3 results match your criteria: "Hospital Garcia d'Orta[Affiliation]"

Objective: Current scientific evidence is insufficient to determine the best vascular access for each patient. It is an unmet clinical need because vascular access dysfunction accounts for 20% to 30% of hospital admissions. Our aim was to evaluate preoperative color flow Doppler ultrasound (CDUS)-derived parameters (vein diameter and brachial artery flow and diameter) and their effect interaction with comorbidities as predictors of brachiocephalic (BC) and brachiobasilic (BB) arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation.

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Purpose: to compare delivery and pregnancy follow-up among adolescent and non-adolescent pregnant women whose delivery occurred in a tertiary hospital from Região de Lisboa (Portugal).

Methods: retrospective study with 10,656 deliveries. Pregnancy follow-up, delivery type, need of episiotomy and severe lacerations, Apgar index at the fifth minute and the delivery weight have been evaluated.

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