Acta Reumatológica Portuguesa: perspectives in 2017.

Letter to the Editor: Medication-Overuse Headache is Common in Portuguese Migraineurs.

[Welcome aboard the Acta Medica Portuguesa, welcome to the first international division!].

1. Editor-Chefe. Acta Médica Portuguesa. Lisboa. Portugal. 2. Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia. Hospital de Santa Maria. Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte. Portugal. 3. Editora Associada. Acta Médica Portuguesa. Lisboa. Portugal. 4. Serviço de Documentação. Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra. Coimbra. Portugal. Recebido: 23 de Outubro de 2014 Aceite: 23 de Outubro de 2014 | Copy...

Acta Médica Portuguesa and peer-review: quick and brutal!

H.D.: Editora Associada. Acta Médica Portuguesa. Lisboa. & Serviço de Documentação do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra. Coimbra. Portugal. R.T.M.: Editor-Chefe. Acta Médica Portuguesa. Lisboa. & Serviço de Gastrenterologia e Hepatologia. Hospital de Santa Maria. Centro Hospitalar Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal. Recebido: 16 de Agosto de 2012 Aceite: 16 de Agosto de 2012 | Copyright © Orde...

Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding Caused by Dieulafoy Lesion of the Esophagus.

The authors report the case of a 66-year-old man admitted after fracture of the left femur, being submitted to surgery. During the recovery period the patient had an episode of large volume hematemesis with hypotension and tachycardia, with a hemoglobin decrease of 3 g/dL. After cardiovascular resuscitation, upper endoscopy was performed which revealed a bleeding vessel in the midesophagus, com...

Target Sign: Endoscopic Sign of the Colonic Perforation.

A 68-year-old man underwent an en bloc endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of a 20 mm non-granular laterally spreading tumor, type 0-IIa of the Paris classification, in the descending colon (Fig. 1). During the procedure, unintentional resection of the muscularis propria (‘target sign’) was observed immediately (Fig. 2A); the defect was closed by endoscopic clipping using four clips (Fig. 2B); n...