Was ageing a cause for the increase in hospitalization costs, in the Portuguese public hospitals, between 1994 and 2010?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Was wir Ernst Haeckel Verdanken. Ein buch der Verehrung und Dankbarkeit. Im Auftrag des Deutschen Monistenbundes hrsg. von Heinrich Schmidt ...

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Was wir Ernst Haeckel Verdanken. Ein buch der Verehrung und Dankbarkeit. Im Auftrag des Deutschen Monistenbundes hrsg. von Heinrich Schmidt ...

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BNP was Associated with Ischemic Myocardial Scintigraphy and Death in Patients at Chest Pain Unit

Background:Recent studies have suggested that B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) is an important predictor of ischemia and death in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. Increased levels of BNP are seen after episodes of myocardial ischemia and may be related to future adverse events.Objectives:To determine the prognostic value of BNP for major cardiac events and to evaluate its association with ischemic myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS).Methods:This study included retrospectively 125 patients admitted to the chest pain unit between 2002 and 2006, who had their BNP levels measured on admission and underwent CPM for risk stratification. BNP values were compared with the results of the MPS. The chi-square test was used for qualitative variables and the Student t test, for quantitative variables. Survival curves were adjusted using the Kaplan-Meier method and analyzed by using Cox regression. The significance level was 5%.Results:The mean age was 63.9 ± 13.8 years, and the male sex represented 51.2% of the sample. Ischemia was found in 44% of the MPS. The mean BNP level was higher in patients with ischemia compared to patients with non-ischemic MPS (188.3 ± 208.7 versus 131.8 ± 88.6; p = 0.003). A BNP level greater than 80 pg/mL was the strongest predictor of ischemia on MPS (sensitivity = 60%, specificity = 70%, accuracy = 66%, PPV = 61%, NPV = 70%), and could predict medium-term mortality (RR = 7.29, 95% CI: 0.90-58.6; p = 0.045) independently of the presence of ischemia.Conclusions:BNP levels are associated with ischemic MPS findings and adverse prognosis in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency room, thus, providing important prognostic information for an unfavorable clinical outcome.

Veränderung des visuellen Systems aufgrund von Läsionen : rTMS-Studie zum Einfluss von prächiasmatisch bedingter Langzeitdeprivation auf den visuellen Kortex. Was Blinde sehen : eine deskriptive Befragung zum Charles-Bonnet-Syndrom. Untersuchung der Kontrastempfindlichkeit im gesunden Gesichtsfeld bei Patienten mit Hemianopsie

Neuroplastizität, TMS, rTMS, Phosphene, Blindheit, visuelle Langzeitdeprivation, Charles-Bonnet-Syndrom, Halluzinationen, Kontrastwahrnehmung, Perimeterie, Hemianopsie

Kindersport und soziale Lage : Was kann Sport zum Abbau sozialer Benachteiligungen bei Kindern beitragen?

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Da ist was faul! : Junge Menschen begegnen dem Tod und toten Körpern im Dokumentarfilm

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Da stimmt was nicht! : Entwicklungslinien der Abtreibungsdebatte aus feministischer Perspektive

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Sexualität und sexualisiertes Verhalten von Kindern in der stationären Erziehungshilfe : was ist angemessen und wann muss interventiert werden?

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Was Kinder im Alter von sechs bis zehn Jahren über Partizipation denken : eine qualitative Untersuchung

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From a mono to a digenetic life-cycle: how was the jump for flagellates of the family trypanosomatidae?

It has been found that species of the digenetic genus Trypanosoma as well as species of monogenetic trypanosomatids of insects can grow in the lumen of the scent glands of opossums reproducing the cycle they perform in the intestinal tract of their insect hosts. Based on these findings, speculations are made on the incompletely known cycles of many mammalian trypanosomes and on the evolution of the family Trypanosomatidae.

Cured by tonsillectomy: was it really a PFAPA syndrome?

We show how an ultrafast pump-pump excitation induces strong fluorescence depletion in biological samples, such as bacteria-containing droplets, in contrast with fluorescent interferents, such as polycyclic aromatic compounds, despite similar spectroscopic properties. Application to the optical remote discrimination of biotic versus non-biotic particles is proposed. Further improvement is required to allow the discrimination of one pathogenic among other non-pathogenic micro-organisms. This improved selectivity may be reached with optimal coherent control experiments, as discussed in the paper.