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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe the therapeutic situation of patients who had been followed up for antiretroviral therapy for at least 5 years. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A retrospective and descriptive study reviewed records of the historical cohort of adults infected with HIV in the national and teachin…

A report is given on the results of 668 appendectomies performed because of appendicitis from 1953 to 1974 in patients older than 60 years.-During the last years a considerable relative increase of seniors-appendectomy could be observed.-During the period mentioned perforations came to 27.5% constantly.

BACKGROUND: In this study, we presented two cases of late diagnosed complicated oculoglandular tularemia and reviewed the clinical features of oculoglandular tularemia in cases reported in the last ten years. METHOD: Tularemia was diagnosed when serum microagglutination test (MAT) was ≥ 1/160 titer or when…

Several strategies and alternative therapies have been used to provide analgesia for labour pain. Over the last few years, a number of improvements have enhanced the efficacy and safety of neuraxial analgesia and ultimately have improved mothers' satisfaction with their birth experience. As labour analgesia is a field…

Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is one of the most deadly cancers in humans. Searching a PubMed database, studies published during the last 20 years, 63 publications dealing with treatment of patients were identified. Cohort studies comprised 6,609 patients with the median age 68 years (range 57-77 years). The median s…

BACKGROUND: Dementia is a terminal illness marked by progressive cognitive decline. This study characterized trajectories of functional status and health care use for people with and without dementia at the end of their life. METHODS: We used the Health and Retirement Study linked with Medicare claims to generate a se…

A long-term follow-up report is given on three children with stress-induced bursts of ventricular activity, occasionally proceeding to ventricular fibrillation causing syncope. All patients were treated with a beta-blocking agent as prophylaxis for 12, 10 and 6 years, respectively. Case 1 has no signs of organic heart…

It is commonly thought that the longer the time since last earthquake, the larger the next earthquake's slip will be. But this logical predictor of earthquake size, unsuccessful for large earthquakes on a strike-slip fault, fails also with the giant 1960 Chile earthquake of magnitude 9.5 (ref. 3). Although the time sin…

BACKGROUND: The continuation of preventive drugs among older patients with advanced cancer has come under scrutiny because these drugs are unlikely to achieve their clinical benefit during the patients' remaining lifespan. METHODS: A nationwide cohort study of older adults (those aged ≥65 years) with solid…

PURPOSE: Studies investigating hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) in acromegaly are limited. We aimed to investigate HFI and the association of disease control with frontal bone thickness (FBT) in acromegaly. METHODS: Adult patients with acromegaly were grouped according to the presence of HFI on the baseline MRI: G…

BACKGROUND: The safety of mental health care provided remotely via the internet, in particular, the probability of suicide after contact, is not known. METHOD: An observational cohort study of patients registered with the MindSpot Clinic an Australian national digital mental health service (DMHS), linked to the Nation…

The NOCTET study randomized 282 patients ≥1 year after heart or lung transplantation to continue conventional calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) therapy or to start everolimus with reduced-exposure CNI. Last follow-up, at ≥5 years postrandomization (mean: 5.6 years) was attended by 72/140 everolimus patients (51…

OBJECTIVE: To observe the curative effects of vertebral laminae reconstruction after laminectomy and pedicle screw fixation for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis in early (at the 3rd months after operation) and metaphase (at the more than 1 year after operation). METHODS: Twenty-two patients with lumbar spinal s…

Angular deformity of the knee can be corrected by high tibial osteotomy or distal femoral osteotomy. In this research we have analysed effects of corrective osteotomy in knees with varus or valgus deformity. In this research we present a long-term evaluation of 67 patients older than 40 with angular deformity of the kn…

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore patterns of health expenditure for in-patient care in the last 3 years of life so as to understand how age and time to death contribute to health-care expenditure. METHOD: Records of all deaths occurring in Western Australia from 1997 to 2000 inclusive were extracted from the WA…

Modern pollen surface samples from six lake and marsh sites in the northern California Coast Ranges establish a linear relation between elevation and the oakl(oak + pine) pollen ratio. Modern temperature and precipitation lapse rates were used to convert variations in the pollen ratio into temperature and precipitation…

To evaluate the clinical outcomes of posterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy (PPECD) for cervical disc herniation.A total of 23 patients who underwent PPECD for cervical disc herniation at Department of Spine Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine from August 2014 to April 2016 were re…