II Serie Volume 32 Number 3 March 2019
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Hypertrophic and keloid scars represent hyperproliferative disorders that can have a significant impact on patients’ lives. The authors present the case of a 53 years-old male with a sternal keloid after ex...
Keywords: Osteogenesis Imperfecta; Portugal; Zoledronic Acid
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The Circadian Timing System (CTS) is an important regulatory system synchronizing internal medium with external clues. It is a dynamic multi-oscillatory system ensuring predictive adjustme...
ABSTRACT Introduction: The scale Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life uses a simple and easily administered questionnaire to evaluate the adaptation of individual...
Há 40 anos saía da gráfica a primeira edição da Revista Acta Médica Portuguesa. Quatro décadas e 3884 artigos depois, disponíveis na PubMed, muita coisa mudou e é hoje publicada, agora apenas online, a edição especial qu...
Ricardo Baptista Leite, medical doctor, member of Parliament and author of the recently published article "The Road towards the Responsible and Safe Legalization of Cannabis Use in Portugal", was interviewed by news Channel SIC notícias about the proposal to legalize cannabis in ...
In my capacity as Chair of the Jury for the National Research Award of the Swiss College of Primary Care Medicine, I was recently invited to give a Plenary lecture at the Early Career Researchers Academic meeting for academic primary care physicians in Bern, Switzerland. I enjoyed listening to ot...
Bernardo Marques da Silva, 5th year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, will be AMP-Student’s Editor-in-Chief during 2018. He will be responsible together with a team of Associate-Editors and under the supervision of AMP’s Editor-in-Chief, Tiago Vil...
Introduction: Due to scientific and technological development, Medical Education has been readjusting its focus and strategies. Medical curriculum has been adopting a vertical integration model, in which basic and clinical sciences coexist during medical instruction. Th...
Internal hernias are a rare cause of bowel obstruction (1%) and can be caused by broad ligament defects in 4% to 7% of the cases. These defects may be congenital or acquired and are classified according to its anatomical location. This paper reports three cases of small bowel obstructio...
Keywords: Decision Making; Evidence-Based Medicine; Guideline Adherence; Portugal; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Quality Improvement You can read the Letter to the Editor here:
Introduction: Obesity is often accompanied by psychological distress and both can reduce patients' quality of life. Bariatric surgery is proven to be a good method to reduce weight and to alleviate comorbidities, leading ultimately to an improvement in quality of life.
