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Mensuração da adesão aos medicamentos imunossupressores em receptores de transplante renal

Resumo Objetivo: Mensurar a adesão aos medicamentos imunossupressores em receptores de transplante renal, utilizando a Basel Assessment of Adherence with Immunosuppressive Medication Scale - BAASIS® e descrever as características sociodemográficas, os fatores clínicos em relação aos imunossupress...

Necrolisis epidérmica tóxica: un paradigma de enfermedad crítica

RESUMEN La necrolisis epidérmica tóxica es una reacción cutánea adversa de tipo inmunológico secundaria en la mayor parte de los casos a la administración de un fármaco. La necrolisis epidérmica tóxica, el síndrome de Steven Johnson y el eritema exudativo multiforme forman parte del mismo espec...

Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in patients with Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: association with respiratory infection

Clinics; 72 (12), 2017
OBJECTIVES: To determine the possible association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels with disease activity and respiratory infection in granulomatosis with polyangiitis patients during two different periods: winter/spring and summer/autumn. METHODS: Thirty-two granulomatosis with polyangiitis p...

Cogan's syndrome - A rare aortitis, difficult to diagnose but with therapeutic potential

Summary The inflammation of aortic wall, named aortitis, is a rare condition that can be caused by a number of pathologies, mainly inflammatory or infectious in nature. In this context, the occurrence of combined audiovestibular and/or ocular manifestations eventually led to the diagnosis of Cogan's synd...

Hepatitis autoinmune en la edad pediátrica

Resumen: En pediatría, la hepatitis autoinmune y la colangitis esclerosante son patologías de afección hepática cuyo mecanismo de daño es inmunológico. La hepatitis autoinmune es una enfermedad de etiología desconocida, caracterizada por hepatitis de interfase, hipergammaglobulinemia, autoanticuer...

Improvement of nailfold capillary microangiopathy after immunosuppressant therapy in a child with clinically amyopathic juvenile dermatomyositis

Rev. bras. reumatol; 57 (5), 2017

Capítulo 2. Enfermedad de Crohn
Chapter 2. Crohn's disease

Etanercept in erythema nodosum leprosum

An. bras. dermatol; 92 (4), 2017
Abstract: One of the biggest challenges in treating leprosy is the control of reaction events. Patients with lepromatous leprosy may present reaction type II, or erythema nodosum leprosum, during treatment, and this reaction can remain in a recurrent form after being released from the hospital, requiring...

Tormenta tiroidea asociada a disfunción multiorgánica
Thyroid storm associated with multiorganic dysfunction

Medicina (B.Aires); 77 (4), 2017
La tormenta tiroidea es una condición infrecuente y potencialmente fatal. En la literatura han sido descritas varias presentaciones inusuales de la misma; sin embargo, la disfunción multiorgánica es rara vez vista. Aquí describimos un caso en una mujer de 36 años de edad con enfermedad de Graves sub...

Study of factors affecting the incidence of skin cancer in patients after liver transplant

An. bras. dermatol; 92 (4), 2017
Abstract: Background: Many factors are currently being identified as potential inductors of skin cancer in patients after a liver transplant, among them, immunosuppressive regimen. Objective: To study the factors that influence the incidence of skin cancer in patients after liver transplant. Methods: ...