INTRODUCTION: Currently, type IV thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA-IV) are treated primarily by endovascular repair. Despite the increased morbidity, there is still a role for open surgery in selected patients. This paper aims to present a descriptive analysis and outcome evaluation of open repair for TAAA-IV in our institution, where endovascular repair is generally the first-line treatment option. METHO...
[Introdução] Numa era marcada por desafios sem precedentes, a demência emerge como uma pandemia silenciosa, transpondo barreiras e convocando a necessidade de iniciar uma jornada por entendimento e respostas. Não limitada a fronteiras geográficas ou sociais, esta condição afeta uma parcela substancial da população mundial, sendo cada vez mais reconhecida como uma crise de saúde pública que exige uma resposta co...
Introdução: A utilização do jogo, enquanto sistema de avaliação em dupla tarefa, tem vindo a demonstrar um potencial relevante pelas suas propriedades. Objetivo: Testar a aplicabilidade do jogo analógico na avaliação de dupla tarefa em pessoas idosas. Metodologia: Foi realizado um estudo observacional, transversal, com uma mostra de 13 idosos com capacidade de caminhar curtas distâncias. Aamostra foi caracteriz...
INTRODUCTION: The Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) module of the Portuguese National Vascular Registry (RNPV) is a prospective, voluntary, population-based registry, that encompasses more than 90% of portuguese vascular departments. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of the first 1000 infra-renal AAA included in the Portuguese RNPV. METHODS: Data were collected from November 2019 to December 2022 ...
A Conferência sobre Longevidade Saudável decorreu no dia 25 de novembro de 2023, em formato presencial, organizada no âmbito do programa de atividades da SpinOff do Politécnico de Leiria, AGILidades. Este encontro procurou ser um espaço de partilha, discussão e reflexão em torno de trabalhos de investigação, experiências profissionais e comunitárias, em que o tema da longevidade, o trabalho com diferentes geraç...
Introduction: Gamed-based interventions (GBI) in old people is an interesting topic for aging-well purposes, however, few studies exist focused on the assessment of multimodal interactive experience (emotions, skills, engagement, etc), and most of them used digital games. Therefore, validation of analog GBIs, when implemented in the geriatric field, should be completed with a playability analysis. Aim: To chara...
Glycerol is the by-product of biodiesel production and its utilisation in fish feed has recently gained relevance. As an important metabolic intermediate and structural component of triacylglycerol (TAG), it is still unclear whether its supplementation affects lipid utilisation and/or deposition in different tissues. Accordingly, a set of studies was aimed to evaluate how increasing levels of dietary glycerol (...
Glycerol is the by-product of biodiesel production and its utilisation in fish feed has recently gained relevance. As an important metabolic intermediate and structural component of triacylglycerol (TAG), it is still unclear whether its supplementation affects lipid utilisation and/or deposition in different tissues. Accordingly, a set of studies was aimed to evaluate how increasing levels of dietary glycerol (...
Endovascular treatment of descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (DTAA) is associated with low rates of morbimortality and is currently the first line of therapeutic intervention. Endoleaks are a well-known complication of this technique, with the consensus that the identification of type I endoleak implies its prompt correction. We present the case of a patient who underwent TEVAR for the treatment of DTAA, with...
Aorto-iliac occlusive disease sometimes extends proximally with involvement of the renal arteries and visceral aorta, with loss of renal functional mass and intestinal ischemia. In this article we report the case of a patient presenting with progressive disabling intermittent claudication caused by chronic juxtarenal aortic thrombosis with proximal progression and involvement of the left renal artery, with a fu...