98,289 papers found

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 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: The aim of the study is the analysis of osteoarticular problems (OAP) occurring in a group of computer users (CU) in search of correlation between symptoms and different etiological factors. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Questionnaire of 31 items dealing with personal data, the activity of the CU, stress, the occurr…

Blast fishing is a widespread destructive practice that has long-term negative impacts on coral reef ecosystems. To better understand the long-term impact of blast fishing on these ecosystems within Southern Tanzania, in situ surveys were undertaken within a two-year timeframe across six reef sites in Mikindani Bay. Th…

The secular decline of Italian fertility, started in the last decade of the nineteenth century, came to an end in the early 1950'sand has recovered slightly in the last fifteen years. Italian experience seems to follow, with a twenty-year lag, the experience of the more advanced western European populations. At present…

STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective clinical data analysis. OBJECTIVE: To determine the therapeutic effectiveness of lumbar total disc replacement (TDR) using ProDisc-L (Synthes Spine, West Chester, PA) in the patients with degenerative disc diseases (DDD) with a minimum follow-up of 5 years. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Ea…

During the last three decades, 2,4117 splenectomies have been performed at The Ohio State University Hospital. Indications for splenectomy include hypersplenism, incidental to other abdominal procedures, trauma, Hodgkin's staging, and other splenic disease. Hodgkin's staging has become the most frequent indication for…

PURPOSE: To identify trends in the application of various types of digital technologies in maxillofacial prosthetics by identifying these digital technologies and their characteristics and reviewing the prevalence of applied digital technologies and their recent trends in the maxillofacial prosthetics literature. MATE…

BACKGROUND: Age at first and last birth and the number of children are known to influence the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. However, it remains unknown whether the difference in years between first and last childbirth plays a role. The Swedish Family-Cancer Database allowed us to carry out the largest study…

Current pattern of blindness (i.e. visual acuity < or = 6/60) in Denmark was studied based on 1585 application forms for new membership to the Danish Society of the Blind during 1993. Statistics on blindness are very sensitive to the definitions used. A change of blindness definition to visual acuity < 6/60 reduced the…

AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term medical risks of living-related donors in our center. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 185 living-related donors participated in the study. The factors assessed were creatinine clearance rate (CrCl), serum creatinine (SCr), BUN, hematocrit levels, proteinuria, microalbumin…

CONTEXT: Musculoskeletal pain is common among tea leaf pluckers and is attributed to the load they carry, long working hours, the terrain, and insufficient job rotations. As a result of this, their health and work capacity are affected. AIMS: To assess the prevalence, patterns, and factors associated with work-related…

OBJECTIVE: Severe malaria represents less than 10% of all malaria cases and is associated with significant mortality. The aim of this case series was to review severe malaria cases in travelers within the last 10 years in Slovakia. METHODS: All cases of severe malaria in travelers reported within last 10 years from th…

OBJECTIVE: This study was done to assess the prevalence of cancer chemotherapy-induced osteoporosis among survivors of cancer in Saudi Arabia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Patients who received chemotherapy due to malignant disease attending oncology and orthopedic clinics between June 1, 2006 and November 30, 2006, were the…

The guidelines for the use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) have changed significantly over the last 5 years. This paper reviews the current recommendations and documents the reasons for these changes, in a review of the world's literature on ADT over the last 5 years. Special emphasis on randomized controlled tri…

The Lead Abatement Strike Team (LAST) was developed in 2002 by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) in response to community concern about management of children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLLs). Fourteen hundred backlog properties (housing at least one child with EBLLs) were identified through in…

The objectives of this lecture are to review the various studies of anaesthetic outcome in order to answer some questions of importance for the clinical practitioner: 1) does anaesthesia contribute to operative mortality and, if yes, to what extent?; 2) has anaesthetic mortality decreased in the last 30 years?; 3) has…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical course of children with primary distal renal tubular acidosis and to determine parameters correlated with the outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A retrospective review of medical records was carried out. The parameters at initial diagnosis and the last visit were collected including hei…

The relative motion vector for the North American and African plates has been determined from detailed charting of the trend of the Atlantis fracture zone for over 1000 kilometers in the central North Atlantic near 30 degrees N and from identification of marine magnetic anomalies and deep-sea drilling results. The vect…

BACKGROUND: The last century has seen revolutionary changes in health-care delivery and treatment of surgical diseases. Equally dramatic has been the changes in health-care economics, including the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs in 1965. To better characterize the impact to surgical billing, we have und…