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OBJECTIVES: This article summarizes the general experience and results achieved by heart transplantation during 19 years of activity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between 1987 and 2005, 439 heart transplantations and 24 cardiopulmonary transplantations were performed by the Cardiovascular Surgery Department of Hospital Univ…

A 50-year-old woman presented with a 5-year history of mild pain in her right knee, which had increased over the last 2 years. A palpable mass over the anterolateral aspect of the knee was obvious and the last 3 months she was experiencing locking episodes with consequent knee effusion. The differential diagnosis was d…

BACKGROUND: Double-sided VBT (dsVBT) (bilateral application to thoracic and lumbar major curves) was reported to provide successful thoracic and thoracolumbar curve corrections in skeletally immature adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients when applied under strict inclusion criteria in the short term. The prese…

One thousand of the mandatory blood specimens taken from injured drivers attending a hospital over a decade were analyzed for a full range of legal and illegal drugs in an accredited forensic toxicology laboratory with confirmation by a validated LC-MS/MS procedure. Ethanol ( ≥0.05 g/100 mL), metha…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of posterior three-columns osteotomy in the treatment of severe tuberculous angular kyphosis. METHODS: Total of 33 patients with severe tuberculous angular kyphosis were treated with posterior three-columns osteotomy from January 2006 to January 2019 including 24 males and 9 fema…

INTRODUCTION: Multiligament knee injuries are a rare but serious injury, affecting functional prognosis. The objective of this study was to assess the long-term clinical and laximetric outcomes of acute or chronic multiligament knee reconstructions, with lateral impairment, using autografts. HYPOTHESIS: Autograft reco…

AIMS: To determine long-term outcomes and risk factors for failure after mitomycin C (MMC)-augmented initial trabeculectomy (IT) in Taiwanese patients. METHODS: We reviewed medical records of patients with glaucoma undergoing IT during December 2006-December 2016. We defined complete success as an intraocular pressure…

PURPOSE: To investigate the changes in the last decade (2000-2010) in drug prescribing among community-dwelling elderly people aged 65-94 years, in relation to age and sex. METHODS: We analyzed the data of nearly two million subjects ranging in age from 65 to 94 years recorded in the Drug Administrative Database of th…

Reproductive failure and anti-sperm antibody (ASA) production among prostitutes were investigated. A questionnaire including the subject's age, years of prostitution, date of most recent birth, number of children and contraceptive method used at the beginning of prostitution were asked of 109 prostitutes, but only 53 a…

INTRODUCTION: Hereditary optic neuropathies (HON) often begin in adulthood. However, some of them can have an early onset. These may have specific clinical features and natural histories. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study of HON patients with onset before the age of 14 years seen in a referral center. In addit…

OBJECTIVES: Do surgical modifications at the annular level (e.g. the modified Ross-Konno procedure or reduction plasty) influence the structure and function of the Ross autograft at the mid-term follow-up? METHODS: From June 2001 to July 2009, 49 patients (37 men and 12 women), mean age 10.5 ± 5.7&#…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for HIV infection and the incidence in men who have sex with men (MSM). It is important to identify subgroups of MSM in which preventive interventions such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offered at the time of their last negative test would be co…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: We reviewed retrospectively outcome after intracarpal arthrodesis for advanced-stage osteoarthritis of the wrist. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Among the 20 patients who underwent a four-bone fusion between 1989 and 1998 in our unit, 17 were available for analysis. Mean age of the study population was 41…

BACKGROUND: The rate of adverse clinical outcomes among patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis receiving medical therapy alone can be used to guide clinical decision-making and to inform future research. We aimed to investigate temporal changes in the incidence rate of clinical outcomes among patients with asympto…

IMPORTANCE: Freedom from symptoms is an important determinant of a good death, but little is known about symptom occurrence during the last year of life. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the monthly occurrence of physical and psychological symptoms leading to restrictions in daily activities (ie, restricting symptoms) among old…

OBJECTIVE: There are limited data regarding the end-of-life care for women with gynecologic malignancies. We set out to generate pilot data describing the care that women with gynecologic malignancies received in the last 6 months of life. Patient demographics, patterns of care, and utilization of palliative medicine c…

BACKGROUND: This study was designed to investigate the global emerging trends of physical activity therapy for diabetes based on a bibliometric analysis of the publications. METHODS: Publication papers from 2011 to 2020 were retrieved from the database of "Web of Science Core Collection" with the topic search. A numbe…

BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) of the ampulla of Vater is a rare occurrence. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no published review on this rare tumor in the English literature so far. SUMMARY: In this review, we will discuss all the reported details of the published cases, including demog…

It is well-recognized that adolescence and early adulthood are a high-risk period for non-adherence with treatment regimens in solid organ transplant recipients, leading to high rates of rejection and graft loss (Transplantation, 92, 2011, 1237; Pediatr Transplant, 9, 2005, 381; Transplantation, 77, 2004, 769). Prevent…

INTRODUCTION: New treatments for immune mediated diseases have increased notably in the last 10 years. Monoclonal antibodies directed against different components of the immune system have appeared, along with new drugs from the haematology field. In the case of myasthenia gravis (MG), many of these new treatments have…