29 research outputs found
Covid-19 and pulmonary thromboembolism: a case report
COVID-19 is an acute viral infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. This pandemic disease stands out for the marked variation in the clinical characteristics of patients, ranging from asymptomatic cases to severe organ dysfunction and death. Serious complications occur in the late phase of the disease or even after viral infection, and thrombotic events are one of these complications. In this context, this study aimed to report a case of an obese, young adult female patient with a complication of pulmonary thromboembolism after infection by COVID-19
Lesão bucal em paciente com sÃfilis: relato de caso / Oral lesion in a patient with syphilis: a case report
A sÃfilis é uma doença sexualmente transmissÃvel ou congênita, oriunda da bactéria Treponema pallidum. Esta doença desenvolve-se em três fases, nas quais podem ocorrer diferentes manifestações orais. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi relatar um caso de sÃfilis com manifestação oral. Paciente do sexo masculino, 20 anos de idade, feoderma, rocurou atendimento no Centro de Especialidades Odontológicas (CEO) no municÃpio de Fernandópolis/SP. Ao exame intraoral, foi observada uma mancha arredondada eritematosa em região mediana do palato mole e assintomática. Durante a anamnese o paciente relatou ter realizado exame de sÃfilis 2 semanas após o aparecimento da lesão e obteve resultado positivo. Iniciou-se o tratamento com Penicilina Benzatina e após 3 semanas do uso do medicamento, houve completa regressão da lesão. A sÃfilis é uma infecção bacteriana que pode mimetizar várias doenças, por este motivo, o conhecimento das manifestações orais em todos os seus estágios pelos cirurgiões-dentistas é fundamental para que eles estejam capacitados a executar um correto diagnóstico e tratamento das lesões
Science, Technology and Love in Late Eighteenth-Century Opera
It is a tale told by countless operas: young love, thwarted by an old man’s financially motivated marriage plans, triumphs in the end thanks to a deception that tricks the old man into blessing the young lovers’ union. Always a doddering fool, the old man is often also an enthusiast for knowledge. Such is the case, for instance, in Carlo Goldoni’s comic opera libretto Il mondo della luna (1750), in which Buonafede’s interest in the moon opens him to an elaborate hoax that has him believe he and his daughters have left Earth for the lunar world; and also in the Singspiel Die Luftbälle, oder der Liebhaber à la Montgolfier (1788), wherein the apothecary Wurm trades Sophie, the ward he intended to marry himself, for a technological innovation that will make him a pioneering aeronaut
Unsound Seeds
With this image of a curtain hiding and at the same time heightening some terrible secret, Max Kalbeck began his review of the first Viennese performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome. Theodor W. Adorno picked up the image of the curtain in the context of Strauss’s fabled skill at composing non-musical events, when he identified the opening flourish of Strauss’s Salome as the swooshing sound of the rising curtain. If this is so, the succès de scandale of the opera was achieved, in more than one sense, as soon as the curtain rose at Dresden’s Semperoper on 10 December 1905.
Critics of the premiere noted that the opera set ‘boundless wildness and degeneration to music’; it brought ‘high decadence’ onto the operatic stage; a ‘composition of hysteria’, reflecting the ‘disease of our time’, Salome is ‘hardly music any more’.The outrage did not end there
Vocal Culture in the Age of Laryngoscopy
For several months beginning in 1884, readers of Life, Science, Health, the Atlantic Monthly and similar magazines would have encountered half-page advertisements for a newly patented medical device called the ‘ammoniaphone’ (Figure 2.1). Invented and promoted by a Scottish doctor named Carter Moffat and endorsed by the soprano Adelina Patti, British Prime Minister William Gladstone and the Princess of Wales, the ammoniaphone promised a miraculous transformation in the voices of its users. It was recommended for ‘vocalists, clergymen, public speakers, parliamentary men, readers, reciters, lecturers, leaders of psalmody, schoolmasters, amateurs, church choirs, barristers, and all persons who have to use their voices professionally, or who desire to greatly improve their speaking or singing tones’. Some estimates indicated that Moffat sold upwards of 30,000 units, yet the ammoniaphone was a flash in the pan as far as such things go, fading from public view after 1886