[Comparative analyses between tuberculids and extrapulmonary tuberculosis - Another face for Mycobacterium tuberculosis].

abstract：:Spontaneous hemothorax is a rare and potentially lethal neurofibromatosis' complication. Several pathological mechanisms may explain the associated vasculopathy: a) direct vascular invasion from adjacent tumors such as Shwannoma, neurofibroma or neurofibrosarcoma; b) vascular dysplasia with stenotic or aneurysm format...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Bento A,Gonçalves AP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a review of asthma hospital admissions in mainland Portugal 2000-2007 to evaluate if one of the aims of the National Asthma Control Programme, a 20% reduction in hospital admissions in children and adolescents in 2007, had been achieved. Using the Health Services Central Administration data base we review...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Bugalho de Almeida A,Covas A,Prates L,Fragoso E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis is important in the control of transmission to the human population and also for treatment since M. bovis is naturally resistant to pyrazinamide. Eleven clinical isolates from the Fernando Fonseca Hospital with Spoligotypes indicative of M. bovis, through the absence o...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： David S,Portugal C,Antunes A,Calado A,Cardoso A,Barros V,Sancho L,de Sousa JG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare workers (HCWs) have an increased risk of tuberculosis (TB). Screening for latent tuberculosis infection and active TB is therefore essential in infection control programs. Tuberculin skin test (TST) and Interferon -gamma Release Assay (IGRA) were used simultaneously in 1686 HCWs between May 2007 and April 2...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Costa JT,Silva R,Sá R,Cardoso MJ,Ribeiro C,Nienhaus A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurological disorder that affects motor neurons. Involvement of respiratory muscles causes the failure of the ventilator pump with more or less significant bulbar troubles. ALS course is highly variable but, in most cases, this disease entails a very sig...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Escarrabill J,Vianello A,Farrero E,Ambrosino N,Martínez Llorens J,Vitacca M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Tuberculosis is a leading cause of world -wide mortality and morbidity. A reduced rate of tuberculosis in people aged less than 15 years has been seen in Portugal over the last decade of the twentieth century. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Retrospective analysis of tuberculosis cases in children admitted to the Ce...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Leite AL,Carvalho I,Tavares E,Vilarinho A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of lung cancers ranks the heterogeneous nonsmall cell lung cancer (N-SCLC) group, encompassing sarcoma or sarcoma-containing tumours under one heading: "carcinomas with pleomorphic, sarcomatoid or sarcomatous elements". This group contains entities such as pleomorphic...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： da Matta Abreu M,Marcondes Kozlowski B,de Biasi Cordeiro P,de Sousa A,F Nascimento M,Zamboni M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare anomaly of lung development that presents in the neonatal period in about 50% of the cases. The authors report four clinical cases of congenital lobar emphysema in the newborn. CLINICAL CASES:Four term newborns, 3M/ 1F, were admitted for respiratory distress star...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Rocha G,Azevedo I,Pinto JC,Moura CS,Guimarães H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension is a rare but devastating disease, with poor prognosis and high mortality. The disease may present as Primary Pulmonary Hypertension where no clear aetiology can be identified, or be related to a variety of underlying conditions. This is a rare disease in paediatric age. The authors present the ...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Guardiano M,Maia AM,Correia C,Azevedo I,Lopes AR,da Silva ED,Moura CS,Marinho A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic diseases and a major cause of morbility and mortality. An imbalance between oxidants and antioxidants (oxidative stress) has been proposed as a critical event in the pathogenesis of COPD. The increased oxidative stress in patients with COPD...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Cristóvão C,Cristóvão L,Nogueira F,Bicho M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Surgical lung biopsy is a technique that presents a morbi-mortality rate of considerable importance. We analyze our experience with surgical lung biopsies for the diagnosis of diffuse lung disease and the effect produced on the indications for surgical biopsy in these pathologies after the publication of t...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Blanco M,Obeso GA,Durán JC,Rivo JE,García-Fontán E,Peña E,Rodríguez M,Albort J,Cañizares MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical suspicion is the bedrock of a thorough clinical work-up, and a review of the clinical files with no definitive diagnosis is a must. Such a review can uncover rare diagnoses, such as Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia, a proliferative B-cell disease characterised by medular infiltration and monoclonocal IgM prod...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Cavaco R,Machado C,Gorjão Clara J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is a systemic change that affects the bones, joints and soft tissues and is secondary to any intrathoracic pathology. It is a syndrome of chronic proliferative periostitis of the long bones, clubbing of the fingers of the hands, feet or both, and olyarthritis or polyarthriti...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： da Silva Junior AF,Garcia E,Schorr F,da Silva AB,Medeiros L,da Silva AB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (i.e., Pandemic Influenza) is an acute, infectious illness caused by the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus. This disease involves respiratory, gastrointestinal and systemic symptoms along with a high incidence occurring at a paediatric age. OBJECTIVE:To study the epidemiol...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Malveiro D,Flores P,Sousa E,Guimarães JC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immigrants are a tuberculosis risk group. In Portugal, in 2000, they had an incidence rate 3.6 times higher than the global incidence, and were native, predominantly, from Angola and Cabo Verde. Being the Chest Disease Center of Venda Nova located in a residential area with a great number of immigrants, most of them l...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Rifes G,Villar M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower lung lobe tuberculosis is less common than the classical radiological forms of pulmonary tuberculosis. However this radiological presentation has a particular relevance in patients with some associated pathological conditions, such as diabetes mellitus, HIV infection and chronic alcoholism. We make a review of t...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Roberto Silva J,Carragoso A,Gil I,Torres S,Gaspar O

