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Pineapple processing generates significant waste in the form of peels, leaves, crowns, stems, and cores. Although their bioactive compounds have been explored, a literature review on their pesticidal properties is lacking. This paper reviews the research on the bioactive compounds in the byproducts (peels, leaves, stem…

INTRODUCTION: Demarcation laser photocoagulation (DLP) is an infrequently utilized modality for limited retinal detachments. The current study, a retrospective consecutive case series, reviewed anatomic and visual outcomes in these patients at a single academic center. CASE PRESENTATIONS: A search of the electronic me…

BACKGROUND: The academic scientific research in the field of dentistry has rapidly increased in the last 20 years under the pressure of the multidisciplinary technological advancements and the growing demand for new predictable and cost-effective techniques and materials. The aim of the present investigation was to ana…

The development of pediatric neurosurgery in this country actually began with holding of the 17(th) Annual Conference of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) in 1989 in Mumbai. It subsequently led to the formation in 1990 of the Indian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (IndSPN), which is respons…

Over the last years, major scientific advances allowed to decrypt the human genome with over 22,000 protein-coding genes. We do know some of these genes, but yet only few of their functions and even less of their control and regulation as well as the complex interplay between different genes and their products. Genotyp…

Rectal carcinoids are on the rise; in the United States the age-adjusted incidence has increased by 800% -1000% in the last 35 years. The incidence of carcinoids of the stomach, pancreas, or small bowels has also multiplied. The reasons for these epidemiological changes are not yet understood. Both screening sigmoidosc…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Within the last 5 years, concepts of recovery have taken center stage in psychiatry as the overarching goal of mental health services. In the course of this shift towards recovery, clinicians and consumers (and many others) have struggled to make the concept of recovery both measurable and meaningful…

INTRODUCTION: There is substantial inconsistency between the evidence available on the management of childhood asthma and its application in practice. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the degree of appropriateness of current management of childhood asthma. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a structured review of the articles…

BACKGROUND: The study was designed to check the etiopathogenesis of gastrointestinal perforations and to indicate possible factors determining better results in terms of mortality and morbidity. METHODS: A retrospective study was carried out on 128 patients operated during the last 10 years for gastrointestinal perfor…

I enrolled in the Juntendo University Urological Course in 1982 and worked at Juntendo for 40 years until I retired in 2022. The transition of Urology had been slow until recent years. In the last 20-30 years, Urological practice has made significant progress. I will look back on the 40 years of Juntendo University and…

Multidrug-resistantinfections have become a threat for public health worldwide. The aim of the present study was to follow-up resistance patterns ofspp. bloodstream isolates in a Tertiary University Hospital over the last nine years, from 2014 to 2022. Susceptibility patterns were followed for the following antimicrobi…

BACKGROUND: Sepsis is the second leading cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU) after coronary heart disease. Blood purification (BP) technology is a protocol for treating sepsis patients, but efficacy is controversial. Herein, we did a meta-analysis of the last 5 years of studies to investigate the clinical e…

From last years eighty's decade the number of women with HIV infection have significantly increased. To know the epidemiological and clinic trades in this group we studied retrospectively 476 HIV infected patients attending in a General Hospital from January 1986 to June 1993. Seventy nine (16.5%) were female and 397 m…

: To describe the outcomes of patients with refractory noninfectious ocular inflammatory diseases who underwent treatment with repository corticotropin injection (RCI).: A retrospective cohort study was conducted. Patients who failed treatment with corticosteroids and were subsequently treated with RCI were included. P…

PURPOSE: Rasmussen's encephalitis (RE) is a hemispheric inflammatory disorder resulting in progressive epilepsy, hemiparesis, and cognitive decline. Controversy surrounds the most effective timing of surgery with respect to language dominance, functional status, and seizure outcome. We describe our experience with RE t…

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic measures of right ventricular (RV) function are associated with adverse outcomes in adults with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (iPAH) but have not been adequately studied in children. We investigated the prognostic value of 2D, M-mode and Doppler indices of RV function in relat…

The diagnoses of paranoia, catatonia, and hebephrenia preceded the use of dementia praecox and Bleuler's subsequent recognition of a heterogenous "Group of Schizophrenias." With some modification, traditional schizophrenia subtypes have been formalized for many years in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental D…

PURPOSE: To monitor changes in habits in drug use among Italian high school students. METHODS: Cross-sectional European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) carried out in Italy annually for 11 years (1999-2009) with representative samples of youth attending high school. The sample size considered…

PURPOSE: The rate of hearing loss in a population before and after irradiation was investigated to determine the effect of irradiation on hearing impairment. METHODS AND MATERIALS: In 72 patients with vestibular schwannoma who received fractionated stereotactic irradiation from 1992 to 1999, 21 had had their hearing l…