Publications by authors named "Jose Augusto Almeida Barbosa"
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- Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) leads to serious long-term health issues, particularly chronic rheumatic heart disease, which affects heart valves.
- The majority of ARF cases (over 80%) occur in low- and middle-income countries, indicating a strong link between this disease and socioeconomic factors.
- Understanding the clinical, genetic, and sociodemographic risk factors of ARF can help healthcare providers identify those at high risk and implement better management and screening strategies to improve patient outcomes.
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare and progressive disease with poor prognosis. Many patients progressively worsen even when using combinations of specific drugs for its treatment. Herein, we present our experience in the management of three children with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension refractory to clinical treatment who underwent Potts surgery in addition to clinical treatment.
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