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Estimation of the collective ionizing dose in the Portuguese population for the...
Costa, F; Teles, P; Nogueira, A; Barreto, A; Santos, A I; Carvalho, A; Martins, B; Oliveira, C; Gaspar, C; Barros, C; Neves, D; Costa, D; Rodrigues, EIn 2009-2010 a Portuguese consortium was created to implement the methodologies proposed by the Dose Datamed II (DDM2) project, aiming to collect data from diagnostic X-ray and nuclear medicine (NM) procedures, in order to determine the most frequently prescribed exams and the associated ionizing radiation doses for the Portuguese population. The current study is the continuation of this work, although it focus...
Evaluation of liquid biphasic Granada medium and instant liquid biphasic Granad...
Martinho, F; Prieto, E; Pinto, C; Castro, R; Morais, A; Salgado, L; Exposto, FINTRODUCTION: Group B streptococci (GBS) are transmitted from the mother to the newborn. Prevention of neonatal infection is achieved by intrapartum prophylaxis given to mothers colonized with GBS at 35 to 37 weeks of pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Liquid biphasic Granada medium (LB) and instant liquid biphasic Granada medium (ILB) were evaluated for GBS detection. Vaginal swabs obtained from 300 women were ...
Hyperthyroidism in a hospital environment: 5-year evaluation.
Vilar, Helena; Nobre, E Lacerda; Jorge, Z; Lopes, C; André, S; Salgado, L; Macedo, A; De Castro, J JácomeThyroid diseases are an area of particular interest to this Department, constituting 30% of the 3561 patients observed over the last 5 years (when group consultations were set up and outpatient data computerised).To determine the prevalence and aetiologies of Hyperthyroidism (HT) in outpatient clinic and characterise diagnostic and therapy practice.All files of patients diagnosed with HT treated in the departme...
Technetium-99m tetrofosmin rest/stress myocardial SPET with a same-day 2-hour p...
Montz, R; Perez-Castejón, MJ; Jurado, JA; Martín-Comín, J; Esplugues, E; Salgado, L; Ventosa, A; Cantinho, G; Sá, EP; Fonseca, AT; Pedroso de Lima, JTechnetium-99m tetrofosmin (Myoview) has unique properties for myocardial perfusion imaging very early after injection of the tracer. We used a very short same-day rest/stress protocol, to be performed within 2 h and evaluated its diagnostic accuracy. The study included 144 patients from seven Spanish and four Portuguese centres with a diagnosis of uncomplicated coronary artery disease (CAD); 78 patients (54%) ...