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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…

1. In a series of more than 6,000 cases of diphtheria gathered from many parts of the country and from Germany during the last five years, at least 95% of the strains have fallen within three principal types described in 1933 as Gravis, Intermediate, and Mitis.2. Of these the Gravis strains have been found to be associ…

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to evaluate clinical outcomes and to clarify the potential risks of cervical laminoplasty by a long-term follow-up of more than 20 years. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: There is no follow-up report exceeding 20 years after cervical laminoplasty. MET…

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…

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…

The authors refer about their experience with the surgical correction of the presbyopia by means of the Prelex (presbyopic lens exchange) method. Patients, who underwent this type of refractive surgery procedure to decrease their dependency on glasses correction for far as well as for near vision (12 patients, 23 eyes)…

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…

BACKGROUND: Maintenance of medications that are unconducive to the quality of life is difficult to justify in dying terminally-ill cancer patients. OBJECTIVE: We aimed at determining the prevalence of administering antidiabetic, antihypertensive, and lipid-lowering medications to elderly patients dying with cancer. M…

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…

The present investigation was aimed to study international level dancesport dancer's aerobic capacity during incremental test and competition simulation in relation to the gender, dance style and international ranking. A total of 30 couples (12 Standard, 7 Latin American and 11 Ten Dance; aged 22.8 ± 6.6 years mal…

OBJECTIVE: Moderate beer consumption can be part of a healthy diet, like the Mediterranean diet. The aim of the present study was to analyse the contribution a moderate beer consumption makes to energy and nutrient intake in Spanish healthy adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS: As part of a larger intervention study, dietary…

AIM: To investigate whether semen quality has changed in New Zealand over the last 20 years. METHOD: A retrospective study from 1987 to 2007. The sperm concentration, volume of seminal fluid, and the percentage of motile sperm were analysed from the first semen sample of 975 men presenting as sperm donors in Auckland…

This is a descriptive study of thymomas notified to the national Danish Cancer Registry and registered by the departments of pathology during the years 1943-1993. A total of 433 cases of benign and malignant thymomas were included over these 50 years with an increase of the incidence to a stable rate of 2.5/million/yea…

We evaluated retrospectively the complications of pediatric spinal anesthesia in our center based on the histories of 50 spinal anesthesia cases (5-15 years of age, 0.56%) over the last 15 years. Five cases (10%) showed transient hypotension. In the prospective study of those under 5 years of age (35 children), there w…

We have reported a case of primary carcinoma of the gallbladder and reviewed 42 other cases seen at the Marshall University School of Medicine affiliated hospitals over the last 27 years. Most of the patients were female (74.5%) and elderly (mean age 66.9 years), and had metastatic or locally invasive disease (79%); 95…

Five patients (mean age 44 years--range 21-67 years) with arachnoiditis of different origin who posteriorly developed syringomyelia are presented. The etiopathogenic mechanism of the arachnoiditis was post injury in one case, 2 patients had history of meningitis (tuberculous and pneumococcic) and in the other two no re…

BACKGROUND: In the last years of life, burden of disease and disability and need of health- and social care often increase. Social, functional and psychological factors may be important in regard to social- and health care utilization. This study aims to describe use of health- and social care during the last year of l…