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Air quality self-management in asthmatic patients with COPD: An integrative rev...

Objectives: Asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) patients experience a lower quality of life, frequent exacerbations, and worse pulmonary function. Environmental management is essential in a complex chronic condition, as pollutant exposure can worsen symptoms and increase morbidity and mortality. We aimed to identify evidence that informs nursing interventions in promoting self-mana...

Projecto Groundscene: biodiversidade de lagoas costeiras e respectivas bacias h...

Na União Europeia a Directiva Quadro da Água requer a avaliação do estado ecológico de todas as águas interiores (dulciaquícolas e de transição) e costeiras, incluindo os ecossistemas aquáticos superficiais cujo estado ecológico poderá estar dependente do estado das águas subterrâneas (AS). O estado ecológico em lagoas costeiras dependentes de AS depende das interacções AS - água doce superficial - água salgada...

Sirolimus-Induced Drug Fever in a Renal Transplant Patient: a Case Report

Herein we have described the case of a male renal transplant recipient who developed drug fever apparently related to sirolimus. He had been stable under an immunosuppressive regimen of tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil, but developed acute cellular rejection at 5 years after transplantation due to noncompliance. Renal biopsy showed marked interstitial fibrosis, and immunosuppression was switched from mycoph...

Chronic Allograft Dysfunction - Is There a Treatment?

BACKGROUND: The major causes of renal transplant loss are death and chronic allograft dysfunction (CAD). The aims of this study were to determine the incidence of CAD in our population and the relation between allograft survival and immunosuppressive regimens. METHODS: We studied retrospectively 473 patients who received deceased donor kidney transplants with at least 1 allograft biopsy between January 1990 and...

Leukopenia in Kidney Transplant Patients with the Association of Valganciclovir...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common viral infection after transplantation. Valganciclovir (VGC) is established for prophylaxis and treatment of CMV infections, but leukopenia which appears in 10% to 13% (severe in 4.9%) is the principal side effect. We have recently noted an increased incidence of leukopenia and severe neutropenia among our renal transplant patients and thought to identify the associated f...

Decreased Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Expression in Focal Segment...

Background: Proteinuria (PT) with SRL appears not only after conversion from a calcineurin inhibitor (CI), but also in de novo patients. The PT may be related to a hemodynamic effect of CI withdrawal or to a direct effect of SRL in glomerulus (GL). Recently an association between PT in SRL patients and FSGS lesions has been described. It is also known that SRL decrease VEGF synthesis and experimental data sugge...

Early cyclosporine a withdrawal in kidney transplant recipients under a sirolim...

An Early Case of de Novo Membranous Nephropathy in a Renal Transplant Patient