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PARAGANGLIOMA AND ANGIOEDEMA

Tavares-Bello, Rui; Dermatology Service, Hospital Militar Principal, Lisboa, Portugal

Paragangliomas or extra-adrenal pheochromocytomas are rare tumors that arise from chromaffin tissues and tend to occur either sporadically or in the context of complex genetic disorders. They are clinically heterogeneous in nature - symptoms deriving either from the secretory profile of the tumor or from the mass effect of the neoplasm. Dermatologic symptoms are quite seldom described in the literature and have...

Data: 2014 | Origem: Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia

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Estudo comparativo, aleatorizado, em dupla ocultação, de orlistat versus placeb...

Castro, JJ; Dias, T; Chambel, P; Carvalheiro, M; Correia, LG; Guerreiro, L; Marques, O; Medina, JL; Nobre, E; Nunes, JS; Pereira, MC; Polónia, J

INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a chronic disease and a serious health problem that leads to increased prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and gallbladder disease. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of orlistat for weight loss and improved lipid profile compared to placebo in obese patients with hypercholesterolemia, treated over a period of 6 months. METHODOLOGY: In a 6-month, multicenter (10 center...

Data: 2009 | Origem: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra

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Estudo Comparativo, Aleatorizado, em Dupla Ocultação, de Orlistat Versus Placeb...

Castro, JJ; Dias, T; Chambel, P; Carvalheiro, M; Correia, LG; Guerreiro, L; Marques, O; Medina, JL; Nobre, E; Silva Nunes, J; Pereira, MC; Polónia, J

INTRODUCTION: Obesity is a chronic disease and a serious health problem that leads to increased prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and gallbladder disease. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of orlistat for weight loss and improved lipid profile compared to placebo in obese patients with hypercholesterolemia, treated over a period of 6 months. METHODOLOGY: In a 6-month, multicenter (10 center...

Data: 2009 | Origem: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, EPE

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Activity of beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase in chronic alcoholic liver disease.

Pinto, C; Instituto de Química Fisiológica, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa.; Galvão-Teles, A; Monteiro, E; Marques, C

Serum N-acetyl-B-glucosaminidase (NAG) activity was determined in a control group of 76 normal people and in 23 patients with hepatic cirrhosis: 15 non-compensated patients and 8 with compensated chronic liver fibrosis. NAG is significantly increased in the non-compensated group--mean value of 931.67 units vs 637.71 units for the controls (p less than 0.001). There is no significant elevation regarding the comp...

Data: 1990 | Origem: Acta Médica Portuguesa

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