Introduction. Cardiovascular disease is more common in renal transplant recipients (RTRs) than in the general population, and is the major cause of both graft loss and patient death in RTRs. Objectives. This study aimed to characterize the cardiovascular risk factors, calculate the 7-year risk for major adverse cardiac events and the 7-year risk for death in a population of RTRs using a cardiovascular risk calc...
Introduction: Renal biopsy plays an essential role either in the diagnosis or in the prognosis of patients with renal disease. In order to assess its epidemiology and evolution in Madeira Islands, we analysed twenty-seven years of native kidney biopsies. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of clinical records, including histological revision from 1986 to 2012, totalling 315 native kidney biopsies. Th...
As manifestações clássicas do feocromocitoma incluem hipertensão arterial, cefaleias, palpitações, tremor e diaforese. Formas raras de apresentação podem mimetizar outras patologias e dificultar o diagnóstico. Os autores (AA) apresentam o caso de uma jovem de 26 anos que recorreu ao serviço de Urgência por tosse, dispneia e diaforese com cinco dias de evolução, com rápida progressão para choque. Transferida par...