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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Viral hepatitis in travellers]
Considering the geographical asymmetric distribution of viral hepatitis A, B and E, having a much higher prevalence in the less developed world, travellers from developed countries are exposed to a considerable and often underestimated risk of hepatitis infection. In fact a significant ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Etiology of urinary tract infections and antimicrobial susceptibility of urinary pathogens]
With the objective of knowing the common etiological agents in urinary infection and comparing its antimicrobial susceptibility in nosocomial and community-acquired urinary infections, we analyse all the urine bacteriological exams from the Serviço de Patologia ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Stroke in HIV-infected patients]
The spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) is changing. New drug treatments have reduced morbidity and mortality of this disease, therefore it is necessary to start treating the HIV infection as a chronical disease. The association of the stroke with the ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Need of new clinical criteria for the identification of genetic Lynch syndrome]
BACKGROUND: Surveillance programs in families with Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC), which is an autossomal dominant disease, decrease colorectal carcinoma mortality. There are multiple clinical criteria for the identification of these families, mainly: the ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Cultural adaptation and validation of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey questionnaire (MOS-SSS)]
The aim of this study was the assesment of psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the instrument \"Medical Outcomes Study - Social Support Survey (MOSSSS)\". This questionnaire has been translated and ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Psychometric properties of the Eating Disorders Inventory among Portuguese adolescents]
INTRODUCTION: Although Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI) was developed with adults, a large amount of research about eating disorders in adolescents is usually conducted with EDI. The clinical and research utility of this instrument would be improved ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Adverse childhood experiences in adults with morbid obesity]
Research has shown that morbid obesity adults have more adverse childhood experiences. The aim of our work was to study the prevalence of this experience in a sample with 75 participants with morbid obesity (weight range of 118.57 ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Nutritional status recording in hospitalized patient notes]
The prevalence of disease-related malnutrition (DRM) is described to be of 30-60% on admission to hospital, and of 10% in the community. It has been associated with worse clinical outcomes, namely higher morbidity and mortality as well as higher ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Review of breast pathology: diagnosed by fine nedle aspiration and correlation between cytological and histological findings]
The 980 exams concerning breast pathology performed in an 18-month period, including 626 fine needle aspiration biopsies, were reviewed. A diagnosis was made in 78.2% of fine needle aspiration biopsies, ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Factors affecting orbital abnormal development and its relevant treatments]
Orbital development is associated with the growth of the eyeball. During the development period, congenital or acquired changes of volume of the eyes and radiation treatment in ocular region influence the development of the orbit. Abnormal development ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Pigment epithelium-derived factor expression in the retina in response to hypobaric hypoxia]
OBJECTIVE: The present study was undertaken to examine the expression of pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) in the retina of adult rat following hypobaric hypoxic exposures. METHODS: Forty-eight adult Wistar rats were divided into 6 ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Insulin-like growth factor-1 induced activation and expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription-3 in scleral fibroblast of guinea pigs]
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of signal transducers and activators of transcription 3 (STAT3) in sclera fibroblast of guinea pigs for understanding whether STAT3 signaling transduction ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[CD4+CD25+ T cells involved in induction of rat corneal allograft immune tolerance]
OBJECTIVE: To explore the expression of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in corneal graft, in the iris and peripheral blood in the high risk rat corneal transplant tolerance induced by superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Effect of pyruvate on polyol pathway and lens epithelium apoptosis in diabetic rats]
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of polyol pathway on the lens epithelium apoptosis and caspase-3 activity and its reversal by pyruvate in diabetic rats. METHODS: Two hundred and twenty Wistar rats were divided ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Expression of dopamine receptor D2 and adenosine receptor A2A in human retinal pigment epithelium]
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify the presence of dopamine receptor D2 and adenosine receptor A2A in human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in order to determine whether the RPE ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Etiological analysis on bacterial endophthalmitis]
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the spectrum of organisms causing bacterial endophthalmitis and their sensitivities to commonly used ocular antibiotics. METHODS: A retrospective analysis on microbiological records of 728 intraocular specimens of patients with suspected endophthalmitis from January 1999 to December 2006. Antibiotic ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Diagnosis and treatment of ciliary epithelium tear combined with retinal detachment]
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the clinical characteristics and treatment of the ciliary epithelium tear combined with retina detachment of the eye, and consequently, to reduce mistaken and missed diagnosis and to improve the cure rate. METHODS: ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Retinotopic representations of human visual cortex revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging]
OBJECTIVE: To establish a set of methodological standard of retinotopic mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to discuss anatomical features of functionally delineated V1/V2 boundary based on retinotopic criteria. METHODS: Three adults aged ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Clinical features of Best vitelliform macular dystrophy]
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical features of Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD) in Chinese patients. METHODS: Ten consecutive patients (20 eyes) were diagnosed as BVMD by the fundus photography, EOG, fluorescein angiography (FFA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Their ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Photodynamic therapy for circumscribed choroidal hemangioma]
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the safety and efficacy of photodynamic therapy in patients with circumscribed choroidal haemangioma (CCH). METHODS: Five patients diagnosed as CCH according to ophthalmoscopy, fundus fluorescein angiography and coloured doppler imaging were treated by photodynamic therapy using verteporfin. ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
[Early clinical study of bimanual microphacoemulsification with rollable intraocular lens]
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the results of bimanual microphacoemulsification combined with rollable intraocular lens (IOL), to evaluate the feasibility and safety of this procedure and to compare the clinical results of two different types of rollable intraocular ...
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