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Optical Coherence Tomography-Guided Full Plastic Jacket in Spontaneous Coronary...

Mean pulmonary arterial pressure after percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty predic...

INTRODUCTION AND AIM: Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty (PMV) is an effective treatment option for mitral stenosis (MS), but its success is assessed on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic outcomes in studies with relatively short follow-up. We aimed to characterize a cohort of patients undergoing PMV with long-term follow-up and to determine independent predictors of post-PMV mitral re-intervention and ...

Complications of endomyocardial biopsy in heart transplant patients: a retrospe...

BACKGROUND: Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of graft rejection after heart transplantation (HT). Our purpose was to evaluate the rate of complications of this invasive procedure. METHODS: This was a retrospective study of 175 patients, who were transplanted between November 2003 and October 2010 and survived more than 1 month after surgery. We evaluated the number of inco...

Embolia coronária aguda em portadora de prótese aórtica mecânica: caso clínico

Embolic myocardial infarction is a rare entity, which is often difficult to diagnose, and there is little agreement on its treatment. Patients with prosthetic valves are considered an important risk group. A 71-year-old woman with a mechanical aortic prosthesis was admitted with anterior ST segment elevation myocardial infarction after two hours of symptoms. Emergency angiography revealed an image suggestive of...

Invasive strategy in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes: risks and benef...

Results of the routine use of 4F catheters for diagnostic catheterization in a ...

INTRODUCTION: Complications at the site of vascular access are the most common adverse events in cardiac catheterization. The use of small gauge catheters may reduce this risk and allow earlier ambulation, the main disadvantage according to some authors being inferior image quality. The aim of our study was to evaluate the safety and image quality of 4 French diagnostic catheters. METHODS: We performed a retros...

Coronary fistulas after cardiac transplantation

In Vitro Methods for Specific IgE Detection on Cow’s Milk Allergy

Background: A new method for determining serum specific IgE (IMMULITE“ 2000 3gAllergy) has recently become available. Objective: To evaluate the clinical performance of IMMULITE 2000 in the diagnosis of cow’s milk allergy compared with that of UniCAP“. Additionally, we verified the behavior of both methods at two diagnostic decision points proposed by other authors. Methods: The study population consisted of 31...

Prevalência e Factores de Risco para Síndrome Látex-Frutos em Doentes com Alerg...

A associação de alergia ao látex e alergia alimentar a frutos e outros vegetais com reactividade cruzada com látex é denominada síndrome látex-frutos (SLF). Não existem estudos que avaliem factores de risco para SLF em doentes alérgicos ao látex, nomeadamente incluindo diferentes grupos populacionais de risco. Objectivo: Investigar a prevalência e factores de risco para SLF. Material e Métodos: Foram estudados ...

Avaliação do Desempenho do Teste de Rastreio de Alergia Alimentar FP5® (DPC-Ame...

Introdução: A utilização dos testes de rastreio para detecção de IgE específica sérica para diversos alergénios tem sido discutida, sendo invariavelmente aceite a sua utilidade no que diz respeito aos aeroalergénios, não tendo sido ainda suficientemente estabelecida a eficiência dos testes correspondentes destinados à detecção de alergénios alimentares, como acontece com o FP5® da Diagnostic Products Corporatio...