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Update of the Post-Splenectomy Vaccination Protocol and Educational Measures in...

Anatomical or functional asplenia is associated with immunodeficiency and a significantly increased risk of life-threatening infections caused by encapsulated bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis. These infections can rapidly progress to overwhelming post-splenectomy infection (OPSI), with high mortality. Prevention through vaccination, antibiotic prophy...

LATE CUTANEOUS METASTASES FROM GASTRIC CARCINOMA: A Case Report

Cutaneous metastases from primary gastric carcinoma are uncommon, generally occur late in the course of the disease and have a poor prognosis. We report a long-term survival of a patient with cutaneous metastases from a gastric carcinoma. A 56-year-old patient, previously diagnosed with a poorly differentiated signet-ring cell gastric carcinoma staged as ypT3N3aM0, who underwent total gastrectomy with Roux-en-y...

Erradicação, contenção e controlo de espécies invasoras.

Os primeiros estudos que procuraram explicar os processos de invasão biológica, incidiram sobre a vulnerabilidade das comunidades biológicas das ilhas e sobre o impacto da fixação de populações humanas, as quais favoreceram a introdução deliberada de uma grande variedade de animais e plantas. Um dos cientistas que mais cedo abordou a problemática das invasões biológicas, e que se pode considerar pioneiro neste ...

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Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Prophylaxis in surgical patients

Introduction: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is assumed as a major cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients, being a major public health problem. Surgery determines a prothrombotic state and there is a need for appropriate thromboprophylaxis according to risk stratification of these patients. Despite good evidence of cost-benefit and created guidelines and risk assessment models, prop...

O papel do jingle em anúncios publicitários televisivos destinados a crianças

A música é utilizada cada vez mais pelos anunciantes e agências de publicidade, como forma de cativar a atenção do espectador. Ao relacionarem-se os jingles de anúncios publicitários com crianças, tem-se o mote para a presente investigação. Este trabalho pretende verificar o papel dos jingles em três anúncios publicitários, da categoria hipermercados, destinados às crianças, na época do Natal. Posteriormente, f...

Adding pieces to the Portuguese Sign Language lexicon puzzle: three pilot studies

The main goal of this article is to present several pieces of the “puzzle” concerning Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) lexicon – polissemy, linguistic specialization of forms and the sign’s history throughout time –, thus demonstrating how these pieces fit into the linguistic mechanism of human creativity and the dynamic evolution of languages, two privileged factors in cultural expression. ; O principal obj...

Adding pieces to the Portuguese Sign Language lexicon puzzle: three pilot studies

The main goal of this article is to present several pieces of the “puzzle” concerning Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) lexicon – polissemy, linguistic specialization of forms and the sign’s history throughout time –, thus demonstrating how these pieces fit into the linguistic mechanism of human creativity and the dynamic evolution of languages, two privileged factors in cultural expression.