Background and Aims: End-stage liver disease (ESLD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, comparable to a large extent to other organ insufficiencies. The need for palliative care (PC) in patients with ESLD is high. In Portugal, in the only identified study, more than 80% of patients hospitalized with ESLD had criteria for PC. No results specified which needs they identified or their transplantation...
Gold nanoparticles functionalized with thiolated oligonucleotides (Au-nanoprobes) have been used in a range of applications for the detection of bioanalytes of interest, from ions to proteins and DNA targets. These detection strategies are based on the unique optical properties of gold nanoparticles, in particular, the intense color that is subject to modulation by modification of the medium dieletric. Au-nanop...
Tendo em vista a avaliação da variabilidade espacial da produção e da qualidade do vinho à escala da parcela, apresentam-se resultados preliminares de um estudo em curso no Alentejo. Observou-se uma correlação positiva entre a condutividade eléctrica aparente (ECa) do solo e a presença de solos com maior espessura de horizontes de textura fina, alguns desde a superfície e com argilas de maior CTC. Estes solos t...
Shell's influence on the drying behavior of two European chestnut (Castanea sativa mill.) varieties, Longal and Judia, was investigated in the present work. For this purpose, chestnuts of both varieties were dried in a hot air convection oven at 50.0 +/- 2.0 degrees C and air velocity of 1.0 +/- 0.1 m/s. The fruits were dried with and without outer shell, the axial dimensions, volumetric shrinkage and color bei...
The use of minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of lung cancer has been growing worldwide. Between May 2008 and November 2012, we performed 24 videothoracoscopic anatomical lung resections in our department. This includes 22 lobectomies and 2 anatomic segmentectomies, which is known to be a more complex surgery, since it demands a finer dissection of sub-lobar structures. We report the clinical cases of...