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BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has become the first line treatment for achalasia, but controversies remain about the prevalence of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) after the procedure. The aim of this study was to evaluate post-POEM GERD by a retrospective analysis of a single cente…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the long-term outcomes of the palpebral fissure transfer (PFT) technique without lower eyelid spacer in patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO). DESIGN: Retrospective interventional case series. METHODS: Consecutive patients with CPEO with PFT surgery (2006-2017) and a m…

INTRODUCTION: An increase in whooping cough in most of the developed countries has been detected in the last decade. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the administration of dTpa vaccine instead of DTPa fifth dose is contributing to the appearance of these cases. METHODS: A descriptive study based on cases of whooping c…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy is a neurological disorder characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures, whose neurophysiological signature is altered electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) methods on EEG data can positively impact the management of the disease, significant…

AIM: The aim of our study was to explore predictive factors associated with compete biochemical response (CBR) in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) patients treated with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) at month 12 and at last check-up; CBR was defined as both normal bilirubin and ALP levels. We also evaluated hepatic decom…

Cerebellar astrocytoma accounted for 10% of all brain tumours treated at the Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy in Cracow in the years 1946 to 1968. It accounted for 16.6% of all gliomas, and 57% of subtentorial gliomas. Table I shows the distribution of the tumour according to age groups. The male:female sex…

PURPOSE: Assessment of visual outcome of pediatric eyes that underwent cataract extraction with primary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation at a single center. METHODS: A retrospective review of charts of 510 consecutive pediatric patients that underwent cataract extraction was performed. Exclusion criteria were traum…

Forty-five knees with tibial osteotomy for osteoarthrosis were studied at 5 to 10 years following surgery. Twenty-seven were graded excellent, eight good and ten poor. The best results were found in knees which maintained a Femoro-Tibial angle of 163 degrees--180 degrees whereas the poor results were associated with ei…

Several workers have observed that there is an extremely close immunological resemblance between the serum albumins of apes and man. Our studies with the quantitative micro-complement fixation method confirm this observation. To explain the closeness of the resemblance, previous workers suggested that there has been a…

Overuse of antibiotics can cause the emergence of resistant bacterial strains. This study retrospectively investigated recent trends in Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections (UTIs), focusing on antibiotic use and antibiotic susceptibilities. Patients diagnosed with UTIs caused by E. coli in Akashi Municipal…

Complications arising over a 6-year interval after 116 single-level anterior corpectomy/fusions (ACF) using iliac crest autograft and dynamic ABC plates were sequentially evaluated. Patients averaged 45 years of age (52 females and 64 males). Preoperative magnetic resonance and computed tomography studies documented ad…

Forty-three ESRD children received treatment with CAPD from November 1984 through July 1990. Mean patient age was 10 years (range 2-17 years) and total observation period (consolidated for the whole group) was 683 months. Double cuff Tenckhoff catheters were used as access. The most common complication was peritonitis…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of full correction vs undercorrection on the magnitude of the myopic shift and postoperative visual acuity after unilateral intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in children. DESIGN: Retrospective case control study. METHODS: The medical records of 24 children who underwent unilateral ca…

BACKGROUND: Health risk behaviours are prominent in late adolescence and young adulthood, yet UK population-level research examining the relationship between drug or alcohol use and sexual health and behaviour among young people is scarce, despite public health calls for an integrated approach to health improvement. Ou…

BACKGROUND: In haemophiliacs, synovectomy is indicated for recurrent joint bleedings, despite medical treatment. METHOD: We report a series of 23 surgical synovectomies of the knee with a median follow-up of 8.8 years. The median age of patients at surgery was 13.5 years. Clinical and radiological evaluation…

Changes of fat distribution were followed up in Czech and Slovak children from 1.5 to 15 years of age, using centrality indices, which relate the values of skinfolds on the trunk to the skinfolds on the extremities, head and neck. Up to 5 years of age, subcutaneous fat was deposited relatively more on the extremities,…

The mineral series glaucony supplies 40% of the absolute-age database for the geologic time scale of the last 250 million years. However, glauconies have long been suspected of giving young potassium-argon ages on bulk samples. Laser-probe argon-argon dating shows that glaucony populations comprise grains with a wide r…

The production and use of tobacco have been accepted parts of the American life-style for over 500 years. Tobacco use in the United States has gone through many stages over the years. The present article reviews the trends of tobacco use over the last 100 years and the public health strategies recently initiated to con…

Incidence of malaria in troops carrying out counter-insurgency operation in thick jungles in North East region was compared for the year 1995 and 1996. Since troops were on constant move in thick jungles in hostile environment and they have to sleep and rest outdoor, use of mosquito net was not feasible in both years.…

This study analyzes the course of 62 patients aged over 60 years (i.e., 7% of all recipients) which were liver transplanted over the last 10 years. The data show that the results of transplantation in patients with malignant tumors (n = 25) are unfavorable (20% 5-year survival), while good results could be obtained in…