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IMPORTANCE: There is widespread consensus on the challenges to meeting the end-of-life wishes of decedents in the US. However, there is broad but not always recognized success in meeting wishes among decedents 65 years and older. OBJECTIVE: To assess how well end-of-life wishes of decedents 65 years and older are met…

Sex discordance in asthma prevalence has been previously reported, with higher prevalence in males before puberty, and in females after puberty; the adolescent "switch". However, cross-sectional studies have suggested a narrowing of this discordance in recent decades. We used a combination of cross-sectional and longit…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: The appropriate treatment when joint degeneration is limited to the lateral compartment remains controversial. Total-knee arthroplasty and alignment osteotomy are well studied for genu valgum. Little is known about the results with lateral-unicompartmental prostheses. The purpose of this work was…

INTRODUCTION: End-of-life care differs by serious illness diagnosis. Cancer and dementia are serious illnesses that have been associated with less intensive end-of-life health care use. It is not known how health care utilization varies in the presence of >1 serious illness. METHODS: We used the Rochester Epidemiology…

OBJECTIVE: To observe the short-term effectiveness of Endobutton plate in the reconstruction of Lisfranc ligament in tarsometatarsal joint injury. METHODS: Between March 2015 and July 2018, 18 patients with tarsometatarsal joint injuries were treated with Lisfranc ligament reconstruction by Endobutton plate. There wer…

In 4/37 (10.8%) children, adolescents and young adults with successfully shunted hydrocephalus, puberty occurred or was occurring precociously, at an age ranging from 7.5 to 8.6 years, with a consequent impairment of their effective or predicted adult height as compared to the familial target height. All four patients…

Autopsy reports from 1931 to 1980 were used to study the incidence of liver cirrhosis (LC) and the association between LC and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in our area (Wuppertal, Germany). An increase in LC and in LC with HCC has occurred since World War II, with HCC being most frequently associated with postnecrotic…

Since a half of XXI Century had been used the neostigmine test for the diagnosis of congenital hypertrofic pyloris stenosis with satisfactory results in newborns. The neostigmine test consist in the intramuscular application of 0.5 mL of neostigmine metilsulfate in a dilution of 1:2000. The reproduction of the characte…

BACKGROUND: Women's authorship position in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine research reflects career progression, especially the transition from first to last (usually senior) author. Employment of women in mental health sciences has increased, and so should have had an impact on the change to…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Sinus surgery has seen significant changes over the years with advancements in instruments, endoscopes and imaging. This study aimed to use Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to review the total number of sinus related procedures performed in both adults and children across England and ide…

The objective of this study was to screen for acromegaly by application of a simple questionnaire in patients seen at primary health care units. A total of 17,000 patients of both genders >18 and <70 years seen by general practitioner were interviewed. Patients with known pituitary disease and pregnant women were exclu…

BACKGROUND: Popliteal aneurysms account for 70% of peripheral arterial aneurysms and, if untreated, pose a serious threat to the affected limb. Debate continues about the best form of treatment especially for asymptomatic lesions. METHOD: We reviewed the computer records and charts of patients seen at this department…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in number of hospital admissions due to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in different age groups during the last decade. DESIGN: Data on all AMI hospital admissions since 1991 were analysed by gender and by age applying 5-year age groups between ages 60 and 90, and < 60 and > or = 90…

The use of non-prescribed prescription drugs (NPPD) is common in post-modern societies and a significant proportion of youth consume NPPD concomitantly to other drugs. We studied the prevalence of this consumption among university students in Spain, and its relationship to different patterns of alcohol, tobacco, and ca…

OBJECTIVE: To review standardized Nuss correction of pectus excavatum and vacuum bell treatment over the last 10 years. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: In 2010, we reported 21 years of the Nuss procedure in 1215 patients. METHODS: Over the last 10 years, 2008-2018, we evaluated 1885 pectus excavatum patients. Surgery was…

The epidemiological status of cystic echinococcosis (CE) in sheep in Sardinia over the 20 years since the last control attempt at the end of the 1980s has been assessed, comparing the results of two surveys carried out in abattoirs in southern Sardinia. In the first, conducted in 1995-1997 (5-7 years after the last con…

In Poland, 200 cases of tick borne encephalitis are annually registered. It is about half of all registered cases of viral encephalitis. Immunity acquired after vaccination with TBE inactivated vaccine persists defined time dependent on number of dose of vaccine and individual features of vaccinated person. The aim of…

In cases of personal identification of corpses, there is usually a lapse of several years between the features of dentition at the time of death and the features documented in the last dental records. We therefore investigated the degree of agreement of the dental findings in the same subject under these circumstances.…

OBJECTIVE: The limited number of bibliometric studies in the literature have generally focused on the top-cited studies in the field of anesthesia, however, there is a lack of studies that made a holistic bibliometric evaluation of these works. The purpose of this study is to make a contemporary summary of the articles…