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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…

BACKGROUND: Psychological features associated with execution are not fully understood. AIMS: To analyse demographics of individuals executed in Texas and investigate whether there has been any change in common themes and psychological factors evident in last statements before execution between 2002 and 2017. DESIGN:…

AIM: To investigate if a cancer patient's unrelieved symptoms during the last 3 months of life increase the risk of long-term psychological morbidity in the surviving widower. METHODS: Men (n=907) younger than 80 years and living in Sweden, who had lost their wives due to cancer, were asked 4-5 years after their loss…

A cross sectional survey of 3321 school going children (5-15 years) using modified ISAAC questionnaire in Jaipur city showed 7.59% children to have asthma (in last 12 months) and 8.4% wheezing in last 12 months. Only 5.3% children had physician diagnosed asthma ever suggesting under diagnoses.

The objective of this study was to identify changes in the management of blunt splenic injury in adults. Hospital discharge abstract data from Maine were used to identify patients > or = 16 years old discharged between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 2000 with International Classification of Diseases (9th revision) co…

Results of tympanoplasty in patients over 60 years old were analyzed mainly in terms of hearing and postoperative course. Tympanoplasty was carried out in 78 ears of 67 patients during the last ten years. The following types of tympanoplasty were employed: type I in 34 ears, type III-Columella in 23 ears, type IV-Colum…

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…

In the last ten years it was necessary to perform a relaparotomy in 615 cases = 4.93% of 12,464 primary abdominal operations. 215 patients suffered from a mechanical ileus. In analysing 305 cases of the last 5 years it was to discover that of 138 patients the diagnosis mechanical ileus was correct in 102 cases only. In…

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…

In the last 11 years, the neuroretinopathy is reported to occur in 26 dialyzed patients, what represents 5.3% of all patients treated. During the last 4 years, the occurrence rate showed the decrease to 1.6%. The mentioned disease occurs most frequently by the first two years of treatment with dialysis. The averaged su…

OBJECTIVE: Typhoid fever (TF) is an important health problem in developing countries, and typhoid intestinal perforation (TIP) is a serious complication of TF. The present report aims to determine the clinical importance of TIPs for the last 36 years in our region, eastern Anatolia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The clinical…

AIM: To gain more knowledge of caregiver strain in the Life After Stroke Trial (LAST) population. METHODS: This is a substudy of the LAST study, including all caregivers' reports of perceived Caregiver Strain Index (CSI) at inclusion and 18-month follow-up irrespective of group allocation. The checklist "STROBE Statem…

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…

OBJECTIVES: Research activities are promoted at the government and the institutional levels in Oman. However, the quantity and quality of research conducted in various institutes of Oman has not been measured. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyze the quantity and quality of biomedical publications emanating f…

Survival of patients with testicular cancer was analysed with records of 3 patients observed during 3 periods between 1966 and 1985. This study was limited to Non Seminomatous Germ Cell Tumors (NSGCT): 922 cases were collected from 17 centres (Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer) during 3 periods 1966-1974, 1975-1980, 19…

The present state of anti-tetanus immunisation amongst orienteering runners from 20 countries was assessed by questioning the orienteers as to when they last received an anti-tetanus injection. The results demonstrate that approximately 55% were within five years of their last injection, 18% were within 5-10 years, 12%…

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…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical characteristics and methods used in the diagnosis of patients registered at the Brazilian Celiac Association (BCA). METHODS: A questionnaire about clinical characteristics and diagnostic methods in celiac disease was mailed to 584 members of the BCA. RESULTS: We received 292 response…

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…

Data were retrospectively analysed on 544 consecutive patients (362 females and 182 males, mean age 53.6 [2 weeks and 86 years]) who had been operated on for primary hyperparathyroidism between 1965 and 1989. During this period the rate of renal, bone and intestinal complications decreased from 90% in the first 5 years…