Publications by authors named "Clara Tavares"
Simultaneous Heart and Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Proportional Meta-Analysis of Its Characteristics and Long-Term Variables.
Transpl Int
June 2024
Patients with end-stage heart disease who undergo a heart transplant frequently have simultaneous kidney insufficiency, therefore simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation is an option and it is necessary to understand its characteristics and long-term variables. The recipient characteristics and operative and long-term variables were assessed in a meta-analysis. A total of 781 studies were screened, and 33 were thoroughly reviewed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: DATASUS is the Brazilian Public Unified Health System (SUS) department responsible for providing health data that are used as a primary source of data in several studies on surgery and surgical specialties although its main limitations have not been previously reviewed. The objective of this work is to synthesize information from studies on surgery that used DATASUS systems as a data source and to identify the main gaps in this platform.
Methods: a scoping review was conducted according to the PRISMA-ScR method to identify papers on surgery, and other surgical specialties, that used the DATASUS platform as a primary data source.
Article Synopsis
- Patients who underwent surgery for type A aortic dissection face a significant risk of developing long-term aneurysms, which can lead to late death.
- A study involving 70 patients was conducted to identify early predictors of aneurysm formation three years post-surgery by measuring the size of the aorta and monitoring it annually using cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
- The findings showed that larger initial aortic dimensions and higher pulse pressure were strong indicators of aneurysm formation, and a risk score based on these factors could help predict which patients are at higher risk.
Background/purpose: Exclusion criteria for enema reduction of intussusception are still a matter of debate. The current study aimed to search for risk factors and to design and evaluate a predictive model of air enema failure.
Methods: The design was a cross-sectional study.