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Estudo Nacional sobre o Racismo no Futebol em Portugal: Perceções e vivências

High Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Patients with HIV-Infection

Introduction: Sexual transmitted infections (STI) are an important health problem and increase the risk for acquisition and transmission of HIV. We aimed to identify STIs diagnosed in patients with known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and in newly diagnosed ones.Methods: Retrospective analysis of medical charts of individuals attending a specialized STI Clinic from 2009 to 2013.Results: A total of...

The approach between academics and journalists through the use of ethnographic ...

One of the challenges of the studies in the Field of Communication is the coming together between the academic world and the professional world. This relationship can be increased through an empiric work based on ethnographic methods. The use of this kind of methodology is based on the participant observation and interview make possible an analysis of the micro social realities, improving the understanding of t...

The role of the sports idol in the reshaping of media markets

The new media technologies allowed the entrance of new players in the market. Football clubs developed their own media department and invested in media products. In order to examine the new players position in the market, based in the Fairclough ?s Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper research two media products made by Botafogo Futebol e Regatas surrounding the time of Seedorf signing. This investment in co...

Duration of Antibiotic Therapy in Bacterial Meningitis

The duration of antibiotic therapy in bacterial meningitis is a controversial issue. Antibiotic regimens have changed over time along with the criteria used to determine the ideal antibiotic therapy duration. The authors aim to make an historical overview on this matter and simultaneously add the evidence of recent studies, pointing out some issues in results interpretation, namely, their design and the associa...

Cerebral malaria and post-malarial neurologi­cal syndrome

The cerebral form of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria is the commonnest and most important of the many neurologícal manifestations and complicatíons of malaria. The purpose of this article is to review, in some detail, our knowledge of cerebral malaria. By definition, cerebral malaria requires coma to persist for at least 30 minutes, alter a generalized convulsion, to make the distinction from transient pos...

Clinical aspects of infective endocarditis - A report of 5 cases in a departmen...

Infective endocarditis is a potentially life­ threatening disease. It is an infection of the endocardium and the heart valves (specially abnormal and susceptible cardiac structures), most often resulting from bacteremia. Infective endocarditis has a broad clinical picture, with systemic and multiorgan impairment. Major complaints are fever and others systemic symptoms such as night sweats, loss of appetite, wei...

Renal failure and the internist - Clinical and laboratorial management

A physician's approach to renalfailure should always be multifactoriaL It is important to esta­blish a differential diagnosis as regards the va­rious types of renal failure and to differentiate between an intrinsic renal lesion and multisys­ tem disorder. The initial approach should be non invasive and consist of a careful clinical history and examination, the analysis of the urinary se­diment and the renal ult...