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INTRODUCTION: This study investigated the effects of total cholesterol levels on prevalent, and incident suicidal behaviors according to age group (<60 vs. &#x2265;60&#x2009;years) in depressed patients. METHODS: Consecutive outpatients with depressive disorders who visited the Chonnam National University Hospital bet…

It is now half a decade since the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) launched. Applicable nationally, this proficiencies framework dictates specific elements of nursing praxis that all pre-registrants must achieve in order to qualify as registered nurses, before going on to gain employment in either the NHS or adjacen…

The last 30 years has seen a gradual change in the management of otosclerosis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the current practice among British otolaryngology consultants using a questionnaire, and to compare it with the practice reported in a survey 8 years ago. A total of 353 valid responses (64.5%) were avail…

Chordee with or without hypospadias is usually managed successfully in a fairly straightforward manner. However, on occasion there are patients with severe chordee that cannot be corrected with the standard techniques. In this setting tunica vaginalis grafts, dermal grafts and Nesbit plication techniques have been used…

The article substantiates the urgency of the problem and shows the results of surgical treatment of coarctation of the aorta in 103 patients who were operated on in the recent 5 years. The operation of choice was resection of the coarctation with the formation of an end-to-end anastomosis (90.3% of operations). Establi…

The most common identified causes of hearing impairment in children are described based on the analysis of 1024 cases observed for a period of 4.5 years (1985-1989) at the ENT Department of the University of Lisbon. The values of mean ages of suspicion and diagnosis are indirectly used to assess the performance of the…

In the last few decades kidney transplants have shown an increasing survival rate of about 85% after one year. The growing demand for transplants is limited by the insufficient availability of kidneys and the living donor represents a possible means of reducing the discrepancy between supply and demand. We report here…

Patients with intermittent claudication were treated with six months intensive physical training. They were instructed to walk with a speed of 6 km/h until they got complaints and then to rest for some time. This sequence was repeated until men below 65 years had walked 2 km. Men above the age of 65 years and women had…

The case of a 49-year-old man with traumatic complete T-5 paraplegia of 30 years' duration is presented. Over the last 10 years, he developed cervical myelopathy suggestive of syringomyelia. Work-up, including metrizamide myelography and delayed computerized tomography scanning, revealed an atrophic cord without a syri…

One of the major unresolved questions in Pleistocene paleoclimatology has been whether continental climatic transitions are consistent with the glacial delta(18)O marine record. Searles Lake in California, now a dry salt pan, is underlain by sediment layers deposited in a succession of lakes whose levels and salinities…

Within the past five years we have performed excision of one quadrant of the ciliary body (pars plicata) (e.c.b.) in 22 eyes with secondary narrow-angle glaucoma. Prior to e.c.b. numerous surgical procedures for glaucoma had been attempted. Sixteen of the eyes were aphakic, six phakic. In nine eyes secondary angle clos…

BACKGROUND: Although bystanders' performance is important to improve outcomes of patients after cardiac arrests, few studies have investigated the barriers of bystanders, including those who could not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or any other rescue actions in emergency situations. This study aimed to assess t…

BACKGROUND: With the development of imaging techniques in diagnostics of head and neck carcinomas, especially computed tomography and ultrasonogaphy, one might expect that the incidence of occult metastases would be reduced. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of occult metastases in a large population coho…

Over last decade problem of infectious diseases in Poland remains stable with trends of decreasing incidence of most reported infectious diseases. In particular there was observed decrease in incidence of tuberculosis and foodborne infections causes by Salmonella sp. On the other hand it was observed increase of report…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To characterize local control and late toxicity in long-term survivors prospectively-treated with spine stereotactic radiosurgery (SSRS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 2002 to 2011, 228 patients were prospectively-treated on protocol for metastatic disease of 261 vertebral sites. A subset of 52 p…

PURPOSE: To determine exemplarily the amount of DNA damage and the repair kinetics after interventional radiologic procedures by using visualization of foci of the phosphorylated form of the H2AX histone variant (gammaH2AX) to quantify DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of th…

INTRODUCTION: Endogenous hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia (EHH) is characterized by inappropriate insulin secretion from pancreatic beta cells despite low blood glucose concentrations. We aimed to evaluate the secular changes in presentation and management of EHH due to insulinoma/non-insulinoma pancreatogenous hypoglyc…

PURPOSE: This study aimed to evaluate the mid-term radiological and clinical results of gradual lengthening of capitate for the treatment of stage IIIA Kienbock's disease. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed nine patients (five females, four males) with Lichtman stage IIIA Kienbock's disease who underwent gradual cap…

Background Ductus arteriosus is a vascular structure which connects the roof of main pulmonary artery near the origin of the left branch pulmonary artery to the proximal descending aorta. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure is indicated for any patient who is symptomatic from left to right shunting. Objective To inv…

OBJECTIVE: Non-surgical management of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) has been increasing over the last decade. This study examines inpatient children with pulmonary exacerbation of CF who were also diagnosed with CRS and underwent endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). STUDY DESIGN: We use…