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Prediction of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythemat...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, autoimmune disease associated with major obstetrical complications such as gestational loss, preterm delivery, fetal growth restriction (FGR) and preeclampsia. Published literature is not consensual regarding the main risk factors for each of these outcomes. Our goal with this study was to determine the most important predictors for each of the main adverse pregn...

Pregnancy after Bariatric Surgery

Depression and anxiety symptoms following cancer diagnosis: a cross-sectional s...

INTRODUCTION: The aims of the present study were to assess demographic and clinical characteristics of patients after receiving a cancer diagnosis, and to determine possible risk factors for anxiety and depression. METHODS: All consecutive patients aged 18 or above, were assessed before starting intravenous chemotherapy for the first time with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Distress Therm...

Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Bipolar Disorder with Mixed Features.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in medication-nonresponsive patients with mixed mania and bipolar depression. METHOD: Forty-one patients with mixed mania (DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, most recent episode mixed) and 23 patients with bipolar depression (DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar I disorder, most recent episode depressed) consec...

Pathways to Care for First Psychiatric Admissions in Lisbon

OBJECTIVES:This report characterizes pathways to first psychiatric admission and describes their relationship to patients' sociodemographic and clinical features. METHODS: Eighty-four patients consecutively admitted for the first time in 2009-2010 to a Lisbon district psychiatric department were interviewed. Associations between pathways and clinical and sociodemographic variables were explored through univaria...

Estimation of the collective ionizing dose in the Portuguese population for the...

In 2009-2010 a Portuguese consortium was created to implement the methodologies proposed by the Dose Datamed II (DDM2) project, aiming to collect data from diagnostic X-ray and nuclear medicine (NM) procedures, in order to determine the most frequently prescribed exams and the associated ionizing radiation doses for the Portuguese population. The current study is the continuation of this work, although it focus...

Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis in Pregnancy: From Thrombolysis to Anticoagu...

INTRODUCTION: Pregnant women with mechanical prosthetic heart valves are at increased risk for valve thrombosis. Management decisions for this life-threatening complication are complex. Open-heart surgery has a very high risk of maternal mortality and fetal loss. Bleeding and embolic risks associated with thrombolytic agents, the limited efficacy of thrombolysis in certain subgroups, and a lack of experience in...

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Characteristics of frequent users of an acute psychiatric inpatient unit: a fiv...

OBJECTIVE: This study examined demographic and clinical characteristics of frequent users of a psychiatric inpatient unit in Portugal. METHODS: Data (2004-2008) for 1,348 consecutive psychiatric inpatients were reviewed. Frequent users (N=137), who had at least three admissions in the study period, were compared with nonfrequent users (N=1,211) on age, gender, race-ethnicity, diagnosis, and compulsory admission...

Kraepelinian systematic paraphrenia as a recognizable disorder

Objectives: To demonstrate that systematic paraphrenia as defined by Kraepelin (the most consistent prototypic paraphrenia subtype) can be recognized and diagnosed. Subjects and methods: All patients admitted to a Portuguese psychiatric inpatient unit between September 2006 and October 2011, meeting the criteria for systematic paraphrenia based on Kraepelin’s definition, Munro’s operational criteria and the aut...