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A Rare Case of Unilateral Tongue Edema with Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhib...
Gil Braga, Beatriz; Cravo, Márcia; Neves, Pedro; Pinto, Filipe; Mendonça, CatarinaAngiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) are widely used for the treatment of multiple conditions such as hypertension, heart failure and chronic kidney disease. Angioedema is a rare but potentially fatal complication of ACEi use and unilateral tongue edema is a very rare presentation. We report a case of a 55-year-old man, with a history of hypertension, on enalapril for three years, who presented to th...
Impact of Vitamin D Supplementation in a Heart Failure Population
Cravo, Márcia; Pereira, Nuno; Vigário, Ana; Ferreira, Tânia; Rego, Rita; Mendonça, Catarina; Marques, IreneIntroduction: Vitamin D (VD) deficiency is a major comorbidity, frequently associated to heart failure (HF). VD supplementation effects in these patients remain unknown. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the impact of VD deficiency treatment or therapy correction in HF patients´ cohort. Material and Methods: Observational retrospective single-center study enrolling patients admitted to a HF clinic with VD ...
Etanercept in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis and nephrotic syndrome in...
Domingos, Ana; Vidinha, Joana; Osorio, Rui; Jerónimo, Teresa; Ribeiro, Célia; Mendonça, Catarina; Góis, Mário; Neves, Pedro LeãoDear Editor, Amyloidosis represents a family of diseases characterized by the deposition of proteinaceous material in the extracellular space that, by forming insoluble clusters on various tissues and organs, affects its function.
Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic: How to Implement
Marques, Irene; Gomes, Catarina; Viamonte, Sofia; Ferreira, Gonçalo; Mendonça, CatarinaThe objective of this article is to briefly review the state-of-theartabout heart failure clinics and to report the implementationof our clinic, as an example in the Portuguese reality. Thereby,the evidence supporting the recommendations to implementthose clinics is reviewed, as well as their structure, domainsthat need to be addressed, necessary interventions and theimpact on outcomes after their implementatio...
The effect of instruction to synchronize over step frequency while walking with...
Mendonça, Catarina; Oliveira, Marta; Fontes, Liliana; Santos, Jorge A."Available online 16 January 2014"; Walking to a pacing stimulus has proven useful in motor rehabilitation, and it has been suggested that spontaneous synchronization could be preferable to intentional synchronization. But it is still unclear if the paced walking effect can occur spontaneously, or if intentionality plays a role. The aim of this work is to analyze the effect of sound pacing on gait with and with...
Learning Auditory Space: Generalization and Long-Term Effects
Mendonça, Catarina; Campos, Guilherme; Dias, Paulo; Santos, JorgeBackground: Previous findings have shown that humans can learn to localize with altered auditory space cues. Here we analyze such learning processes and their effects up to one month on both localization accuracy and sound externalization. Subjects were trained and retested, focusing on the effects of stimulus type in learning, stimulus type in localization, stimulus position, previous experience, externalizati...
The role of acoustic cues in time-to-passage judgments : judging time-to-pa...
Silva, Rosa Mariana Macedo Tinoco da; Mouta, Sandra; Mendonça, Catarina; Lamas, João; Silva, Carlos César Loureiro; Santos, Jorge A.5th Iberian Conference on Perception (CIP); Estimating the arrival of a moving sound is part of people’s everyday tasks, such as when crossing a street with cars coming from both sides (eg. Winer, 1980 in Rosenblum, Wuestefeld, Saldaña, 1993). Given equal distances, the beginning and ending positions of a moving sound’s source are perceived as closer when moving ...
Noise abatement and traffic safety: the trade-off of quieter engines and paveme...
Mendonça, Catarina; Freitas, Elisabete F.; Ferreira, J. P.; Raimundo, I.; Santos, Jorge A.Road traffic sounds are a major source of noise pollution in urban areas. But recent developments such as low noise pavements and hybrid/electric engine vehicles cast an optimistic outlook over such an environmental problem. However, it can be argued that engine, tire, and road noise could be relevant sources of information to avoid road traffic conflicts and accidents. In this paper, we analyze the potential t...
Depth cues and perceived audiovisual synchrony of biological motion
Silva, Carlos; Mendonça, Catarina; Mouta, Sandra; Silva, Rosa; Campos, J. Creissac; Santos, Jorge A.Due to their different propagation times, visual and auditory signals from external events arrive at the human sensory receptors with a disparate delay. This delay consistently varies with distance, but, despite such variability, most events are perceived as synchronic. There is, however, contradictory data and claims regarding the existence of compensatory mechanisms for distance in simultaneity judgments. Pri...
Learning auditory space: generalization and long-term effects
Mendonça, Catarina; Campos, Guilherme; Dias, Paulo; Santos, Jorge A.Background: Previous findings have shown that humans can learn to localize with altered auditory space cues. Here we analyze such learning processes and their effects up to one month on both localization accuracy and sound externalization. Subjects were trained and retested, focusing on the effects of stimulus type in learning, stimulus type in localization, stimulus position, previous experience, externalizati...