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Degree of Awareness Among Physicians and Nurses About Look-Alike, Sound-Alike a...

Introduction: Look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) and maximum alert drugs are associated with medicationerrors. The aim of this study was to assess the degree of awareness regarding these drugs among healthprofessionals of the Pediatric Emergency Department of a level II hospital.Material and Methods: A prospective comparative study was conducted, including physicians and nurses,by completing an anonymous questionna...

Traumatic Head Injury and Pneumocephalus

Engineering star-shaped lactic acid oligomers to develop novel functional adhes...

Direct polycondensation of L-lactic acid with a comonomer allows tailoring the properties of the product from the very first step. The viscous L-lactic acid co-oligomers with star-shaped architectures obtained were modified with three different acrylate monomers. Regardless the functionalization agent, UV curing was fast and all materials were cell compatible and promoted cell adhesion. The physical properties ...

VARICELA COMPLICADA: DOIS CASOS CLÍNICOS

Between hard covers and the “cloud”: Is a canon to be found?

The essay sums up the results also of a query, once it refers to a work in progress, developed over two years, in the scope of the World Cultures in English. Digital Humanities, Libraries, Schools, Social Development research project, of ULICES. Although the emerging field of Digital Humanities seems to be mostly dedicated to the possibilities of analysing big data located in the “cloud”, for producing knowledg...

Tumefacções Cutâneas Recidivantes — Dois Casos Clínicos

As míases são infestações causadas pela penetração de larvas de Dípteros em tecidos humanos ou animais. Nestes últimos, podem mesmo provocar a morte. No homem, raramente põem em causa a vida mas provocam doenças dolorosas e mutilantes, sendo fonte de mal estar. Os autores descrevem dois casos clínicos de crianças do sexo masculino que surgiram com tumefacções cutâneas migratórias e recidivantes. Ambos habitavam...

Hidronefrose de Diagnóstico Pré-Natal. Casuística do Serviço de Pediatria do Ho...

Com este trabalho, os autores pretendem avaliar a incidência de anomalias nefro-urológicas nos nados-vivos com hidronefrose (HN) de diagnóstico pré-natal no Hospital de São Teotónio — Viseu, no período de 01/01/95 A 31/12/99. Analisaram-se os processos de consulta das 260 (19%0) crianças em estudo, sob diversos parâmetros: sexo, lateralidade da HN, evolução ecográfica pós-natal, regressão das HN transitórias, e...

Between hard covers and the ‘cloud’. Is a canon to be found?

Cryptorchidism in adolescence.

An early investigation and management op cryptorchidism are essential for the diagnosis of associated pathologies, because intra-abdominal testis are associated with infertility and neoplasic risk. The authors describe a case of late presentation of cryptorchidism associated with genetic disorder.Adolescent male with 17 years old, referred to Adolescent Clinic for short stature and bilateral cryptorchidism. Hyp...

Aspartic vinyl sulfones: inhibitors of a caspase-3-dependent pathway

In this article we describe an expanded structureeactivity relationship study for vinyl sulfones as caspase-3 inhibitors, a topic virtually unexplored in the existing literature. Most remarkably, and to our surprise, tripeptidyl vinyl sulfones were not active for caspase-3, opposite to other examples described in literature for peptidyl vinyl sulfones as potent cysteine protease inhibitors of clan CA. Moreover,...