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We report the incidence of neonatal seizures in the last 10 years. Between 1981-1990, 28,925 infants were born in the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center. Very low-birth-weight infants (< 1,500 g) were excluded in this study. Seizures were identified in 67 infants (0.23%) during the first 7 days of life. Seizures occurre…

For children, two of the anthropometric indices used to assess nutritional status, weight-for-age and height-for-age, depend on the accurate estimation of the child's age. The effect of using age as either last attained year or as last attained year rounded up with half a year in the calculation of prevalence of malnut…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of ISOBAR TTL dynamic stabilization with pars bone grafting for the treatment of lumbar spondylolysis. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made the clinical data of 26 patients with lumbar spondylolysis who received ISOBAR TTL dynamic stabilization with pars bone grafting bet…

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 study analyzes the effective patent life of antiretroviral (ARV) new molecular entities (NMEs) approved for marketing in the United States (US) between 1987 and 2007. The study includes all NMEs approved during the study period with at least one patent listed in the Orange Book (OB). Drugs discontinued from the ma…

BACKGROUND: Different types of marital status are associated with different levels of suicidal risk. AIMS: To study marital status change and the effect of its recency in relation to suicidal behavior. METHODS: Suicide victims (1614) in Slovenia and matched controls (4617) were compared for incidence and recency of m…

The results of treatment of 341 consecutive cases of esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal fistula over an 11-year period have been analyzed to determine the factors resulting in a poorer prognosis of these cases in a developing country; 121 neonates in the first 6-year period are compared with 220 in the last 5 years.…

BACKGROUND: In April 1937 it was forbidden for German Jewish students to sit for examinations. However, a few Jewish medical students were able to continue studying at Berlin University. The order to expel all Jewish students from German Universities was published on the morning after Kristallnacht (November 1938) and…

Benign Mesenchymoma of the chest wall is very rare neoplasm. We report a case of the tumor. The patient is a 64 year-old male, whose tumor was removed on 1978. Histologically, the tumor was diagnosed as benign mesenchymoma. However, 8 years after the last operation, the tumor recurred in the right chest wall. The tumor…

During the Last Glacial Maximum, ice sheets covered large areas in northern latitudes and global temperatures were significantly lower than today. But few direct estimates exist of the volume of the ice sheets, or the timing and rates of change during their advance and retreat. Here we analyse four distinct sediment fa…

Of 91 limb-salvage procedures using prosthetic reconstructions because of primary or metastatic bone and soft-tissue tumors 26 revisions were performed in 16 patients. Revision was due to polyethylene wear (9 cases), aseptic loosening (8 cases), recurrent hip dislocation (3 cases), prosthetic stem fracture (2 cases), i…

BACKGROUND: Pharmaceuticals have made an important contribution to global reductions in morbidity and mortality. To help save lives and improve health, it is important to be sure about equity to access to drugs, drug efficacy, quality and safety, and rational use of drugs, which are standardized National Drug Policy (N…

Secular changes in growth and development vary over past decades in intensity and in trend. The purpose of this paper is to present changes in growth patterns of Zagreb schoolchildren aged 7-19 years over the past four decades. Surveys were performed in 1951, 1964, 1973, 1982 and 1991. The mean height of boys and girls…

In the last 18 years, we have observed 24 cases of hypoparathyroidism (HPT) in beta-thalassemia major. At present, 4.5% of patients followed regularly in our department have this complication. HPT is thought to be mainly the consequence of iron deposition in the parathyroid glands. The age of our patients when HPT was…

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…

Pacing strategy has been investigated in elite 100 km and elite 161 km (100 mile) ultra-marathoners, but not in age group ultra-marathoners. This study investigated changes in running speed over segments in male elite and age group 100 km ultra-marathoners with the assumption that running speed would decrease over segm…

In the Immunology Department of the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw we have used lymphocyte blastic transformation test (LETT) over 30 years to study lymphocyte function. During the last 10 years we have noticed progressive elevation of lymphocyte percentage undergoing spontaneous blast transformation (autotran…

Venous thromboembolic disease (VTED) is the most common and potentially the most serious immediate postoperative complication of hip surgery. Prophylaxis of VTED remains controversial and its practice is widely variable. Since the last survey of VTED prophylaxis as practiced by American orthopedists, published in 1974,…

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 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…