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BACKGROUND: The minimal access surgical technique of a left anterior small thoracotomy (LAST) for coronary artery bypass grafting is now well established. This procedure however, does not allow multivessel revascularization. We present our early experience of an integrated approach using LAST and percutaneous translumi…

Endometriosis was found in 42 (20%) of 206 symptom-free, parous Norwegian women with a mean age of 37 years at the time of sterilization. Case-control analysis between the 42 women with endometriosis and the 164 without endometriosis revealed an increased risk of endometriosis with increasing number of years since the…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short-term effectiveness of arthroscopically capsular vertical mattress suturing for shoulder recurrent anterior dislocation combined with joint laxity. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on 6 shoulder recurrent anterior dislocation patients combined with joint laxity treated wi…

BACKGROUND: The aim was to evaluate the characteristics and cardiovascular complications of a large Belgian cohort of adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (T2DM)&#xa0;<45&#xa0;years. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of 886 patients diagnosed with T2DM&#xa0;<45&#xa0;years and 933 T2DM patients diagnosed at the age betw…

Surface (0-5 cm) and subsurface (-5 to 15 cm) soils from burned forest areas in South of France were analyzed to determine contents of 14 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their distribution profile. The sampling procedure allowed us to study the effect of the frequency of fire as well as the influen…

Clinical observations were made on patients with urethritis, syphilis, chancroid, genital herpes and venereal warts for the last eight years at Gifu City Hospital. The patients with urethritis, genital herpes and venereal warts tended to increase yearly, and the number of the cases with urethritis increased about 2.5 t…

Although three-fifths of adolescent males aged 15-19 say they have had sexual intercourse, analyses of data from the 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males indicate that their level of sexual activity is relatively moderate. The data show that among sexually experienced young men the mean number of partners in the la…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence and associated factors of doing clinical breast examinations (CBE) and mammogram (MMG) in the Southern and Northeast Brazilian regions, focusing on some social inequalities. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study using data from the 2008 National Household Sampling Survey (PNAD)…

AIMS: Evaluation of pattern of recurrences of 290 patients with an Ewing's sarcoma family tumor (ESFT), who relapsed after adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS: Retrospective analysis at a median follow-up of 16.6 years (range: 5-32) from the primary therapy. RESULTS: There were 378 recurrences, treated by s…

BACKGROUND: Psychological features associated with execution are not fully understood. AIMS: To analyse demographics of individuals executed in Texas and investigate whether there has been any change in common themes and psychological factors evident in last statements before execution between 2002 and 2017. DESIGN:…

The secular decline of Italian fertility, started in the last decade of the nineteenth century, came to an end in the early 1950'sand has recovered slightly in the last fifteen years. Italian experience seems to follow, with a twenty-year lag, the experience of the more advanced western European populations. At present…

OBJECTIVE: We used data from the 2010 to 2012 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys to investigate whether the age at menopause is related to age at last delivery. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of the data for 714 women who became menopausal within the 3 years preceding the Korean Nation…

AIM OF THE STUDY: To follow and analyse the state and the structure of neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in the last ten years in Bulgaria. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective study is fulfilled on the annual data of the National Health Statistic Institute concerning the NMR in a period of last ten years. Along to this…

BACKGROUND: The European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (EJPRM) is listed in PubMed and Current Contents and in 2010 will have its first Impact Factor; the unofficial one in the last two years was around 1.00, coming from 0.04 in 2004; also the independent SCImago Journal Rate and Cites per Doc (2 year…

Seventy-two patients with 75 primary odontogenic keratocysts have been followed from 6 months to 20 years after the primary treatment. Patients with the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome were not included in the material. Fifty-four patients with 57 primary cysts have been followed for 5 years or more, and 18 patien…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the mid-term effecitveness of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) treated by surgical hip dislocation. METHODS: Between April 2014 and August 2015, 15 patients (16 hips) with FAI were enrolled in the study and treated with surgical hip dislocation. There were 12 males and 3 females with an average…

A total of 102 autopsy subjects found to have seemingly normal testicular picture were analysed to determine acceptable normal morphometric values. The mean tubular diameter in the last trimester of intrauterined life is 43.8 mu in contrast to adult value of 173.0 mu. The mean basement membrane thickness increases from…

AIM: To gain more knowledge of caregiver strain in the Life After Stroke Trial (LAST) population. METHODS: This is a substudy of the LAST study, including all caregivers' reports of perceived Caregiver Strain Index (CSI) at inclusion and 18-month follow-up irrespective of group allocation. The checklist "STROBE Statem…

The region Davos/Klosters is a big wintersport area in Switzerland, where more than 5 million kilometers of vertical drop are skied per year. Over the last 20 years 28,777 patients with wintersport accidents have been treated in the 100-bed hospital of Davos, 85% of these patients have sustained their accident while sk…

This report describes our 17-year experience with intracardiac repair in 200 patients older than 14 years with tetralogy of Fallot. Congestive failure, hemoptysis, and cerebral abscess were present in 15, 10, and 3% of patients, respectively. Prior palliative shunts had been performed in 24.5% only. Polycythemia with a…