Publications by authors named "Anabela Tavares"

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by multisystem inflammation and is a common cause of pericarditis and pericardial effusion, but significant pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade are rare and even rarer as the first manifestation.

Case Summary: We report the case of a young male who presented with fever, recurrent pericarditis, and polyserositis with pericardial and bilateral pleural effusion. On examination, he was haemodynamically unstable and the pericardial effusion had considerable dimensions and an urgent pericardiocentesis was performed.

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  • A study investigated the link between heart rate score (HRS) ≥ 70% from remote monitoring and hospitalizations or arrhythmic events in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
  • The research included 103 patients, revealing that those with HRS ≥ 70% had higher rates of unplanned hospitalizations and arrhythmic events, such as ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT).
  • The findings suggest that HRS ≥ 70% is a significant predictor for hospitalizations and arrhythmic events, indicating that better monitoring could help manage heart failure patients more effectively.
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Unlabelled: Primary cardiac lymphomas are rare tumors with heterogeneous presentation, often difficult to diagnose, requiring a high level of clinical suspicion. An attempted diagnosis is fundamental for effective treatment. We report a very rare case of a primary cardiac lymphoma in a middle-age female patient that presented with atrial flutter, atrioventricular conduction disorder, and a secondary autoimmune hemolytic anemia with cold agglutinin syndrome.

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Unlabelled: We describe an extremely rare case of a 37-year-old female patient who presented with exertional angina and was diagnosed with a unique coronary anomaly with an anomalous right coronary artery with origin in the left anterior descending artery and a fistula between this anomalous coronary artery and the pulmonary artery.

Learning Objectives: Most patients with coronary anomalies are asymptomatic but some may have angina caused by a coronary steal phenomenon, myocardial infarction, or even sudden death depending on the circuit and characteristics of the anomaly.The combination of multiple coronary anomalies is extremely rare.

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Background: Myocarditis is an uncommon, potentially life-threatening disease that presents with a wide range of symptoms. In acute myocarditis, chest pain (CP) may mimic typical angina and also be associated with electrocardiographic changes, including an elevation of the ST-segment. A large percentage (20-56%) of myxomas are found incidentally.

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Coronary artery anomalies (CAAs) are a rare entity but their true incidence in the general population has yet to be determined. Most CAAs are asymptomatic, but they are nevertheless the second leading cause of sudden death in apparently healthy young athletes. The new imaging methods available to cardiologists, including CT angiography and MRI, now enable noninvasive diagnosis and characterization of these anomalies.

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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common mental disorders, with a lifetime prevalence of approximately 13% in Europe. Although the primary symptom of MDD is depressed mood and a loss of interest or pleasure in everyday life, patients with MDD often present with a variety of other symptoms, such as sleep disturbances, fatigue, anxiety and somatic complaints. Antidepressant drugs are frequently used as first-line therapy for MDD.

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Photodynamic therapy is a very promising approach to inactivate pathogenic microorganisms. The photodamage of cells involves reactive oxygen species (ROS) which are generated in situ by two main mechanisms (type I and/or type II). The mechanism responsible for the photoinactivation (PI) of a bioluminescent recombinant Escherichia coli, induced by three different cationic porphyrins, was identified in this work using a rapid method based on the monitoring of the metabolic activity of this bacterium.

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Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has emerged in the clinical field as a potential alternative to antibiotics to treat microbial infections. No cases of microbial viability recovery or any resistance mechanisms against it are yet known. 5,10,15-tris(1-Methylpyridinium-4-yl)-20-(pentafluorophenyl)-porphyrin triiodide (Tri-Py(+)-Me-PF) was used as photosensitizer.

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Caseous calcification of the mitral annulus is a rare form of mitral annular calcification, whose etiology is not completely understood and which can lead to an erroneous diagnosis of intracardiac tumor. The authors describe the cases of six patients, five of them female, mean age 74.8 +/- 6.

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