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The new therapeutical approaches have direct implications on living in order to accomplish remission, stop further progression of illnesses or improve the quality of life. The life expectancy has been increased up to 10 years in the last 55 years, probably owing to the innovative drugs. The innovative drugs application…

INTRODUCTION: Laparoscopic surgery has been increasingly used in urology in recent years. Laparoscopy has been performed at our center since 2001. Changes over time in the indication of open versus laparoscopic/robotic surgery, hospital stay, and learning curve are reviewed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective revi…

BACKGROUND: Pacific oysters along the North American coast from Washington to Alaska contain concentrations of cadmium (Cd) that are high by comparison with Atlantic oysters, frequently exceeding 2mug/g wet weight, but it is unclear whether this Cd is absorbed by consumers. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of oyste…

Morocco has a population of some thirty million inhabitants, a very large proportion of whom are young. Mental health and psychiatry are dealt with jointly by the university, public, private, and military sectors. Despite significant progress in the last twenty years, there are still no more than 350 psychiatrists in M…

OBJECT: In reports involving the operative treatment of brainstem tumors, multiple histological types are often grouped together. To determine prognosis after resection, histology-specific data may be helpful. METHODS: Twenty-eight patients with juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma (JPA) of the brainstem (six in the midbrai…

Recent prevalence rates show that by Year 10 (ages 14-16 years), 15% of students are smoking each day. As the majority of young people do not smoke, schools have traditionally provided an emphasis on prevention. However, the prevalence of daily smoking increases from 15 to 31% across the last 3 years of secondary schoo…

BACKGROUND: Due to the lack of reliable diagnostic tools, clinical data on the significance of most invasive fungal infections are difficult to assess and information on frequency, disease pattern and prognostic impact still largely relies on autopsy data. METHODS AND RESULTS: To determine temporal trends in invasive…

Fifty-two patients with axillary-subclavian vein thrombosis were treated in the last 10 years and were available for follow-up for at least 1 year. Eighteen of these were treated in the first 5 years, Group A, and 34 in the last 5 years, Group B. The causes in both Group A and Group B included respectively: effort or s…

Developmental monitoring/screening predict early identified autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but studies have not yet robustly controlled for a key health care service impacting early identification: medical home. National Surveys of Children's Health (NSCH; 2016-2020) were used to determine the relationship between me…

The course of hearing in the non-operated ears was examined in 112 female patients and 63 male patients with bilateral otosclerosis who had operations in one ear only. All patients had a follow-up of at least 5 years. The mean annual impairment of the air conduction thresholds in the female patients (2.0-2.5 dB/year) d…

Breast cancer incidence has historically been 4-7 times higher in the United States than in Asia. A previous study by the authors in Asian-American women demonstrated a substantial increase in breast cancer risk in women who migrated from Asia to the United States, with the risk almost doubling during the first decade…

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a class 3 infectious disease, fitst identified in China, 2009. In 2013, SFTS case was reported in the Republic of Korea, and the number of patients has been increasing. Ticks are infectious agent vectors that transmit varied pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, rick…

BACKGROUND: Medical device recalls have the potential to affect patient outcomes in orthopedic surgery. We assessed high-risk orthopedic medical device recalls in the recent past. METHODS: The publicly available Food and Drug Administration medical device recall database was mined for information on class 1 and class…

OBJECTIVES: To assess vaccination status in a cohort of children with rheumatic diseases followed at the University Children's Hospital Ljubljana and to evaluate the most common reasons for vaccination dropout. METHODS: Patients with rheumatic diseases who were evaluated at the rheumatology outpatient clinic between J…

PURPOSE: Assessing the frequency and evaluating the efficacy and safety of Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (Nd:YAG) Laser goniopuncture (LGP) following nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy (NPDS). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the outcome of 197 eyes of 153 patient…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the long-term clinical and radiological outcomes of patients who underwent closing-wedge High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) for the treatment of medial compartment osteoarthritis and to evaluate the conversion rate to knee arthroplasty. METHODS: A retrospective, non-randomize…

PURPOSE: Medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) can delay knee arthroplasty (KA) in patients with medial compartment varus knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, prospectively collected long-term outcomes and survival rates are limited. The purpose of this study was to assess the survival rate and the outcome follow…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of surgical treatment for discogenic low back pain (DLBP) by minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) combined with unilateral pedicle screw fixation (UPSF). METHODS: Between March 2006 and July 2009, 57 patients with single-level DLBP were treated by…

BACKGROUND: Use of contraceptive among international university students remains under-explored. This study examined contraceptive use at last sex among international students in Australia, comparing Chinese (the largest source-country group) with non-Chinese students. METHODS: Prevalences of types of contraceptive me…

Background: Bronchiectasis is poorly characterised in secondary care. Methods: Over 6 months, 410 bronchiectasis patients attended our clinics. One hundred randomly selected patients were characterised in detail. Results: Patients had a mean and standard error of mean (S.E.M.) age of 57 (2) years and a median and inter…