Scientific Research

Advance of medicine

Scientific research

One of the pillars of Imuno Brazil’s activities is scientific research. We believe that the path to advances in medicine, in the various specialties in which we operate, is only possible through academic improvement with a lot of research and applied study, combined with the diversity of training of our professionals.

Research in the medical field is fundamental in the discovery of new diagnostic and treatment methods. At Imuno Brasil, several Investigator Initiative studies have already been and are currently being carried out. All these studies are used to enable the translational process from clinical investigation to the clinical care, through the acquired knowledge and data produced, which improves the excellence into health care support.

All research carried out by the Imuno Brasil research center is prepared and applied strictly following all national and international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving Human Beings.

This is how the Imuno Brasil might bring excellence in treatment, with innovative cutting-edge technologies to our patients.

Imuno Brasil has currently a partnership with the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, as well as the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary.

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Study and Innovate

Some research completed and published by the group

COVID-19 vaccine confidence in the post-vaccination era: perceptions among adults with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases

In this Short communication, published in the journal Public Health in Practice,Imuno Brasil researchers investigated the perception of protection provided by vaccines against coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. Regarding the perception of protection resulting from vaccination against COVID-19, it was found that 80.5% of eligible patients demonstrated confidence in the ability […]
Antinuclear Antibodies pattern in Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis: is there any peculiar difference?

In this correspondence, which was accepted by the scientific journal International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, researchers from Imuno Brasil conducted a comprehensive retrospective analysis of medical records. The objective was to assess discrepancies in prevalence, titre levels, and antinuclear factor (ANA) positivity patterns between patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PAs). Antinuclear […]
A rare giant geode of humeral head in an uncontrolled rheumatoid arthritis: a case report

In this study published in the renowned scientific journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Imuno Brasil present an interesting clinical case involving a 70-year-old patient with difficult-to-control rheumatoid arthritis. The patient exhibits severe arthritis in the shoulder, accompanied by bone erosion, which is associated with a giant pannus-filled geode in the left humeral head. The […]
Unchanged trend in systemic lupus erythematosus mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: a national population-based study

In this Letter sent to the prestigious Journal Lupus, researchers from Imuno Brasil extracted from the official national health database website (Ministério da Saúde do Brasil)  all records in which Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) was reported as a primary cause of death, or as a non-underlying cause of death. The authors found no difference in overall […]
One pandemic shadowing another – Study on the Covid-19 pandemic and the increase in domestic violence against women

The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that crashed in 2020, led to a sharp increase in mental health-related illnesses, such as anxiety, depression, acute distress disorder and burnout. During that period, interpersonal contact was interrupted due to the quarantine and aggravated a known problem: domestic violence against women. Dr. Camille Pinto Figueiredo, rheumatologist and […]
Contribution to Clinical Research on COVID-19

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) decreed that the world was experiencing a Covid-19 pandemic. A disease that until then we knew very little about. A year later, in March 2021, our medical team, in partnership with Hospital Santa Paula, published the article “Seroconversion for SARS-CoV-2 in Rheumatic Patients on Synthetic and […]
Cognitive biases in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia

Cognitive biases are predictable patterns of errors that can be repeated during decision-making processes. They exist in the most diverse areas, from administration to medicine. Within medicine, diagnosing diseases based on nonspecific symptoms has become increasingly susceptible to these biases. Fibromyalgia is a disease for which there is no laboratory test to confirm the diagnosis. […]
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Ongoing research at the Imuno Brasil research center

One of the pillars of Imuno Brasil's activities is scientific research. We believe that the path to the advancement of medicine, in the various specialties we work, is only possible with academic improvement, research and applied study.