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Populações Celulares Periféricas (CD4+, CD8+ e CD19+) em Indivíduos Dislipidémi...

Introdução: Os mecanismos imunológicos e inflamatórios têm um papel crucial no desenvolvimento da aterosclerose e na sua tradução clínica. São inúmeros os estudos que procuraram relacionar os mais diversos marcadores inflamatórios – leucócitos, proteína C reactiva, interleucinas, quimiocinas, moléculas de adesão, metaloproteinases, etc – com os factores de risco clássicos da aterosclerose, a formação da placa e...

Síndrome Cardio-Renal: os desafios no tratamento da insuficiência cardíaca

Heart failure is a chronic and progressive disease that is estimated to affect approximately 20 million people worldwide and is one of the major public health problems. Its prevalence is reaching epidemic levels with about 550,000 new cases diagnosed annually, partly due to increased life expectancy in developed countries. And as it is a systemic disease, it can cause dysfunction in various organs, but especial...

Doença celíaca: revisão de conceitos e novos desenvolvimentos

Dementia in a patient with Thymoma and hypogammaglobulinaemia (Good's syndrome)

Good's syndrome is extremely rare and refers to an acquired B and T cell immunodeficiency in thymoma patients. The authors of this article present a case report of a 75-year-old, caucasian male patient previously subjected to examinations for secondary dementia and recurrent infections, which revealed paraneoplastic syndrome arose from thymoma. He underwent thymectomy, while his immunodeficiency syndrome sustai...

The diseases we cause: Iatrogenic illness in a department of internal medicine

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence, main causes, and risk factors of iatrogenic disease occurring in a department of internal medicine. METHODS: Over a 1-year period, physicians systematically filled out a 2-page questionnaire for all patients admitted to the ward. A database was created and the data were statistically analyzed. Patients undergoing immunosuppressive, chemo-, or rad...

Colite pseudomembranosa : uma casuística de internamentos

Introduction: pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is an infectious disease that generally begins after antibiotic treatment. Objectives: Characterize the patients with PMC in two Services of a Central Hospital. Material and Methods: we considered the patients admitted in a Medicine (MS) and in a Gastroenterology (GES) Service with primary or secondary diagnosis of PMC, between January/1995 and July/2003 and regist...

Incontinência urinária secundária ao carvedilol

Estatinas e microalbuminúria

Biópsia hepática: evolução numa casuística recente

Hiponatremia: contribuição de produtos homeopáticos