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BACKGROUND: The concept that surgical volume affects rates of total primary shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) revision is widely accepted. The aim of this study was to determine if surgical volume is confounded by patient, implant, and institutional factors and time since TSA. METHODS: Using data from a large national arthr…

BACKGROUND: Inflammation is known to play a crucial role in many diseases, including COVID-19. OBJECTIVE: Using flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), we aimed to assess the effects of inflammation on endothelial function in COVID-19 patients. METHODS: This study was conducted with a total of 161 subjects, of whom 80 were d…

AIM: To evaluate the long-term clinical effect of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) in adult type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients in a regional public healthcare system real-world scenario. METHODS: All adult T1DM patients on CSII for ≥10 years subjected to follow-up in the regional Castilla-L…

PURPOSE: Some researchers in Europe, America and Oceania have recently reported that the incidence of schizophrenia is declining. We investigated changes in the proportion of schizophrenic patients to the total number of patients in two Japanese hospitals during the last decade. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The subjects were…

Presentation of a multicentric retrospective french study concerning 4,655 cases of gastric cancer operated between 1980 and 1996. The mean age was 67.4 years old with a male predominance of 63.1%. Pains was the predominant presenting symptom (60%) followed by alteration of the general condition (44%) and anaemia (20%)…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is still considered the gold standard in the treatment of patients with significant carotid stenosis and has proven its value over the past decades. Endovascular techniques have evolved, and carotid artery stenting (CAS) is challenging CEA to become the better treatment.…

AIM: To evaluate the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System, version 2.1 (PIRADS V2.1) criteria for seminal vesicle invasion (SVI) and examine whether the timing of last ejaculation influences the detection of SVI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study population consisted of 68 patients (34 with SVI, 34 without SVI, m…

In this study, surface sediments along the Zayandehrud River (14 samples), and two dated core sediments (46 samples) from small artificial urban lakes at the middle section of the Zayandehrud River in the Gavkhooni basin in the central arid regions of Iran were analyzed for residual levels of 20 organochlorine pesticid…

To compare the postoperative efficacy of simple double-row suture bridge technique and double-row suture bridge technique combined with type Ⅱ "Chinese way" in treating huge massive rotator cuff injury.The clinical data of 74 patients with unilateral massive rotator cuff injury admitted to Department of Orthoped…

BACKGROUND: For the treatment of the severe infantile coxa vara it is mandatory for the orthopaedic surgeon to observe the mechanobiology of the growing hip before and after the surgical intervention. We hereby would like to present our experiences with the subtrochanteric end-to-side valgization osteotomy and to compa…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical characteristics, causative organisms, treatment procedures and prognosis of glaucoma bleb-associated endophthalmitis. METHODS: It was a retrospective case series study. All cases were patients with glaucoma bleb-associated endophthalmitis treated at Shandong Eye Institute, Qingda…

We performed a retrospective interventional case series including 80 eyes of 48 patients with keratoconus (KC) who were treated with modified corneal cross-linking (CXL) for KC (with a partial deepithelization in a pattern of stripes). The average follow-up was 5.8 years (with a minimum of 5 years). At the last follow-…

The data was obtained retrospectively from clinical records concerning 399 HIV infected patients. The HIV infected individuals predominated in the age group ranging from 20 to 40 years (73.4%) and 75% were male. The was no difference in the ratio of male and female patients regarding asymptomatic HIV infection or AIDS.…

OBJECTIVES: The primary aim was to determine women's representation as authors in emergency medicine journals in various authorship positions over the last 20 years. The secondary aim was to compare the two decades to analyze the development over time. METHOD: We conducted a retrospective bibliometric analysis of…

BACKGROUND: Quantitative information about the management of patients with advanced heart failure (HF) is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To assess the management of primary care patients with HF in their last year of life. METHODS: A retrospective observational study performed in 23 general practices in the Netherlands. The medi…

BACKGROUND: Opioids are a cornerstone of palliation of pain. We sought to assess variation in opioid prescription during the last week of life among a cohort of pediatric oncology patients who died while hospitalized. PROCEDURE: We used detailed hospital administrative data from the Pediatric Health Information System…

Iminoguanidines, first reported in 1898, have received renewed attention in the last 5 years due to their ability to recognize and separate anions from competitive aqueous environments. Iminoguanidines display high recognition abilities towards hydrophilic oxyanions (e.g., sulfate, chromate, carbonate) through strong a…

This short paper describes strategies and tactics that have been used for introducing Health Informatics projects in Scotland, UK during the last almost 40 years. This is a country of only 5 million population. It has a scattered geography with isolated islands and moorland and hilly areas along with a populous former…

We made examinations (physical, clinical and laboratory) of 301 senior children and adolescents with varicocele admitted to Research Institute of Urology for the last 5 years. Spermatogenesis was assessed by WHO criteria for healthy men. 78% of the patients were operated by Ivanissevich, 22% received sclerotherapy. Spe…