A5029902527- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Healthcare Regulation
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Tracheal and airway disorders
- Skin Diseases and Diabetes
- Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
- Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Vascular Tumors and Angiosarcomas
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Public Health in Brazil
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
Centro Hospitalar do Porto
2011-2021
Universidade do Porto
2020
Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna
2019
Nordsjællands Hospital
2018
Sotiria General Hospital
2018
Mansoura University
2018
American College of Chest Physicians
2018
European Respiratory Society
2018
Pulmonary Associates
2018
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
2018
Bronchiectasis is one of the most neglected diseases in respiratory medicine. There are no approved therapies and few large-scale, representative epidemiological studies. The EMBARC (European Multicentre Audit Research Collaboration) registry a prospective, pan-European observational study patients with bronchiectasis. inclusion criterion primary clinical diagnosis bronchiectasis consisting of: 1) history consistent bronchiectasis; 2) computed tomography demonstrating Core exclusion criteria...
Abstract Background Empirical antibiotic coverage for atypical pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has long been debated, mainly because of a lack epidemiological data. We aimed to assess both testing and their prevalence hospitalized patients with CAP worldwide, especially relation disease severity. Methods A secondary analysis the GLIMP database, an international, multicentre, point-prevalence study adult admitted 222 hospitals across 6 continents 2015, was performed. The...
Oxygen therapy is a common and important treatment in Internal Medicine wards, however, several studies report that it isn't provided accordingly with the best of care. The goal this work to evaluate oxygen procedures Portuguese comparing them standards established by British Thoracic Society (BTS) its consensus statement "BTS guideline for emergency use adult patients". Between September 3rd 23rd 2010, each one 24 enrolled hospitals audited randomly chosen day. All inpatients under or...
Oxygen therapy is a common and important treatment in Internal Medicine wards, however, several studies report that it not provided accordingly with the best of care. The goal this work was to evaluate oxygen procedures Portuguese comparing them standards established by British Thoracic Society (BTS) its consensus statement "BTS guideline for emergency use adult patients". Between September 3rd 23rd 2010, each one 24 enrolled hospitals audited randomly chosen day. All inpatients under or...
Seizures constitute a determining aspect in quality of life and are frequently challenging palliative care—a field where treatment has yet to be standardised. Levetiracetam—a new generation anticonvulsant—has proved efficacy both through oral, as well intravenous administration the general population. This case reports on use continuous subcutaneous levetiracetam effectively control seizures terminally ill patient without patent oral route.
Despite elevated incidence and recurrence rates for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax (PSP), little is known about its etiology, the genetics of idiopathic PSP remains unexplored. To identify genetic variants contributing to sporadic risk, we conducted first genome-wide association study. Two replicate pools 92 Portuguese cases 129 age- sex-matched controls were allelotyped in triplicate on Affymetrix Human SNP Array 6.0 arrays. Markers passing quality control ranked by relative allele score...
Introduction: Heart failure frequently coexists with several comorbidities. Our aim is to evaluate the prognostic role of various comorbidities in risk acute heart development.Material and Methods: Comorbidities patients were, retrospectively, compared a control group chronic admitted an Internal Medicine unit 2-year period. Logistic regression models were constructed determine their association develop comorbidome.Results: We identified 229 201 failure. Age female gender higher (p <...
Eosinophilic Fasciitis is a rare rheumatologic disease usually characterized by erythema and limbs’ pain, cutaneous induration peripheral eosinophilia. However, it important to consider in differential diagnosis of others scleroderma-like syndromes. The authors present case 52-year-old woman who presented our hospital with four months evolution limb trunk diffuse symmetrical induration, thickening the skin without joint involvement no history Raynaud's phenomenon. On physical examination,...
<b>Background:</b> Comorbidities are thought to have prognostic impact on outcomes of patients submitted noninvasive ventilation (NIV). <b>Aims and Objectives:</b> Determine if age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity index (ACCI) could predict in undergoing NIV due acute respiratory failure. <b>Methods:</b> Patients admitted an intermediate care unit a general hospital 2015-2016, with failure NIV, were prospective evaluated comparing patient's characteristics according low/high ACCI. Each...
Introdução: A polineuropatia simétrica distal (PNSD) é umacomplicação frequente e catastrófica da diabetes mellitus, massubdiagnosticada. Os autores colocam a hipótese de o internamento ser uma oportunidade rastreio PNSD pretendemcomparar dois métodos diagnóstico.Material Métodos: Estudo prospetivo multicêntrico,que incluiu doentes diabéticos internados nos serviços medicina interna hospitais, entre maio outubro 2015.Foi aplicada escala MNSI (Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument) teste...
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Asthma is a disease with multiple phenotypes and different degrees of severity. Severe inflammation appears when oxidative stress (OS) overwhelms the antioxidant defense. Knowing role OS in increase chromosome instability (CI) and, consequently, cancer predisposition, it important to carry out studies establish limits for harmful effects. The aim this study was evaluate OS-related CI asthma patients possible protective effect antioxidants. For that purpose, spontaneous OS-induced lymphocyte...
Introdução: Na população envelhecida, a falência respiratória aguda (FRA) é das causas mais prevalentes de observação no serviço urgência. A ventilação não invasiva por pressão positiva (VNiPP) mostrou bons resultados nos doen- tes críticos com FRA. Mas evidência em doentes muito idosos escassa. O objetivo do estudo analisar os outcomes uso VNiPP nesta população.
 Métodos: Conduzimos um prospetivo observacional numa unidade cuidados intermédios hospital universitário. Foram incluídos e...