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Emotional, inflammatory, and genetic factors of resilience and vulnerability to...
Almeida, SS; Oliveira, MA; Medeiros, R; Guerra, MP; Pariante, CM; Fernandes, LBackground: Psychosocial stress and depressive disorder have been associated with cancer as putative contributors to worse prognosis. On the other hand, cancer diagnosis is a recognised life event that can contribute to distress and depressive states. Humoral and cellular inflammation can promote depressive disorder by means of decreased monoamine synthesis, glutamate neurotoxicity, neurogenesis and neuroplasti...
Stress-Related Growth Scale-Short Form: A Portuguese validation for cancer pati...
Oliveira, MA; Guerra, MP; Lencastre, L; Castro, S; Moutinho, S; Park, CLAbstract background/objective: Cancer can be extremely disruptive, triggering high levels of distress, and at the same time transformative, promoting perceptions of positive life changes and growth. This study aims to analyze the psychometric proprieties of the Stress-Related Growth Scale Short-Form (SRGS-SF) in cancer patients. Method: 209 Cancer patients heterogeneous in disease stage and diagnosis completed:...
Role of Genetic Ancestry in 1,002 Brazilian Colorectal Cancer Patients From Bar...
Durães, RO; Berardinelli, GN; Costa, AM; Scapulatempo-Neto, C; Pereira, R; Oliveira, MA; Guimarães, DP; Reis, RMBackground: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most frequent and the second deadliest cancer worldwide. The ethnic structure of the population has been gaining prominence as a cancer player. The purpose of this study was to determine the genetic ancestry of Brazilian CRC patients. Moreover, we intended to interrogate its impact on patients' clinicopathological features. Methods: Retrospective observational co...
Measuring and mapping the effectiveness of the European Air Quality Directive i...
Serrano, HC; Oliveira, MA; Barros, C; Augusto, AS; Pereira, MJ; Pinho, P; Branquinho, CTo protect human health and the environment (namely ecosystems), international air quality protocols and guidelines, like the Gothenburg protocol (1999) and the 2001 EU Air Quality Directive (NECD), conveyed national emission ceilings for atmospheric pollutants (Directive 2001/81/EC), including the reduction of sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) emissions by 2010. However, to what degree this expected reduction in emi...
Síndrome de Hajdu-Cheney: a propósito de um caso de acroosteólise
Cunha, I; Saavedra, MJ; Oliveira, MA; Salvador, MJ; Malcata, ABA acroosteólise é uma situação clínica pouco frequente, caracterizada por reabsorção das extremidades ósseas. Pode surgir no contexto de diversas patologias ou ser idiopática. Os autores descrevem o caso clínico de uma doente de 47 anos, com antecedentes de acroosteólise dos dedos das mãos e dos pés, desde a infância, amaurose congénita unilateral, perda prematura da dentição e mal perfurante plantar. A exuberâ...
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Saavedra, MJ; Oliveira, MA; Garcia, J; Abreu, P; Malcata, AB
Neuro-Behçet: A Clinical Exercise
Oliveira, MA; Pereira da Silva, JA; Nour, D; Macário, MC; Malcata, AB; Porto, A; Siva, A; Yazici, HBehçet disease is a recurrent systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, that involves vessels of nearly all sizes and types. Because of this, disease manifestations can occur at many sites throughout the body. Central nervous system (CNS) involvement may be parenchymal or nonparenchymal and has a global prevalence that ranges from 3% to 10%. Main signs of CNS involvement are pyramidal and those resulting from br...