98,306 papers found

A cohort study was performed among 214 patients with severe haemophilia, born 1944-1994, to describe changes in treatment over the last 3 decades and its effects on clotting factor consumption and haemophilic arthropathy. Data on treatment strategy, clotting factor consumption, and outcome were collected for 3567 patie…

Small caliber biological grafts that were heparinized and nonheparinized were implanted in 52 patients with arterial obstructive disease and chronic renal failure by either conventional suture anastomosis or laser anastomosis over the last 8 years. There were no operative mortalities. The overall postoperative patency…

In February 2018 over 100 millions of polyethylene biofilm chips overflowed from a wastewater treatment plant located at Capaccio Paestum (Italy) and due to the Thyrrhenian Sea currents, in few days they invaded the coasts of Campania, Lazio and Tuscany. During the following months the diffusion involves all the coasts…

We report a comparative study of the complications in hypospadias repair of 1185 patients treated in our hospital in the last 20 years. They are divided in three well-defined groups: from 1974 to 1981 (265 p.); from 1982 to 1986 (281 p.) and from 1987 to 1993 (624 p.). These were the more frequent complications seen: a…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of three-dimensional (3D) printed customized hemi-pelvic prosthesis for pelvic reconstruction after resection of massive pelvic tumors. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 26 patients with massive pelvic tumors who met the selection criteria and were treated b…

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this review was to evaluate transoral fundoplication devices for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease that have been commercially available within the last 5 years. METHODS: Literature databases including Medline and Pubmed were searched from January 2005 to November 2010. Both blinded and unbl…

Sports-related epiphyseal injuries have been becoming more prevalent during the last years. We are reporting 85 patients with epiphyseal fractures of the lower extremity treated in our hospital during the last twenty years. The injuries were sustained during soccer in 28% and during alpine skiing in 26% of the cases, o…

Physiotherapy for stabilization of idiopathic scoliosis angle in growing children remains controversial. Notably, little data on effectiveness of physiotherapy in children with Early Onset Idiopathic Scoliosis (EOIS) has been published.The aim of this study was to check results of FITS physiotherapy in a group of child…

CONTEXT: In the 1990s, cannabis consumption in France increased considerably. So, in 10 years, the number of adolescents reporting regular cannabis use (10 or more times during the last 12 months) tripled. In 2004, an official program to address problems related to cannabis addiction was implemented. As part of this pr…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) receiving rituximab with an extended dosing interval. METHODS: In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, this was an interim analysis of an ongoing prospective observational study of patients who were stable on rituximab for at least 6 m…

Chart review of our patients who were operated for acute appendicitis was performed to characterize the appendicitis in the elder patients. Celiotomy revealed perforation of the appendix in almost 40%, frequently in patients with unspecific symptoms and no leucocytosis. While mortality was 9.2% in the ninteeneighties,…

Five women with lympho-cutaneous sporotrichosis with a mean age of 46.8 years, were seen over the last 3 years. Four belonged to rural Himachal Pradesh and one to Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Upper extremity was affected in three patients. Sporotrichum schenkie was isolated form 3 patients and confirmed by the mice patho…

In the last decade, and especially in the last five years, there has been a proliferation of new electrotherapy devices on the physical therapy market. As therapists, we have looked for other modalities to enhance our ability to help our patients. We have also seen PTs develop innovative treatment approaches, using the…

OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively study the primary laryngeal lymphoma cases in China reported in Chinese-language literature. METHOD: Chinese-language literature was searched for papers on primary laryngeal lymphoma published in the last 25 years. RESULTS: The selected papers comprised a total of 115 cases. The male-to-…

Deep-ocean carbonate ion concentrations ([CO(3)(2-)]) and carbon isotopic ratios (δ(13)C) place important constraints on past redistributions of carbon in the ocean-land-atmosphere system and hence provide clues to the causes of atmospheric CO(2) concentration changes. However, existing deep-sea [CO(3)(2-)] recon…

The aim of this study is to describe some characteristics of the sexual behavior of adolescents in Spain and to compare these characteristics according to gender, using a cross-sectional survey. Participants were 1.279 male and female adolescents who reported having had sexual intercourse. A questionnaire about sexual…

Vasomotor symptoms after menopause are multifactorial in origin but result primarily from the loss of estrogen as ovarian function ceases. Although hot flushes typically last for 0.5 to 5.0 years after natural menopause, they may persist for as long as 15 years in a small percentage of postmenopausal women. In contrast…

The fast pace of social and economic changes which have occurred in French Polynesia over the last 30 years, have made this territory a choice ground for studying trends in mortality by revealing a fast and outstanding epidemiological transition. However, the breakdown of the population in small scattered human groups…

OBJECTIVE: Despite a current overall survival (OS) > 20 years in patients undergoing surgery for diffuse low-grade glioma (LGG), there is no study focusing on functional status in long-term survivors. Here, a unique cohort of LGG patients followed for at least 15 years after mapping-guided resection is reported with an…

The aim of this study was to determine what lifestyle changes can predict acute onset hypertension in the normotensive community-dwelling elderly.This study targeted elderly people enrolled in National Health Insurance in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The subjects were 24,490 people who took all of the specific health e…