Background: Behçet’s disease (BD) is an idiopathic, multisystemic, progressive disease. The purpose of this study is to compare the knee flexor and extensor isokinetic muscle strengths of Behcet’s patients with that of healthy subjects. Methods: Twenty-five (13 male and 12 female) patients with BD and 25 (15 male and 10 female) healthy individuals were included in the study. Velocities of 90°/s...

1 Physician and coordinator, Service of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo. 2 Resident Physician, Service of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo. Address correspondence to: Fausto de Paula Jr. – Rua Maestro Cardim 770 01323001 Sao Paulo SP. Tel (55 11) 288-0899 – E-mail: [email protected]. Study conducted at Hospital Beneficência Po...

To the Editor, Livedoid Vasculopathy (LV) is a chronic recurrent thrombo-occlusive vasculopathy of unknown pathogenesis that has been associated with hypercoagulable states and several connective tissue diseases. It parti cularly affects middle-aged women and presents as painful purpuric papules, mainly distributed over the lower legs that subsequently ulcerate and slowly heal with residual whi...

Dear Editor, In archaeological studies, paleopathologists frequently focused their studies on detecting degenerative alte rations in the spine as a means to estimate age, to determine differences in sex and racial affinity, and to eva luate physical and pathological conditions. Currently, several studies investigate the degree of incidence of osteophytes, porosities, eburneations and Schmorl’s ...

We give three proofs of the following result conjectured by Carriegos, De Castro-Garc\'{\i}a and Mu\~noz Casta\~neda in their work on enumeration control systems: when $\binom{k+1}{2} \le n < \binom{k+2}{2}$, there are as many partitions $n$ with $k$ corners pairs $(\alpha, \beta)$ such that + |\alpha| |\beta| = n$.

Percutaneous Treatment of Refractory Angina Secondary to Left Subclavian Artery Stenosis in Patients after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Ernesto Misael Cintra Osterne1, Evandro Cesar Vidal Osterne1, Vicente Paulo Motta1, Paulo Antonio Marra da Motta1, Cecilio Kassem Salame2, Thomas Edson Cintra Osterne3 Hospital Anchieta – Instituto do Coração de Taguatinga1; Hospital Anchieta Carddio2; Hospi...

Elsa Vieira-Sousa1,2, João Cavaleiro3, Ana Filipa Mourão4, 5, Ana M. Rodrigues2,5,6 António Albino-Teixeira7, Fernando M Pimentel-Santos4,5, Filipa Oliveira-Ramos1,2, Helena Canhão5, Joaquim Polido Pereira1,2, João Eurico Fonseca1,2, José António Pereira da Silva8, José Carlos Romeu1,2, José Melo Gomes9, Lúcia Costa10, Luís Graça2, Maria José Leandro11, Maria José Santos12, Pedro M. Machado13, ...

Objective: It has been suggested that Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene mutations are also seen in certain autoimmune diseases and are related to severity of the disease activity. As most of the clinical symptoms of these inflammatory diseases are related to autoantibody positivity, we assessed autoantibody prevalence in patients with Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and investigated the relati...