropriate therapeutic measures and avoid potentially fatal complications with the evolution of the disease.

scholarly journals Cartography of neoplasms in dogs from different regions of the city of São Paulo, SP, Brazil: a survey (2002-2003) of data from the Veterinary Hospital of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kátia Cristina Kimura ◽  
Carolina Scarpa Carneiro ◽  
Renata Moris Domenico ◽  
Ricardo Augusto Dias ◽  
Jucelia Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Veterinary Hospital ◽  
De Medicina

<p>Avanços na medicina veterinária resultaram em benefícios significativos na vida de animais de estimação nos últimos 20 anos, e o aumento da expectativa de vida para animais levou a uma maior prevalência de neoplasias em cães. A Epidemiologia do Câncer e as ferramentas de análise espacial, embora bem desenvolvidas na pesquisa oncológica humana, estão começando a serem exploradas na Oncologia Veterinária. A cidade de São Paulo, capital do estado de São Paulo, Brasil, é dividida em cinco regiões: Norte, Sul, Leste, Oeste e centro. O Hospital Veterinário da Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo (HOVET-SVMAS-USP) está localizado na região Oeste de São Paulo, Brasil, e admite casos de pequenos e grandes animais. Tumores mamários caninos são tão numerosos que não são tratados na rotina do HOVET. O objetivo deste trabalho foi realizar um estudo cartográfico para descrever a distribuição espacial dos casos prevalentes de neoplasias em cães a partir do HOVET. Dos 3.620 casos atendidos em 2002 e 2003, 380 (10,5%) casos eram de cães acometidos por tumores benignos e malignos. Não foi encontrada diferença estatística entre a distribuição dos 380 endereços entre as cinco regiões da cidade. Os resultados mostraram que o HOVET atende pacientes caninos de todas as regiões de São Paulo e que há uma distribuição espacial homogênea das neoplasias. Os autores incentivam estudos mais amplos, envolvendo vários hospitais veterinários, clínicas e laboratórios, a fim de obter dados mais precisos sobre a distribuição das neoplasias caninas em São Paulo, SP, Brasil.</p>

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