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Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion in a Real-Life Setting: a Mul...
Costa, JV; Moura-Coelho, N; Abreu, AC; Neves, P; Ornelas, M; Furtado, MJPurpose: To evaluate the presence of macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO)-both central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) and branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO)-3 years after diagnosis in patients who underwent intravitreal therapy and to identify potential prognostic factors and biomarkers of persistent macular edema. Methods: National multicenter, observational, exploratory, retrospective coho...
Dexamethasone Intravitreal Implant (Ozurdex) in Diabetic Macular Edema: Real-Wo...
Neves, P; Matias, I; Rodrigues, J; Santos, M; Dutra-Medeiros, M; Martins, DAim: To investigate the safety and efficacy of intravitreal dexamethasone implants (Ozurdex®/DEX) in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) either naïve or non-naïve to anti-VEGF therapies who switched to DEX implant independent of response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factors (anti-VEGFs). Methods: This was an audit retrospective review of medical records of patients with DME who switched to the DEX...
Self-disinfecting surfaces and infection control
Querido, MM; Aguiar, L; Neves, P; Pereira, CC; Teixeira, JPAccording to World Health Organization, every year in the European Union, 4 million patients acquire a healthcare associated infection. Even though some microorganisms represent no threat to healthy people, hospitals harbor different levels of immunocompetent individuals, namely patients receiving immunosuppressors, with previous infections, or those with extremes of age (young children and elderly), requiring ...
AVC e alterações cutâneas
Neves, P; Martins, R; Peres, J; Machado, S; Campillo, J; Herrero Valverde, A
Indoor exposure to bioaerosol particles: levels and implications for inhalation...
Madureira, J; Aguiar, L; Pereira, C; Mendes, A; Querido, MM; Neves, P; Teixeira, JPChildren spend most of their time inside schools and bioaerosol particles are part of their everyday environment. Although bioaerosol particles are considered to be a potential risk factor for various health concerns, information concerning the indoor exposures and inhalation doses is still limited. This study aimed (i) to quantify bacterial and fungal particles levels in indoor and outdoor air of public primar...
Mesoporous Carbon as effective and sustainable catalyst for fine chemistry
Castanheiro, J; Matos, I; Bernardo, M; Neves, P; Vital, J; Fonseca, IIt is well known that activated carbon with welldeveloped porosity is a promising material that have been used for several applications, from adsorption to catalysis. Research in this field has intensified in recent years, looking for new and improved characteristics and applications. Our research group, recently renamed Materials for Adsorption and Catalysis group (MAC) in LAQV-REQUIMTE, has also devoted many ...
The Influence of Thermal Comfort on the Quality of Life of Nursing Home Residents
Mendes, A; Papoila, AL; Carreiro-Martins, P; Aguiar, L; Bonassi, S; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Ribeiro, AS; Neves, P; Pereira, C; Botelho, A; Neuparth, NThermal comfort (TC) parameters were measured in 130 rooms from nursing homes (NH), following ISO 7730:2005 in order to evaluate the influence of winter season TC indices on quality of life (QoL) in older individuals. Mean radiant temperature (mrT), predicted mean vote (PMV) and predicted percent of dissatisfied people (PPD) indices, and the respective measurement uncertainties were calculated using Monte Carlo...
The Influence of Thermal Comfort on the Quality of Life of Nursing Home Residents
Mendes, A; Papoila, AL; Carreiro-Martins, P; Aguiar, L; Bonassi, S; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Ribeiro, AS; Neves, P; Pereira, C; Botelho, A; Neuparth, NThermal comfort (TC) parameters were measured in 130 rooms from nursing homes (NH), following ISO 7730:2005 in order to evaluate the influence of winter season TC indices on quality of life (QoL) in older individuals. Mean radiant temperature (mrT), predicted mean vote (PMV) and predicted percent of dissatisfied people (PPD) indices, and the respective measurement uncertainties were calculated using Monte Carlo...
The impact of indoor air quality and contaminants on respiratory health of olde...
Mendes, A; Papoila, AL; Carreiro-Martins, P; Bonassi, S; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Aguiar, L; Pereira, C; Neves, P; Mendes, D; Botelho, MA; Neuparth, NBACKGROUND: persons who are 65 years or older often spend an important part of their lives indoors thus adverse indoor climate might influence their health status. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the influence of indoor air quality and contaminants on older people's respiratory health. DESIGN: cross-sectional study. SETTING: 21 long-term care residences (LTC) in the city of Porto, Portugal. SUBJECTS: older people living...
Mesoporous zirconia-based mixed oxides as versatile acid catalystsfor producing...
Castanheiro, J; Neves, P; Russo, P; Fernandes, A; Antunes, M; Farinha, J; Pillinger, M; Ribeiro, M; Valente, AMesostructured zirconium-based mixed oxides (MZM) are versatile solid acid catalysts for the chemicalvalorisation of biomass, within sugar and fatty acid platforms of biorefineries. MZM catalysts contain-ing tungsten and/or aluminium were prepared via a templating route that allows the texture and acidproperties to be improved. Their catalytic potential was explored for synthesising different types ofinterestin...