Funding Information: The authors would like to thank Evidenze Portugal, Lda. for medical writing assistance and CSL Vifor for financial support of the medical writing assistance. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening condition frequently encountered in clinical practice, particularly among patients with chronic kidney disease, heart failure, diabetes, and hyp...
Publisher Copyright: Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2025.; Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is the fastest-growing chronic disease in terms of prevalence and one of the biggest causes of global mortality according to the Global Burden of Disease Collaboration. This study aimed to project the natural disease progression of this disease in people with diabetes, and to quantify the costs and consequences in the...
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.; Introduction: Experience with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in the pediatric population is limited. Few medical centers have experts specifically trained in pediatric therapeutic endoscopy. As a result, patients are generally referred to adult endoscopists with high experience in the procedure. The aim of this ...
Breast fibromatosis is a benign fibroblastic proliferation accounting for less than 0.2% of breast tumors. It presents sporadically or as a manifestation of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Fibromatosis in FAP may develop in patients with adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene mutations at any location through the gene. Notably, there is an increased risk if mutation is downstream codon 1400. The present ca...