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UNLABELLED: This study aims at (1) Assessing trends in maternal mortality in kuwait (2) Define strategies for prevention. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of maternal deaths that occurred among, 55,979 live births at a tertiary hospital, between 1980 and 2009. RESULTS: There were 14 maternal deaths, and 55,979 live bi…

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) entity. The translocation between chromosomes 11 and 14 is the cytogenetics hallmark of MCL. This translocation leads to the dysregulation of the CCDN1 gene, and overexpression of cyclin D1 which promotes cell cycling. Despite a classical phenotype (CD19+,…

By today, systemic therapy for pancreatic cancer remains a huge challenge considering the last 10 years existing data. In 1997, gemcitabine emerged as a new reference treatment in advanced disease stage displaying a valuable clinical benefit rate but an overall survival limited to 6 months. In 2007, around 20 large pha…

OBJECTIVE: To determine trends in urolith composition in cats. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. SAMPLE POPULATION: 5,230 uroliths. PROCEDURES: The laboratory database for the Gerald V. Ling Urinary Stone Analysis Laboratory was searched for all urolith submissions from cats from 1985 through 2004. Submission forms…

The Acadians were French settlers to Nova Scotia in the seventeenth century. In 1755, they were expelled by the British to various sites in the Americas, including Louisiana, where they are referred to as Cajuns. Many later migrated back to the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The objective of this study was to describe a…

We report on 86 cases (112 operations) who underwent surgery for metastatic lung tumors at our department during the last 10 years. The study subjects comprised 53 men and 33 women, and the average age was 51 (+/- 19) years. Of the 112 metastatectomies performed, 53 were conducted by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VA…

SETTING: Five years after the last survey of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Japan, a serious new phenomenon has gradually begun to appear. A nationwide survey was conducted by the Tuberculosis Research Committee. OBJECTIVE: To determine resistance patterns to five anti-tuberculosis drugs and risk factors. DESIGN: Cul…

Congenital double lip is a rare entity. During the last 10 years, we performed surgery on 5 patients with this deformity. The patients are reported with a special mention of the embryology, and the relevant literature is reviewed.

The study was aimed to the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of the drug Silodosin at a dose of 8 mg once a day in patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). This study included 1,000 patients. The average age of the patients was 64.99 ± 8.07 years (median 64.5 years), mean duration of BPH--3…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this retrospective case series was to report the performance up to 5 years of an innovative surgical design (the apically incised coronally advanced surgical technique [AICAST]) for the regenerative treatment of one- or two-walled intrabony periodontal lesions. METHOD AND MATERIALS: After comple…

A systematic review of the research conducted on Teaching Games for Understanding in Physical Education in the last six years (2014-2019), updating and expanding with new categories the last published review by Harvey and Jarret in 2014. Four databases were used to select those articles that included information on the…

OBJECTIVE: Limited data exist on the changes in the epidemiology of pancreatic cancer and outcomes over the last decades in population-based cohorts. We aimed to compare the incidence of pancreatic cancer, diagnostic, treatment and survival among patients diagnosed over the period 1986-2009. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A r…

The ArrayExpress Archive of Functional Genomics Data (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress) is an international functional genomics database at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) recommended by most journals as a repository for data supporting peer-reviewed publications. It contains data from over 7000 publi…

BACKGROUND: In asthma, socio-economic and health care factors may operate by a number of mechanisms to influence asthma morbidity and mortality. AIM: To determine the quality of medical care including the patient perception of the doctor-patient relationship, and the level of socio-economic disadvantage in patients ad…

AIMS: To examine the prevalence of asthma symptoms in a random population sample of New Zealand adults aged 20-44 years drawn from the general and Maori electoral rolls as phase I of an international study of asthma prevalence. METHODS: Subjects aged 20-44 years in Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington and Christchurch, we…

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of patients with unstable angina pectoris is an established therapy, although the rate of major complications (death, myocardial infarction, emergency coronary artery bypass operation) is higher than in patients with stable angina. This study analyzes the results of…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was the retrospective assessment of therapy results and the changing prognosis of multiple myeloma (MM) patients from the Middle and North Moravia region of the Czech Republic during the last 40 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The analyzed group of 562 patients was gathered in the year…

BACKGROUND: Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital heart defect with limited data on long-term outcomes after surgical intervention. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective review of all children (N = 42) who underwent surgical repair of ALCAPA between 1980 and 2014 a…