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Sudden cardiovascular death & exercise: considerations on the XXIst century
Gouveia, Rosa Henriques de; Henriques de Gouveia, RosaExercise indubitably contributes to human health, life quality and increasing longevity; yet there are situations when it may lead morbidity/mortality, namely Sudden Cardiovascular Death. This short text draws attention to the need of knowing risk factors and pathology able to cause sudden and unexpected death; to the need of promoting preventive, therapeutic and emergency measures, which in the XXIst century m...
As “bexigas negras” e os museus históricos
Gouveia, Rosa Henriques de; Ferreira, Teresa; Carvalho, Lina; Cordeiro, Carlos Robalo
Wax hearts: seeking the antiquity of cardiac pathology
Gouveia, Rosa Henriques de; Santi, Raffaella; Ballestriero, Roberta; Galassi, Francesco; Carvalho, Lina; Nesi, GabriellaWax models of normal and diseased organs were formerly essential medical teaching tools. The ceroplastic heart models from two 19th century pathology museums at the Universities of Florence (n = 8) and Coimbra (n = 10) were analysed. The Florentine collection comprised congenital malformations as well as infectious and inflammatory disorders. The Coimbra waxworks included congenital defects, cardiac hypertrophy...
"Uninvited guests" of the brain in a 19th-century museum
Gouveia, Rosa Henriques de; Aguiar, M. João; Ferreira, Teresa; Carvalho, Lina