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Renal Dysfunction Phenotypes in Patients Undergoing Obesity Surgery
Pereira, PR; Pereira, J; Braga, PC; Pereira, SS; Nora, M; Guimaraes, M; Monteiro, MP; Rodrigues, AObesity surgery candidates are at an increased risk of kidney injury, but pre-operative evaluation usually neglects kidney function assessment. This study aimed to identify renal dysfunction in candidates for bariatric surgery. To reduce the sources of bias, subjects with diabetes, prediabetes under metformin treatment, neoplastic or inflammatory diseases were excluded. Patients' (n = 192) average body mass ind...
Clinical, imagiological and etiological spectrum of posterior reversible enceph...
Pereira, PR; Pinho, J; Rodrigues, M; Rocha, J; Sousa, F; Amorim, J; Ribeiro, M; Rocha, J; Ferreira, CObjective Analyze the cases of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) admitted in a Neurology Department during an 8-year period. Method Retrospective observational study in a central hospital in the north of Portugal. Results 14 patients were identified, mean age 52.3 years. Precipitating factors included: eclampsia, isolated arterial hypertension, spinal trauma and autonomic dysreflexia, Guillain...