Cohort study of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 at Brazilian tertiary-care hospital: Occurrence of adverse events and mortality.

Introduction: Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are often submitted to invasive procedures and they are at risk for hospital-associated adverse events.

Objectives: To evaluate the epidemiological and clinical aspects of patients hospitalized with COVID-19; the occurrence of adverse events and the risk factors for mortality.

Method: Cohort study that included adult patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of SARSCoV-2 infection, at the tertiary University Hospital of UNICAMP from March 2020 to March 2021.

Oximetry at admission as a predictor of tomographic and functional impairment after 3-6 months in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Objective: To investigate characteristics that may be associated with radiologic and functional findings following discharge in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Methods: This single-center, prospective, observational cohort study comprised patients aged >18 years who were hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia, between May and October 2020. After 3 to 6 months of discharge, patients were clinically evaluated and underwent spirometry, a 6-minute walk test (6MWT), and chest computed tomography (CT).

Pouchitis: insight into the pathogenesis and clinical aspects.

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic intestinal inflammatory disease and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal dominant inherited disease. Both diseases, despite being different, may require the same surgical procedure: proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA). The main complication after this procedure is pouch inflammation (pouchitis).

The role of chemokines and adipokines as biomarkers of Crohn's disease activity: a systematic review of the literature.

Introduction: Crohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects the gastrointestinal tract and can have a major impact on the patient's quality of life and social/professional activities. Asymptomatic patients, or those with mild symptoms, experience the active disease with subclinical manifestation. Systematic review (SR) was performed to look for evidence for the role of chemokines and adipokines as markers for CD activity.

Investigating the relation between self-assessment and patients' assessments of physicians-in-training empathy: a multicentric, observational, cross-sectional study in three teaching hospitals in Brazil.

Objectives: This study investigated the associations between self-assessed empathy levels by physicians in training and empathy levels as perceived by their patients after clinical encounters. The authors also examined whether patient assessments were valid and reliable tools to measure empathy in physicians in training.

Design: A multicentric, observational, cross-sectional study.