Scaletti, Sara Duarte, Inês Senra, Catarina Almeida, Jorge Ferreira, António Jorge Walbrin, Jon Pilacinski, Artur
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Portuguese Journal of Public Health
Perception of risk is known to change throughout the lifespan. Previous studies showed that younger adults are more prone to risk behaviours than older adults. Do these age-related differences influence risk perception during a pandemic crisis? Here, we investigated how age influenced predicted risk during the COVID-19 emergency state in Portugal. ...
Trivizki, Omer Wang, Liang Iyer, Prashanth Shi, Yingying Rosenfeld, Philip J. Rabinovitch, David Townsend, Justin
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
A rare occurrence of bilateral peripapillary choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in an 18-year-old idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) patient regressed with systemic acetazolamide treatment alone. Multimodal imaging was done, including OCT angiography (OCTA), which showed CNV. No injections were given even though she had macular fluid in her...
Seringa, Joana Pedreiras, Sérgio Freitas, Maria João Valente de Matos, Rosa Rocha, João Millett, Christopher Santana, Rui
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Portuguese Journal of Public Health
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed greater financial pressure on health systems and institutions that had to respond to the specific needs of COVID-19 patients while ensuring the safety of the diagnosis and treatment of all patients and healthcare professionals. To assess the financial impact of COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals, we ...
Saito, Hiroshi
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Case Reports in Neurology
Although it is generally recognized that pure autonomic failure (PAF) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease selectively involving the autonomic nervous system, its mode of progression remains to be settled. A 57-year-old man presented with sweat reduction on the left side during previous 3 years. The thermoregulatory sweat test revealed left-s...
Guidi, Jenny Fava, Giovanni A.
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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Euthymia is a trans-diagnostic construct characterized by lack of mood disturbances; presence of positive affect; balance of psychological well-being dimensions, flexibility, consistency, and resistance to stress. The aim of this critical review is to draw a conceptual map of euthymia. Relationships with other constructs, continuum between euthymia...
Larochelle, Ryan Levitt, Alexandra Liao, Sophie
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Case Reports in Ophthalmology
Hematic pseudocysts are fibrous, nonepithelial lined capsules containing blood byproducts that typically present remotely following orbital fracture hardware implantation. Trauma, implant migration, and tissue erosion are believed to cause hemorrhage to pool within the capsular space. Risk factors include inadequate posterior fracture reduction and...
Chen, Ying Lai, Linglin Mo, Zhentao Li, Xu Su, Xiaotong Li, Yiqi Leng, Ennian Zhang, Yueyue Li, Wenna
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Pharmacology
Introduction: Mulberry (Morus alba L.) leaves are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-obesity, antidiabetic, antiatherosclerotic, and anticancer properties. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of mulberry leaf extract (MLE) on Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)-induc...
Fujita, Kohei Nakatani, Koichi Imakita, Takuma Kanai, Osamu Mio, Tadashi
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Case Reports in Oncology
Malignant melanoma is a rare and high-grade cancer. It most commonly affects the skin, but it has the potential to involve all areas of the body. Primary pulmonary malignant melanoma is rare, accounting for only 0.01% of all pulmonary tumors. We present a case of primary pulmonary malignant melanoma in a 90-year-old patient. The pretreatment comput...
Meier, Beat
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Complementary Medicine Research
Sano, Momoko Noguchi, Masaaki Kinoshita, Akiyoshi Nakamura, Mayo Koike, Kazuhiko Saruta, Masayuki
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Case Reports in Oncology
Neuroendocrine neoplasms are rare epithelial neoplasms with neuroendocrine differentiation. Few cases of primary testicular poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas (PD-NECs) have been reported, and secondary testicular neoplasms are rare. A 61-year-old man with a chief complaint of left testicular swelling was referred to our hospital. An o...
