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BACKGROUND: Vascular tortuosity is a prevalent morphological change that frequently occurs in arteries across different parts of the body. OBJECTIVE: To analyze the relationship between the tortuosities of the extracranial internal carotid artery (EICA) and extracranial vertebral artery (EVA) with mild cognitive impai…

AIMS: The study's aims were to (1) assess family members' perceptions of the quality of the counselling they received while visiting a loved one in an adult ICU and (2) identify factors that influence family members' perceptions of counselling quality. DESIGN: A cross-sectional survey of visiting family members of adu…

AIM: To date, to our knowledge there are no studies regarding attitudes and experiences of outpatient medical personnel during a pandemic. This study's aim was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 on German psychiatrists and neurologists. METHODS: An e-mail and fax-based short survey of 2,072…

Clinical scores determining the likelihood of acute appendicitis (AA), including the Alvarado score, were devised using a younger population, and their efficacy in predicting AA in elderly patients is not well documented. This study's purpose is to evaluate the utility of Alvarado scores in this population. A retrospec…

Osteoporosis is characterized as a metabolic disorder of bone tissue, and various metabolic markers are now available to support its diagnosis and evaluate treatment effects. Substances produced as end products of metabolomic activities are the correlated factors to the biological or metabolic status, and thus, metabol…

BACKGROUND: Work in hospice and palliative medicine can be stressful. A variety of methods have been used to mitigate workplace stress including mindfulness mediation, reflective writing, and physical activity. An intervention implemented at our institution is a "Thought for the Day," a short reflection on a piece of p…

BACKGROUND: Communication strategy training (CST) is a recognized part of UK speech and language therapists' (SLTs) role when working with a person with aphasia. Multiple CST interventions have been published but, to date, there are no published studies exploring clinical practice in this area. AIMS: To investigate UK…

The term Postpolio Syndrome (PPS) is used to describe new and late manifestations of poliomyelitis that occur later in life in polio survivors. Polio had been eradicated in the United Kingdom (UK) and most of Europe, although this is not the case in all countries. Research in this area has tended to focus upon the impa…

OBJECTIVE: Establishing normal reference values for median and ulnar nerve distal motor and sensory latencies for electrophysiological diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) taking our population's demographic traits into account. METHODS: Sensory and motor nerve conduction studies for the median and ulnar nerves w…

Injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangladesh are at the early stages of an HIV epidemic. To understand the dynamics of the HIV epidemic, male IDU (n = 561) were recruited from the needle/syringe exchange program in Dhaka in 2002, who underwent a risk-behavior survey and were tested for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis C, and hepat…

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices are effective in preventing the sequela of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); however, compliance with the device is problematic. This study's purpose is to longitudinally discover OSA patients experiences with CPAP. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to obta…

BACKGROUND: Conventional electroencephalography remains the gold standard for the diagnosis and quantification of neonatal seizures. However, amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) is being introduced to neonatal intensive care as an adjunct for neonatal seizure detection. OBJECTIVES: This study's purpose…

This study's purpose was to identify occupational factors that may influence the age at natural menopause in a random sample of gainfully employed French women born in 1938 (n=1,594). Occupational physicians selected the subjects from their files and interviewed them during their annual visits in 1990 and 1995. The aut…

Although Hawaii has high breastfeeding initiation rates (89%), Native Hawaiian WIC participants have much lower initiation (64%) rates. Little is known about why these disparities occur. The study's aim was to describe the breastfeeding patterns of Hawaiian/part-Hawaiian women enrolled in the WIC who had initiated brea…

In this case series fMRI was used to examine activation patterns during presentation of a reading comprehension (RC) task in three adult subjects with a history of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). These subjects received cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) for visual processing and acquired reading deficits. fMR…

The study's objective was to contrast the prevalence, phenomenology, and medical care utilization for panic disorder from 1980 to 1990. All psychiatric consultations from a university consultation service from the years 1980, 1985, and 1990 were located (N = 2,400). Patients meeting DSM-III-R panic disorder criteria we…

The present Phase II study's main objective was to evaluate the rate of complete responses (CR) obtained through total androgenic suppression (TAS) in patients with disseminated prostate carcinoma. Twenty consecutive patients were recruited of which 19 were evaluable for response and toxicity. Treatment consisted in an…

Part I The author examined 62 hips in 58 patients treated by shelf operations, and their long-term results were studied as a follow-up for an average of 10 years. Satisfactory results of the shelf operation were obtained in 51.7% of patients, if over 10 years of age when operated on, but in as many as 72.0%, if under 6…

This study aimed to examine the impact of the locus of control, coping strategies and loneliness on perceived threat and stress among the Arab minority in Israel during the first COVID-19 closure. This was a cross-sectional online study, with 486 participants who completed a questionnaire measuring the study variables…

BACKGROUND: In Florence, Italy, the Arno River overflowed on 4 November 1966 and the rare library collections of the National Central Library in Florence (FNCL) were flooded. A Restoration Centre was immediately set up. For book restoration many toxic chemicals were used, such as chlorinated solvents, ethylene oxide (E…