A5006339345- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
- Cardiovascular and Diving-Related Complications
- Fungal Infections and Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
Decision Sciences (United States)
2025
Universidade do Porto
2024-2025
Hospital de São João
2022-2025
Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) is a life-threatening disease that presents more frequently in immunosuppressed patients. Its diagnosis challenging, due to nonspecific clinical presentation and variable sensitivity specificity of microbiological testing. We report the case 75-year-old woman without any known immunosuppressive risk factors who presented with constitutional symptoms, de novo ascites bilateral pleural effusion. Paracentesis revealed lymphocytic low serum-ascites albumin...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is an increasingly recognised clinical entity that associated with connective tissue disease (CTD) in up to one quarter of all diagnoses. Sjögren's syndrome (SS) a chronic autoimmune characterised by ocular and oral dryness resulting from lacrimal salivary gland dysfunction. Additionally, SS may involve virtually any organ system and, as result, the pleomorphic manifestations. However, SS-PAH reports are scarce, area remains insufficiently studied. We...