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Little is known about the functional outcome of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Africans treated with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). We describe our experience with 182 RA patients seen at a tertiary hospital in South Africa. During the median follow-up period of 3.3 years, the proportion of patients with…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate causes and clinical management of postoperative pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS: From January 2004 to June 2009, 41 patients (44 knees) with knee pain post TKA were treated. There were 9 male and 32 female patients aging from 51 to 84 years with a mean of 63.5 years. The diagno…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the differences between hospital-acquired acute renal failure (HA-ARF) and community-acquired acute renal failure (CA-ARF) in epidemiology, etiology and prognosis. METHODS: The diagnosis of ARF of patients diagnosed with ARF from ICD-9 codes, who were discharged from Peking University Third H…

BACKGROUND: A substantial portion of patients at risk for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are >65 years old. Prasugrel is a novel antiplatelet agent approved for the treatment of ACS patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, and will be used in this population. OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the effect of…

: Understanding the long-term consequences of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in neonates is crucial. A lack of consensus on diagnostic and treatment thresholds has resulted in limited research in this area. Our study aims to describe the trajectory of SDB in a cohort of high-risk neonates and their respiratory and ne…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term outcome of moderate-to-high hyperopic refractive errors in childhood. METHODS: We reviewed medical records from children diagnosed with hyperopia (≥3D) in the amblyogenic risk factors screening that is performed in a public hospital in Portugal…

OBJECTIVES: To determine the level of control in treatment compliance in a sample of patients who were treated with acenocoumarol attended in Primary Care settings. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Cross-sectional study. Patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation treated with acenocoumarol were included. The sample size was…

AIM: To evaluate ovarian function after modern intensive multi-agent chemotherapy for osteosarcoma given during childhood or adolescence. METHODS: After discontinuation of treatment, 10 female osteosarcoma survivors were followed up for 1.5-14 (median 4.6) years. Their age at diagnosis was a median of 12.9 (range 6-15…

PURPOSE: (1) To investigate whether patients with bone-on-bone (BOB) medial OA (Ahlback grade 2) had comparable clinical improvement to those with non-BOB arthritis with remaining joint space (Ahlback grades 0/1) after medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (MOWHTO); (2) to determine whether the radiological results d…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze radiologic and clinical results with a minimum 5 years follow-up (FUP) of lateral lumbar total disc replacement for the treatment of symptomatic lumbar degenerative disc disease. METHODS: We performed a prospective, single-center, clinical, and radiologic study. Patients were tre…

Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is responsible for approximately 5%-7% of cases of aborted cardiac arrest. Recent studies have shown that short-coupled ventricular premature complexes are present at the onset of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation in 6.6%-17% of patients. The present review provided information on…

Introduction The effectiveness of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) on sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, and even acute otitis media has been proved in many studies. Nonetheless, the impact of PCV13 on otomastoiditis (OM) in children has barely been reviewed. In the past, we published a 13 years pn…

OBJECTIVE: The mortality from chronic bronchitis has been increasing in Iceland during the last decades. Little is however known about the prevalence of this disease and the objective of this study was to find the prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Iceland. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In this study a postal questionnaire w…

BACKGROUND: Despite the scientific consensus about vaccines safety and effectiveness, there is still a discrepancy between scientific evidence and perception by the general population. The "VaccinarSì" portal was created in 2013 by Italian specialists in Public Health to provide evidence-based information regardin…

BACKGROUND: It is well known that asthma prevalence has been increasing all over the world in the last decades. However, few data are available on temporal trends of incidence and remission of asthma. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the rates of asthma incidence and remission in Italy from 1940 to 2010. METHODS: The subjects…

22 cases of primary involvement of the appendix in Crohn's disease are reported in the literature. During the last 3 years we observed 4 cases. In three patients typical clinical signs of acute appendicitis were present. One case was found occasionally. The follow-up was 5-30 months. During this time none of our patien…

OBJECTIVE: To compare epidemiological parameters for lung cancer in the last 2 decades (1986-1995 versus 1996-2005). METHODS: Data on demographic characteristics, and histological subtype of lung cancer patients were retrospectively collected by a chart review in Cumhuriyet University Hospital, Sivas, Turkey for the p…

Lack of regular physical activity (LPA) and the number of days/week with physical activity >60 minutes/day (Ndw) may be associated with school-health-relational difficulties (SHRDs) during the life-course. This study assessed their associations and the confounding role of socioeconomic features (nationality, famil…

Several studies suggest that the prevalence of allergic diseases have increased worldwide in recent years. However, in Mexico, those diseases have not been assessed throughout time. The aim of this study was to determine whether there has been a change in the prevalence of childhood asthma, eczema, and atopic rhinitis…

OBJECTIVE: Urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms are common among women, yet only a small proportion of women with incontinence receive a diagnosis and treatment. We used survey and utilization data to determine the prevalence, burden, and treatment use for incontinence among women at Kaiser Permanente in Northern Califor…