Hospital de Santa Cruz

Renal tubular acidosis due to Sjögren syndrome: An unexpected cause of hypokalaemia in an oncological patient

Hypokalaemia is a common finding in oncological patients, with a wide range of potential aetiologies. We present the case of a 64-year-old female patient, with a history of breast invasive carcinoma with positive hormonal receptors and negative HER2, and lymph node metastasis. Sh...

When the yardstick is the variable: the fractional flow reserve threshold as a reference standard in second-line functional imaging

António Miguel Ferreira, MD, Luís Raposo, MD, PhD, Sérgio Baptista, MD, PhD; When the yardstick is the variable: the fractional flow reserve threshold as a

Effects of Evolocumab on Mortality Outcomes in Patients Without Previous Myocardial Infarction or Stroke: A Prespecified Analysis of the VESALIUS-CV Randomized Clinical Trial

BACKGROUND: Evolocumab, a PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin–kexin type 9) inhibitor, significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in patients without previous myocardial infarction or stroke in the VESALIUS-CV trial (Effect of Evolocumab in Patients at High Cardi...