BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is the severe complication of stress-related mucosal disease in hospitalized patients. In intensive care units (ICU), risk factors are well defined and only mechanical ventilation and coagulopathy proved to be relevant for significant bleeding. On the contrary, in non-ICU settings there is no consensus about this issue. Nevertheless, omeprazole is still widely used in...
Development of some immune-mediated disorders may depend on dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. To explore neuropsychologic mechanisms in relation to the abnormal endocrine reactivity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and chronic hepatitis C (CHC) we used the corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) test, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), and the ...
Os autores reviram 20 casos de L.E.D. estudados no Serviço de 1982 a 1985, sujeitaram-nos a um protocolo baseado nos critérios estabelecidos pela A.R.A. para o diagnóstico desta doença e comentaram, à luz da literatura actualmente disponível, os seus achados clínico-laboratoriais.
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