98,306 papers found

OBJECTIVE: The annual incidence of chloralose poisoning has exceeded 3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Tunisia since 1997. The purpose of this study was to analyze clinical features of chloralose poisoning. METHODS: We reviewed patients admitted to the intensive care unit during the last 5 years to search for chloral…

OBJECTIVE: To find the evolution of the prevalence of tubercular infection. DESIGN: Study of the tendency of the findings from crossover surveys carried out during the last 7 years. SETTING: First-year EGB students from public and private schools in the Autonomous Community of Murcia. INTERVENTION: Performing the Ma…

Annual or biannual time courses of plant delta13C (delta13C(p)) over the last century (70-100 years) were recorded for leafbases of four grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea preissii) at four sites in mediterranean Australia and wood of four conifers (Widdringtonia cedarbergensis) at two sites in mediterranean South Africa. There…

BACKGROUND: The aptitude, knowledge, and competence of dental health personnel on child abuse and neglect (CAN) is not optimal for deciding when to file a report of concern to child welfare services (CWS). OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was, firstly, to assess the association of the public dental health personnel '…

INTRODUCTION: The aim was to study the characteristics and case severity of patients hospitalized for influenza with a pandemic strain at a German tertiary care university hospital in 2009/10 and 2010/11 and to compare them to two previous influenza seasons. METHODS: An observational study of all patients hospitalized…

The authors present 110 cases of patients hospitalized in the last 5 years, with long-term disabling sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis. Twelve out of them (= 10.9%) suffered from post-tuberculous chronic empyema, with an average latency period of 44.83 years between the acute tuberculous illness and the clinical manif…

Decrease of intraocular pressure (IOP) and the occurrence of cataract were analysed in 75 patients of a community-based material followed for 6-12 years after trabeculectomy. IOP was controlled (less than or equal to 21 mmHg) with or without additional treatment in approximately 90% of the eyes, both at 5 years and at…

PURPOSE: Extended adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) beyond 5 years (up to 10 years) has been shown to be beneficial for some women with non-metastatic, hormone-receptor positive breast cancer. Much of our current understanding of adherence to and continuation with AET is derived from examining the 5 years…

BACKGROUND: Pneumatic dilation (PD) is often billed as a "short term" treatment for achalasia but anecdotally can last years. This study sought to explore how long a single pneumatic dilation may induce symptom remission in a treatment-naïve achalasia patient. METHODS: A single center, retrospective chart review…

PURPOSE: To study the course and outcome of childhood-onset epilepsy during 15-year follow-up (FU). METHODS: We extended FU in 413 of 494 children with new-onset epilepsy recruited in a previously described prospective hospital-based study by questionnaire. RESULTS: Mean FU was 14.8 years (range 11.6-17.5 years). Fiv…

OBJECTIVE: To review the literature related to diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), and investigate research hotspots and development trends of this field in the relevant studies based on CiteSpace software of text mining and visualization in scientific literature. METHODS: The relevant literature from the last 20 years was…

BACKGROUND: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a frequent cause of cancer related death globally. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and albumin bilirubin (ALBI) grade are emerging prognostic indicators in HCC. AIM: To study published literature of NLR and ALBI over the last five years, and to validate NLR and ALBI l…

Between 1972 and 1996, 450 consecutive patients with intracranial meningiomas were operated on at Cukurova University School of Medicine. By size, intracranial meningiomas were classified as huge (>6 cm minimum diameter when extrapolated to anatomic size) or not huge (<6 cm). The present study involves 93 patients who…

Professor Chourrout graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud and received his Ph.D.from the University of Paris VI. He worked asa scientist at the French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA)doing research on trout genetics for more than 10 years. During his last 5 years at INRA, Professor Chourro…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the safety and clinical effects of percutaneous vertebroplasty and pedicle screw fixation in treating osteoporotic thoracolumbar burst fracture. METHODS: From April 2011 to April 2014, 32 patients with osteoporotic thoracolumbar burst fracture were treated with percutaneous vertebroplasty and ped…

The epidemiology of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was studied in Portugal, using data of hospital admissions and total mortality, in 1994, 1996 and 1997. A rate of incidence of 151/100,000 for 1994 and of 137/100,000, for 1996 and 1997, was observed. Although in the last two years the incidence was the same, the mortali…

Sleeve allow excision of bronchial carcinoma in patients not able to functionally tolerate pneumonectomy. Our series consists of 73 patients operated over the last thirty years. Implantation of the bronchus was treated either by wedge resection or by complete resection followed by reimplantation. This procedure was per…

BACKGROUND: Despite the national cervical cancer screening programme launched in 2006, Estonia has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates in Europe. While the overall coverage of cervical cytology is high, the factors related to cancer screening history prior to cancer diagnosis need to be studied. METHODS…

OBJECTIVE: Microbial resistance due to antibiotic misuse is a worldwide problem. This study aimed to examine the trends in antibiotic prescription after tooth extraction in Korea. METHODS: From the database of National Health Insurance Sharing Service, patients who underwent tooth extraction from 2002 to 2018 were sel…

During the last 150 years, the tropical seagrass specieshas established itself in the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea. More recently (2018),was observed for the first time in the eastern Mediterranean, and was described as the second non-native seagrass species in the Mediterranean Sea. We implement…