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Heart failure at an internal medicine department: a retrospective study.
Santos, R M; Gonçalves, F; Nóbrega, J; Nascimento, L; Ravara, LThe files of 222 patients (112 men) admitted to a Medical Department (Medicina 1) of the Hospital de Santa Maria (Lisbon) between 1/1/87 and 21/6/88 with the diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) were studied retrospectively. The next parameters were considered: sex, age, cause of cardiac disease, duration of CHF, presence of diabetes, predispondent factors of CHF episodes, cardiac rhythm and blood pressu...
Rheumatic fever--exacerbation or decline? Analysis of patients admitted to a me...
Morais, F; Silva, G N; Santos, R M; Sousa, J T; Saavedra, J A; Da Costa, J NThe authors revised 116 clinical files of patients admitted to a Medicine ward with Rheumatic Fever in the years 1959-63 and 1979-83, in order to detect a possible recrudescence of the disease. The following parameters were analysed: age, sex, length of hospital stay, clinical manifestations, ancillary exams, therapeutics and evolution. It was found an impressive decline in the incidence of the disease (90 case...
Infectious endocarditis revisited--considerations apropos of a recent case-list.
Santos, R M; Martins, C; Nogueira da Costa, J