Introduction: When hypertension is suspected in young adults, an appropriate clinical, laboratory and imaging investigation should be carried out in order to exclude secondary causes. Clinical case: A 39-year-old male patient attended a consultation due to recurrent episodes of elevated blood pressure in an outpatient setting, with a few months of progression. He had visited the emergency department 2 days earl...
Objective. Respiratory tract infections remain a common problem in clinical practice with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Portugal, pneumonia was the third leading death cause in 2018. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing concern about the burden of respiratory diseases and preventable risk factors. The present study started before the pandemic and its aim was to determine the occurrence of p...
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A pandemia de COVID-19 teve um impacto profundo na sociedade portuguesa, que se mobilizou para evitar o colapso do Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS). Como estudantes de Medicina, não podíamos ficar de braços cruzados enquanto os nossos professores, colegas seniores de profissão, se debatiam contra este inimigo invisível. Sentíamos que era nosso dever agir. Esta atitude inconformista resultou em várias iniciativas...