Introdução: A obesidade infantil está associada a grave morbilidade, a motivação para o tratamento geralmente é baixa e os resultados são habitualmente desanimadores. Objetivos: Caraterizar uma população com excesso de peso e obesidade inscrita na consulta de endocrinologia pediátrica e avaliar a existência de comorbilidades associadas. Material e Métodos: Estudo descritivo dos casos de peso excessivo (pré-obes...
Trabalho realizado na CeNTI e orientado pela Doutora Carla Joana Silva
A realização deste trabalho surge no âmbito do Curso de Pós-Licenciatura com Especialização em Enfermagem de Saúde Infantil e Pediátrica, da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e com a finalidade da atribuição do Grau de Mestre em Enfermagem, após ser sujeito a defesa pública. Todo este percurso formativo foi alicerçado na aquisição de um conjunto de competências profissionais diferenciadas na área de especializaç...
Tese de mestrado, Arte, Património e Restauro, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010 ; O presente trabalho centra – se no estudo do conceito de História Viva: origens, sua introdução em Portugal, primeiras intervenções, evolução, práticas actuais e projecções futuras, e por fim o estudo de um caso. Através da realização deste trabalho ambicionámos sistematizar toda a informação encontrada de forma ...
The prevalence of the childhood obesity through the last decades is increasing, with significant comorbidities and major health consequences. Children's food habits are influenced by family, friends, school and the media. Successful interventions for preventing childhood obesity must include nutrition education, physical activity, school-based programs, family participation and counseling.To evaluate the preval...
Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) is a rare immune disease. Clinical findings include congenital heart block (CHB), cutaneous manifestations, and hepatic and haematological abnormalities. The authors present a case of a baby with prenatal diagnosis of bradycardia. On the first day of life, she was bradycardic and a CHB (Mobitz type II) with left branch complete block was diagnosed. She had no structural cardia...
Allergic diseases are a major public health problem. It is essential to develop prevention strategies applied to it. A number of risk factors have been identified, but some are still under contradictory. Changing the dietary pattern of the at-risk infant may prevent food allergy. Evidence suggests that exclusive breast-feeding for the first 4-months seems to protect against atopic dermatitis in infants and earl...
This review summarises the fundamental immunologic principles regarding the cellular and molecular relations involved with immune function in a normal gestation. During the past decades, more information has been gathered to explain these complex immunological mechanisms. These mechanisms include both fetal factors such as trophoblast cell properties and altered MHC Class I expression and local maternal factors...
INTRODUCTION: Meningococcal disease has a wide spectrum of clinical presentation. Occult bacteremia is not easily diagnosed and may have good prognostic. CLINIC REPORT: Three year-old African boy with fever, gonalgia and gait disorder with 24 hours of evolution. Observation was unremarkable. He presented leukocytosis (27,300/mL) with neutrophilia (21,000/mL) and elevated reactive C protein (10.8 mg/dl) with nor...
Testicular microlithiasis is a rare entity, usually asymptomatic and bilateral. There are however reports that until 40% of the cases may be related with testicular tumours. We report an 11-year-old boy, with a four-month history of left testicular mass. Sonography showed increased volume of left testis and bilateral microlithiasis. Testicular biopsy revealed Sertoli cell tumour and he was submitted to left rad...
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