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The study dealt with a representative sample of the epileptic population in southwestern Finland, followed up prospectively for 23-39 years. At the end of the follow-up period, 55.5% of the original sample, i.e. 63.2% of the subjects who participated in the last follow-up evaluation, or 76.4% of those who were alive at…

Sixty patients underwent proctocolectomy and received a continent ileostomy because of ulcerative colitis (50 cases) familial polyposis (7) or Crohn's disease (3), with no deaths at surgery or during follow-up (mean 4.5 years, range 3 months-10 years). Early complications were few and insignificant. Late complications…

During the last 25 years, owing to the improvement of the diagnostic means, the cases of "Raynaud's phenomenon" with well known etiology have been increasing and according to some authors they should be considered clearly prevailing. Through a right prevention and a medical and surgical therapy it is possible to obtain…

The authors, want to demonstrate the operation of abdominal perianal rectum amputation, and it is considered absolute, even 80 years, in the treatment of the anal neoplasia, it is superseded by alternative methods represented by protocols radio-chemo-therapeutic associated or less to the surgery treatment. They make th…

BACKGROUND: The incidence by age and causative organism of bacterial meningitis are not known on a community basis. METHODS: The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in a metropolitan county was studied by identifying all cases admitted to a hospital from 1983 through 1987. RESULTS: The overall incidence of bacterial…

Various studies report a 0-22% per decade decline in circulatory function (VO2max) with advancing age. Twelve exercising men (E) were followed for 28 years, mean age 43 and 71 years, initial to final measurement, while 12 dropouts (C) detrained for 21 years, with a mean age from first to last measurement of 48 and 69 y…

In the last 20 years total ankle replacement has become a viable alternative to arthrodesis for end-stage osteoarthritis of the ankle. Numerous ankle prosthesis designs have appeared on the market in the past and attracted by the encouraging intermediate results reported in the literature, many surgeons have start…

The relationship between female hormone use and primary liver cancer was analysed using data from a case-control study conducted between 1984 and 1992 in Milan on 82 female incident cases with histologically or serologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma and 368 controls admitted to hospital for acute non-neoplast…

It was in the 1800s when the first public publications about the infection and treatment of gonorrhoea were released. However, the first prevention programmes were only published a hundred years later. In the 1940s, the concept of vaccination was introduced into clinical prevention programmes to address early sulphonam…

Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV; genus) is an economically important virus. Approximately 101 ACLSV whole-genome sequences were obtained from NCBI and used to explore the evolutionary dynamics of ACLSV. The time to the most recent common ancestor of ACLSV based on BEAST analysis appeared on an apple host from Ca…

INTRODUCTION: A new Italian law aiming at improving and supporting research productivity establishes that evaluation of academic products is a requisite for accessing research funds,for acting as examiner for recruitments and for individual financial benefits. AIM: To analyse the scientific products of full professors…

OBJECTIVE: Determining the optimal osteotomy length for patients with unilateral Crowe-IV developmental dysplasia of the hip undergoing subtrochanteric osteotomy remains challenging due to the significant variability in pelvic and spinal alignment. Incorrect osteotomy length, compounded by pelvic or spinal tilt, can ad…

The present study assessed muscular atrophy and weakness of the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) and profundus (FDP) muscle as possible long-term side effects of botulinum toxin (BoNT) injections in hand dystonia patients after the termination of their treatment. For the assessment of both parameters, a group of 12…

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…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical features of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) through patient registry in Yangtze River Delta area of China. METHODS: A total of 502 consecutive patients diagnosed with aquaporin-4 antibody (AQP4-ab)-positive NMOSD were registered between December 2018 to January 2021 i…

From 1981 to 1989, 38 cemented, posterior, stabilized, revision, total knee arthroplasties (TKAs) were performed at the authors' institution using the stemmed kinematic stabilizer prosthesis of a single design. The mean clinical follow-up after the index procedure was 10.1 years. The Knee Society pain score averaged 17…

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…

OBJECTIVE: Investigate the changes in the characteristics of presentation, in patients with acromegaly over a period of approximately half a century. METHODS: The medical records of patients diagnosed with acromegaly between 1980 and 2023 were retrospectively reviewed. The collected data were examined to assess any ch…

BACKGROUND: Seasonal influenza (SI) is an acute respiratory illness that exerts a severe impact on human life year-round. Yet, very few studies have been conducted to investigate its peak timing for different age groups. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the average peak calendar time and intensity for the incidence of SI for di…