Ernestina Santos, MD, PhD

Integrated PhD Researcher

Current Position:

Neurologist at Neurology Department in CHP

Selected publications:

1. MuSK myasthenia gravis and pregnancy. Santos E, Braga A, Gabriel D, Duarte S, Martins da Silva A, Matos I, Freijo M, Martins J, Silveira F, Nadais G, Sousa F, Fraga C, Santos Silva R, Lopes C, Gonçalves G, Pinto C, Sousa Braga J, Leite MI. Neuromuscul Disord. 2017 Nov 28. pii: S0960-8966(17)31225-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.11.014. [Epub ahead of print]

2. HLA and age of onset in myasthenia gravis. Ernestina Santos, Andreia Bettencourt, Ana Martins da Silva, Daniela Boleixa, Dina Lopes, Sandra Brás, Paulo Pinho e Costa, Carlos Lopes, Guilherme Gonçalves, Maria Isabel Leite, Berta Martins da Silva. Neuromuscul Disord. 2017 Apr 5. pii: S0960-8966(17)30060-3. doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2017.04.002.

3. Inflammatory myopathy associated with myasthenia gravis with and without thymic pathology: report of four cases and literature review. Ernestina Santos, Ester Coutinho, Ana Martins da Silva, António Marinho, Carlos Vasconcelos, Ricardo Taipa, Manuel Melo Pires, Guilherme Gonçalves, Carlos Lopes, Maria Isabel Leite. Autoimmun Rev. 2017 Jun;16(6):644-649. doi: 10.1016/j.autrev.2017.04.009. Epub 2017 Apr 13.

4. Epidemiology of myasthenia gravis in Northern Portugal: Frequency estimates and clinical epidemiological distribution of cases. Santos E, Coutinho E, Moreira I, Silva AM, Lopes D, Costa H, Silveira F, Nadais G, Morais H, Martins J, Branco MC, Veiga A, Silva RS, Ferreira A, Sousa F, Freijo M, Matos I, André R, Negrão L, Fraga C, Santos M, Sampaio M, Lopes C, Leite MI, Gonçalves G. Muscle Nerve. 2016 Sep;54(3):413-21.
   

5. Myasthenia gravis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: a multicenter study of 16 patients. Maria Isabel Leite, Ester Coutinho, Marco Lana-Peixoto, Samira Apostolos, Patrick Waters, Douglas Sato, Luciana Melamud, Monica Marta, Andrew Graham, Jennifer Spillane, Andres Villa, Dagoberto Callegaro, Ernestina Santos, Ana Martins da Silva, Sven Jarius, Robin Howard, Ichiro Nakashima, Gavin Giovannoni, Camilla Buckley, David Hilton-Jones, Angela Vincent, Jacqueline Palace. Neurology. 2012 May 15;78(20):1601-7.