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The Impact of Donor Risk Index, Recipients’ and Operative Characteristics on Po...

Abstract Background and Aims: The donor risk index (DRI) quantifies donor-related characteristics potentially associated with increased risk of early graft failure. We aimed to assess the impact of the DRI, recipient and perioperative factors on post liver transplant (LT) outcomes. Methods: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study including all adult (≥18 years) patients who underwent LT from 01/2019...

Neutropenic enterocolitis (typhlitis) in a kidney transplant patient: A case re...

Typhlitis is a clinical entity rare in adults, reported in immunosuppressed patients. It is a life-threatening condition that occurs in neutropenic patients due to compromised integrity of the bowel wall and its exact pathogenesis is not completely understood. We report a 35-year-old man with a post deceased donor renal and pancreas transplantation status who presented fever and febrile neutropenia. Three days ...

Baveno VI Recommendation on Avoidance of Screening Endoscopy in Cirrhotic Patie...

Introduction: Recent studies assessed the predictive value of liver transient elastography, combined or not with platelet count, for the presence of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis, and multiple cutoffs have been proposed. The Baveno VI consensus states that patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease, liver stiffness <20 kPa, and a platelet count &gt;150,000 have a very low ris...

Fistulization of J-PEG Jejunal Tube into the Colon in a Patient Treated with Du...

The continuous delivery of a levodopa/carbidopa gel suspension (Duodopa®) into the small bowel through a jejuna tube inserted via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy represents a new treatment method in advanced Parkinson disease. Some severe device-related complications have been described in the last few years. Some of them are associated with phytobezoar formation at the pigtail of the catheter. We present t...

Varizes «downhill»

Hematemeses como apresentação de tumor do testículo

A metastização de tumores do testículo para o retroperitoneu é uma causa rara de hemorragia gastrointestinal alta. Os autores descrevem o caso de um doente de 32 anos, com úlcera duodenal complicada com hemorragia como manifestação de tumor de células embrionárias não seminomatoso metastizado. O diagnóstico de tumor testicular metastático deve ser considerado na presença de ulceração do delgado no indivíduo jov...

Revelando sentidos na prática docente: a abordagem de corpus na análise do disc...

Este artigo discute a viabilidade da utilização de ferramentas da Linguística de Corpus na análise do discurso pedagógico. Para tanto, são apresentados dois estudos de caso. O primeiro focaliza o discurso de professores de língua inglesa de um renomado curso de idiomas do Rio de Janeiro acerca da implementação de recursos tecnológicos na sala de aula. O segundo estudo, por sua vez, busca perceber qual é o posic...