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoking cessation is one of the most important ways of improving the prognosis of COPD patients. Based on currently available evidence professional health workers should take a proactive and continuous role with smokers, motivating them to stop smoking and providing treatment to aid smoking cessation. The treatment sh...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Pamplona P,Mendes B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high activity antiretroviral treatment (HAART) induces the restoration of the number and function of CD4+ T lymphocytes and is changing the landscape of tuberculosis in patients HIV-infected. The objective of this study is to evaluate the clinical, radiographic features and evolution of these patients and compare ...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Belmiro VM,Neves DD,Carvalho SR

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is considered an environment-related disease that develops as a consequence of exposure to mutagenic agents, namely those present in tobacco. The CYP1A1 gene codifies the phase I enzyme aryl hydrocarbon hydroxilase (AHH) belonging to the cytochrome P450 system that plays a major role in the bio-activation ...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Mota P,Moura DS,Vale MG,Coimbra H,Carvalho L,Regateiro F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Fiberoptic bronchoscopy (BRF) is an essential tool in diagnosis and therapy of respiratory diseases. The occurrence of transient fever after BRF has been documented in some studies. Its meaning hasn't yet been clarified. AIM:Determine the incidence of fever and bacteriemia in the 24 hours after BRF an...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Drummond M,Magalhães A,Hespanhol V

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Expression of ERCC1 has not been well described in fine-needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We investigated the expression of ERCC1 in correlation with EGFR expression and clinicopathological factors in patients with NSCLC in order to determine if these play a...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Kalogeraki A,Karvela-Kalogeraki I,Tamiolakis D,Petraki P,Saridaki Z,Tzardi M

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella, as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia, is probably under-recognized because the diagnosis relies on the use of specific tests as well the existence of an in-numerous species and serogroups not easily identify by the tests available. In studies from Europe and North America, it ranged from 2 to 15 perc...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Marques AS,Estrada MH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is associated with adverse effects in cardiovascular physiology. Some studies have connected this pathology with Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). AIM:Determine the prevalence of CVD in patients with OSA of different severity and verify the association between CVD and OSA. MATER...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Drummond M,Winck JC,Pereira S,Almeida J,Marques JA

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fast progressing neuromuscular disease that affects all but the extrinsic muscles of the eye and sphincters. The main cause of morbidity and mortality are the respiratory complications that usually start in a late stage of the diseases natural history. In a small number of case...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Moreira S,Tátá M,Carvalho L,Mata JP

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present four patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated in second and third line with Erlotinib. These are selected patients that obtained a good clinical response. Almost all presented cutaneous side effects. Rev Port Pneumol 2008; XIV (Supl 3): S65-S69. ...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Dionísio J,Almodôvar T,Matias D,Ferreira P,Mota P,da Costa JD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter is involved in a variety of infectious diseases primarily associated with healthcare. Recently there has been increasing evidence of the important role these pathogens play in community acquired infections. We report on the case of a previously healthy child, aged 28 months, admitted for fever, cough and...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Moreira Silva G,Morais L,Marques L,Senra V

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term low frequency noise exposure (LFN) (< or = 500 Hz, including infrasound) may lead to the development of vibroacoustic disease (VAD), a systemic pathology characterized by the abnormal growth of extra-cellular matrices. The respiratory system is a target for LFN. Fibrosis of the respiratory tract ep...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Mendes A,Alves-Pereira M,Castelo Branco NA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effect of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program (PRP) on the levels of anxiety and depression and the quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. METHOD:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who completed the PRP of 3 weekly sessions of 60 min dura...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： da Costa CC,de Azeredo Lermen C,Colombo C,Canterle DB,Machado ML,Kessler A,Teixeira PJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma (WDFA) is a very uncommon malignant tumor originating in the lung. This report describes the case of a 38-year-old woman with a WDFA treated by surgery. The malignancy is low grade and associated with a good prognosis, and so it is important for clinicians to be aware of and to...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： El Ouazzani H,Jniene A,Bouchikh M,Achachi L,El Ftouh M,Achir A,El Fassy Fihry MT

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil is one of the world leaders on traffic accidents. The present article studied the excessive daytime sleepiness of public transport drivers in two Brazilian's capitals and their level of attention. It was conducted here a descriptive transversal study of a convenient sample. For the evaluation were used: anthrop...

journal_title：Revista portuguesa de pneumologia

authors： Santos DB,Bittencourt LG,Viegas CA,Gaio E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00