Value Health Reg Issues
November 2024
Objectives: To measure the direct cost of treating acute ischemic stroke (IS) from the perspective of a public hospital in Brazil (HCFMB) and compare it with the reimbursement by the Unified Health System (SUS), through the Procedure Table Management System, Medicines, Orthoses/Prostheses and Special Materials of the Unified Health System (SIGTAP).
Methods: We performed a micro-costing study; four scenarios were evaluated: standard (1); alteplase (2); alteplase and mechanical thrombectomy (3); mechanical thrombectomy (4). Based on the number of patients hospitalized for ischemic stroke in 2019, hospital cost, and SUS billing were calculated for each scenario.
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging
August 2024
A 43-year-old nigerian woman presented to cardiac intensive care unit for acute pulmonary edema with severe mitral regurgitation in a hypertrophic non obstructive cardiomyopathy for prevalent hypertrophy of posterior and lateral walls. A transesophageal echocardiography showed the isolated cleft of posterior mitral leaflet. In literature deep and multiple mitral valve clefts are described in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy undergoing septal myectomy, including possible true posterior clefts, but they are not associated with the premyectomy severity of mitral regurgitation or jet direction, and do not result in surgical MV intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess the evolution of COVID-19 among Brazilian pregnant women, identifying sociodemographic and clinical predictors related to admission to ICU - Intensive Care Unit and death.
Method: Cross-sectional, population-based study, carried out with a secondary database, based on data from the Influenza Epidemiological Surveillance Information System. Descriptive analysis was performed, followed by multiple linear regression with Poisson response, adopting critical p < 0.