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Prevalence, characteristics, and impact of spinal and lower limb recurrent pain...

Objectives: To compare spinal and lower limb pain in adolescents regarding prevalence, characteristics, causes, and impact. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 13-year-old adolescents (female n=2210; male n=2353) from the Portuguese Generation XXI birth cohort. Data were collected between 2018 and 2020 through personal interviews by applying the Luebeck Pain Questionnaire. The pain fea...

Pain site persistence and changes from childhood to adolescence: a prospective ...

"Background: Pain is a complex experience that interferes with the well-being of youth who experience it. We aimed to assess whether recurrent pain sites in childhood can predict later recurrent pain sites prospectively. Methods: Pain was assessed using the Luebeck Pain Screening Questionnaire at ages 7, 10, and 13 from the Generation XXI cohort. We used multinomial regression to assess the association of recur...

From ISAD(G) to Linked Data Archival Descriptions

Archives preserve materials that allow us to understand and interpret the past and think about the future. With the evolution of the information society, archives must take advantage of technological innovations and adapt to changes in the kind and volume of the information created. Semantic Web representations are appropriate for structuring archival data and linking them to external sources, allowing versatil...

key points in differential diagnosis in myasthenic syndromes

Neuromuscular junction disorders are a heterogeneous group most often caused by imune or genetic abnormalities. They comprise Myasthenia Gravis, Lambert-Eaton Syndrome and Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes. Despite affecting different parts of the synapse, they share clinical and neurophysiological features, posing a diagnostic challenge. These disorders can be divided in subgroups, according to the causing antib...

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One year of Lamivudine therapy for portuguese patients with chronic hepatitis B.

OBJECTIVE: To further verify the efficacy and safety of locally manufactured lamivudine on patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). METHODS: 2200 patients with CHB were recruited and received lamivudine orally 100 mg once daily for 12 months. The efficacy assessments included virologic response rate (defined by the absence of serum HBV DNA, HBeAg loss and HBeAg/HBeAb seroconversion), percentage of patients with...

One Year of Lamivudine Therapy for Portuguese Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of lamivudine treatment on hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and/or hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) seroconversion, on other virological and serological markers of response including hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA and serum aminotransferases, and the safety of lamivudine treatment in hepatitis B patients. PATIENTS: This phase III open-label study evaluated the virological and bioc...

Significance of digestive hemorrhage in patients with chronic renal insufficien...

Gastrointestinal Bleeding (GIB) is a complication in patients with Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) on regular hemodialysis (HD). To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990. The average age was 57.4 +/- 14.2 years (17 to 87), time on HD 58.3 +/- 44.9 months, male = 166, female = 135. Of a total of 169 hospita...