Sleep disorders are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease. These disorders are highly related to the cognitive impairment and have as main risk factor the time of disease. Additionally, they can damage the patient’s quality of life, as well as their family’s and caregivers’. The aim of this study was to clarify which changes in sleep patterns occur in patients with Alzheimer's disease and how they occur. ...
This article presents a narrative review covering epidemiology, physiopathology, diagnosis and treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). During the last decades, there has been a growth on the global incidence of obesity and related diseases. Among them, NASH is highlighted as a metabolic disease with varied clinical presentation, part of the spectrum of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). I...
Objetivo: averiguar a situação epidemiológica da doença de Darier no estado do Ceará no ano de 2015. Metodologia: trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo quantitativo, no qual foram analisados todos os registros das consultas médicas realizadas no Centro de Referência em Dermatologia Dona Libânia (CDERM), Fortaleza, Ceará, em 2015, através das variáveis: nome, sexo, idade, data da consulta, número do prontuário, di...
Medical Toxicology is recognized in Brazil as one of the 57 areas of medical practice. Until 2017, in the course of Medicine of the State University of Ceará (UECE), subjects related to intoxication, poisoning and accidents by venomous animals were approached in different disciplines, since Medical Toxicology was not part of the disciplines offered to the students. From the detection of this deficiency, it was ...