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Fast-Track Management of Acute Chest Pain: Experience Gained in a Hospital from...

Introduction: As an effort to reduce mortality associated with acute myocardial infraction (AMI), a fast-track approach named Via Verde Coronária (VVC) was implemented nationwide in 2007. Data on how this approach is performing in different hospitals is still scarce. Our aims were to characterize the main diagnoses of patients included in VVC and to evaluate the proportion of cases diagnosed with AMI. Material ...

Estarão os Doentes com Fibrilhação Auricular Correctamente Anticoagulados? Um R...

Introduction: Oral anticoagulants (OACs) have proven to minimize the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the proportion of patients that are not on OACs and have indication to be is still high. Our aim was to evaluate the proportion of AF patients receiving anticoagulation therapy and to evaluate the quality of OACs prescribing.    Material and Methods: A cross-sectional...

Identification of potentially inappropriate medications with risk of major adve...

Oral anticoagulation on patients with atrial fibrillation: are we doing a good ...

Eficácia da terapia de manipulação vertebral lombar sobre alívio de dor crónica...

O presente estudo de revisão bibliográfica teve como objetivo avaliar a eficácia da manipulação vertebral lombar, mais concretamente da técnica de manipulação espinhal High Velocity Low Amplitude (HVLA-SM), no alívio de dor lombar crónica (DLC). Metodologia: Foi realizada uma pesquisa nas bases de dados Pubmed, PEDro e Web of Science usando palavras-chave previamente definidas. Após aplicação dos critérios de i...

nternal Medicine in the Plains of Baixo Alentejo: a 50-Year-Old Continuously Ev...

Reply to letter to the Editor: Internal Medicine in the Plains of Baixo Alentej...

The Arraiolos – Portugal – Moderate-Sized 2018 (M = 4.9) earthquake of January ...

On 15 January 2018 at 11:51 UTC, an earthquake of 4.9 ML occurred in the Northeast of Arraiolos region near Aldeia da Serra village. The hypocentral location, determined by Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), has coordinates 38.79 N, 7.93 W at 11 km depth. The focal mechanisms determined by P-wave first motion polarities and waveforms inversion indicate a dominance of strike-slip events with nodal...

Sicca Syndrome and Autoimmune Central Diabetes Insípidus – A clinical case report

The authors describe a case of a woman 67 years old, with a history of Paget’s disease of the bone, presenting with Sicca Syndrome, of unknown aetiology, for which she was admitted to the hospital in the Internal Medicine department. A clinical discussion is made, with several possible differential diagnoses. After performing several exams, the final diagnosis of Central Diabetes Insipid was reached, of autoimm...