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Fast-Track Management of Acute Chest Pain: Experience Gained in a Hospital from...

Introduction: As an effort to reduce mortality associated with acute myocardial infraction (AMI), a fast-track approach named Via Verde Coronária (VVC) was implemented nationwide in 2007. Data on how this approach is performing in different hospitals is still scarce. Our aims were to characterize the main diagnoses of patients included in VVC and to evaluate the proportion of cases diagnosed with AMI. Material ...

Estarão os Doentes com Fibrilhação Auricular Correctamente Anticoagulados? Um R...

Introduction: Oral anticoagulants (OACs) have proven to minimize the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the proportion of patients that are not on OACs and have indication to be is still high. Our aim was to evaluate the proportion of AF patients receiving anticoagulation therapy and to evaluate the quality of OACs prescribing.    Material and Methods: A cross-sectional...

Identification of potentially inappropriate medications with risk of major adve...

Oral anticoagulation on patients with atrial fibrillation: are we doing a good ...

Pneumococcal bacteremia as the initial presentation of multiple myeloma – a cas...

Multiple Myeloma (MM) accounts for approximately one percent of all cancers and is characterized by the neoplastic proliferation of a single clone of plasma cells producing a monoclonal immunoglobulin. Clinical features are anemia, bone pain, renal failure and hypercalcemia. Rarely, a bacterial infection is the initial presentation of this disease. We report a case in which bacteremia caused by Streptococcus pn...

β-Thalassemia and Lymphoma: coincidence or association? – a clinical report

β-Thalassemia is one of the most common hemoglobinopathies in the world, characterized by the absence or decrease on the β-hemoglobin chain production. The coexistence of β-Thalassemia and lymphoma is rare, but it has been reported in the literature, associated with better treatment approaches of β-Thalassemia major. In this article, it is reported a case of β-Thalassemia minor presented with non-Hodgkin lympho...