II Serie Volume 32 Number 12 December 2019
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Rubella is a vaccine preventable infection, and congenital rubella the most feared complication of this disease. Although young adult women are at greatest risk of post-vaccine rubella, this is also the group who...
Renal artery aneurysms are rare. They are most commonly degenerative, congenital or due to medial fibroplasia. Proximal aneurysms can be repaired by endovascular and in-situ surgical techniques. However, aneurysm...
Botulinum toxin type A has been approved for spasticity management in poststroke patients. The adverse effects are generally of two types: those related to local injection; and those related to the systemic effec...
Introduction: Birth weight is a major contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with chronic diseases in adulthood. This study aimed to evaluate the use of Intergrowth 21st instead of the ...
Welcome to this year’s last issue, which opens with an editorial piece on the 5th Peer Review Week from the perspective of EASE and the Asian Council of Science Editors. We wish our new individual and group members a warm welcome to EASE.
Retraction Watch readers are no doubt familiar with one of the most consequential retractions of this century, namely that of the 1998 paper in The Lancet by Andrew Wakefield and others claiming a link between vaccines and autism. What they may also know is that the paper remains one of the most ...
Imagine a world where society has the high-quality evidence it needs to make informed decisions about crime, health and education. What action can researchers, universities, funders and governments take to get us there?
When women physicians and scientists face barriers to publication and journal leadership, the pace of discovery slows and critical perspectives are lost.
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The article "Dependência de Vídeojogos: Um Problema Pediátrico Emergente?", by Mariana Nogueira, Hugo Faria, Ana Vitorino, Filipe Glória Silva and Ana Serrão Neto made it to the cover of the daily newspaper "I" on April 2, 2019.
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Renal artery aneurysms are rare. They are most commonly degenerative, congenital or due to medial fibroplasia. Proximal aneurysms can be repaired by endovascular and in-situ surgical techniques. However, aneurysms of the distal renal artery and its branches require ex-vivo surgical repa...
Introduction: Birth weight is a major contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with chronic diseases in adulthood. This study aimed to evaluate the use of Intergrowth 21st instead of the Fenton & Kim 2013 growth charts in the diagnosis of small and large for...
A 71-year-old female presented with a two-year history of intermittent dysphagia for solids and a 6 kg weight loss. An esophagram was performed, revealing an extrinsic indentation with anterior displacement of the esophagus (Fig. 1).
Anti-N-Mmethyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system with prominent neurologic and psychiatric features. Symptoms appear progressively and sometimes with an exclusively psychiatric initial presentation. The patient’s evaluation sh...
