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Suicides in the Centre of Portugal: seven years analysis
Dias, Daniel; Mendonça, M. Cristina; Real, Francisco Corte; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; Teixeira, Helena M.As one of the more specific and distinctive problems of human beings, suicide has been investigated with increasing attention all over the world. Several risk factors have been described as well as limitations arising from their study. The World Health Organization estimates that this scourge affects one million people annually, which corresponds to one death every 40 s worldwide. According to recent studies, P...
Fatal intimate partner violence against women in Portugal: a forensic medical n...
Pereira, Ana Rita; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; Magalhães, TeresaIntimate partner violence (IPV) is an important cause of women's health and socio-familial severe problems, the most extreme being the victims' homicide. This is the first nationwide Portuguese autopsy-based and judicial-proven study about female intimate partner homicide. At least 62 women over 15 years old were killed by current or former men-intimate partners, corresponding to an IPV-related female mortalit...
Respecting Minor’s Autonomy in Child Custody Cases
Child custody decisions are among the most difficult is one of the most difficult for judges to make. The possibility of child abuse allegations or parents’ deviant/psychopathologic behaviours within this context, make the decision further complicated. Based on jurisprudence the listening of children opinion is a way to protect their best interest. In fact children have the right to express an opinion in all ma...
A validated procedure for detection and quantitation of salvinorin a in pericar...
Margalho, Cláudia; Gallardo, Eugenia; Castanheira, Alice; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; López-Rivadulla, Manuel; Real, Francisco CorteThe use of vitreous humor and pericardial fluid as alternative matrices to blood and plasma in the field of forensic toxicology is described to quantitate low levels of Salvinorin A using ethion as internal standard. The method was optimized and fully validated using international accepted guidelines. The developed methodology utilizes a solid phase extraction procedure coupled to gas chromatography mass spectr...
Driving under the influence of benzodiazepines and antidepressants: prescriptio...
Coutinho, Daniel; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; Teixeira, Helena MBenzodiazepines are drugs usually used in anxiety disorders, dyssomnias, convulsions, muscle disorders, alcohol and other drugs detoxification, as well as in preoperative sedation/amnesia. Moreover, antidepressants are mainly indicated in depression and as co-therapeutic drugs in other psychiatric disorders. The use of benzodiazepines and antidepressants is associated with some health and public safety problems...
Ethical, technical and legal procedures of the medical doctor responsibility to...
Dinis-Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge; Nunes, Rui; Carvalho, Félix; Santos, Agostinho; Teixeira, Helena; Vieira, Duarte Nuno; Magalhães, TeresaThe forensic toxicology (TF) is a science of analytical basis, aiming to clarify legal issues related to poisoning, whether or not fatal, within the various areas of law (criminal, civil, labor, etc.). The analysis that are more often requested (with a tendency to increase and gaining rising attention) are those concerning the procedures involving supervision of driving under the influence of alcohol and psycho...
Fatal intoxication with tianeptine (Stablon®)
Proença, Paula; Teixeira, Helena; Pinheiro, João; Monsanto, Paula V.; Vieira, Duarte NunoTianeptine (Stablon®), although structurally similar to tricyclic antidepressants, acts by enhancing the reuptake of serotonin. A fatal case is presented involving a 26-year-old man, found lying in bed with a "mushroom of foam" around his mouth. Empty blister packs of Stablon® and a suicide note were found next to the body. A liquid-liquid extraction procedure with n-hexane: ethyl acetate and n-hexane: 2-propan...
Two fatal intoxication cases with imidacloprid: LC/MS analysis
Proença, Paula; Teixeira, Helena; Castanheira, Fernando; Pinheiro, João; Monsanto, Paula V.; Marques, Estela P.; Vieira, Duarte NunoImidacloprid [1-(6-chloro-3pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylideneamine] is a new and potent nitromethylene insecticide with high insecticidal activity at very low application rates. It is the first highly effective insecticide that, like nicotine, acts on the nervous system, causing blockage of postsynaptic nicotinergic acetylcholine receptors. Two fatal cases with this insecticide in two male individuals...
Aldicarb poisoning: one case report
Proença, Paula; Teixeira, Helena; Mendonça, M. C. de; Castanheira, Fernando; Marques, Estela P.; Corte-Real, Francisco; Vieira, Duarte NunoThe carbamate aldicarb (Temik®) is a highly toxic (LD50 = 0.9 mg/kg oral in rats) insecticide often used in agriculture. ; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T6W-4DK68RB-3/1/a5fec0cd2a0224e85fd7b7b966b66e96
Pesticide intoxications in the Centre of Portugal: three years analysis
Teixeira, Helena; Proença, Paula; Alvarenga, Margarida; Oliveira, Margarida; Marques, Estela P.; Vieira, Duarte NunoPesticides are used in most countries around the world to protect agricultural and horticultural crops against damage. Poisoning by these toxicant agents occurs as a result of misuse or accidental exposure, and also by oral ingestion (voluntary or not). ; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T6W-4CG2KCF-3/1/a984b74c115ed266957d3ffa34951b0b
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