98,306 papers found

BACKGROUND: Pediatric craniopharyngiomas are curable tumors. Significant morbidity is reported from the tumor itself as well as treatments (surgery and radiotherapy (RT)), which adversely affects health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes, which we reported and correlated with other health outcomes. METHODS: HRQo…

OBJECTIVES: HIV self-testing has been available in Spain since 2017 as a diagnostic tool to promote earlier diagnosis. We aimed to assess awareness and previous use of HIV self-testing in a sample of men who have sex with men (MSM) recruited online more than 2 years after its legal authorization in Spain. METHODS: We…

OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of distal adding-on phenomenon after posterior selective fusion in type Lenke 1A idiopathic scoliosis, to analyze its risk factors so as to find the reasonable choice for lowest instrumented vertebra (LIV). METHODS: A retrospective study was made on the clinical data of 43 patient…

The prevalence of allergic rhinitis, hay fever and eczema has risen worldwide during the last four decades but may have reached a plateau in some westernized societies. We examined time trends in the prevalence of childhood chronic or recurrent rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in urban Greece. Using identical m…

AIM: To describe the heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability at rest, during a submaximal treadmill test and at rest posttreadmill in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: Twenty children (6-11 years) with CP participated, who had Gross Motor Function Classification System levels I to III. The HR was monitore…

OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: Unruptured aneurysm surgery is a challenge to all vascular neurosurgeons as the patient is asymptomatic and no even slight neurological deficits should be expected postoperatively. To this aim, multi-modality checking of the vessels during the surgery is highly recommended to assure of the pat…

The diagnosis of Brugada syndrome (BS) is based on a combination of clinical (malignant arrhythmias presenting as syncopal or sudden death episodes) and electrocardiographic (pathognomonic ST segment elevation morphology) features. Over the last 15 years, since its introduction as a distinct clinical entity, the BS has…

Archived wheat grain and straw samples from the unfertilised plot of the Broadbalk Continuous Wheat Experiment at Rothamsted, England, were used to investigate the trends in stable C isotope ratios since 1845. Grain δ(13)C was higher than straw δ(13)C. Both grain and straw δ(13)C have decreased by app…

One century ago, in his 1990 Annals of Surgery article, Cushing indicated that except for children, all hernias can be repaired under local anesthesia [1]. Since then, local anesthesia has been successfully used for the repair of all reducible groin hernias in adult patients at many centers. For the last 25 years, more…

Millions of Americans get virtually all their current events information from the national nightly television news programs. The purpose of this study was to learn what diabetes-related information had been broadcast over the last 11 years by the network news programs. Another objective was to learn how that coverage c…

OBJECTIVE: Hearing outcomes following Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for vestibular schwannoma (VS) are multifactorial and poorly characterized in prior literature. In this study the authors evaluated hearing outcomes chronologically to identify prognostic factors of serviceable hearing preservation (HP) rates followi…

BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has made a significant progress of malaria control. Currently, the country has adopted and is implementing the World Health Organization very ambitious, but achievable, malaria elimination plan through extensive efforts. The regular evaluation of its performance is vital for plausible improvement.…

Yersinia enterocolitica infection is a zoonosis with worldwide distribution, gastroenteritis being by far the most common clinical manifestation of human infection. In Gipuzkoa, northern Spain, human Y. enterocolitica infections increased from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st century (from 7·9 to 23&#xb7…

INTRODUCTION: With improved survival, adolescents with perinatal HIV (PHIV) are transitioning from paediatric to adult care, but there are few published data on clinical outcomes post-transfer. Using linked data from patients in the national UK/Ireland paediatric cohort (CHIPS) and an adult UK cohort of outpatient clin…

We present a summary of the results obtained on 1142 treatments of 1072 eyes treated in our hospital during the last 5 years. Ultrasound has been used to treat 843 eyes with refractory glaucoma and also to restore failed trabeculectomy filtering blebs in 229 eyes. The single treatment success rate with success defined…

During the last 5 years, 7 families suffering from familial polyposis coli have been investigated; we found 23 members affected and we operated 10 of them. One of them died of metastases and 9 members of these pedigrees died of carcinoma which appeared at the average age of 41,5 years. This confirms that this condition…

OBJECTIVES: In the Netherlands, around 750 children (0-21 year) die annually from potentially palliative conditions. The majority of these children reside at home, receiving care from hospital services and primary care. This study aims to examine general practice utilization for pediatric palliative care patients…

BACKGROUND: Open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) in patients aged 80 years and older may be questioned owing to the patients' high operative risk and short life expectancy. METHODS: Data on patients aged at least 80 years, admitted for RAAA at four Finnish university hospitals, were collected and a…

Relapse in, and recovery from, schizophrenia has been acknowledged since the disease was first described. In this review the authors summarize the long-term (>100 years) data on relapse and recovery in schizophrenia by reviewing the extant older and modern relevant literature. The authors systematically question…

To present the situation of human trichinellosis in Southeast Asia in the last 20th years we analyzed outbreak data and seroprevalence studies from 2001 to 2021 for this region. We queried PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) using keywords "", "human" and "Southeast Asia". In addition, we describedspecies circulat…