[Implementation of Telemedicine in Cape Verde: Influencing Factors].

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia remains one of the most common opportunistic illnesses in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. It is currently the most reported AIDS-defining infection in Portugal. The aims of this study were to analyze the features of a human immunodeficiency virus /P...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Grilo V,Pereira A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Portuguese version of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire showed adequate psychometric properties in a community sample but the American cut-off seemed inadequate. This study aimed to validate this questionnaire in clinical populations of children with sleep disorders and with attention deficit/ ...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Parreira AF,Martins A,Ribeiro F,Silva FG

更新日期：2019-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Literature analysis has been controversial about pre-eclampsia. It is known that not pregnant patients should be treated due cardiovascular benefits. However, the real benefits of antihypertensive treatment in pre-eclampsia were not demonstrated. Yet, there are many drugs that can be used for antihypertensive treatmen...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： De Souza AR,Amorim MR,Costa AR

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:From a perspective that considers the costs borne by the informal caregiver and the care-recipient, this study quantifies and values the use of health and social services, and the time dedicated to caregiving in dementia situations. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Sociodemographic information and use of services was...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Pires CL,Duarte N,Paúl C,Ribeiro O

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:New generation oral anticoagulants - rivaroxaban, apixaban and edoxaban - represent an important medical achievement. Their therapeutic effectiveness and ease of use make them essential in the management of thromboembolic conditions. However, as warfarin, they have known haemorrhagic risks. This paper reports the case...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Saldanha I,Matos R,Órfão T,Santos M

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors analyse the appropriateness admissions to the Internal Medicine ward of the Hospital de Santa Luzia (Elvas). A retrospective study was performed during 6 months of 2001, using the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol (AEP). Non-appropriateness admissions were found in 19% (CI95%: 16-22), and this group of p...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Cordero A,Aguila J,Massalana A,Escoto V,Lopes L,Susano R

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diaphragmatic Pacing was used to treat ventilatory failure in a young boy with bilateral diaphragmatic palsy secondary to cervical cord injury, on chronic mechanical ventilation for 6 months. The indications for diaphragmatic pacing in ventilatory failure were discussed, as well as the assessment of phrenic nerve inte...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Ponce P,Cruz J,Travassos J,Moreira P,Lima JA,Pedro AG,Ferreira AC,Antunes JL

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the importance of not only all over the world but also in Portugal and, particularly, in Dona Estefânia Hospital. Some considerations are made about the usefulness of molecular biology methods in prenatal diagnosis. With this tool can also be do the origins and migrations of populations, which contr...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Lamy S,Braga L,Pacheco P,Lavinha J,da Costa GG,Ferreira NC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histology records from 63 nephrectomies were reviewed; 22 patients had unilateral totally dysplastic kidneys and 5 had polar or segmental dysplasia. A clinicopathological study of these cases was undertaken. In the first group, there was a slight male preponderance and 75% of the patients presented were under two year...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Cunha AS,de Sousa JF,Garcia C

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant tumor and the leading cause of cancer death in women in Portugal. Due to its relation to an increase in distant metastasis and subsequent death, loco-regional relapse is one major concern in breast cancer women. Several classic prognostic factors as tumour size, n...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Faria G,Cardoso MJ,Martins D,Bettencourt H,Amendoeira I,Schimitt F

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nowadays, prostate cancer is very frequent in men. The evolution of the possibilities of early diagnosis and the results obtained with radical therapeutics have brought this pathology to our attention. The physicians involved, either general practitioners or specialists in internal medicine or urology, must pay maximu...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Ruah J

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Since dysphagia may be one of the brain post-stroke consequences, the objective of this study was to analyze the average recovery time of patients with cerebrovascular accident and dysphagia subjected to speech therapy in a hospital bed. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Systematic review performed following the 'Pref...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Andrade JS,Souza WWOJ,Paranhos LR,Domenis DR,César CPHAR

更新日期：2017-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Duodenocaval fistula is a type of digestive fistula rarely described in the literature. It usually manifests by sepsis associated with gastrointestinal bleeding. The treatment is surgical and the prognosis usually not favorable. We describe the case of a woman admitted to our hospital with sepsis, having been diagnose...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Correia M,Moreira L,Moreira F

