98,345 papers found

BACKGROUND: Vertebral body tethering (VBT) offers an alternative treatment for patients with idiopathic scoliosis. We present our finalized Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study results on VBT. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed patients with Lenke Type IA/B curves who underwent V…

Tobacco users are exposed to a higher risk of noncommunicable diseases, leading to premature mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The future prediction indicates that tobacco-related mortality and morbidity rates will substantially increase in coming years. The study is aimed at assessing the prevalenc…

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy prolongs life and relieves symptoms in men with castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). There is limited information on a population level on the use of chemotherapy for CRPC. MATERIAL AND METHODS: To assess the use of chemotherapy in men with CRPC we conducted a register-based nationwide…

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the features and outcome of children with tuberculous meningitis (TM) in a tertiary hospital in Madrid, with special emphasis on the possible influence of HIV infection, immigration and withdrawal of the Bacille-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in Madrid in 1987. METHODS: We reviewed the medic…

Magnetostratigraphic studies are widely used in conjunction with the geomagnetic polarity time scale (GPTS) to date events in the range 0 to 5 million years ago. A critical tie point on the GPTS is the potassium-argon age of the most recent (Brunhes-Matuyama) geomagnetic field reversal. Astronomical values for the forc…

Two cohorts of suicide (and undetermined deaths) in Scotland for the quinquennia 1974-78, 1979-83 were investigated. A national record linkage exercise was carried out relating the deaths to admissions for alcoholism in the preceding 5 years (minimum) to 10 years (maximum). No differences were found between the cohorts…

Since April 1990, data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System for 14 diseases have been published in a graphic format in the MMWR (Figure I, page 118) (1). The bar graph compares provisional reports for a 4-week period with the mean of 15 4-week totals (from the previous, comparable, and subsequent 4…

OBJECTIVE: To calculate the survival of people with Down syndrome over the past 60 years and the influence of major perinatal factors by using linked population-based data. STUDY DESIGN: A data linkage between 2 Western Australian (WA) data sets (the Register for Developmental Anomalies and the Intellectual Disability…

Intertrochanteric osteotomies (Pauwels) were performed in 203 hips. Their average age at operation was 41 years (range 15 to 66 years). Average follow-up was 16 years and 5 months. 78 of 203 hips had been undergone varus osteotomies (P1) and valgus osteotomies (P2) were in 125 hips. All the hips were evaluated clinical…

Acute healthcare services are extremely important, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, as healthcare demand has rapidly intensified, and resources have become insufficient. Studies on specific prepandemic hospitalization and emergency department visit (EDV) trends in proximity to death are limited. We examined t…

BACKGROUND: MRI-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) has established short-term efficacy in tremor relief. OBJECTIVE: We report our long-term experience of treating tremor with unilateral FUS unilateral VIM-thalamotomy in tremor dominant Parkinson's disease (TDPD) patients. METHODS: We report outcome of FUS thalamotomy in…

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine the prevalence of chronic diseases and unhealthy lifestyle behaviors of Turkish doctors as compared with the general population and the frequency of compliance with preventive clinical practices among doctors. METHODS: This was an observational, prospective cohort study that enrolled…

INTRODUCTION: Patients with active rheumatoid arthritis who had failed at least one disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) were treated with adalimumab (ADA) in the ReAct study with the option to continue treatment for 5 years in ReAlise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term safety and effecti…

The aim of this study was to analyze age specific incidence rates (IRs) of cerebral thromboembolic attacks (CTA) among women and men 15-44 years of age in Denmark from 1980 through 1993 and quantify possible influences from oral contraceptives (OC) on the incidence figures. The discharge diagnoses ICD 432-436 from all…

For the last 20 years of analysis, mortality rate of rural population was higher than that one of entire population; in 2020, increasing of mortality due to COVID-19 was noted.The indicators were 15.4 per 1000 population for rural population, and 14.3‰ for urban population. In 2021, the indicators increased up t…

Craniopharyngioma is a benign intracranial tumor that can be clinically aggressive. The descriptive epidemiology of this tumor is not fully known, in part because of its borderline nature between a benign and malignant tumor, and in part because of its rarity. It has a bimodal age distribution with a peak between 5 and…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the evolution of the epistemological basis of Canadian psychiatry over the last 50 years. METHOD: A comparison of the content of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry in its early years, then known as the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, with publications from recent years, shedding light o…

Over a thirteen year period (1965 to 1977) a total of 4790 skin scrapings and hair samples of animals were examined mycologically. 887 strains of dermatophytes were isolated out of 885 of these samples (= 18,5%). Most frequently Trichophyton verrucosum was identified in samples from cattle, followed by Microsporum cani…

We investigated the short- and long-term effects of forest fires on soil fungal communities across a forest fire chronosequence of Pinus sylvestris-dominated stands in northwestern Estonia. Soil fungal communities were characterized using PacBio sequencing of the ITS1-5.8 S-ITS2 genomic region. These effects were…

Two-thirds of all glaciers worldwide are projected to disappear by 2100 CE. Large uncertainties however remain in maritime settings, where some glaciers have recently gained mass in response to increased snowfall. One of these regions is southern Patagonia, where increased precipitation since the 1980s seems to have at…