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Effectiveness of interventions to prevent or treat prolonged grief symptoms amo...

Objective: The objective of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent or treat prolonged grief symptoms among families of patients who die in the intensive care unit (ICU). Introduction: Up to 52% of families of patients who die in an ICU may be at risk of experiencing prolonged grief symptoms. This psychological morbidity should be addressed as early as possible through effective...

Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on nurses mental health: A prospective cohort study

The burden of atherosclerosis in Portugal

Aims: This paper sought to estimate the burden of disease attributable to atherosclerosis in mainland Portugal in 2016. Methods and results: The burden of atherosclerosis was measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALY) following the latest 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) methodology. DALYs were estimated as the sum of years of life lost (YLL) with years lived with disability (YLD). The following clini...

Left atrial deformation analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography to predic...

Introduction: Left atrial (LA) size and function are associated with outcome after myocardial infarction (MI). In this study we aimed to assess the impact of LA function as a predictor of exercise capacity through speckle tracking echocardiography. Methods: A total of 94 patients (mean age 54.8 +/- 11.0 years; 82% male) were enrolled one month after MI. Echocardiography was used to assess LA volumes and various...

Avaliação do Exame Final do Internato Médico em Portugal

Introdução: Existe uma elevada heterogeneidade na estrutura da avaliação da formação médica pós-graduada a nível mundial. No entanto, contrastando com outros países, não existem estudos científicos em Portugal que tenham avaliado o modelo da avaliação final da especialidade. O presente estudo pretendeu avaliar a adequação do exame do final da especialidade aos seus propósitos; aí incluída a sua validade enquant...

Documento de Consenso e Recomendações para a Realização de Ecocardiografia Tran...

Echocardiography is the most widely used imaging technique in modern cardiological clinical practice, since it is readily available, portable and safe, and provides a comprehensive morphological and functional assessment at low cost compared to other imaging modalities. Recent technological advances have introduced new echocardiographic techniques and widened the clinical applications of echocardiography. Howev...

Impact of the 2016 ASE/EACVI recommendations on the prevalence of diastolic dys...

Aims: Diastolic dysfunction (DD) is frequent in the general population; however, the assessment of diastolic function remains challenging. We aimed to evaluate the impact of the recent 2016 American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)/European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) recommendations in the prevalence and grades of DD compared with the 2009 guidelines and the Canberra Study Criteria (CSC). Me...

Impacto da crise financeira e social na saúde mental

Preocupados com o impacto da crise nanceira e social na saúde mental das pessoas, neste artigo fazemos uma ref exão sobre as últimas evidências disponíveis sobre o tema em Portugal e no mundo, procurando recentrar a atenção dos pro ssionais de saúde mental, naquilo que necessita ser promovido: a centralidade dos cuidados nas pessoas e a continuidade dos cuidados em saúde mental. A instalação da crise financeira...

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and E/E ratio as the strongest echocardi...

Background The mechanisms that determine reduced exercise capacity after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are not fully understood, especially the relative role of left ventricular diastolic and systolic function. Hypothesis To evaluate the role of different diastolic and systolic function echocardiographic parameters as predictors of reduced functional capacity in patients after AMI. Methods One month after A...

The Effect of Exercise Training on Diastolic and Systolic Function After Acute ...

After acute myocardial infarction (AMI), diastolic dysfunction is frequent and an important determinant of adverse outcome. However, few interventions have proven to be effective in improving diastolic function. We aimed to determine the effect of exercise training on diastolic and systolic function after AMI.One month after AMI, 188 patients were prospectively randomized (1:1) to an 8-week supervised program o...