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A retrospective analysis has been made of 160 cases of postmenopausal bleeding. The women were at least 45 years old and the time lapse from the last menstruation was at least 2 years. The cause was a malignant neoplasm in 23·75%. The incidence of malignancy showed a definite rise with advancing age and with incre…

BACKGROUND AND AMS: Despite the evident public health impact, the extent and patterns of alcohol use in the Eastern Mediterranean countries remain understudied. The latest estimation for the last 12-month use of alcohol in the region was 2.9% in 2016 by the World Health Organization. We reviewed the main indicators for…

In this study, we performed monitoring of the soil solution (SS) over 10 years on a loamy/clayey-textured Dark Red Dystroferric Oxisol that received sewage sludge for agricultural purposes. The SS was obtained by lysimeters installed along the walls of a well at 1 m, 2 m, 3 m, 4 m and 5 m in de…

BACKGROUND: The general cardiovascular health has improved throughout the last few decades for middle-aged and older individuals, but the incidence of several cardiovascular diseases is reported to increase in younger people. We aimed to assess the age-specific incidence and mortality rates associated with out-of-hospi…

Life expectancy of Swedish haemophiliacs has been estimated for the period 1831-1980. The data were derived from 948 haemophiliacs of whom 580 survived throughout 1980. Applying standard demographic techniques, median life expectancy of patients with severe haemophilia was found to have increased fivefold, from a mere…

OBJECTIVE: To present long-term follow-up of a consecutive single-institutional series of patients treated for choroid plexus tumors over 8 decades. METHODS: From 1939 to 2020, 59 children were treated for choroid plexus tumors. Median age at diagnosis was 1.7 years. RESULTS: Gross total resection was achieved in 51…

PURPOSE: This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the clinical results and measure polyethylene liner wear in total hip arthroplasty (THA) with highly cross-linked polyethylene. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Except for patients who had died or were unable to have follow-up at least 2 years, 60 of 78 hips that under…

Graf ligamentoplasty is seen as a means of stabilising and reducing the mobility of one or more severely symptomatic motion segments associated with degenerative disc disease. It is a less invasive procedure than fusion and appears to have a similar or slightly better success rate. Some studies have reported mixed resu…

AIM: To evaluate the clinical outcome, identify predictors of patient and technique survival in our peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients in the western region of Turkey. METHODS: We included all patients who initiated therapy between 2001 and 2010. Socio-demographic characteristics such as who helped to administer the PD…

Malignant spindle cell melanoma is a rare cancer with a questionable prognosis because of limited published case reports. This article discusses a male patient with a history of Spindle cell melanoma tumor, Rt heel, Grade 3 (Gr 3) Stage 2 (St 2) seen in our OPD treated with supporting herbo-mineral combination of Ayurv…

The triple oxygen isotope composition (Δ'O) of sulfate minerals is widely used to constrain ancient atmosphericO/COand rates of gross primary production. The utility of this tool is based on a model that sulfate oxygen carries an isotope fingerprint of tropospheric Oincorporated through oxidative weathering of re…

BACKGROUND: Acute appendicectomy is the most common emergency operation for patients with abdominal pain. In the last decade, computed tomography (CT) scans have increasingly been used to aid in the diagnosis in order to reduce the negative appendicectomy rate. The aim of this study was to evaluate our institution's ne…

BACKGROUND: A significant proportion of patients who undergo bariatric surgery fail to achieve enduring weight loss. Previous studies suggest that psychosocial variables affect postoperative outcome, although this subject is still considered unclear. The purpose of this study is to further investigate the impact of psy…

The chair of internal medicine in Republic of Macedonia was created in 1947. The Department of Internal Medicine (CIM) is the most numerous at Skopje's medical faculty (currently 56 members). According to the archive material from the first session of the Scientific Teaching Council of the Faculty of Medicine (17.03.19…

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the extent to which neonatal analgesia for invasive procedures has changed in the last 5 years since the publication of Italian guidelines. METHODS: We compared survey data for the years 2004 and 2010 on analgesia policy and practices for common invasive procedures at Italian Neonatal Intensive…

OBJECTIVE: Mortality rates in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have been reported to be higher than for the general population. Fortunately, efficient therapies have reduced disease activity and may be able to diminish the excess mortality risk. This study was designed to investigate RA mortality over the last 5…

The rate of change in DNA is an important parameter for understanding molecular evolution and hence for inferences drawn from studies of phylogeography and phylogenetics. Most rate calibrations for mitochondrial coding regions in marine species have been made from divergence dating for fossils and vicariant events olde…

OBJECTIVES: Cognitive impairment may interfere with psychosocial functioning in bipolar disorder (BD). There is limited information regarding the cognitive function of elderly bipolar patients with onset at a young age. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency and the determinants of cognitive impairment in…

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence and incidence of overweight among low-income, inner-city children aged 3 to 7 years and to determine predictors of changes in body mass index (BMI) (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) percentile. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study using adminis…