CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
He graduated in Medicine at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1977), residency and PhD in Nephrology at FMUSP and Post-Doctorate at University of Colorado School of Medicine, CO, USA (1991-1993). Currently is Associate Professor of Nephrology at FMUSP. He is Director of Medical residency program in HCFMUSP since 2007. His professional experience is mainly in Internal Medicine and Nephrology: clinical nephrology, acute kidney injury, nephrotoxicity, dialysis and ICU nephrology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a commom cause of nephrotic syndrome, with an estimated incidence of 5-10 cases/million inhabitants/year in north Europe. In Brasil, MN is the second most frequent glomerulopathy according to Registro Paulista de Glomerulopatias and also, it was the second most prevalent glomerulopathy in another brazilian series of biopsies. Pathogenesis of MN since the ini…
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a disease with growing incidence and prevalence, causing high in-hospital and late mortality, increased hospital length of stay, and late development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). It is presumed that this pattern occurs globally, although epidemiological data from developing countries are scarce. In fact, AKI epidemiology has a particular bimodal characteri…
Patients with cancer often have clotting disorder, which may manifest clinically as thrombosis or abnormalities in laboratory tests. The procoagulant state of cancer patients is secondary to several factors: the induction of procoagulant activity by the tumor itself; the vascular stasis due to the obstruction of blood flow by the tumor; the patient's immobility (bedridden patients); the u…
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