98,348 papers found

OBJECTIVES: Patients with gout need to adhere to medication over time to achieve good outcomes. We assessed self-reported adherence to medication with urate lowering therapy (ULT) 5 years after a treat-to-target intervention and studied how non-adherence was related to baseline demographic and disease variables.…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The noninvasive measurement of glycaemia is a topic of great interest and is rapidly changing; novelties have emerged frequently in the last years. The aim of the present review is to briefly present the main technologies in the field and the devices recently developed based on them. RECENT FINDINGS…

BACKGROUND: The burden associated with the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) is expected to increase due to the aging population. Thus, policymakers and clinicians need a holistic view of the healthcare resource use (HCRU) and costs associated with MM and its treatment for informed decision making. Howev…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the effectiveness of anterior cervical plate internal fixation in the treatment of unstable Hangman fracture. METHODS: Between May 2006 and May 2010, 42 patients with unstable Hangman fracture were treated by anterior cervical plate internal fixation. There were 30 males and 12 females with an av…

UNLABELLED: We aimed to assess the prevalence of resistant hypertension (RH) in patients attending hypertension outpatient clinics and to identify risk factors for RH. We studied the medical records of the last visit of all patients (n = 1810; 40.4% males, age 56.5 ± 13.5 years) who attended at least once our hype…

To compare HPV vaccination knowledge and non-adherence rates to cervical cancer screening in a nationally representative sample of American women before and following the COVID-19 pandemic, female participants aged 21-65 years from the National Cancer Institute Health Information National Trends Survey 2019 and 2022 we…

PURPOSE: To study the stage of presentation, clinical features, and treatment outcomes of patients diagnosed with Coats disease in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers (aged ≤5 years). METHODS: A retrospective hospital-based study of 98 patients with Coats disease was conducted. RESULTS: The mean age at present…

BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional analysis intends to evaluate trend and outlook of industry clinical research in Italy regarding dermatology and its prospects for the next few years. METHODS: A computerized search of ClinicalTrial.gov database was carried out considering the 20-year period 2003-2022 using the followin…

Outcomes of 37 patients of foramen magnum meningioma (FMM) were evaluated, and the related literature was reviewed to determine the efficacy of Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) for treating patients with FMM. We present the largest series reported from a single institution with the longest follow-up to date. The databas…

PURPOSE: To review indications and clinical outcomes in a series of orbitocranial tumors treated surgically through a transorbital extradural approach without craniotomy. METHODS: In this retrospective case series, all patients who underwent surgery through a transorbital extradural approach without craniotomy for ben…

PURPOSE: To examine long-term local control of vestibular schwannoma and side effects in patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) in British Columbia. METHODS AND MATERIALS: From August 1998 to May 2009, 207 patients were treated with radiation therapy…

AIM: To investigate the clinicopathological features of gastric carcinoma in southern China and disease trends changes over the last 18 years. METHODS: We designed a retrospective study in the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the first affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-sen University. A total of 2100 adult patients…

The authors present their experience of 92 cases of anomalies of the penis, hypospadias excepted, occurring in children between 12 months and 10 years old, during the last 5 years, in their Pediatric Surgical Department. In the literature, there are reported only many single cases of these anomalies, for the most part…

The proportion of congenital developmental defects (CDD) in children decreased in perinatal or early age is increasing. According to national and foreign data this figure is in the range of 21-41%. The etiologic structure of CDD for the last 5 years (1980-1984) basing on the data from the Minsk Teratologic Center has n…

In the past we treated most tracheal stenoses by creating a temporary open groove with subsequent reconstruction. This method has led to unsatisfactory results in some cases and has the disadvantage of a long duration of treatment. Therefore, we replaced it by segmental resection of the trachea with an end to end anast…

Five milligram of megestrol acetate were orally used over ten days during mating periods to synchronise oestrus in caracool sheep. Eighteen days were allowed to elapse from the last administration of progestagen before 1,000 I.U. PMSG were injected to boost fertility. The test reported in this paper had been applied to…

PURPOSE: To present the outcomes of Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation in uveitic glaucoma (UG) in a tertiary eye center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A retrospective review of all UG patients who underwent AGV implantation at a single, tertiary care eye center from January 2008 to December 2018. The main out…

In recent years, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon has triggered a lot of activity in the lattice QCD community because a persistent tension of aboutis observed between the phenomenological estimate and the Brookhaven measurement. The current best phenomenological estimate has an uncertainty comparable to the e…

Background An intravenous sedation (IVS) service was established in 2008 for young people aged 12 years or over, within the paediatric dentistry department at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London. The aim of this study was to carry out a service evaluation and assess the case mix and success rate of this service over…