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INTRODUCTION: There is limited data on medium to long-term outcome, and the morbidity and mortality associated with the implantation, of pulmonary arterial stents. PURPOSE: To assess changes in morbidity and mortality over the last two decades. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of all patients stented between September…

A clinicopathologic analysis of 6 patients with ovarian neoplasms resembling sex cord tumors with annular tubules (SCTAT) was performed. The patients' ages ranged from 20 to 43 years. Most had signs and symptoms of estrogenic hormonal imbalance; none had evidence of the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. The tumors were unilatera…

STUDY DESIGN: The following study was a prospective radiographic and retrospective clinical data assessment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients who had undergone a key-vertebral screws strategy (KVSS) at a single institution, with a minimum of 2 years' follow-up. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to i…

Through much of the Proterozoic Eon (2.5-0.54 billion years ago, Ga), oceans were dominantly anoxic. It is often assumed that this put a brake on early eukaryote diversification because eukaryotes lived only in oxygenated habitats, which were restricted to surface waters and benthic environments near cyanobacterial mat…

Fifty femoral shaft fractures were treated with reamed, interlocking, intramedullary nails utilizing a greater trochanteric starting point from 1991 through 1998. The 17 girls and 31 boys ranged in age from 10 to 16 years (mean, 13.2 years) at the time of injury. Average follow-up after fracture was 16 months. All frac…

OBJECTIVES: This study examined condom failure rates in a representative sample of French men and women. METHODS: Condom users who experienced breakage or slippage were compared with those who reported no difficulties. RESULTS: The rate of breakage at last heterosexual intercourse was 3.4%, and the slippage rate was…

Several groups have reported technical complications and poor graft survival rates in kidney transplants from pediatric donors to adult recipients. Increased incidences of acute rejections, vascular thrombosis, and early glomerulosclerotic lesions have led many groups to abandon this graft combination. Over the last 4…

In a retrospective study, 60 shoulders in 38 adults with deltoid contracture were surgically treated by proximal or distal releases. Twenty-three patients, representing 34 treated shoulders, were followed up for at least 2 years (median was 4 years). By the last follow-up, all patients achieved satisfactory outcomes: f…

A wide disparity between parturition and the resumption of sexual behavior in two captive female western lowland gorillas prompted an investigation of interbirth intervals (IBIs) in captive western lowland gorillas that had reared their infants. To determine reproductive intervals, a questionnaire was sent to 30 instit…

In the operative therapy of gonarthrosis the supratubercular osteotomy of tibia head has a solid position. In the present work the results of subtractive and additive intraligamentous correction osteotomy with following fixation in plaster dressing on the orthopaedic clinic of the district hospital Aue will be explaine…

BACKGROUND: The use of lopinavir/ritonavir once-daily (LPV/r QD) has not been approved for children. Good short-term clinical, virologic and immunologic outcomes have been observed in children on LPV/r QD. METHODS: We evaluated the long-term effectiveness of a LPV/r QD containing regimen in HIV-1-infected children in…

UNLABELLED: Radioactive iodine is a widely used treatment for hyperthyroidism caused by solitary autonomously functioning thyroid nodule (toxic adenoma). The aim of this retrospective analysis is to report the long term effects of this therapy on the thyroid function of patients with toxic adenoma treated in our depart…

BACKGROUND: Patient death continues to be a leading cause of renal transplant failure. This mortality is mainly due to cardiovascular, infectious and tumoural diseases. The aim of our study was to analyse the evolution of the mortality and its causes after renal transplantation (RT). METHODS: We studied 3365 adult ren…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcomes of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were treated with natalizumab in Kuwait. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study using the MS registry to identify patients who were treated with natalizumab was conducted. Patients' demographics, clinical characteristics and treatme…

Mosasauroid squamates represented the apex predators within the Late Cretaceous marine and occasionally also freshwater ecosystems. Proper understanding of the origin of their ecological adaptations or paleobiogeographic dispersals requires adequate knowledge of their phylogeny. The studies assessing the position of mo…

BACKGROUND: Our aim is analyze the epidemiological factors of enteric fever in Madrid (Spain) over the last 30 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective review was conducted on cases of typhoid and paratyphoid fever studied in the Fundación Jiménez Díaz (Madrid) between 1980 and 2010. Two similar per…

SUMMARY: Obesity levels are rising rapidly in United States of America however, less is known about the obesity trends regarding the specific ethnicities prevalent in Hawai'i, which may inform efforts to eliminate disparities.: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this report is to analyze the body mass index (BMI) trends of the…

BACKGROUND: Cystosarcoma phylloides (CP) is an extremely rare form of breast cancer with an unpredictable clinical course. The histological characteristics of this neoplasm have not proved to offer much in the estimation of prognosis of these patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In our clinics, in a time period of 38 years…

Hypocalcemia due to hypoparathyroidism (HPT) is a late complication of iron-overloaded patients with b-thalassaemia major (TM). The majority of patients have mild disease with parasthesias, while in the more severe form tetany, seizures or cardiac failure may occur. In the last 20 years we observed heart failure in 2 o…

Since 1984 several prospective randomized clinical trials have been reported that the disease-free survival for BMT in first remission was superior to chemotherapy for AML. However, there raise two main controversies about these conclusions. First, in last several years intensive consolidation therapy was applied and n…