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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) technique has continually evolved over the last decade, resulting in better outcomes and increased popularity within the urological community. In this article, we provide an overview of the contemporary literature on LPN. RECENT FINDINGS: The technique of LPN h…

Modern vaccines-including influenza vaccine-provide a uniquely powerful and cost-effective way to prevent deadly communicable diseases from spreading. Unfortunately, since the last decade of the 20th century, influenza vaccine supply and distribution problems have steadily grown worse in the United States. Supply disru…

Despite recent advances in the last decade, invasive fungal infections are still associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Invasive fungal infections constitute severe infectious complications in patients with hematological malignancies receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy or sustained immunosuppression after…

In 1998 further global increase in reported cases of pertussis in Poland was observed. The total number of reported cases was 2871 including 854 cases reported in 1998 which occurred in 1997. Most of the cases accumulated in first quarter of the year, with subsequent decrease in the second half of the year, to the leve…

Epidemiologic programs in Martinique during the last 10 years and particularly the last 5, have allowed the determination of the Hb S, Hb C, beta thalassemia traits frequencies. A number of rare variants have been detected during the course of these screening programs. Many of these Hb variants have been analysed at th…

A study has been carried out on the width of the seminiferous tubules, and the proportion of pre-germinal cells, in 174 stillborn children between 24 and 40 weeks of gestation, and in 146 children dying between the ages of birth and six years. There was a general diminution in the diameter of the seminiferous tubule th…

The Holter tapes of 61 patients (46 men, mean age +/- standard deviation 65 +/- 11 years) with sudden cardiac death while being monitored were analyzed. Thirty-eight patients were known to have coronary artery disease, 5 had cardiomyopathy, and 7 had aortic valve disease. Etiology remained unknown in 11 patients. Mean…

BACKGROUND: The result from the Life After Stroke (LAST) study showed that an 18-month follow up program as part of the primary health care, did not improve maintenance of motor function for stroke survivors. In this study we evaluated whether the follow-up program could lead to a reduction in the use of health care co…

Reef corals are currently undergoing climatically driven poleward range expansions, with some evidence for equatorial range retractions. Predicting their response to future climate scenarios is critical to their conservation, but ecological models are based only on short-term observations. The fossil record provides th…

BACKGROUND: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII = N × P/L), and neutrophil percentage-albumin ratio (NPAR) have become accepted markers of inflammation in recent years. These indices are used as indicators of disease activi…

BACKGROUND: Data during the last decade show that laparoscopic nephrectomy is becoming an accepted and advantageous minimally invasive alternative to the open procedure. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and reproducibility of laparoscopic nephrectomy in a series of 110 consecutive procedures. METHODS: A to…

OBJECTIVE: To study changes over time in the incidence of migraine and frequent headache. METHODS: A population-based study on migraine and other headaches in Finnish children starting school at age 7 years in the city of Turku was conducted in 1974, 1992, and 2002. The study design used in each study was virtually id…

Specific IgG and IgM antibodies to Chlamydia pneumoniae were evaluated by microimmunofluorescence test in a group of healthy subjects (age 0-18 years). Antibody titers (IgG) > or = 1:16 were found in 9.7% of the age group 0-1 years, in 5.3% of the group of 2-3 years and rose to 19% in children of the group 4-6 years. T…

BACKGROUND: The impact of cancer extends beyond clinical outcomes, often disrupting interpersonal relationships and living situations. Although these social factors are important for survivorship, little is known about how marital status, residential urbanicity, and income change over time for cancer patients. METHODS…

Femoral neck fractures are common fractures and constitute a major health problem especially in elderly. Primary total hip arthroplasty has advantages with little or no comorbidities because it gives good functional outcomes. The study was aimed to assess the outcome of primary total hip arthroplasty in displaced fract…

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer type in humans, the fourth most common cause of death because of cancer, and the second most common cancer type in terms of the number of individuals living with cancer 5 years after diagnosis worldwide, almost 694,000 people die from CRC annually. As it is expect…

Ten patients with Bloom's syndrome observed in Germany during the last 20 years are described. They were born between 1964 and 1986. Seven are alive at the age of 8 to 27 years. Three have died at the age of 5 years (acute leukemia), 18 years (pulmonary fibrosis and bronchiectasis), and 21 years (Hodgkin lymphoma and s…

BACKGROUND: Paliperidone palmitate 3-monthly (PP3M) is a second-generation, long-acting injectable antipsychotic formulation indicated for the maintenance treatment of adults with schizophrenia first stabilized with paliperidone palmitate 1-monthly (PP1M). This exploratorysubgroup analysis of the 52-week, phase 3b REMI…