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Mental health-promoting intervention models in university students: a systemati...

Background The transition to higher education represents a demanding adaptation process with several socioeconomic factors involved. Mental health problems among university students have been worsening since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective is to create scientific evidence about the models of mental health-promoting interventions among higher education students applied in academic environme...

Massive Osteolytic Lesion of the Femur after Total Knee Arthroplasty.

Various failure mechanisms have been identified in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We hereby present one case of failure, which stands out because of its rapid and destructive progression. We report the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian female patient who developed a large bone osteolytic lesion of the femur after TKA. The patient presented to our hospital 7 years after the initial surgery, complaining of persiste...

A classificação toxicológica dos pesticidas em 2011 em Portugal

A muito deficiente informação, da Autoridade Fitossanitária Nacional (AFN) e das empresas de pesticidas, relativa à classificação toxicológica dos pesticidas, tem sido evidenciada, desde 2005, e é confirmada pela análise das 306 substâncias activas (s.a.) autorizadas em 2011, em Portugal. O sistemático menor número de s.a. com perigosas classificações toxicológicas, referido pela AFN, em contraste com a Europea...

Primary gastric plasmacytoma: a rare entity

Extramedullary plasmacytomas (EP) are tumours composed by a monoclonal population of plasma cells that arise in extraosseus tissues, comprising <5% of all plasma cell neoplasms. Usually, EP arise in the head and neck region, and the stomach is the second most common location-gastric plasmacytoma (GP). Clinical and radiological manifestations are unspecific and may mimic other tumours like gastric adenocarcinoma...

Drug-Induced Acute Pancreatitis and Pseudoaneurysms: An Ominous Combination

Rupture of pseudoaneurysms is rare but can be life-threatening complications of acute or chronic pancreatitis, usually due to enzymatic digestion of vessel walls crossing peripancreatic fluid collections. We report the case of a 40 year-old female, with multisystemic lupus and anticoagulated for prior thrombotic events, admitted for probable cyclosporine-induced acute pancreatitis. Hemodynamic instability occur...

Endoscopic treatment of bleeding gastric varices with histoacryl (N-butyl-2-cya...

BACKGROUND: Endoscopic injection of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate is the current recommended treatment for gastric variceal bleeding. Despite the extensive worldwide use, there are still differences related to the technique, safety, and long term-results. We retrospectively evaluated the efficacy and safety of cyanoacrylate in patients with gastric variceal bleeding. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between January 1998 and Jan...

Gastric leiomyoma and hyperplastic polyposis coli in a patient with multiple cu...

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leiomyomatosis has been associated with multiple uterine myomas and, more recently, with germline heterozygous mutations of the FH gene and certain types of renal cancer. Despite the growing amount of knowledge concerning this genodermatosis, its clinical spectrum remains incompletely characterized. OBJECTIVE: We report the observation of a patient with multiple cutaneous and uterine leiom...

O Doente Cirrótico na Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos: Avaliação do Prognóstico

INTRODUÇÃO: Os doentes com cirrose hepática admitidos em Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) têm um prognóstico particularmente reservado. O prognóstico destes doentes pode ser avaliado com scores gerais (SOFA, APACHE, SAPS) ou com scores específicos de cirrose hepática (MELD, Child-Pugh). OBJECTIVOS: Avaliar o valor prognóstico dos scores gerais (SOFA, APACHE e SAPS) e dos scores específicos de cirrose hepát...

Rare cause of fever in a patient with ulcerative colitis

Glycogenic acanthosis of the esophagus: an unusually endoscopic appearance