[Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy].

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess, in patients with non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), either with previous failure to sulphonylureas or insulin treated since the disease started, if the combination of gliclazide to insulin therapy might induce a reduction of daily insulin requirement. 30 caucasian type...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Ruas MM,Carvalheiro M,Geraldes E,Carrilho F,Bastos M,Fagulha A,Paiva I,Rodrigues F,Gomes L

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end stage renal disease with positive impact on survival and quality of life. However, some complications affect morbidity and mortality. This study examines the renal transplantation complications profile in pediatric patients (<18 y). MATE...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Gonçalves C,Sandes AR,Azevedo S,Stone R,Almeida M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The surgical management of complete ureteral duplication anomalies is not consensual. OBJECTIVE:To characterize the pediatric population who underwent surgery for complete ureteral duplication and assess the outcomes of different approaches. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Clinical records from patients treated bet...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Rodrigues I,Estevão-Costa J,Fragoso AC

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The disruption of esophageal motility that characterizes achalasia typically provokes dysphagia, pain, loss of weight and malnutrition. Therefore, patients frequently report a reduction in quality of life and negative emotional states. Laparoscopic Heller myotomy proved to be an effective therapy, enabling...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Vale-Fonseca T,Ferreira-Pinto L,Figueiredo-Braga M,Carneiro S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rare neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons. Patients present with progressive physical impairment, respiratory failure being the main cause of death. A significant portion of patients presents neurobehavioral problems as well. As severe impairment occurs, pati...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Pinho AC,Gonçalves E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Approximately 20% - 30% of histological lymph node-negative patients with colorectal cancer relapse at five years after surgical treatment. This recurrence is likely due to occult nodal disease undetected by standard histopathological practice which has implications in terms of the clinical management of p...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Brito MJ,Honavar M,Cipriano MA,Lopes J,Coelho H,Silva AR,Silva M,Guimarães S,Frutuoso A,Gomes A,Barbosa E,Carlos S

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Referring to examples from the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá Carneiro, we draw attention to the narcissistic relationship between mother and baby, to the role of the mirror-image of the mother's face, and to the organization of a false self caused by a deficiency both of that function, and of the narcissis...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Brazette MM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal Bleeding (GIB) is a complication in patients with Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) on regular hemodialysis (HD). To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990. The average age was 57.4 +/- 14.2 years (...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Oliveira C,Frazão JM,Pires C,Silva JG,Carrera F

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies are primary disorders of energy metabolism recently described. They are the result of mitochondrial abnormalities with a wide spectrum of syndromes implying a multisystemic but predominantly muscular and cerebral involvement. Biochemical, histological, imagiologic and clinical feature...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Almeida R,Sena A,Gonçalves M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 20 years, assisted reproductive technology has been increasingly used. Ever since the first newborn resulting from artificial insemination, over two centuries ago, thousands more children were born resulting from these techniques. In Portugal, assisted reproductive technology began in 1985 at the Hospita...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Teixeira A,Calejo L,Vasconcellos G,Rocha G,Centeno MJ,Guimarães H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a case report of a 29-year-old white female patient with Kikuchi's disease, presenting fever, polyarthritis, lymph gland enlargement, anemia, leucopenia with a relative lymphocytosis, altered liver function tests and circulating immune complexes. A literature review is made with emphasis on the etiology, clini...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Moraes MF,da Graça JP,Araújo C,de Matos AA,de Lacerda MJ,Abecasis P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the haemodynamic measurements of cardiac output (CO), central venous pressure (CVP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (Pw) and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP), obtained by Swan-Ganz catheter and transthoracic echocardiography. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Prospective study in a Medical/Surgica...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Marcelino P,Germano N,Marum S,Fernandes AP,Ribeiro P,Lopes MG

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 20 years allogeneic bone marrow transplantation has been increasingly utilized in the treatment of acute and chronic leukemias, aplastic anemia, severe forms of thalassemia, immunodeficiency syndromes and metabolic disorders due to a lack of specific enzymes in the monocyte-macrophage system. Despite the...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Abecassis MM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we discuss a non-invasive method to localize neural electrical sources using EEG data. In this method, the human head is modelled by a set of four concentric spheres with different conductivities which represent the scalp, the skull, the CSF and the brain or by three triangulated surfaces which approxima...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Silva C,Oostendorp T,Ducla-Soares E,Foreid JP,Pimentel T,Botelho MJ,Almeida A

