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BACKGROUND: Considerable changes in hormone therapy use have taken place in the last few years. AIMS: To determine current usage of postmenopausal hormone therapy and assess the trend and rate of change in hormone therapy usage over the last 13 years. Additionally, to assess differences between current users and non-u…

BACKGROUND: Travelers may return from the tropics with psychological problems. The literature regarding features and associations of these psychological problems is limited. METHODS: Case histories of 15 consecutive returning travelers seen at our psychiatric service during the last 8 years. RESULTS: The median age o…

Recent years have seen important advances in our understanding of calciphylaxis, especially regarding newly identified risk factors and histologic findings that may aid diagnosis. This retrospective study of cases of calciphylaxis treated in our hospital in the last 13 years focuses on newly revealed aspects of this di…

To explore the feasibility of anterior medial fenestration approach in situ reduction and fixation in the treatment of PipkinⅠ and Ⅱ femoral head fractures,and to explore the clinical effect of this operation.Hips of two anti-corrosion adult specimens treated with formalin were dissected, then anatomical…

The serotonin receptor subtype 5 HT(1A) was one of the first serotonin receptor subtypes pharmacologically characterized. Over the last twenty years the 5 HT(1A) receptor has been the object of intense research efforts as witnessed by the 5 HT(1A) acting drugs marketed as anxiolytics. In recent years, several new chemi…

PURPOSE: To describe the natural course of adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). DESIGN: Retrospective study. METHODS: We reviewed the charts of all consecutive patients with adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy who underwent SD-OCT at ba…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of posterior percutaneous endoscopy via vertical anchor technique combined with trench technique for single-segmental central cervical disc herniation. METHODS: Between July 2017 and August 2019, 13 patients with the single-segmental central…

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in young adults, ages 20-55. Without treatment 50% of those with proliferative diabetic retinopathy will be blind within 5 years. Over the last 2 decades the National Eye Institute has supported four different multicenter randomized clinical trials for diabetic ret…

UNLABELLED: During the last decade there is a trend all over the world women at advanced age/older than 35 years old/ and especially educated ones to postpone their reproductive plans. Pregnancy and birth outcomes in women >35 years old I traditionally associated with increasing risk of complications both for the mothe…

By January 1990, over a period of 14 years, the Diabetic Clinic at Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa had registered 1699 diabetic patients, of whom 204 were first diagnosed in or before 1969. Of these, 68 are known to have died after 11 to 36 years of diabetes (29% in renal failure), and 69 have been lost to follow-up f…

IMPORTANCE: In a period of dynamic change in health care technology, delivery, and behaviors, tracking trends in health and health care can provide a perspective on what is being achieved. OBJECTIVE: To comprehensively describe national trends in mortality, hospitalizations, and expenditures in the Medicare fee-for-se…

Cases listed in the U.T.M.D Anderson Cancer Center files as low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma and originally diagnosed before 2004 were reviewed. They were included in the study if the diagnosis was confirmed and if there was adequate histologic material and clinical information with at least 5 years of follow-up. Thirty-t…

PURPOSE: We report our long-term experience with a preexisting native cutaneous ureterostomy via an ipsilateral transplant ureteral native ureterostomy for transplant drainage without native nephrectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between 1993 and 1998, 5 patients without a usable bladder had undergone previously urinary…

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the relationship between preoperative Cslope (CS) and sagittal parameters in anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF) by imaging. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 54 patients (24 males and 30 females) with ACDF for cervical spondylosis between January 2012 and January 2017 was perfor…

In a retrospective study, a computer-based stepwise discriminant analysis was used to create a biostatistical model of the results of surgery in acquired esotropia. One hundred seventy-two patients who had bilateral medial rectus muscle recession as an initial operative procedure with at least 6 months postoperative fo…

PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to evaluate clinical outcomes and return to sports after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) in middle-aged active patients with concomitant patella-femoral joint (PFJ) osteoarthritis at time of surgery. METHODS: One-hundred and fifty-one patients who underwent medial…

UNLABELLED: WHAT'S KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT? AND WHAT DOES THE STUDY ADD?: Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is effective for the treatment of paediatric renal stones with favourable short-term safety. Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for treatment of paediatric renal stones is also safe for the kidney and the child…

BACKGROUND: Patients after Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) often develop pain, impaired ROM, abductor weakness, and progression of osteoarthritis (OA) in early adulthood. Based on intraoperative observations during surgical hip dislocation, we established an algorithm for more detailed characterization of the un…

For the last 5 years from 1986 to the end of 1990, 279 and 271 surgeries were undertaken on thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm, respectively. The highest age distribution of the former was between 60 to 69 years old comparing to 70 to 71 years old of later group. In thoracic aortic aneurysm, overall surgical result…

The number of Rh-isoimmunized pregnancies in Manitoba has been reduced from 223 and 228 in the years ending Oct. 31, 1963 and 1964 to 60 and 62 in the years ending Oct. 31, 1974 and 1975. The number per 1000 total births in the same years has decreased from 10.0 and 10.6 to 3.4 and 3.5 Perinatal mortality rates in thos…