• Blood markers of oxidative stress predict weaning failure from mechanical ventilation 

      Verona, Cléber; Hackenhaar, Fernanda Schäfer; Teixeira, Cassiano; Medeiros, Tássia Machado; Alabarse, Paulo Vinicius Gil; Salomon, Tiago Boeira; Schuller, Ártur Krumberg; Maccari, Juçara Gasparetto; Condessa, Robledo Leal; Oliveira, Roselaine Pinheiro de; Vieira, Silvia Regina Rios; Benfato, Mara da Silveira (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      Patients undergoing mechanical ventilation (MV) often experience respiratory muscle dysfunction, which complicates the weaning process. There is no simple means to predict or diagnose respiratory muscle dysfunction because ...
    • Serum ferritin levels may have a pro-atherosclerotic role in coronary artery disease patients with sleep disordered breathing 

      Hackenhaar, Fernanda Schäfer; Martinez, Denis; Klein, Cristini; Medeiros, Tássia Machado; Alabarse, Paulo Vinicius Gil; Wainstein, Marco Vugman; Gonçalves, Sandro Cadaval; Benfato, Mara da Silveira (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      Elevated ferritin levels may lead to oxidative stress, and are associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is frequently present in atherosclerosis patients, and causes endothelial ...