98,328 papers found

PURPOSE: To report the structural, functional, and refractive outcome, safety, and effectiveness of combined cryotherapy and diode laser indirect photocoagulation in the treatment of threshold retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). METHODS: Medical records of patients developing threshold ROP between 1995 and 2003 were rev…

This was a prospective open comparative pilot study to assess the efficacy and tolerability of first-line vigabatrin monotherapy in childhood partial epilepsies. Two groups of patients were recruited over the same period. The vigabatrin monotherapy group comprised 40 patients (18 male, 22 female; mean age at last visit…

The pharmacokinetics of high-dose busulfan given orally at 1 mg/kg every 6 h over 4 days (total dose, 16 mg/kg) in combined chemotherapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation was studied in 12 children with a mean age of 7 years (range, 4-14 years). Busulfan levels in biological fluids were measured by a g…

Linear regression analysis was used to describe the decline in numbers of Culicoides brevitarsis Kieffer into winter with monthly maximum, average and minimum temperatures at the southern limits to its distribution in New South Wales. From this, low temperature thresholds were derived when C brevitarsis would be absent…

BACKGROUND: The incidence of rotator cuff tears in young patients has increased recently with the increase in sports and recreation activities, however, few studies have reported clinical outcomes after arthroscopic repair of large to massive rotator cuff tears in young patients. This study aimed to evaluate preoperati…

PURPOSE: Little is known about risk factors for pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC), diagnosed during pregnancy or postpartum. METHODS: We enrolled 1715 premenopausal women from the Nigerian Breast Cancer Study from 1998 to 2011. Based on recency of last pregnancy from diagnosis, breast cancer cases were categor…

Summarization of literary data on immobilization in calcium alginates as published in the last two years. The review focuses on those papers in which the new knowledge of immobilized enzymes, cells and tissues expands their biotechnological applications.

The durability of endoprosthetic implants of the large joints has increased over the last decades. North American studies have shown a 10-year durability of 94% for prosthetic hip implants, and European studies have shown 10-year durabilities of 88-95%. Pathologists differentiate three etiological disease patterns for…

OBJECTIVE: The rare polyarticular clinical presentation of peripheric septic arthritis has worst prognosis than monoarticular one. We studied 10 patients with polyarticular septic arthritis treated during the last 8 years, to evaluate functional result and complications after surgical treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS:…

Between 1986 and 1989 there were 9 cases of idiopathic congestive heart failure at this clinic. Normally heifers in the last 1/3 of pregnancy and young cows aged between 2.5 and 3.5 years were affected, but the disease also occurred in one younger (1.5 years), one older (6 years) and in one male animal. In contrast to…

The aim of this study was to construct new Croatian growth charts for body height and weight of boys and girls aged 6.5 to 18.5 years and to investigate differences between our and pre-existing studies. Analysis was based on a multistage stratified sample representative for school children aged 6.5 to 18.5, 6046 boys a…

The barbell bench press is often performed at different repetition maximums (RM). However, little is known about the last repetition of these repetition maximums in terms of movement kinematics and electromyographic activity in the bench press. This study compared kinematics and electromyographic activity during the la…

PURPOSE: To evaluate long-term efficacy, safety, predictability, and stability of a posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens (Visian implantable collamer lens [ICL]) in eyes with ≥10 years of follow-up. SETTING: Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular, Barcelona, Spain. DESIGN: Retrospective study. METHODS: Ey…

BACKGROUND: Carotid endarterectomy reduces the risk of stroke in patients with recently symptomatic stenosis. Benefit depends on the degree of stenosis, and we aimed to see whether it might also depend on other clinical and angiographic characteristics, and on the timing of surgery. METHODS: We analysed pooled data fr…

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that the financial crisis has deleteriously affected scientific output. We aimed to assess the dynamics of Greek publications in gastroenterology and hepatology over the last ten years. METHODS: Data were collected from SCImago. The average annual growth rate (AAGR) of total and citable d…