Publications by authors named "Ricardo A S Conti"
A rare case of cytomegalovirus causing respiratory failure and a large pericardial effusion.
J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
September 2021
Article Synopsis
- CMV infection usually doesn't make healthy people sick, but it can be serious for those with weak immune systems.
- In a rare case, a patient with HIV experienced severe breathing problems and fluid around the heart because of CMV.
- Doctors found that CMV was the only germ causing these problems after examining samples from the patient's lungs and heart.
Reliability of focused cardiac ultrasound performed by first-year internal medicine residents at a community hospital after a short training.
J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
November 2019
The use of bedside ultrasound over the past few decades has created a new wave of options for visualizing pathological processes allowing for faster and better detection of disease. We aimed to evaluate the reliability of focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) performed by first-year internal medicine residents at a community hospital after a short period of training. They received a two-hour lecture and initially performed a supervised FCU followed by ten unsupervised/independent FCUs each.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow-pressure cardiac tamponade masquerading as severe sepsis diagnosed with a bedside ultrasound and as the initial presentation of malignancy.
J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
August 2014
Objective: We report a patient with low-pressure cardiac tamponade masquerading as sepsis and as the initial presentation of malignancy. A quick diagnosis was done by the intensivist performing a bedside ultrasound.
Background: The diagnosis of low-pressure cardiac tamponade is a challenge because the classic physical signs of cardiac tamponade can be absent.
Objective: To assess the differences between young males and females after acute myocardial infarction.
Methods: We retrospectively studied 236 patients (54 females and 182 males) after acute myocardial infarction and during hospital stay assessed the following parameters: risk factors; the treatment used; the pattern of coronary artery obstruction; left ventricular ejection fraction; complications; and, using a logistic regression model, the factors related to the occurrence of reinfarction and death.
Results: No significant difference was observed between the sexes in risk factors, pattern of coronary artery obstruction, and left ventricular function.