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Pleural effusions are an extremely common problem affecting approximately 1.5 million people in the United States each year. Over the last several years, the use of portable ultrasound machines has greatly enhanced the evaluation and management of patients with pleural disease. This article will review the relevant lit…

Sera of 500 female blood donors after pregnancy were tested for platelet-specific antibodies (HPA-1, 3, 5) using the MAIPA assay. Twenty-one sera (4.2%) were found to be positive: four anti-HPA-1a, one anti-HPA-5a and 16 anti-HPA-5b. Sera were positive up to 30 years after the last pregnancy. All women with antibodies…

The indications for transformation surgery for transsexuals cannot be defined at one single examination; they gradually become apparent over a period of long-term care lasting a minimum of 1.5 years, beginning with the first contact with the therapist and ending with surgery. Patients who have been well prepared for th…

A 14-year-old boy was seen on August 17, 1962, with a vesicular eruption of five days' duration. The vesicles were about 0.5 cm. in diameter, loculated, mainly distributed centrifugally, and all were at the same stage of development. On August 8, he left his residence in a rural area of southern Brazil where alastrim i…

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of asthma and rhinitis is high in childhood and has been increasing in the last few years. In both diseases underdiagnosis is frequent. OBJECTIVE: To asses the prevalence of asthma and rhinitis symptoms in childhood. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study using a writt…

Unilateral paralysis of the diaphragm due to nonmalignant disease is an uncommon disorder previously thought to have benign implications. Some patients, however, experience dyspnea and orthopnea with impairment of pulmonary function. Unilateral diaphragmatic plication was performed on 17 patients (16 men and 1 woman wi…

The demographic characteristics of the veterinary profession in New Zealand are examined using information supplied by registered veterinarians to the Veterinary Surgeons Board in their applications for annual practising certificates in 1985. Comparisons are made with the veterinary professions in other similar countri…

Thirty girls, studied in 1961 after 2.5 years of intensive swimtraining, were the subject of a follow-up for ten years. When last examined, seven and ten years after the original study, all the girls had given up swimtraining. The increased values for vital capacity observed in 1961 remained unchanged, but residual vol…

The conditions of the surgical care for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and in particular patients with chronic cavernous tuberculosis were investigated in some regions of West Siberia. In the last 5 years the activity of the surgical care and the proportion of the operated persons among the contingents of the pat…

The Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND) is a major source of curated biomolecular interactions, which has been unmaintained for the last few years, a trend which will eventually result in the loss of a significant amount of unique biomolecular interaction information, mostly as database identifiers become…

Primary extrauterine choriocarcinoma is very rare, found mostly in the genital tract (tube, cervix, ovary, vagina). Other sites such as lungs, gastrointestinal tract, heart, brain and submentum also have been reported. A 31-year-old woman presented with abnormal uterine bleeding 6 weeks after her last menstrual cycle.…

BACKGROUND: In recent years, the resurgence of pertussis has posed a public health challenge in many countries. This study aimed to evaluate the immunity levels against pertussis among populations of different ages in China. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional serological survey in Zhejiang Province, China in 2020…

BACKGROUND: Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy (DCM) is the leading cause of spinal cord dysfunction globally. Surgical intervention is often recommended for moderate to severe cases, but the optimal surgical approach remains debated. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to validate the novel Cervical Surgical Score (CSS) for man…

BACKGROUND: The longevity of face-lift surgery is a key question that has not been adequately addressed by previous studies. No study has used standardized photographs, objective measurements, or validated subjective scoring systems. METHODS: From 2001 to 2011, photographs were standardized in this institution. Fifty…

BACKGROUND: Assessment of the quality of housing is crucial since it is linked to both communicable and noncommunicable diseases, and housing has a number of implications for the people who live in it. OBJECTIVE: To find the association between housing quality and communicable and noncommunicable diseases. METHODS: A…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze mortality rates and hospitalization data after radical cystectomy in each public healthcare center in São Paulo in the last decade, considering the number of surgeries performed at each center. METHODS: This study included patients from the Departamento de Informática do Sistema Ún…

A urinary trichloroacetic acid (TCA) concentration of 100 mg/l at the end of the last work shift (8 h/day, 5 days/week) of the week has been established in workers as exposure equivalent for the carcinogenic substance trichloroethene (EKA for TRI) at an exposure concentration of 50 ppm TRI. Due to t…

OBJECTIVE: There have been numerous follow-up studies of patients who had ruptured or unruptured intracranial aneurysms treated by wrapping technique using various materials have been reported. Our objective was to ascertain whether our particular wrapping technique using the temporalis muscle provides protection from…

Forty-six consecutive polyethylene cups used in cemented first-time revision of the acetabulum were evaluated at repeated occasions up to mean 10.7 years (range, 0.5-16.3 years). At the last follow-up, 3 cups had been revised (6.5%), 2 because of loosening and 1 because of fracture of the acetabulum. Furthermore, 4 wer…

INTRODUCTION: Pain is the main reason why patients consult for degenerative and posttraumatic wrist conditions. While the many surgical techniques make choosing the appropriate procedure difficult, total wrist denervation, which has an "analgesic" aim, remains an accessible therapeutic solution to treat this symptomato…