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Buerger’s Disease – A Clinical Case
Fernandes, Urânia; Vasconcelos, João; Marques, Rita; Pinto-de-Sousa, João; Almeida Pinto, JoãoBuerger’s disease is a distal segmental nonatherosclerotic vasculopathy that involves the inferior and superior limbs of smoker males younger than 45 years old. This article aims to describe a clinical case and revise the literature about Buerger’s disease. A 45-year-old smoker male repeatedly visited the emergency department for refractory pain and inflammatory signs in the right hallux. After developing ulcer...
PYLEPHLEBITIS INCIDENTALLY FOUND ON A PATIENT WITH GASTRIC CANCER
Machado, Nuno Dias; Freitas, Carla; Soares, Carlos; Pinto-de-Sousa, JoãoPylephlebitis is a suppurative infection of the portal vein. This rare condition is most often related to intra-abdominal infections like appendicitis or acute diverticulitis. We present an incidentally found case of pylephlebitis in a patient who presented to the emergency department with unspecific symptoms and a recent diagnosis of gastric cancer. ; A pileflebite é uma infecção supurativa da veia porta....
Incarcerated intercostal lung hernia in a thoracoabdominal trauma. Case report ...
da Silva, Sílvia Raquel Coelho; Carneiro, Filipa; Barros da Silva, João; Rocha, Mónica; Pinto-de-Sousa, JoãoIntercostal lung hernia is an uncommon entity, mostly resulting from violent chest trauma. In this report, a case of a patient with a post-traumatic incarcerated pulmonary herniation is presented, and we also describe a brief literature review on this subject. This case is about a polytraumatized patient, whose chest trauma caused a lung hernia. Urgent surgical intervention, which was imposed by cardio-respirat...
Damage control surgery in trauma patients: criteria for management of patients ...
Coelho, Andreia; Pinto-de-Sousa, JoãoHypothermia, coagulopathy and metabolic acidosis are at serious risk to develop in severe trauma patients. These metabolic derange- ments known as lethal triad contribute to an increase in mortality rate in these patients. Damage control surgery emerged as an alter- native, with a positive impact on survival, to definitive and prolonged procedures which deplete the patient ́s physiological reserves leading inex...