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Preoperative employment and blue collar occupation were associated with a higher rate of return to work after coronary artery bypass in patients of working age. Patients who returned to work had significantly better measured quality of life than those who did not.

Dialysis-dependent patients with ischemic heart disease have poor survival despite intervention. Coronary artery bypass achieves fewer composite adverse events and better quality of life than stenting. Symptoms and coronary anatomy should dictate treatment decisions in dialysis-dependent patients.

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In 1931 the Brazilian doctor Jorge Lobo examined a patient from the Amazon Basin who had nodular confluent skin lesions over the lumbosacral region and encountered a new fungus pathogenic for man Paracoccidioides loboi. This classification was based on the morphological aspect of the parasite which was very similar to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis the causative agent of a systemic mycosis Paracoccidioidomycosis or South American Blastomycosis. Other authors use the name Loboa loboi. The final determination of the name must await cultivation of the fungus.