DIAGNÓSTICO PSICODERMATOLÓGICO: ENTENDENDO A COMPLEXIDADE DA RELAÇÃO ENTRE EMOÇÕES E DOENÇAS CUTÂNEAS

Psychodermatological diagnosis involves a detailed assessment that combines the patient's clinical history, physical examination of the skin and an analysis of the emotional factors that may be influencing the skin condition. The signs and symptoms of skin conditions vary widely depending on the type and severity of the condition. Some of the most common signs include redness, itching, skin lesions such as spots, blisters or pustules, peeling, pain or tenderness, changes in skin color and the presence of scabs or sores. The objective of this article was to understand the complexity that emotional aspects can directly influence skin diseases. Furthermore, the research seeks to clearly elucidate how to reach an appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Finally, the research showed the importance of working together with dermatologists and psychiatric doctors, so that it is possible to arrive at efficient therapeutic treatment methods.O diagnóstico psicodermatológico envolve uma avaliação detalhada que combina a história clínica do paciente, exame físico da pele e uma análise dos fatores emocionais que podem estar influenciando a condição cutânea. Os sinais e sintomas das doenças de pele variam amplamente, dependendo do tipo e da gravidade da condição. Alguns dos sinais mais comuns incluem vermelhidão, coceira, lesões cutâneas como manchas, bolhas ou pústulas, descamação, dor ou sensibilidade, alterações na cor da pele e a presença de crostas ou feridas. O objetivo deste artigo foi compreender a complexidade que os aspectos emocionais podem influenciar diretamente nas doenças de pele. Além disso, a pesquisa procura elucidar de forma clara como chegar a um diagnóstico e tratamento adequado. Por fim, a pesquisa mostrou a importância do trabalho em conjunto de médicos dermatologistas e psiquiátricas, para que assim seja possível chegar a métodos terapêuticos de tratamento eficientes

HISTERECTOMIA NA CIRURGIA GERAL: IMPORTÂNCIA, DESAFIOS E ESTRATÉGIAS DE PREVENÇÃO DE COMPLICAÇÕES

Hysterectomy is a common surgical intervention in general surgery practice, but its performance presents challenges and potential complications. Hysterectomy can offer several advantages, such as relieving symptoms of conditions such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding or uterine cancer, improving women's quality of life. Furthermore, in cases of serious diseases of the uterus, hysterectomy can prevent future complications. This study aimed to critically review the available literature on the importance, challenges and strategies for preventing complications associated with hysterectomy. Using the descriptors "hysterectomy", "general surgery" and "surgical complications" from the DeCS database, 30 studies published between 2014 and 2023 were selected. The results highlight the importance of hysterectomy in various gynecological conditions, the challenges related to the surgical technique and strategies to prevent intra- and postoperative complications. It is concluded that an integrative approach is crucial to improve the results and safety of the hysterectomy procedure in clinical practice.A histerectomia é uma intervenção cirúrgica comum na prática da cirurgia geral, mas sua realização apresenta desafios e potenciais complicações. A histerectomia pode oferecer diversas vantagens, como alívio dos sintomas de condições como endometriose, miomas uterinos, sangramento uterino anormal ou câncer uterino, melhorando a qualidade de vida das mulheres. Além disso, em casos de doenças graves do útero, a histerectomia pode prevenir complicações futuras. Este estudo teve como objetivo revisar criticamente a literatura disponível sobre a importância, desafios e estratégias de prevenção de complicações associadas à histerectomia. Utilizando os descritores "histerectomia", "cirurgia geral" e "complicações cirúrgicas" da base de dados DeCS, foram selecionados 30 estudos publicados entre 2014 e 2023. Os resultados destacam a importância da histerectomia em várias condições ginecológicas, os desafios relacionados à técnica cirúrgica e as estratégias para prevenir complicações intra e pós-operatórias. Conclui-se que uma abordagem integrativa é crucial para melhorar os resultados e a segurança do procedimento de histerectomia na prática clínica

ABORDAGEM AO PACIENTE COM DISTÚRBIOS DE COAGULAÇÃO: DIAGNÓSTICO E TERAPIAS DE SUBSTITUIÇÃO

Coagulation disorders are clinical conditions that compromise hemostasis, leading to bleeding or thrombosis. This study aims to review the diagnostic approach and replacement therapies used in the management of patients with coagulation disorders. Methodology: integrative review, using the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS) databases, with health science descriptors including “coagulation disorders,” “diagnosis,” and “replacement therapies.” Results indicate that early and accurate diagnosis, combined with appropriate replacement therapies, significantly improves patient prognosis. Conclusion: Proper diagnostic and therapeutic approaches are crucial for effective management of coagulation disorders, reducing complications and improving patients’ quality of life.Distúrbios de coagulação são condições clínicas que comprometem a hemostasia, podendo levar a hemorragias ou tromboses. Este estudo visa revisar a abordagem diagnóstica e as terapias de substituição utilizadas no manejo de pacientes com distúrbios de coagulação. Metodologia: revisão integrativa, utilizando as bases de dados Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) e Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), com descritores em ciências da saúde, incluindo “distúrbios de coagulação”, “diagnóstico” e “terapias de substituição”. Resultados indicam que o diagnóstico precoce e preciso, aliado a terapias de substituição adequadas, melhora significativamente o prognóstico dos pacientes. Conclusão: A correta abordagem diagnóstica e terapêutica é crucial para a gestão eficaz de distúrbios de coagulação, reduzindo complicações e melhorando a qualidade de vida dos pacientes

A list of land plants of Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Brazil, highlights the presence of sampling gaps within this protected area

Brazilian protected areas are essential for plant conservation in the Atlantic Forest domain, one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots. A major challenge for improving conservation actions is to know the plant richness, protected by these areas. Online databases offer an accessible way to build plant species lists and to provide relevant information about biodiversity. A list of land plants of “Parque Nacional do Caparaó” (PNC) was previously built using online databases and published on the website "Catálogo de Plantas das Unidades de Conservação do Brasil." Here, we provide and discuss additional information about plant species richness, endemism and conservation in the PNC that could not be included in the List. We documented 1,791 species of land plants as occurring in PNC, of which 63 are cited as threatened (CR, EN or VU) by the Brazilian National Red List, seven as data deficient (DD) and five as priorities for conservation. Fifity-one species were possible new ocurrences for ES and MG states

Avanços da cirurgia robótica no tratamento de doenças cardiovasculares

Várias cirurgias médicas já utilizaram a tecnologia robótica, tais como: cirurgias no estômago, bexiga, rins, próstata, cérebro e inclusive no coração, o qual proporciona-se a reparação de válvulas cardíacas e até mesmo cirurgias nas artérias. O principal objetivo do presente estudo é discutir por meio da literatura científica acerca dos avanços da cirurgia robótica no tratamento de doenças cardiovasculares. Trata-se de uma revisão sistemática da literatura, dos quais, utilizou-se as bases e biblioteca eletrônica Scielo e Periódico Capes, totalizando 5 artigos elegíveis. A cirurgia robótica tem sido um dos principais métodos utilizados em tratamentos cardiovasculares quando comparados com técnicas convencionais, sobretudo, no que diz respeito, a cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations1,2,3,4,5,6 in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth’s 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories7, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world’s most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection