97,503 papers found

OBJECTIVE: The study was carried out to determine the clinical and morphological presentation of actinomycosis and its association with malignancy and other opportunistic infections. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A prospective and retrospective study of cases was done from January 2001 to December 2006 (5 years) in the depart…

The secular trend of increase in physical size of children has often been reported. Children today are bigger than before, but there is a question whether their physical fitness has improved as well. Methodological differences make it difficult to compare older and newer data. Data are presented from the tests and meas…

Thirteen cases of primary ovarian seminoma have been referred to the Claudius Regaud Cancer Center during the last 2 decades, patients' ages ranging form 10 to 41 years with a peak in the 20's. Two patients were treated by surgery as definitive therapy, the others underwent combined radiation therapy (dose range 25 to…

The Hardangervidda wild reindeer herd in Norway is the largest in Western Europe. It has fluctuated between 7000 and 32000 animals during the last 35 years. Four density-dependent effects were found: 1. A food limitation effect due to a shift in diet after overgrazing lichen on the winter range. This led to increased t…

The objective of the study was to relate blood pressure levels in children to their mother's weight in pregnancy. The blood pressures of 675 children aged from one to nine years in three villages in rural Gambia were measured. They were matched to antenatal clinic data which had been collected from all pregnant women i…

Evidence about the relationship between meal and sleep time and CVD in children is scarce. The aims of this study were to describe the association between life rhythm patterns and blood pressure in children. This research was conducted among 5,608 children aged 6 to 15 years old in Chongqing and Sichuan provinces in 20…

BACKGROUND: The risk factors of glenohumeral arthritis after the Latarjet procedure remain relatively unexplored. The purposes of this study are to evaluate the clinical significance of glenohumeral arthritis after the Latarjet procedure, and to investigate risk factors associated with arthritis progression. METHODS:…

BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is a severe cardiac infection disease with high morbidity and mortality, remained largely unchanged over the past 2 decades with an increased incidence in the last years. STUDY QUESTION: Was to evaluate the main causes of increased incidence and antibiotic resistance and the role of…

Doping of horses with recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) to illegally enhance their endurance capacity in horseracing has been reported during the last years. This leads to increased blood viscosity which can result in sudden death and is of concern for the horse welfare. Additionally, the horse can start produc…

Data concerning the use of the canine foetal kidney length (L) formula in the prediction of parturition timing are still lacking. In our study, we aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the L formula in predicting the parturition date during the last 10 days of pregnancy. Twenty-five clinically healthy pregnant bitches, age…

BACKGROUND: Since female neurointerventionalists make up a minority of the work force, the contributions this group has made to academic scholarship should be highlighted. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this project was to identify all of the recent papers published in the(JNIS) by female first authors or last autho…

A constant and progressive increase in the availability of heroin in Colombia in recent decades and the intravenous use  of this drug have established the need to prevent a possible epidemic of HIV and hepatitis C. This research determined the sero-prevalence of hepatitis C and HIV according to sociodemographic ch…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine mid-term outcomes of patients with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery undergoing coronary repair only (group A) or simultaneous mitral valve repair (group B). METHODS: Patients with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from…

BACKGROUND: Although the practice of western medicine in Ethiopia dates back to the time of King Libne Dengel (1520-1535), organized and sustainable modern medical practice started after the battle of Adwa (1896). OBJECTIVE: To review hospitals construction, medical doctors production and attrition, and to suggest alt…

Transluminal angioplasty is rarely used to treat arterial diseases at leg level. During the last 5 years we have performed 25 distal artery angioplasties in 24 patients. Average age was 70 years, half of them were diabetics. Twenty patients had critical ischemia and 4 asymptomatic patients had critical stenosis distal…

This study covers the characteristics of reduced dentitions in a population of elderly people. The sample consisted of 329 independently living individuals between 55 and 75 years of age. They all had one or more natural teeth and were all interviewed and investigated clinically. The findings showed that 13% of the sub…

INTRODUCTION: This article describes the specific features of the diagnostics and therapy for acute appendicitis in childhood. As a result of the rapid progression of appendicitis in children, in spite of extensive diagnostic possibilities, we still see significant rates of perforation or vice versa of the so-called ne…

A long, curved-stem, uncemented femoral component was evaluated for use in primary and revision hip arthroplasty in young patients aged 43.5 years (range, 16-60 years). The femoral component has a proximal wedge shape and a medial collar for proximal press fit and load transfer; anterior and posterior ingrowth pads; an…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the mid-term effectiveness of rotating hinge knee prosthesis for severe knee deformity. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on the clinical data of 24 patients (24 knees) who received rotating hinge knee prosthesis for total knee arthroplasty between January 2003 and June 2011. There were…