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Factors Influencing Performance of Cholangioscopy-Guided Lithotripsy Including ...
Alexandrino, G; Lopes, L; Fernandes, J; Moreira, M; Araújo, T; Campos, S; Loureiro, R; Figueiredo, L; Lourenço, LC; Horta, D; Bana e Costa, T; Costa, PBackground: Peroral cholangioscopy (POC)-guided lithotripsy is an effective treatment for difficult biliary stones. A clear definition of factors associated with the efficacy of POC-guided lithotripsy in one session and the performance of electrohydraulic lithotripsy (EHL) and laser lithotripsy (LL) have not clearly emerged. Methods: This was a non-randomized prospective multicenter study of all consecutive pat...
Should We Use Papilla Morphology to Estimate the Size of the Terminal Common Bi...
Lopes, L; Canena, J; Fernandes, J; Moreira, M; Costa, I; Gomes-Fonseca, J, et al.Objective: A small common bile duct (CBD) diameter has been associated with complications and with a difficult biliary cannulation. Previous studies suggested that this diameter can be predicted during the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) simply by observing the papillary morphology. Despite this published suggestion there is no study addressing this topic. This study evaluated a possible a...
Avaliação da vulnerabilidade à inundação nas zonas críticas de Portugal Contine...
Fernandez, P; Mourato, S; Pereira, LG; Moreira, MEm Portugal Continental, a Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente realizou uma avaliação preliminar dos riscos de inundações, identifican- do 23 zonas com riscos potenciais significativos de inundações. Apresenta-se uma metodologia para avaliar a vulnerabilidade po- tencial à inundação, usando a Análise de Componentes Principais e a Análise de Cluster. Esta metodologia permite identificar os hot spots, classificando 7%...
Digital Versus Conventional Rehabilitation After Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Sing...
Dias Correia, F; Nogueira, A; Magalhães, I; Guimarães, J; Moreira, M; Barradas, I; Molinos, M; Teixeira, L; Pires, J; Seabra, R; Lains, J; Bento, VBackground: The demand for total hip arthroplasty (THA) is rising. In the face of rapidly increasing health care costs, ensuring widespread, cost-effective rehabilitation is a priority. Technologies allowing independent home-based rehabilitation may be the key to facilitate access, improve effectiveness, and lower costs of care. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of a novel artificia...
Home-based Rehabilitation With A Novel Digital Biofeedback System versus Conven...
Correia, FD; Nogueira, A; Magalhães, I; Guimarães, J; Moreira, M; Barradas, I; Teixeira, L; Tulha, J; Seabra, R; Lains, J; Bento, VIn-person home-based rehabilitation and telerehabilitation can be as effective as clinic-based rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), but require heavy logistics and are highly dependent on human supervision. New technologies that allow independent home-based rehabilitation without constant human supervision may help solve this problem. This was a single-center, feasibility study comparing a digita...
The 2014-15 eruption and the short-term geochemical evolution of the Fogo volca...
Mata, J.; Martins, S.; Mattielli, N.; Madeira, JFA; Faria, B.; Ramalho, R. S.; Silva, P.; Moreira, M; Caldeira, R.; Moreira, Mário; Rodrigues, J.Recurrent eruptions at very active ocean island volcanoes provide the ideal means to gain insight on the scale of spatial variations at the mantle source and on temporal changes of magma genesis and evolution processes. In 2014, after 19 years of quiescence, Fogo volcano (Cape Verde Archipelago) experienced a new eruption, with the vents located 200 m from those of the 1995 eruption, and less than 2000 m from t...
MicroRNAs in lung cancer
Castro, D; Moreira, M; Gouveia, Alexandra; Pozza, D.; De Mello, RALung cancer (LC) is a serious public health problem responsible for the majority of cancer deaths and comorbidities in developed countries. Tobacco smoking is considered the main risk factor for LC; however, only a few smokers will be affected by this cancer. Current screening methods are focused on identifying the early stages of this malignancy. Thus, new data concerning the roles of microRNA alterations in i...
Social vulnerability assessment of flood risk using GISbased multicriteria deci...
Fernandez, P; Mourato, S; Moreira, MOver the last decade, flood disasters have affected millions of people and caused massive economic losses. Social vulnerability assessment uses a combination of several factors to represent a population’s differential access to resources and its ability to cope with and respond to hazards. In this paper, social vulnerability assessment to flood risk was applied to the third most populous Portuguese municipality...
Automatic calibration of the SHETRAN hydrological modelling system using MSCE
Zhang, R; Santos, C.A.C; Moreira, M; Freire, P K M M; Corte-Real, JAutomatic calibration is preferred because it provides an objective and extensive searching in the feasible parameter space. In this study, the Modified Shuffled Complex Evolution (MSCE) optimization algorithm is applied to automatically calibrate the physically-based spatially-distributed hydrological model SHETRAN in the 705-km2 semi-arid Cobres basin in southern Portugal, with a spatial resolution of 2 km an...
Avaliação do risco de inundação numa zona urbana. Aplicação ao Rio Febros
Fernandez, P; Mourato, S; Gonçalves, G; Pereira, L; Moreira, MO risco de inundação resulta do produto da probabilidade do perigo, da vulnerabilidade e do valor dos elementos expostos. O objectivo deste estudo é elaborar a carta de risco de inundação para um troço (4 km) do rio Febros no Concelho de Vila Nova de Gaia. O processamento de dados espaciais de alta resolução permite extrair dados de entrada para a modelação hidráulica de inundação. Para atingir estes objectivos...