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In order to test whether the mean age at cataract surgery has changed over the course of the last 30 years, a hospital series of 5443 patients undergoing cataract extraction between 1956 and 1987 is reviewed. All cases attended the same University Eye Clinic of Milan and most were resident in the same geographical area…

Forty patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), defined according to the criteria established by Chusid et al., were studied retrospectively in order to determine the prognostic factors in this heterogeneous disease. A myeloproliferative syndrome (MPS) was diagnosed 17 times when splenomegaly and/or a greater tha…

Clinical, laboratory and follow-up results in 13 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) collected during the last 10 years in a well defined population of 250,000 inhabitants are presented. The mean observation time was 5.5 years. 77 percent of these patients have been asymptomatic for many years. Characteristic…

AIM: To address the indications, contraindications, surgical procedure, complications following treatment, factors influencing the results and success rate of intentional replantation procedure. BACKGROUND: Intentional replantation is extraction of a tooth to do extraoral root canal therapy, curettage of apical lesion…

Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML) is characterized by promyelocytic leukemia retinoic acid receptor alpha (PML-RARA) fusion gene resulting from at (15;17) translocation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of patients with APML treated with a combination of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) a…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the February 6 earthquake on the bacteria grown in urine cultures and antibiotic resistance of patients admitted to the urology outpatient clinic. METHODS: In this study, 11,397 urine samples requested by the urology outpatient clinic between January 2…

Against the backdrop of rising STI incidence among the heterosexual population, sexually active single people are at particularly high STI transmission risk. Gaining insight into circumstances related to condoms non-use in this population is therefore important for developing effective health interventions.The national…

BACKGROUND: The superiority of autogenous conduits in infrainguinal bypass surgery is well established. At our institution, arm vein is utilized as the last autogenous option for infrainguinal bypass surgery. The aim of this study was to review the long-term outcomes of last autogenous option arm vein bypass. METHODS:…

The efficacy of extended-release felodipine in preventing ergonovine-induced myocardial ischaemia was assessed in 14 patients (12 male, two female, aged 56 +/- 7 years) with Prinzmetal's variant angina. Four of the patients had normal coronary arteries, eight had one-vessel and two had two-vessel disease. The ergonovin…

BACKGROUND: To date, relationships between pre-covering endometrial swab cytology and bacteriology and fertility outcomes in Thoroughbred broodmares in the United Kingdom are unknown and could aid clinical decision making. OBJECTIVES: To investigate associations between cytology and bacteriology findings from the last…

BACKGROUND: Medical decision making has long been in focus, but little is known of the preferences and conditions for elderly people with co-morbidities to participate in medical decision making. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the preferred and the actual degree of control, i.e. the role eld…

BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis (MS) can have psychological and socioeconomic consequences that affect patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as much as physical disability. OBJECTIVE: To determine the clinical and sociodemographic factors affecting HRQoL in a large international study using the MS Internatio…

AIM: To investigate the association between couples' communication before the wife's death to cancer and the widower's feelings of guilt and regret after the loss, in a population-based data. METHODS: Men (n=907) younger than 80 years and living in Sweden, who had lost their wives due to cancer, were asked 4-5 years a…

From a large series of 1009 probands with pathogenic FBN1 mutations, data for 320 patients <18 years of age at the last follow-up evaluation were analyzed (32%). At the time of diagnosis, the median age was 6.5 years. At the last examination, the population was classified as follows: neonatal Marfan syndrome, 14%; seve…

BACKGROUND: Surveillance mammography is recommended annually for early detection of disease relapse among breast cancer survivors; yet Black women have poorer national rates of surveillance mammography compared to White women. Factors that influence racial disparities in surveillance mammography rates are poorly unders…

Improvement and innovation have been ongoing in gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for the last few years, including highly maneuverable endoscopes, high-definition visualization, digital chromoendoscopy, and wide working channels, which allow a correct identification, catheterization, and delimitation of early neoplastic…

When last year's consultative document for the Manual Handling Regulations arrived on her desk Maureen Duffy, like many other OHNs, realised that she had her work cut out. She describes how her company set about achieving compliance with the new legislation.

A method of reducing the risk of recurrence of fistula in ano is described. The technique involves injecting saline solution into the external opening of the tract and identifying the internal opening by the egress of liquid. The procedure has been used in 74 patients over the last two years with a recurrence rate of 1…