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Roentgenographic visualization of a calculus in the distal ureter is often made difficult by gas or bowel contents in the region of the pelvis. Filling the bladder with sterile water raises the bladder dome and displaces the bowel upward. Any calculus in the lower 4 to 5 cm. of the distal ureter is then clearly demonst…

Stopping treatment for osteoporosis with denosumab (Dmab) leads to a major and rapid loss in bone mineral density (BMD) and a risk of vertebral fracture. Subsequent treatment with bisphosphonate (Bp) does not completely prevent this bone loss. We carried out a prospective pilot study to find out whether the gradual dos…

INTRODUCTION: Hereditary optic neuropathies (HON) often begin in adulthood. However, some of them can have an early onset. These may have specific clinical features and natural histories. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study of HON patients with onset before the age of 14 years seen in a referral center. In addit…

Aim of the study was the comparison of quality of life after multiple injury using limitations of handicaps--social roles, ICIDH (World Health Organization). The study group comprised 1259 patients in the years 1989-2003 whose degree of injuries amounted to at least 18 scores in the Injury Severity Scores. Patients wer…

ObjectiveTo evaluate the real-world safety, efficacy, and steroid-sparing effects of anifrolumab in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) treated at a tertiary referral center in Denmark.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective observational study of all SLE/discoid lupus patients who received at least one infusi…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the outcomes and safety of traditional growing rod (TGR) in the treatment of early-onset dystrophic scoliosis secondary to type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1-EOS) with intraspinal rib head dislocation (IRH) in children. METHODS: From September 2006 to June 2020, 21 pati…

Patients with early estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer are at continuous risk of relapse even after more than 10 years of follow up. Currently, no biomarker that identifies patients for earlylate recurrence, or one that selects patients or tumors for longershorter durations of endocrine therapy (ET) is available…

The clinical and radiographic results of primary cemented total hip arthroplasty performed by a single surgeon, with particular emphasis on the performance of acetabular components implanted with so-called second-generation cement techniques, were studied. Seventy hips with 48 metal-backed and 22 polyethylene acetabula…

The aim of the study is to analyze the clinician's alliance with parents during the diagnostic process in relation to therapeutic compliance and clinical evolution of individuals aged 0-11 years. The sample was formed by 84 individuals aged 0 to 11 years (18 < 6 years, 66 aged 6 to 11 years; 62 males and 22 females) wh…

Macaques crack shellfish in coastal environments with specialized stone-hammering techniques. I provide the first examination of skill development from 866 object-manipulation and 7,400 tool-use bouts, collected over 15 months, using longitudinal analyses of infants' object manipulation (N = 7) and cross-sectional comp…

The diagnosis and management of secondary hypertension has improved in the last decade as a result of the advances in the acknowledgment of some physiopathologic mechanisms and mainly by the development of new diagnostic methods. Furthermore, the treatment of some types of secondary hypertension may be solved by noninv…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Suture Canalization, which is a kind of Schlemm canal surgery, on the treatment of patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). METHODS: Retrospective cases series study. Fifty-two patients (52 eyes) with POAG were recruited from October 2007 to July 2009…

OBJECTIVE: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an established adjunctive therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). However, evidence regarding its efficacy in children with structural and nonstructural etiologies of epilepsy remains limited. Herein, the authors aimed to explore the effectiveness of VNS in patients with e…

OBJECTIVE: To validate the (13)C-urea-breath-test (UBT) and stool antigen test (HpSA) in children aged 5 years or younger, against invasive histologic study and rapid-urease-testing or culture. STUDY DESIGN: On all consecutive children aged 5 years or younger undergoing endoscopy in 1 single center during the last 7.5…

Newer publications about psychiatric in-patient suicide discuss the so-called "increase hypothesis" of suicide of mentally ill in-patients controversially. In our study of in-patient suicides of the Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth, a state mental hospital for adult psychiatry, the number of suicides and suicide rate over 2…

A rare case of an extrathoracic giant hematoma developing after a thoracoplasty in a 67 year old man is presented herein. The patient underwent a right thoracoplasty without removal of plombage and a left thoracoplasty with removal of plombage for tuberculosis of the bilateral upper lobes 27 and 24 years prior to prese…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: A series of 13 patients with an excentered osteoarthritis of the glenoid who underwent bipolar shoulder arthroplasty is reported. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The series included 13 patients treated in two centers between 1995 and 1998. Mean age was 70 years (58-88). Constant's absolute score and Swanso…

This study aims to provide a bibliometric overview of research at nursing informatics and understand the state in nursing informatics in the last ten years. We used the Web of Science to extract relevant literature published from 2009 to 2018. A total of 455 articles were retrieved and analyzed. The total of the top 5…

"Patient Specific" technology introduced in last 5&#xa0;years, slowly gained popularity but has currently plateaued. We have a number of studies on patient specific instruments where they have been compared with conventional jigs in total knee arthroplasty and reported to have no clear additional benefits. This review…

The present paper reviews the current approaches used to study cell proliferative activity. In the last years, a number of proteins involved in cell cycle control were discovered, that may serve as selective markers of proliferating cells. This work gives the characteristics of immunocytochemical methods demonstrating…