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STUDY DESIGN: A prospective, a single-institution, nonrandomized study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and effectivity of short-segment instrumentation in early-onset scoliosis (EOS) patients treated by magnetic-controlled growing rods (MCGRs). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Despite the comm…

BACKGROUND: It remains unclear if oral contraceptive (OC) use is associated with the incidence of colorectal cancer. Few studies have examined this association by duration of OC use, time since last OC use, and different cancer subsites. METHODS: Among 88,691 participants of the Nurses' Health Study I (NHSI) and 93,08…

UNLABELLED: This large scale computer-assisted telephone survey was undertaken to explore the prevalence, severity, treatment and impact of chronic pain in 15 European countries and Israel. Screening interviews identified respondents aged 18 years with chronic pain for in-depth interviews. 19% of 46,394 respondents wil…

In this investigation, we wanted: (i) to describe the attitudes and declared practices of a representative sample of French general practitioners (GPs) regarding rapid antigen diagnostic tests (RADTs) for acute pharyngitis and (ii) to identify the GPs' characteristics associated with the use of an RADT in the last paed…

OBJECTIVE: The impact of sex hormones milieu on women's cognitive performance at different reproductive stages has caused increased caution. Our research aims to explore whether parity is negatively correlated with cognitive function. METHODS: There were 1,093 postmenopausal participants recruited from the Health and…

INTRODUCTION: CK2 is a pleiotropic, ubiquitous and constitutively active protein kinase, localized in both cytosolic and nuclear compartments, where it catalyzes the phosphorylation of hundreds of proteins. CK2 is generally described as a tetramer composed of two catalytic (α and/or α') and two regulatory s…

The authors assessed the accuracy of perimenopausal estrogen use reporting by 430 women in a prospective study of bone health risk factors. Data from two time points 5 years apart indicated that 383 (89%) women could consistently report having ever used perimenopausal estrogens or not. Of the 383, 138 reported some lif…

Acute massive hemorrhage from CD occurred in 3.0% in our institution. Forty CD patients with massive hemorrhage were reported in last 20 years in Japan. The ratio of male to female was 7.0. Ninety percent of them complicated the small intestinal CD. Massive bleeding was seen mostly in the ileum (82.5%) and next was in…

We retrospectively studied clinical cases of lung cancer complicated by pulmonary aspergillosis. A total of 19 cases with average age of 69.5 years were encountered over the last 9 years. All had a history of smoking and 18 were men. In 2 cases, pulmonary aspergillosis and lung cancer were diagnosed concurrently. Pulmo…

We undertook a radiological analysis of 186 standard Souter implants to determine survivorship and to analyse the pattern of failure in those needing revision. The implants had been inserted as a primary procedure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow at our hospital over the last 12 years. Taking revision…

The frequency distribution of immunogenic and non-immunogenic hyperthyroidism (IH, NIH) was evaluated retrospectively in the former endemic goiter area of Berne over a 15-year period (1976, 1982, and 1991). Out of 12,320 patients referred for thyroid examinations, 9.1% were hyperthyroid. NIH still predominates with a c…

Little is known about the indications, safety and clinical usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in elderly patients. In order to address these issues, we reviewed our last 200 consecutive BAL procedures, of which 23 (11.5%) were performed in patients older than 75 years (range 75-90, mean age 80.7 years, 13 men a…

Cancers of the pancreas and biliary tract have increased in frequency during the last decades. The severity of these cancers is partly due to the difficulty of their early diagnosis. Clinical signs, such as jaundice and abdominal mass perceptible at palpation, betray advanced tumours extending to neighbouring organs. L…

Alcohol-related events in Minnesota are assessed using a social indicator method. Eight events have shown rate average increases of 2.0 to 13.5 per cent per year over the last 7 to 14 years, with most events increasing 5 to 7 per cent. These include traffic fatalities, alcoholic cirrhosis deaths, alcohol deaths, arrest…

Jaina religion has existed for thousands of years. Lord Mahavir was the last of the 24 Tirthankaras, 23 having preceded him. The principals of Jaina religion teach us: (1) Self-control, which includes: (a) Control over physiological instinct of hunger and sex; (b) control over desires; (c) control over emotions; (2) me…

Twenty-two patients with upper extremity syndactyly (58 webs) have been treated in the last decade (1976 to 1985) by one hand surgeon using one technique. Nineteen patients had syndrome complexes or other associated anomalies that made treatment more difficult. The postoperative follow-up averaged 4 years. The rate of…

BACKGROUND: Gender inequity is still pervasive in academic medicine, including journal publishing. We aimed to ascertain the proportion of women among first and last authors and editors in infectious diseases journals and assess the association between women's editorship and women's authorship while controlling for a j…

BACKGROUND: Rib fractures in the elderly are associated with pulmonary complications and mortality. The erector spinae plane (ESP) block might reduce pain and improve pulmonary function. Lidocaine infusions offer a non-invasive alternative delivery of local anesthetic. This pilot study was designed to inform the design…

Abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) is reportedly increasing in prevalence and spreading from sportsmen to cosmetic and recreational use, though there are few accurate estimates of the extent of AAS use outside North America. In order to identify the prevalence of, and risk factors for, 'ever' (lifetime) or 're…

BACKGROUND: Pediatric programs face a high rate of loss to follow-up (LTFU) among children and adolescents living with HIV (CAHIV). We assessed true outcomes and predictors of these among CAHIV who were LTFU using linkage to the Western Cape Provincial Health Data Centre at Western Cape sites of the International epide…