This study was conducted at the Santa Izabel Maternity Hospital in the town of Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil, in order to investigate abortions and miscarriages in adolescence, comparing them to terminations among adult women. The indicators are used to draw up an epidemiological profile of hospitalized women through data collected from documents on women with diagnoses of abortion or miscarriage from 2000 to 2003, regardless of their clinical form. The total number of registered early terminations of pregnancy reached 2,286, with 459 (20.08%) during adolescence, with the complete form being significantly higher among teenagers than adults; a decrease in the occurrence among adolescents was noted, dropping from 30.5% in 2000 to 25.05% in 2001, 23.53% in 2002 and 20.92% in 2003; with adolescents tending to remain in hospital for two or more days. The implementation is stressed of policies and programs addressing sexual and reproductive health and its co-morbidities.
Considerando a necessidade de propiciar melhora na qualidade de vida do idoso e a elevada incidência de queixas relacionadas aos transtornos de equilíbrio nessa faixa etária, este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o equilíbrio estático e dinâmico de indivíduos idosos com queixas de tonturas e verificar a eficácia da reabilitação vestibular (RV) individualizada, por meio da comparação do escore do Dizziness Handicap Inventory - DHI (questionário de handicap), antes do início da RV e no momento da alta ou, no máximo, após 12 sessões de reabilitação. Participaram da pesquisa 11 indivíduos de faixa etária acima ou igual a 60 anos, submetidos a diagnóstico otoneurológico, composto de avaliação otorrinolaringológica, audiológica, vectoeletronistagmografia e exames complementares, quando necessário. As principais queixas foram tonturas, desequilíbrio e quedas. Todos os pacientes tiveram diagnóstico de síndrome vestibular periférica, sendo dez irritativos e um deficitário unilateral. Pode-se observar que a maioria dos casos apresentou desaparecimento de seus sintomas ou significativa diminuição em suas manifestações, salvo dois pacientes que apresentavam doenças associadas ou não seguiram as orientações dadas. A RV individualizada mostrou ser um procedimento terapêutico eficaz na terceira idade e o DHI um instrumento importante no acompanhamento da evolução do paciente.
Otological symptoms are present in subjects with TMD and dentofacial deformities, regardless of the classification of TMD (articular, muscular or mixed). Those with mixed TMD may have higher incidence of complaints about hypoacusis than subjects with muscular TMD. Further studies are needed to investigate the relationship between otological symptoms and the different types of TMD.
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