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      Índice funcional do ciático nas lesões por esmagamento do nervo ciático de ratos. Avaliação da reprodutibilidade do método entre examinadores Translated title: Sciatic functional index smashing injuries of rats' sciatic nerves. Evaluation of method reproducibility among examiners

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          Foi avaliada a reprodutibilidade inter-pessoal do método de avaliação do Índice Funcional do Ciático (IFC), medido por um programa de computação desenvolvido para este fim. Foram empregados 20 ratos Wistar, cujo nervo ciático direito era abordado sob anestesia geral e esmagado num segmento de 5 mm proximal à sua trifurcação com um dispositivo especial, com carga fixa de 5 Kg por 10 minutos. Impressões das pegadas dos animais foram obtidas na fase pré-operatória e, depois, semanalmente, da 1ª à 8ª semana, em uma pista de marcha. As impressões eram digitalizadas, armazenadas e avaliadas, pela medida de parâmetros predeterminados, por quatro examinadores, seguindo sempre a mesma seqüência de marcação dos parâmetros. Os resultados foram submetidos a análise estatística, que mostrou haver um alto índice de correlação entre examinadores na avaliação pré-operatória e nas 3a, 4a, 5a, 7a e 8a semanas (igual ou maior que 0,82), com queda casual na 6a semana, mas manteve significante como as demais (pF<0,01). Na 1a e 2a semanas, o índice de correlação foi próximo de zero, mostrando a pouca reprodutibilidade do método nesse período, em que a variabilidade entre os animais não diferiu da variabilidade entre os examinadores (p=0,24 e 0,32, respectivamente), devido à pouca definição das impressões das pegadas.

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          The interpersonal reproducibility of the method for evaluating the Sciatic Functional Index (SFI) was measured by a computer-based program developed for this purpose. Twenty Wistar rats were used, and their right sciatic nerve was addressed using general anesthesia. Those nerves were subsequently smashed in a segment of 5 mm proximal to its trifurcation with a special device, with a fixed load of 5 kg for 10 minutes. Animals’ footprints were taken at preoperative phase and then in a weekly basis, from the 1st to the 8th week, in a gait track. Prints were digitalized, stored and assessed by predetermined parameter measures, by four examiners, always following the same sequence of parameters marking. Results were submitted to statistical analysis, which evidenced the existence of a high correlation among examiners at preoperative evaluation and on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th weeks (equal or higher than 0.82), with an eventual drop on 6th week, but still as significant as the others (pF<0.01). On the 1st and 2nd weeks, the correlation index was nearly zero, showing the low reproducibility of the method in that period, in which variation among animals did not differ from the variation among examiners (p=0.24 and 0.32, respectively), due to the poor sharpness of footprints.

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                Journal
                aob
                Acta Ortopédica Brasileira
                Acta ortop. bras.
                ATHA EDITORA (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                1413-7852
                1809-4406
                2006
                : 14
                : 3
                : 133-136
                Article
                S1413-78522006000300003 S1413-7852(06)01400303
                0e26828e-2bff-456d-bb81-7e8e63ce5daf

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 03 February 2006
                : 01 August 2005
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                Rats,Avaliação,Ratos,Nervo ciático,Regeneração,Evaluation,Sciatic Nerve,Regeneration

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