A5101473561- Body Contouring and Surgery
- Neurological Complications and Syndromes
- Complement system in diseases
- Blood groups and transfusion
- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Brain Metastases and Treatment
- Vasculitis and related conditions
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Hepatitis C virus research
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
- Genital Health and Disease
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
- Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research
- Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Muscle and Compartmental Disorders
- Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications
Hospital de São João
2015-2022
Hospital de Santa Marta
2021
Centro Hospitalar do Porto
2020
Background and objectives: Polyvascular atherosclerosis is frequent associated with a high cardiovascular risk, although the mechanisms regulating extent to single or multiple arterial territories are still poorly understood. Inflammation regulates atherogenesis soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) an inflammatory mediator presence of single-territorial atherosclerosis. We assessed whether sCD40L expression severity in different territories. Materials Methods: prospectively enrolled 94 participants...
Chronic Coxiella burnetii endocarditis usually develops in people with underlying heart disease and accounts for 60–70% of chronic Q fever. Onset is generally insidious manifestations are atypical. The authors report a case prosthetic valve 53 years- old patient recurrent mechanical dehiscence on mitral position. He lived rural area sheep goats the surroundings. During 9 year- period, he was submitted to three cardiac surgeries two which no fever diagnosis suspicion. Diagnosis based positive...
Leptospirosis has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. Acute renal failure, an important complication, generally involves interstitial and tubular damage. We describe the case 42-year-old man who was admitted with fever, back pain periorbital oedema. He had hypertension, thrombocytopenia, acute hypoalbuminaemia, hypertriglyceridaemia proteinuria >4.00 g/l. The biopsy showed mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis. Due to epidemiological context picture, ceftriaxone started rapid...
Multiple symmetric lipomatosis or Madelung’s disease is a rare condition which characterized by multiple and disfiguring accumulation of non-capsulated fat tissue depositions mostly in upper arms, neck, shoulder areas. The etiology unknown, with the highest incidence Mediterranean region an association alcohol abuse. We present case patient admitted to our internal medicine department for cervical mass study. This was already studied his general practitioner because thyroid suspicion. During...
This is a retrospective study, performed on patients admitted to our center who met the criteria below.Clinical data were reviewed, and demographic, clinical, analytical patient outcomes assessed.Defined as case all chronic hemodialysis, due COVID -19 disease, with laboratory confirmation of SARS -CoV2 infection through identification viral RNA in nasopharynx or oropharynx by real -time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT -PCR) technique 7 .
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium vessels involvement the upper lower respiratory tract pauci-immune glomerulonephritis [1]. This has higher incidence in men sixth decade life more than 80% patients have positive anti-neutrophil cytoplasm (ANCA) antibodies [1,2]. We present case 23-year-old man two weeks evolution polyarthralgia, asthenia, cough hemoptoic sputum. He did chest radiography that showed diffuse bilateral alveolar infiltrates,...
Headache and neurological deficits with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis (HaNDL) is a self-limited, benign entity that may constitute diagnosis dilemma since it can mimic variety of conditions including aseptic meningitis, meningoencephalitis, migraine aura stroke. We report case 31-year-old Caucasian man admitted at the emergency department for sudden onset dysarthria paresthesias in right upper limb, after 2 weeks complaints headache associated mild nausea. After extensive blood...
Headache and neurological deficits with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphocytosis (HaNDL) is a self-limited, benign entity that may constitute diagnosis dilemma since it can mimic variety of conditions including aseptic meningitis, meningoencephalitis, migraine aura stroke. We report case 31-year-old Caucasian man admitted at the emergency department for sudden onset dysarthria paresthesias in right upper limb, after 2 weeks complaints headache associated mild nausea. After extensive blood...
Multiple symmetric lipomatosis or Madelung’s disease is a rare condition which characterized by multiple and disfiguring accumulation of non-capsulated fat tissue depositions mostly in upper arms, neck, shoulder areas. The etiology unknown, with the highest incidence Mediterranean region an association alcohol abuse. We present case patient admitted to our internal medicine department for cervical mass study. This was already studied his general practitioner because thyroid suspicion. During...
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is an uncommon disorder characterized by the classic pentad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, renal dysfunction, fever and neurologic abnormalities. It associated with infections, malignancy, drugs autoimmune diseases. TTP systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) rarely present simultaneously generally constitute a diagnostic dilemma. We case 42-year-old patient overlapping features SLE TTP, who was admitted to our hospital complaints...
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is an uncommon disorder characterized by the classic pentad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, renal dysfunction, fever and neurologic abnormalities. It associated with infections, malignancy, drugs autoimmune diseases. TTP systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) rarely present simultaneously generally constitute a diagnostic dilemma. We case 42-year-old patient overlapping features SLE TTP, who was admitted to our hospital complaints...