Publications by authors named "Louise Cardoso Schweitzer"
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- The study aimed to explore how echocardiogram results, ferritin levels, C-reactive protein, and leukocyte counts relate to poor outcomes in pediatric sepsis patients.
- A prospective cohort study included children aged 28 days to 18 years who had sepsis and required prolonged mechanical ventilation and vasoactive drugs; key indicators were measured over 72 hours.
- Results showed that higher ferritin levels and signs of cardiac dysfunction were linked to longer hospital stays, more extended mechanical ventilation, and a higher inotropic agent usage, indicating worse health outcomes for the patients.
Poncet's disease is a rare clinical condition, characterized by polyarticular impairment in a patient diagnosed with tuberculosis, with no evidence of direct bacillary invasion of the joints, constituting reactive arthritis. We report a case of a 56-year old, white male from the city of Porto Alegre, with evidence of additive polyarthritis of the large joints, investigated for five years, and with no defined diagnosis. The patient had undergone unilateral nephrectomy five years before, and the anatomicopathological exam of the specimen revealed renal tuberculosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Melanoma is the cutaneous cancer which has the greatest lethality. Santa Catarina is the Brazilian State that contributes the most to increase this rate.
Objectives: To estimate the mortality rate of melanoma in the fifth year of illness.