Posts by: Patricia Silva, PhD

Patricia Silva, PhD

Patrícia holds her PhD in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, The Netherlands. She has studied Applied Biology at Universidade do Minho and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work has been focused on molecular genetic traits of infectious agents such as viruses and parasites.

March 30, 2015November 5, 2015

Researchers Find Pulmonary Hypertension Drug Sildenafil Has No Significant Impact on Cardiac Function

News, Pulmonary Hypertension

Researchers at the Hospital Ana Neri in Federal University of Bahia in Brazil found that the medication Sildenafil appears to have no immediate impact on cardiac function in patients with heart failure. ... Read more

March 26, 2015November 9, 2015

Mechanism Underlying Tolerance to COPD Therapeutic Drug Revealed

COPD, News

A team led by researchers at Georgia State University in Atlanta recently revealed a previously unknown mechanism behind the development of tolerance to the drug roflumilast used in the treatment ... Read more

March 20, 2015November 5, 2015

Novel Culture Method Allows More In-Depth Studies on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lung Pathogen

Cystic Fibrosis, News

Researchers at the Center for Infectious Disease, The University of Texas at Austin have established a new method that allowed them to sequence the genome of the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa ... Read more

March 19, 2015November 5, 2015

Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography Measurements Shown as a Predictive Tool for Pulmonary Hypertension

News, Pulmonary Hypertension

Researchers at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands recently published findings in The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging that reveal specific measurements obtained by standard computed tomography ... Read more

March 16, 2015March 16, 2015

COPD Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension are More Prone to Co-Morbidities

News

Researchers at the Cairo University in Egypt recently reported that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can also develop co-morbidities as pulmonary hypertension and cardiac alterations. The study was ... Read more

March 12, 2015November 9, 2015

Researchers Report the Need for Pain Assessment in Patients with COPD

COPD, News

Researchers at West Park Healthcare Centre and University of Toronto in Canada recently suggested that reliable measures of pain are needed for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The ... Read more

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015

FDA Approves Nivolumab for the Treatment of Metastatic Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer, News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the medication nivolumab (Opdivo; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company) as a therapy for patients with metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with progression on ... Read more

March 6, 2015November 5, 2015

Researchers Reveal Molecular Mechanism Behind Thick Mucus Production in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

Cystic Fibrosis

A collaborative research team from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, recently revealed the reason why ... Read more

March 5, 2015November 5, 2015

Specific Genetic Pathways Can Determine Cystic Fibrosis Severity, According to Study

Cystic Fibrosis, News

Researchers at UNC School of Medicine in North Carolina recently published in The American Journal of Human Genetics their findings on how specific genetic pathways can influence cystic fibrosis (CF) ... Read more

March 3, 2015November 6, 2015

Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis Patients Affected Most by Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

Bronchiectasis, News

Researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy published in the International Journal of Mycobacteriology their findings regarding the clinical outcome of patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis with chronic lung infection ... Read more