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The objectives of this study were to establish standards for growth and to model the evolution of wither height (WH) between birth and adult age in different breeds of sport- and race-horses. Therefore, 398 foals, then yearlings of three different breeds, were measured regularly between birth and 18 months of age. Line…

During the past 22 years, the operability rate has been 62.2% for patients 60 years or older, with cancer of the cardia (319/475). The resectability rate has been 66.2% (211/319). Proximal resection of the stomach with resection of the lower third of the esophagus was performed on 156 patients, and gastrectomy on 65. D…

High-dose myeloablative treatment followed by autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation has significantly improved survival of patients younger than 65 years of age with multiple myeloma as compared with conventional chemotherapy. However, all patients seem to relapse and molecular remissions are rare. Result…

Nonepithelial neoplasms of the esophagus are rare and represent only 1-3% of the treated tumor of the esophagus. Aim of this report is to present our experiences with treatment patients suffering from that kind of neoplasm. During the last 12 years we treated 12 patients: 6 males and 6 females in the age of 23-65 years…

Choanal atresia is uncommon and consists of congenital blockage between the nasal cavity and the nasopharynx. The anomaly presents either immediately after birth as respiratory distress, or as a coincidental finding at an older age. Treatment is usually surgical. The approaches are transnasal, transseptal, transpalatal…

627 cases of gastric cancer treated surgically during the last 5 years, at the Hospital Nacional "Edgardo Rebagliati Martins" from Instituto Peruano de Seguridad Social (Lima-Perú) were revised. 4 of the patients had been operated before of hemigastrectomy or antrectomy with pyloroplasty for peptic ulcer. The time…

A total or near-total gastrectomy was performed in 52 patients over 70 years of age in our hospital from 1975 through 1982. The hospital mortality rate was 9.6 percent. The operation was palliative in nine patients. In these patients, the operation was performed because of an obstructing cancer. At last follow-up, 11 p…

In Swiss laboratories of Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Locarno and Zurich 19'872 prenatal diagnosis were carried out from 1971 to 1983. The frequency of the tests carried out for the different indications and the numbers of the detected anomalies are presented. In 12'485 tests performed because of advanced maternal a…

The authors reports data of pacemaker patients surviving above 10 years. They have considered 241 patients undergone pace-maker first insertion from January 1961 to June 1967 (168 treated with epicardial and 73 with transvenous electrodes). At the last control on July 1977, 52 (27 males and 25 females) were surviving,…

Studies of natural hybrid zones can provide documentation of range shifts in response to climate change and identify loci important to reproductive isolation. Using a temporal (36-38 years) comparison of the black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina (P. carolinensis) chickadee hybrid zone, we investigated…

Interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) are poorly studied in HIV-infected children. The authors prospectively evaluated QuantiFERON-TB Gold results and family-described tuberculosis (TB) risk factors in 100 HIV-infected children in Botswana. Median age was 10.2 years; 58 were girls, 92 had received the Bacillus Calmet…

INTRODUCTION AND AIM: Emergency thoracotomy is performed either immediately at the scene of injury, in the emergency department or in the operating room. It aims to evacuate the pericardial tamponade, control the haemorrhage, to ease the open cardiac massage and to cross-clamp the descending thoracic aorta to redistrib…

BACKGROUND: The ideal time to operate on pectus excavatum (PE) using the Nuss procedure (NP) is between 12 and 18 years of age, because it is more difficult to bend the sternum of older patients and they have more pain and complications. The authors present a prospective study of adult patients with PE operated on by N…

The nationwide DPT vaccine program was started in 1969 for infants under 12 months of age. In order to estimate the tetanus immune status among the general population of various age groups, we measured the serum tetanus antibody level in randomly selected outpatients from Metropolitan Tokyo (n = 211, 6 months-60 years)…

BACKGROUND: To report the natural, longitudinal history of shifts in refractive errors in different age groups in a large western European cohort over at least 5 years in the same patients. METHODS: The electronic database of a large regional clinic containing 225,000 patients was searched for records of patients with…

PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of the consumption of anxiolytic or hypnotic drugs on total mortality in a general population. METHODS: We followed a cohort of 7225 men and 7726 women aged 40-42 years who underwent health surveys in 1985-1989 in two Norwegian counties, with respect to deaths.…

Laboratory confirmation of chlamydial antigen in clinically suspected cases of chlamydial eye infections is important, as similar clinical picture can be presented by different infective or noninfective causes. We retrospectively analyzed the presence ofantigen in 690 clinically suspected patients over the last 8 years…

Surgery for hereditary cardiopathies has made much progress over the last 25 years. For left/right ventricular shunts, mortality is 5% and quality of life is satisfactory in 85% at five years. All interventricular communications with major pulmonary hypertension should be operated during the first year of life. When su…

PURPOSE: The prevalence of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Spain has been evaluated in the last ten years by EPISCAN in 2007 and EPISCAN II in 2017. This study describes changes in the prevalence of COPD in an urban region of Spain in the last 10 years, its risk factors and underdiagnosis. PATIENTS AND…

BACKGROUND: There is little information about the prevalence of asthma in Latin American children. AIM: To determine the prevalence of asthma among Chilean school age children. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The prevalence of respiratory symptoms related to asthma in schoolchildren aged 7 and 13 years, coming from South Santi…