Acute liver failure due to radiographically occult infiltration of urothelial cancer.

Introduction: Acute liver failure (ALF) due to diffuse infiltrating solid malignancy without any focal lesions on radiographic imaging is rare.

Case Report: A 70-year-old man was admitted due to mental confusion, abdominal pain, and ALF. Three years before, he had undergone a left nephrectomy for urothelial carcinoma followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.

Recurrent Infection Causing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)-Related Endocarditis.

Unlabelled: The authors report the case of an 86-year-old woman presenting with recurrent bacteraemia. She had severe aortic stenosis submitted to a recent transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Initially, bacteraemia from a urinary source was diagnosed.

Addition of non-invasive ventilatory support to combined aerobic and resistance training improves dyspnea and quality of life in heart failure patients: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that combined aerobic and resistance training and non-invasive ventilatory support result in additional benefits compared with combined aerobic and resistance training alone in heart failure patients.

Design: A randomized, single-blind, controlled study.

Setting: Cardiac rehabilitation center.

Infections on the rise: Raoultella spp., clinical and microbiological findings from a retrospective study, 2010-2014.

We performed a retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory data over 5 years in a tertiary centre to assess clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with Raoultella spp. infection. Raoultella spp.

Streptococcus gallolyticus: a single bacteria, two different conditions.

The authors describe the case of a 48-year-old woman presenting with fever, joint pain and migratory skin lesions. She had no other symptoms or medical history. After an extensive and inconclusive work up, she was admitted to the hospital for further study.

Stroke correlates in chagasic and non-chagasic cardiomyopathies.

Background: Aging and migration have brought changes to the epidemiology and stroke has been shown to be independently associated with Chagas disease. We studied stroke correlates in cardiomyopathy patients with focus on the chagasic etiology.

Methodology/principal Findings: We performed a cross-sectional review of medical records of 790 patients with a cardiomyopathy.

Effect of ventilatory support on functional capacity in patients with heart failure: a pilot study.

Background: Heart failure (HF) is an important public health problem, of which main clinical symptoms are dyspnea and fatigue. Noninvasive ventilatory support has been used as adjuvant therapy in cardiac rehabilitation in order to improve the functional capacity of patients.

Objective: To evaluate the functional capacity of patients with HF submitted to ventilatory support.

Prevalence of anemia and renal insufficiency in non-hospitalized patients with heart failure.

Background: Heart Failure (HF) is a common disease with a high rate of mortality. Anemia and renal failure (RF) are often found in patients with HF associated with higher severity of the heart disease and a worse prognosis.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of anemia and RF, as well as the association between these two conditions, in non-hospitalized patients with HF.