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhabdomyolysis is a common entity that often has a multifactorial etiology. It usually affects healthy individuals, following trauma, excessive physical activity, convulsive crisis, alcohol and other drugs consumption or infections. Accumulation of intracellular calcium, activation of proteases and lipases, production...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Rosa NG,Silva G,Teixeira A,Rodrigues F,Araújo JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to provide objective and real-life data concerning the impact of the COVID-19 pandemicon ophthalmology residency training in Portugal. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Descriptive survey-based study applied to current Portuguese ophthalmology residents (n = 80 eligible). RESULTS:Seventy...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Silva N,Laiginhas R,Meireles A,Barbosa Breda J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of all the efforts that has been made in prevention and the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART), AIDS remains a serious public health problem. So, there is a need for development of new antiretrovirals (ARVs) and new therapeutic strategies. New ARVs are currently on advanced stages of clinical evaluati...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Antunes F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Postpartum haemorrhage is still the main cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Many treatments are available, but they may threaten fertility potential. As a uterine sparing procedure, we aimed to review uterine compression sutures in order to better understand when they should represent an appropriat...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Moleiro ML,Braga J,Machado MJ,Guedes-Martins L

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Manic and hypomanic states associated with antidepressant treatments are relatively common; however, when specifically considering mirtazapine, those side effects are infrequent. The authors report a clinical case regarding a manic episode with dysphoric features in a patient with no personal or family previous psychi...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Freitas C,Barranha R,Abreu T,Von Doellinger O

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis in men, despite being a less important public health problem than osteoporosis in women, should not be neglected as it has many deleterious effects as well as social and economic costs. Finding the cause of osteoporosis is more complex in men than in women, and prevention should be based on an early evalu...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Coelho PC,Reis P,Leandro MJ,Romeu JC,de Queiroz MV

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a clinical case of an intracranial dural arteriovenous malformation with clinical manifestations of a prefrontal syndrome, documented with its respective diagnostic tests, including imaging studies. A number of considerations are being enlarged upon, concerning possible pathophysiological mechanism...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Cerqueira L,Coimbra J,Matos E,Reis FC,Beirão JC

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made of the requests for bacteriological examination of urine samples by the different clinical departments of Vila Nova de Famalicão District Hospital, between July/89-June/90 and July/91-June/92. We were interested in assessing the spectrum of occurring micro-organisms in urinary tract infe...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Moreira E,Araújo AM,Sá E,Freitas JM,Trigo F,Carneiro N,Dias DM,Malvar MJ

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some families fulfilling the Amsterdam Criteria (AC) differ from the Lynch syndrome (LS) in that colorectal cancers (CRC) do not present microsatellite instability (MSI) and DNA mismatch repair gene mutations are not found. These families have been designated as Familial Colorectal Cancer type X (XS) and the...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Ferreira S,Lage P,Sousa R,Claro I,Francisco I,Filipe B,Suspiro A,Chaves P,Rodrigues P,Albuquerque C,Nobre Leitão C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sclerosing Mesenteritis is a rare idiopathic disease. It represents the final stadium of progression of the chronic inflammatory illnesses of the intestinal mesentery, with predominance of fibrosis. The clinical manifestations are varied and unspecific. Diagnosis, that demands high degree of suspicion, can be pres...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Ferreira M,Silva AF,Meruje M,Cabrita D,Figueiredo A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed all the cases of Squamous Cell Carcinoma in people under 40 years of age, diagnosed histologically at the Dermatopathology Laboratory of the Santa Maria Hospital, from January 1985 to December 1993. The 19 cases detected were analysed for age, sex, occupation, anatomical site of the tumor, evolution, smoke...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Marta AS,Correia M,Garcia E Silva L

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In experimental ageing models an inverse relationship between age and alkaline phosphatase activity has been observed. OBJECTIVE:To characterize serum levels of alkaline phosphatase activity in humans according to age and gender. METHODS:Serum alkaline phosphatase was determined in a random sample of 203 c...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Negrão MR,Martins MJ,Ramos E,Barros H,Hipólito-Reis C,Azevedo I

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment is a cornerstone for the achievement of best practices and outcomes. Epidemiologic data and practices related to venous thromboprophylaxis as considered by the global ENDORSE study, (Epidemiologic International Day for the Evaluation of Patients at Risk for Venous...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： França A,Reis A,Paulino A,Lohman C,Cartucho D,Campello G,Morais L,Moreira P,Abreu R,Abreu T,ENDORSE Investigators.

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many workers in the textile industry have respiratory symptoms that are related to their work environment. In this study we observed the dust level conditions of eleven textile industries of the North of Portugal. The dust levels determined were between 0.1 mg/m3 and 1.25 mg/m3, in many cases above the Portuguese stan...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Da Costa JT,Barros H,Macedo JA,Ribeiro H,Mayan O,Pinto AS

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cervix cancer is the fourth most common female cancer and the second most frequent in women aged 15 to 44 years. The infection by the human papillomavirus is a necessary condition in almost all of cervix cancer cases; it is a sexually transmitted disease and all women sexually active are at risk of being i...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Pimenta Ribeiro J,Borges I

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychiatric symptoms are commonly associated with chronic hepatitis C virus infection (HCV). The aim of this review of the literature was to evaluate the prevalence of depression in patients with hepatitis C, as well as the proposed etiopathogenic models. A review of the literature was undertaken using the comple...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Cruz Neves A,Dickens C,Xavier M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00