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Effectiveness of Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Intraocular R...
Castela, Guilherme; Providência, Joana; Monteiro, Madalena; Oliveiros, Bárbara; Silva, Sónia; Brito, Manuel; Machado, Egídio; Murta, Joaquim NetoPurpose: We aim to report about effectiveness and safety in the context of our centers’ setting in the management of retinoblastoma with intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC) in a 5-year retrospective analysis of the Portuguese population. Patients and Methods: Retrospective analysis of consecutive cases of retinoblastoma selected to initiate IAC between 2015 and 2020, at the Portuguese National Reference Center. A...
Characterization of the Portuguese population diagnosed with retinoblastoma
Castela, Guilherme; Providência, Joana; Monteiro, Madalena; Silva, Sonia; Brito, Manuel; Sá, Joaquim; Oliveiros, Bárbara; Murta, Joaquim NetoThe purpose of this study is to characterize demographically and genetically the Portuguese population with retinoblastoma; to report the clinical stage at presentation and its impact on survival and ocular preservation rate and, finally, to assess the incidence of retinoblastoma in Portugal. Retrospective observational study including children consecutively diagnosed with retinoblastoma at the Portuguese Natio...
Treatment of Advanced Retinoblastoma in Children Evacuated from Low-Income Coun...
Castela, Guilherme; Providência, Joana; Monteiro, Madalena; Silva, Sónia; Brito, Manuel; Murta, Joaquim Neto; Correa, Zélia; Castelo-Branco, MiguelObjective: The aim of our study was to characterize the evacuated African patients diagnosed with retinoblastoma and referred to the Portuguese national referral center (Centro Hospital e Universitário de Coimbra, University of Coimbra), identifying inequalities in the stage of diagnosis and prognostic results. Design: Retrospective observational study of evacuated African patients diagnosed with retinoblastoma...
Trends in corneal transplant indications and techniques in Coimbra, Portugal: 2...
Bernardes, Luís Araújo Matos Caldeira; Quadrado-Gil, joão; Garcia, Huguete; Rosa, Andreia; Costa, Esmeralda; Tavares, Cristina; Quadrado, Maria JoãoAbstract Objective: the aim of this study is to determine the recent trends in corneal transplant indications and corneal tissue use in Coimbra. Methods: data concerning all corneal transplantation procedures performed at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC) between 2011 and 2016 were collected and stored at the CHUC Eye Bank. We retrospectively analysed recipient age, gender, primary diagnosis a...
Estratégia Nacional para a Saúde da Visão
Magalhães, Augusto; Falcão, Manuel; Campos, Nuno; Monteiro Grillo, Manuel; Murta, Joaquim Neto; Breda, Jorge; Menéres, Pedro; Quadrado, Maria João
Development of the Portuguese version of a standardized reading test: the Radne...
Rosa, Andreia Martins; Farinha, Cláudia Louro; Radner, Wolfgang; Diendorfer, Gabriela; Loureiro, Maria de Fátima; Murta, Joaquim NetoPurpose: To develop 27 short sentence optotypes for the Portuguese version of the Radner Reading Charts. Methods: Thirty-four Portuguese sentences were constructed following the concept of the Radner Reading Charts to obtain highly comparable sentences in terms of lexical difficulty, syntactical complexity, word length, number of syllables, and position of words. A long text (106 words) at the 5th grade reading...