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A series of 189 consecutive posterior cruciate condylar total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) in 151 patients was reviewed. Of these, 18 patients died (22 knees), and two patients (three knees) were lost to follow-up study, leaving 164 knees in 131 patients for evaluation at 5.3 +/- 0.8 years (mean +/- SD). Before surgery 9…

Craniometric data have been collected from published and unpublished reports of numerous authors on 961 male and 439 female crania from various sites in Subsaharan Africa spanning the last 100 ka. All data available in the literature, irrespective of their "racial" affinities, were used to cover the prehistoric and ear…

We present the clinical characteristics of 14 children with congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia (CPT) treated in northern Finland at Oulu University Hospital during the years 1968-1996. The incidence of CPT in northern Finland was 3.5/10(5) during years 1962-1996, which is higher than in previous reports. The estima…

The records of patients who received an artificial urinary sphincter at the University of Minnesota were reviewed. A total of 19 patients fulfilled the following criteria: male gender, neurogenic sphincteric incompetence, no previous surgery on the bladder neck, myelodysplasia and more than 5 years of followup. Mean ag…

PURPOSE: Near the end of life, drugs to ensure comfort and improve quality of life should be prioritized, and unnecessary drugs should be avoided. The aim was to assess the evolution and quality of drug therapy throughout the last 3 months of life of older adults in need of palliative care. METHODS: A single-cent…

OBJECTIVE: To study the association between first and last caesarian sections with tubal sterilization; to determine length of reproductive life after the first delivery. METHODS: From February to October 2001 in a university hospital, interviews were carried out with 653 women having had at least two pregnancies. Of…

The magnitude of atmospheric cooling during the Last Glacial Maximum and the timing of the transition into the current interglacial period remain poorly constrained in tropical regions, partly because of a lack of suitable climate records. Glacial moraines provide a method of reconstructing past temperatures, but they…

During the last interglacial period, ~125,000 years ago, sea level was at least several meters higher than at present, with substantial variability observed for peak sea level at geographically diverse sites. Speculation that the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed during the last interglacial period has drawn particula…

During the last 30 years community psychiatric nursing (CPN) services have become an established feature of mental health provision throughout the United Kingdom. The creation of new services peaked in the mid 1970s; however, the rate of individual service growth during the last 5 years has been variable. In 1980, the…

This work presents a first estimation of the sedimentation rate for the Red Lake (Romania). The sediment accumulation rates were determined by two well-known methods for recent sediment dating: (210)Pb and (137)Cs methods. Both techniques implied used the gamma emission of the above-mentioned radionuclides. The (210)Pb…

In recent years the manufacture of and demand for crystals and oscillators in China have been increasing quickly because of the development of industries, communications, science, transportation, and electronic techniques. This paper introduces the manufacture, research, and characteristics of the technical development…

OBJECTIVE: To study the response of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) and renal function after renal artery stenting at three months, six months, one year and last follow-up. METHODS: Patients with significant renal artery stenosis who underwent angioplasty with stenting from January 1999 to September 2006 we…

In the last 22 years 520 twin pregnancies were seen at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ulm. The material was analyzed retrospectively according to the 4 time periods 1965-1974, 1975-1980, 1981-1983, and 1984-1987. An equal-size group of singleton pregnancies was used as control. 1. By the 20t…

We evaluated whether the results of diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing combined with time since last vaccine dose could be used to monitor the effectiveness of acellular pertussis vaccines. In 258 consecutive nasopharyngeal swabs from children and adolescents with typical pertussis symptoms, 80 were pos…

The guidelines for the use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) have changed significantly over the last 5 years. This paper reviews the current recommendations and documents the reasons for these changes, in a review of the world's literature on ADT over the last 5 years. Special emphasis on randomized controlled tri…

AIMS: To evaluate the contribution of changing procedures in microbiology laboratories over the previous 5 years to the increase in campylobacteriosis notifications. To assess whether regional differences in notification rates are due to variations in laboratory procedures. METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to 69 New…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to determine the profile of the demand for paediatric neurology care in a Spanish tertiary hospital over the past 20 years. METHOD: We studied epidemiological data, reasons for consultation, diagnoses and complementary tests from all patients examined by our Paediatric Neurology…

Own experience in operative treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in the over-70 age group during the last 22 months are presented: there was no mortality in the asymptomatic patients (n = 51). If the AAA was symptomatic (n = 20) mortality was 25%, and if rupture occurred (n = 26) mortality raised to 42%. The w…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of staged surgical treatment on central cord syndrome of the cervical spine. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted in 36 cases of central cord syndrome of the cervical spine treated with staged surgery. The patients (aged 50 to 79 years, mean 56.9 years) were divided into gr…