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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: Through recent advances in cancer care, the number of long-term survivors has continuously increased. As a result, repetitive use of local radiotherapy for curative or palliative indications might have increased as well. This analysis aims to describe patterns of care and outcome of patient…

INTRODUCTION: In lumbar stenosis, surgery aims to improve quality of life in increasingly elderly patients. Minimally invasive techniques better suit the requirements of elderly patients with increasing functional demand. HYPOTHESIS: The UNILIF unilateral lumbar interbody fusion technique improves functional scores at…

OBJECTIVES: We investigated trends in end-of-life hospitalizations among nursing home residents (NHR) over 10 years and looked at differences between age groups and sexes as well as the length of terminal hospital stays. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study based on health insurance claims data of the AOK Bremen/B…

STUDY DESIGN: A prospective study was performed. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the natural history of untreated scoliosis in beta-thalassemia patients in a 10-year period. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Several previous studies have demonstrated the bone deformities, particularly the high incidence of scoliosis, that is as…

AIMS: Early recurrences of atrial arrhythmia after wide electrically isolating ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) are well described, but the long-term risk of recurrence for patients with persistent and permanent AF has not been studied in detail. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifty-six consecutive patients [45 men (80.4%),…

PURPOSE: To analyze the evolution of the world ranking in swimming over the last 10 years, with particular attention to the effects of COVID-19 on the different levels of participating athletes. METHODS: The top 200 world-ranked entries in all swimming events (50-m pool) were collected from 2013 to 2022. A mathem…

OBJECTIVES: Despite the significant utilization of long-term care (LTC) services at the end of life, evidence on the trajectory of LTC expenditure in later life is scarce. This study aims to identify distinct trajectories of LTC expenditure in the last 5 years of life and to examine whether these trajectories diff…

The authors report their 27-year experience regarding 35 cases of supratentorial brain metastasis from sarcoma treated in a single institution: these included ten osteosarcomas, seven leiomyosarcomas, five Ewing sarcomas, four malignant fibrous histiocytomas, three alveolar soft-part sarcomas (ASPS), two rhabdomyosarco…

Physicians numerical increment in Brazil presented critical variations in recent years. So, annual means of graduated physicians were: 1972-1976, 7,082; 1977-1981, 8,304; 1982-1986, 7,542; 1987-1991, 7,058. In spite of this tendency to reduction, physicians per 10,000 inhabitants rate increased in the last 20 years: 5.…

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…

AIM: To describe factors affecting eligibility for, and rates of utilization of, hyperacute therapy in children with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) following establishment of our institutional acute stroke treatment pathway in 2005. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of a prospectively enrolled, single-center cohort was p…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the short- and mid-term effectivenesses of combined unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction for osteoarthritis (OA) and ACL injury. METHODS: Between January 2006 and January 2014, 32 patients with knee OA and ACL injury were treated by combined…

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…

BACKGROUND: Pediatric membranous nephropathy (MN) is a rare glomerular disease with limited data available. This single-center study aims to describe risk stratification-based treatment and its outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective observational study included children younger than 18 years of age with primary MN…

This study is a survey conducted in Iju-Odo rural community of Ondo State in South West Nigeria to determine the prevalence and risk factors for low back pain amongst peasant farmers. Five hundred peasant farmers were selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. A questionnaire was administered which sought informa…

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…