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Blood samples collected from 1017 individuals incarcerated in the prisons of Caxias, Linhó and Tires, during 1990, were tested for anti-HIV. Rates of seropositivity were interpreted in the view of statistical data issued from the Council of Europe. ...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Costa LR,Ribeiro MR,dos Reis S

更新日期：1991-11-01 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

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Creatine deficiency syndromes are a recently described group of diseases characterized by inborn errors of creatine metabolism. Clinical features include a spectrum of neurodevelopment disorders of diverse severity. They are characterized by low levels of cerebral creatine caused by different pathogenic mu...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Malheiro R,Diogo L,Garcia P,Fineza I,Oliveira G

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Medically assisted reproduction in natural cycle has been investigated, especially in women with poor response to conventional ovarian stimulation, with endometrial receptivity improvement, lower cost and possibility of successive cycles. The disadvantages are: lower profitability per treatment cycle and h...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Alves MC,Marques AL,Leite HB,Sousa AP,Almeida-Santos T

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the ambulatory treatment of a young man, the son of a divorced mother, where they used a methodology called Combined Treatment of Heroin Addicts, which was done in stages. They used family sessions, with a concomitant hearing of the patient alone, combined with the use of an opioid antagonist, cal...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Neto D,Sardinha L,David M,Cantante S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors present a case of a 60-year-old male patient, previously diagnosed with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, who was admitted to the Emergency Room with dyspnea. The initial evaluation revealed severe anemia (Hgb = 5.0 g/dL) with hyperleukocytosis (800.000/µL), nearly all of the cells being mature lymphocy...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Pinto da Costa M,Pimenta Coelho H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author refer that thyroid nodule occur quite often in general population. He also mention research methods, and how they could be changed when pregnant women in concern. Therefore this prognosis must be done through cytology and ultrasounds. When related to rate of occurrence, metastasis and mortality, there are n...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Rosas S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our study centred on the research of Pelvic Endometriosis prevalence, in 134 women, who were submitted to diagnostic or surgical laparoscopy in our department, from April 1991 to November 1994. According to the admission causes, the women were divided in four groups: Pelvic pain/infertility/Anexial tumours/Optional tu...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Arraiano MB,Gama I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Crohn's disease (CD), Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Indeterminate Colitis (IC), commonly known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) represent a heterogeneous group of chronic diseases of unknown origin and varying course, diagnosed in pediatric age at 25 to 30% of cases. Epidemiological international studies ...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Fernandes A,Bacalhau S,Cabral J

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sacroiliitis accounts for about 1.5% - 10% of all cases of septic arthritis and it is strongly associated with gynaecological infections, pelvic trauma or drug abuse (3.4% - 12.8% of cases occur during the postpartum period). Early diagnosis is difficult because the symptoms are nonspecific in pregnancy and in the...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Vale-Fernandes E,Rodrigues F,Monteiro C,Carvalho L

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic interventional techniques have created a wide new perspective for non-surgical treatment of chronic pancreatitis (CP). Surgery and endoscopy differ in their techniques, but are comparable with regard to tactics. The aim of methods in CP is to relieve pain and/or local complications. The preliminary results ...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Liberato M,Romão C,Duarte C,Figueiredo A,Quina M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Portuguese National Health Service, little attention has been paid to oral health care. The almost nonexistence of a dentistry network raises concern about accessibility to services, and justifies the need to call on a predominantly private provision of services. The coexistence between the public and private s...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Santos P

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we reviewed a clinical series composed by all malignant lung lesions submitted to computed tomography-guided percutaneous thermal radiofrequency ablation, in our hospital, a rather recent technique that has been gaining scientific recognition. MATERIAL AND METHODS:For data purposes, all rad...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Tavares E Castro A,Freitas S,Portilha A,Alves F,Caseiro-Alves F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankle injuries are the most frequently encountered injuries in clinical practice. They are often managed by general practicians, and not only by orthopaedic or physiatric physicians. This injury is usually non-complicated, but some care should be taken to assure an adequate management and to exclude severe lesions. Th...

journal_title：Acta medica portuguesa

authors： Moreira V,Antunes F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00