Publications by authors named "Celia Maria Camelo Silva"
Retrospective analysis of percutaneous intervention of the renal artery in transplanted kidneys in children and adolescents at a tertiary public hospital.
PLoS One
April 2024
Background: This study evaluated the long-term effects of percutaneous intervention in children and adolescents with transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS).
Methods: Twenty patients had significant stenosis (>50%) and underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA/stenting) (TRAS group-intervention); 14 TNS (non-significant group -control) patients did not have significant stenosis (≤50%) and were treated clinically. The combined primary endpoints were death from all causes and late graft failure.
Pharmacological Modulation of the Ca/cAMP/Adenosine Signaling in Cardiac Cells as a New Cardioprotective Strategy to Reduce Severe Arrhythmias in Myocardial Infarction.
Pharmaceuticals (Basel)
October 2023
Article Synopsis
- Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a leading cause of serious heart issues, often resulting in dangerous heart rhythms due to a lack of blood flow to the heart followed by its restoration.
- The study explored how blocking L-type calcium channels with drugs (nifedipine and verapamil) and manipulating adenosine pathways could protect the heart against severe arrhythmias in rats.
- Results showed that these treatments reduced the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias and blocks, but their effectiveness was diminished when specific blockers were used, suggesting a potential new approach to treat AMI-related heart problems in humans.
Objective: Advances in medicine have increased the life expectancy of pediatric patients with chronic illnesses, and challenges with the guided transition of adolescents and young adults from pediatric clinics to adult clinics have grown. The aim of this study was to better understand readiness and factors related to this transition process in Brazil.
Method: In this cross-sectional study of 308 patients aged from 16 to 21 years under follow-up in pediatric specialties, the degree of readiness for transition was assessed using the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ) and its domains.
Purpose: To explore parental needs related to their experiences of living with a child with congenital heart defect (CHD) since the diagnosis.
Design And Methods: An interpretative qualitative study developed with nine parents of children between the ages of five months and 11 years diagnosed with CHD. Interviews were conducted at an ambulatory pediatric cardiology centre.
Objective: to describe the epidemiological data of the population born with the diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD); to compare diagnoses made using fetal echocardiography with the findings from postnatal echocardiography or anatomopathological examination of the heart; and to evaluate mortality among newborns that underwent surgical treatment.
Methods: this was a cohort study with information gathered from the medical records of the pregnant women and their newborns diagnosed with CHD during the fetal or postnatal periods, between January 2008 and December 2012. Means, standard deviations and maximum and minimum values were calculated for the quantitative variables.
What is the true frequency of carditis in acute rheumatic fever? A prospective clinical and Doppler blind study of 56 children with up to 60 months of follow-up evaluation.
Pediatr Cardiol
November 2008
Background: This study aimed to evaluate prospectively clinical and echocardiographic findings of patients who had rheumatic fever with and without clinical features of cardiac involvement.
Methods: For this study, 56 consecutive patients (mean age, 11.4 years) with acute rheumatic fever diagnosed according to the 1992 modified Jones criteria were evaluated at diagnosis, after 3 and 6 months, then at 2 and 5 years.