- Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis
- Platelet Disorders and Treatments
- Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases
- Urticaria and Related Conditions
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Drug-Induced Adverse Reactions
- Dermatological and Skeletal Disorders
- Blood transfusion and management
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Contact Dermatitis and Allergies
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
Hospital Dr. Nélio Mendonça
2022-2025
Hospital Vila Franca de Xira
2017-2019
Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna
2019
Thrombocytopenia (platelet count < 150 × 109/L) is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and likely associated with worse outcomes. In this study we present international contemporary data on thrombocytopenia ICU patients. We conducted a prospective cohort adult 52 ICUs across 10 countries. assessed frequencies of thrombocytopenia, use platelet transfusions clinical outcomes including mortality. evaluated pre-selected potential risk factors for the development during stay associations...
Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) is a rare, life-threatening, mucocutaneous disorder characterized by extensive detachment and necrosis, often triggered medications. Prompt recognition management are critical to improving outcomes. The present article reports case of an 80-year-old patient, with history gout essential hypertension, who presented the emergency department pyrexia generalized macular rash dark centers vesicles, accompanied severe pruritus. patient had recommenced allopurinol...
Os cuidados paliativos visam a implementação de estratégias forma otimizar qualidade vida dos doentesem fase terminal e das suas famílias. As manifestações clínicas em doentes fim podem ser difíceis devalorizar. Embora inflamação possa prevalecer, o estado deimuno-senescência torna doença infeciosa pauci-sintomáticae diferente do habitual. Adinamia, febre tosse, são frequentemente interpretadas medicadas como infeção. Em paralelo,embora infeção seja comum vida, mesma é muitas vezes um...
Abstract A healthy 32-years-old man was admitted in emergency department after cardiac arrest at home. He had complaints of fatigue and general malaise Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) first dose vaccine 48 hours earlier. Upon hospital admission, patient scored 3 points Glasgow Coma Scale. Electrocardiogram showed atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response a point-of-care ultrasound demonstrated severe left dysfunction global hypokinesia. Blood tests were...
O penfigoide bolhoso é uma patologia cutânea autoimune adquirida, mais frequente nos idosos. Estudos recentes demonstraram a associação causal entre ocorrência de em doentes com síndromes demenciais. Apresentamos o caso doente do sexo feminino, 80 anos, antecedentes doença Parkinson, internada por dermatose bolhosa extensa, constituída placas urticariformes e bolhas tensas halo eritematoso, sem envolvimento das mucosas. Após confirmação biópsia cutânea, imunofluorescência direta positiva...