Location

Hospital Curry Cabral | CHULC

Ana Carina Ferreira

Professor Assistente Convidado

Ana Carina Ferreira, nephrologist and PhD in Medicine from Nova Medical School (NMS). She has been a specialist in Nephrology since 2012 and holds the rank of Graduate Hospital Assistant in the Nephrology Department at Curry Cabral Hospital | ULS São José and Guest Assistant Professor at NMS. She is the medical director of the NephroCare Lumiar hemodialysis center.

From 2015 - 2017 she was Chair of the ERA's Young Nephrologists' Platform; from 2021 - 2024 she was part of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Nephrology (SPN), as treasurer and since 2023 she has been part of the Council of the European Renal Association (ERA). She is a member of the editorial board of the official SPN journal “Portuguese Kidney Journal” and the official ERA journal “Clinical Kidney Jornal”. In 2017 he was awarded the European Certificate in Nephrology by the UEMS.

Throughout his career, he has presented and published numerous papers in the field of clinical nephrology and transplantation in national and international nephrology journals.

1. Ferreira AC, Viana H, Carvalho F, Pinto R, Galvão MJ, Nolasco F, Santos JR. Chronic allograft nephropathy – is there a treatment? Transplant Proc 2009;41:874-876 2. Matias P, Ferreira AC, Jorge C, Borges M, Aires I, Amaral T, Gil C, Cortez J, Ferreira A. 25 hydroxyvitamin D3, arterial calcifications and cardiovascular risk markers in haemodialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009;24:611-618 3. Ferreira AC, Brum S, Carvalho D, Pataca I, Santos MC, Carvalho F, Santos JR. Renal dysfunction due to leukemic infiltration of kidneys in a case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Hemodialysis Int 2010;14:87-90 4. Ferreira AC, Nolasco F, Carvalho D, Sampaio S, Baptista A, Pessegueiro P, Monteiro E, Mourão L, Barroso E. Impact of RIFLE classification in liver transplantation. Clin Transplant 2010;24:394-400 5. Matias P, Jorge C, Ferreira AC, Borges M, Aires I, Amaral T, Gil C, Cortez J, Ferreira A. Cholecalciferol supplementation in hemodialysis patients: effects on mineral metabolism, inflammation, and cardiac dimension parameters. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2010;5:905-911 6. Ferreira AC, Carvalho D, Carvalho F, Galvão MJ, Nolasco F. Collapsing glomerulopathy in Portugal: a review of the histological and clinical findings in HIV and non-HIV patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011;26: 2209-2215 7. Ferreira AC, Carvalho F, Nolasco F. Familial amyloidotic polineuropathy and systemic lupus. Lupus 2012;21:1455-1458 8. Mendes M, Ferreira AC, Ferreira A, Aires I, Remédio F, Cordeiro A, Mascarenhas A, Martins A, Pereira P, Glória H, Perdigoto R, Veloso J, Ferreira P, Oliveira J, Silva M, Barroso E, Nolasco F. ABO-Incompatible liver transplant in acute liver failure: a single Portuguese center study. Transplant Proc 2013;45:1110-1115 9. Navarro D, Ferreira AC, Viana H, Carvalho F, Nolasco F. Cavernous sinus thrombosis in a patient with nephrotic syndrome. CEN Case Rep 2017; 6:136-139 11. Ferreira AC, Fernandes V. Symmetrical Peripheral Gangrene. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2018;55:391 12. Mendes M, Ferreira AC, Navarro D, Azevedo A, Pinto B, Gomes F, Matias P, Jorge P, Aires I, Ferreira A. Optimizing the use of Darbepoetin-Alfa with a split strategy: a concept change. Clin Nephrol 2018;89:83-89 13. Gante I, Ferreira AC, Pestana G, Pires D, Amaral N, Dores J, Almeida MC, Sandoval JL. Maternal educational level and the risk of persistent post-partum glucose metabolism disorders in women with gestational diabetes mellitus. Acta Diabetologica 2018;55:243-251 14. Najm Aurélie, Kostine M, Pauling JD, Ferreira AC, Stevens K, Smith E, Eguiluz-Gracia I, Studenic P, Rodríguez-Carrio J, Ramiro S, Alunno A, Richez C, Nikiphorou E, Sepriano A. Multidisciplinary collaboration among young specialists: results of an international survey by the emerging EULAR network and other young organisations. RMD Open, 2020;6: e001398 15. Ferreira AC, Navarro D. Cytomegalovirus nephropathy in the transplant patient. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2021;36:777-778 16. Ferreira AC, Cohen-Solal M, D’Haese P, Ferreira A. The role of bone biopsy in the management of CKD-MBD. Calcif Tissue Int 2021;108:528-538 17. Torregrosa JV, Ferreira AC, Cucchiari D, Ferreira A. Bone Mineral Disease after Kidney Transplantation. Calcif Tissue Int 2021;108:551-560 18. Ferreira AC, Mendes M, Silva C, Cotovio P, Aires I, Navarro D, Caeiro F, Salvador R, Correia B, Cabral G, Nolasco F, Ferreira A. Bone densitometry versus bone histomorphometry in renal transplanted patients: a cross-sectional study. Transpl Int 2021;34:1065-1073 19. Ferreira AC, Cotovio P, Aires I, Mendes M, Navarro D, Silva C, Caeiro F, Salvador R, Correia B, Cabral G, Nolasco F, Ferreira A. The role of bone volume, FGF23 and sclerostin in calcifications and and mortality: a cohort study in stage 5 CKD patients. Calcif Tissue Int 2021; ahead of print 28. Pépin M, Ferreira AC, Arici M, et al. Cognitive disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease: specificities of clinical assessment. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2021