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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Azathioprine
Vilas-Boas, S; Corte-Real, APosterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a rare syndrome that presents with neurological manifestations, often associated with arterial hypertension. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) shows bilateral white matter oedema in the posterior vascular territories. Immunosuppression, (pre) eclampsia and autoimmune diseases can be implicated. A 27-year-old woman, with mixed connective tissue disease under ...
Derivation and external validation of the SHIeLD score for predicting outcome i...
Freitas, P; Santos, AR; Ferreira, AM; Oliveira, A; Gonçalves, M; Corte-Real, A; Lameiras, C; Maurício, J; Ornelas, E; Matos, C; Faria, D; Augusto, JIdentifying patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism (PE) who may benefit from thrombolysis remains challenging. We sought to develop and validate a score to predict 30-days PE-related mortality and/or rescue thrombolysis. METHODS: We retrospectively assessed 554 patients with normotensive PE. Independent predictors of the studied endpoint were identified from variables available at admission in the emerge...