Published in Cirugia espanola
Inguinodynia or chronic postoperative inguinal pain is a growing problem between patients who undergo surgical repair of an inguinal hernia. The change in results measurement proposed by many authors towards Patient Reported Outcome Measurement has underlined the importance of chronic postoperative inguinal pain, because of the great limitations in...
Published in Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva : ABCD
Background: It is important to obtain representative histological samples of solid biliopancreatic lesions without a clear indication for resection. The role of new needles in such task is yet to be determined. Aim: To compare performance assessment between 20G double fine needle biopsy (FNB) and conventional 22G fine needle aspiration (FNA) needle...
Published in Radiologi´a
The pandemia caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has triggered an unprecedented health and economic crisis. Although the diagnosis of infection with SARS-CoV-2 is microbiological, imaging techniques play an important role in supporting the diagnosis, grading the severity of disease, guiding treatment, detecting complications, and evaluating the response...
Resumo: Introdução: Em tempos de ameaças constantes ao financiamento destinado à manutenção do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), faz-se necessário debruçar o olhar sobre a prática médica, sobretudo no que tange ao alto custo que o emprego desnecessário de exames complementares ocasiona à saúde pública. Objetivo: Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar ...
A pesquisa buscou conhecer o acervo do arquivo setorial da Coordenadoria de Registro Escolar por meio de diagnóstico, a fim de identificar os tipos de documentos produzidos, recebidos e acumulados no setor e verificar o processo de acondicionamento e armazenamento. Tendo como objetivo geral diagnosticar os problemas existentes no arquivo setorial d...
Published in Medicina clinica
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic the risk of misdiagnosis of other causes of respiratory infection is likely. In this work we aim to describe the clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome of pneumococcal infection in COVID-19 patients. Every COVID-19 patient presenting with concomitant pneumococcal pneumonia during March 2020 in a tert...
Published in Medicina Clinica (English Ed.)
Background In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic the risk of misdiagnosis of other causes of respiratory infection is likely. In this work we aim to describe the clinical characteristics, treatment and outcome of pneumococcal infection in COVID-19 patients. Patients and methods Every COVID-19 patient presenting with concomitant pneumococcal pneum...
Published in Revista Iberoamericana De Micologia
Background Patients with severe viral pneumonia are likely to receive high-dose immunomodulatory drugs to prevent clinical worsening. Aspergillus species have been described as frequent secondary pneumonia agents in severely ill influenza patients receiving steroids. COVID-19 patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are receiving steroids as ...
Published in Actas dermo-sifiliograficas
Published in Medicina clinica
Despite recent successful efforts to reduce the global malaria burden, this disease remains a significant global health problem. Only in 2018, malaria caused 228 million clinical episodes, 2-4 million of which were severe malaria cases, and 405,000 were fatal. Most of the malaria attributable mortality occurred among children in sub-Saharan Africa....
