Publications by authors named "Margarida Redondo"
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- Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is linked to various health issues, and recent research suggests it may also impact cancer outcomes, particularly through its severity and associated nocturnal hypoxia.
- A retrospective study examined patients with OSA diagnosed after any cancer type over ten years, finding higher rates of nocturnal hypoxia particularly in lung cancer patients, which correlated with worse disease progression and survival rates.
- The study concluded that severe OSA and significant hypoxia are associated with increased cancer mortality, independent of other factors like age and treatment, highlighting the need for better management of OSA in cancer patients.
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- Chronic lung diseases increase the risk of Nocardia spp. infections, but isolation of this bacteria doesn't always indicate disease, making it important to differentiate between pulmonary nocardiosis (PN) and simple colonization.
- In a study of patients with confirmed Nocardia spp. isolation, 26.8% had PN, while 73.2% were only colonized; the PN group exhibited more symptoms and abnormal chest CT findings.
- Patients with PN had worse clinical outcomes and survival, particularly those who were immunocompromised or had additional health issues, highlighting the need for careful monitoring and treatment of this patient population.
Bone involvement in young adults with cystic fibrosis - a Portuguese cohort.
Acta Reumatol Port
November 2021
Introduction: Long-term survivors of cystic fibrosis (CF) have a dramatic increase in the risk of osteoporosis and incident fracture. The objective of this work is to characterize a CF related bone disease in a Portuguese cohort of CF patients.
Methods: We performed a cross-sectional, observational study on a cohort of CF adult patients.
Conventional lung auscultation is essential in the management of respiratory diseases. However, detecting adventitious sounds outside medical facilities remains challenging. We assessed the feasibility of lung auscultation using the smartphone built-in microphone in real-world clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Few data are available on chronic bacterial infections (CBI) in bronchiectasis patients. Given that CBI seems to trigger longer hospital stays, worse outcomes, and morbimortality, this study was undertaken to assess CBI prevalence, characteristics, and risk factors in outpatients with bronchiectasis.
Methods: A total of 186 patients followed in a bronchiectasis tertiary referral centre in Portugal were included.
Educational Aims: To recognise the clinical and radiological presentation of the spectrum of diseases associated with bronchiectasis.To understand variation in the aetiology, microbiology and burden of bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis across different global healthcare systems.
Unlabelled: Bronchiectasis is the term used to refer to dilatation of the bronchi that is usually permanent and is associated with a clinical syndrome of cough, sputum production and recurrent respiratory infections.
Objective: To evaluate the impact that the distribution of emphysema has on clinical and functional severity in patients with COPD.
Methods: The distribution of the emphysema was analyzed in COPD patients, who were classified according to a 5-point visual classification system of lung CT findings. We assessed the influence of emphysema distribution type on the clinical and functional presentation of COPD.
Objectives: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) with variable clinical and radiological features. Diagnosis is based on histology obtained by surgical lung biopsy, which is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. This study aims to briefly review PPFE and discuss the role of CT-guided transthoracic core lung biopsy (TTB) in its diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article has been withdrawn for editorial reasons because the journal will be published only in English. In order to avoid duplicated records, this article can be found at http://dx.doi.
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