Coronavirus disease 2019 quickly spread in China and has, since March 2020 become a pandemic, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. The causative agent was promptly isolated and named SARS-CoV-2. Scientific efforts are related to…
Obesity is a characteristic of COVID-19 patients and the risk of malnutrition can be underestimated due to excess of fat: a paradoxical danger. Long ICU hospitalization exposes patients to a high risk of wasting and loss of lean body mass. The…
Recently, there has been an outbreak associated with the use of e-cigarette or vaping products, associated lung injury (EVALI). The primary components of vaping products, vitamin E acetate (VEA) and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), may be…
Using Internet of Things (IoT) solutions is a promising way to ensure that social distancing is respected, especially in common indoor spaces. This paper proposes a system of placement and relocation of people within an indoor space, using an…
The role of immunosuppression in SARS-CoV-2-related disease (COVID-19) is a matter of debate. We here describe the course and the outcome of COVID-19 in a cohort of patients undergoing treatment with calcineurin inhibitors. In this monocentric cohort…
Em dezembro de 2019, uma doença respiratória causada por um novo coronavírus, SARS-CoV-2, foi identificada pela primeira vez na China. Rapidamente assumiu contornos pandémicos, levando a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) a declarar pandemia a…
O desafio da página em branco, porém com tanta coisa para escrever... o ano de 2020 começou cheio de esperanças!!! Naquele momento, o mundo ainda não sabia que, diante de uma nova realidade, todos os valores teriam que ser revistos. As notícias…