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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…

With the increase in lifespan, presbyacusis is a common situation. It starts with the difficulty of understanding in noisy conditions and may extend to withdrawal of social activity because we do not face the unintelligibility during diners and meetings. But, with difficulty, the hearing impaired confesses his deafness…

UNLABELLED: It has been suggested that the incidence of childhood empyema have increased during the last years in France without clear explanation. Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for the vast majority of bacteriological documented cases. Potential prevention of pleural empyemas by the heptavalent pneumococcal…

CMV disease (CMVD) is a recognized problem of the early post-transplant period (PTP) in renal transplant recipients. Information on CMVD in the late (> or = 2 years) PTP is scarce. We have observed 5 cases of CMVD during late (3-8 years) PTP during the last 15 years. Three of these patients died from CMVD. One of the p…

Treatment of malignant diseases in children has become more an more aggressive during the last 15-20 years. In order to detect unwanted side-effects on the lung we investigated several parameters of lung function in 78 children with different malignancies. 1.5-15 years after termination of therapy, 43 patients (55.1%)…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ab-interno canaloplasty combined with microstent implantation in patients with severe glaucoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included patients with severe glaucoma (mean age 74.6±8.7 years), predominantly primary open-angle (90%). All eyes underwen…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the method and effect of small incision TightRope fixation in the treatment of fresh acromioclavicular joint dislocation. METHODS: From January 2016 to May 2018, 28 cases of fresh acromioclavicular dislocation were treated, including 20 males and 8 females, aged 26 to 87 years with an average age…

INTRODUCTION: Drug traffickers are increasingly making use of the human body for illegal drug transport. Three ways of intracorporeal drug transport are practiced, namely "body packing", "body stuffing" and "body pushing". Since police and border guards cannot accurately detect intracorporeal drug transport, authoritie…

INTRODUCTION: Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor presenting in the eyes of infants and children, which endangers life, the eye and vision. The treatment of RB has undergone marked changes in recent years, and great progress has been made in our ability to preserve eyes. Over the last three decades most Israeli pa…

BACKGROUND: Aging and increasing comorbidity is changing the end-of-life experience of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the developed world. We quantified, at a population level, the receipt of health care services and associated costs across a comprehensive set of sectors among decedents with and without HIV. METHOD…

Cystinuria is a genetic cause of recurrent kidney stones which may be more recurrent and larger than more common non-cystine stones. They may have a greater impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We measured this impact by surveying HRQoL in patients with stones, comparing non-cystine stone formers (NCSF) to…

BACKGROUND: As palliative care research continues to expand across Europe, and the world, questions exist about the nature and type of research undertaken in addition to the research priorities for the future. This systematic review, which is the first stage of a larger scale study to identify the research priorities f…

The Last Glacial Maximum (19-23 thousand years ago) was characterized by low greenhouse gas concentrations and continental ice sheets that covered large parts of North America and Europe. Glacial climate was therefore very different, with colder global mean temperatures and an increased Equator-to-pole temperatu…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe end-of-life (EOL) care in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) who died of cancer compared with mentally healthy individuals. METHODS: This was a nationwide cohort study of all adult individuals who died of cancer in hospitals in France between 2013 and 2016. Outcomes were com…

The Middle East and North Africa regions, including Lebanon, have recently witnessed rapid urbanization and modernization over the last couple of decades that has led to a dramatic transformation affecting lifestyle and diet. The World Health Organization reports that the leading cause of death in Lebanon is due to car…

The last interglacial (LIG; ~130 to ~118 thousand years ago, ka) was the last time global sea level rose well above the present level. Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) contributions were insufficient to explain the highstand, so that substantial Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) reduction is implied. However, the nature and drivers…

PURPOSE: We report our technique of laparoscopic radical cystectomy in nine patients. Diversion was achieved by a modified Camey II orthotopic neobladder (the Y bladder) performed by a minilaparotomy in three cases and laparoscopically in the last six cases. PATIENTS AND METHODS: There were eight men with muscle-invas…

PURPOSE: The study aims to evaluate visual outcome, central corneal thickness, and rebubbling rate in a cohort with oversized DMEK grafts after failed penetrating keratoplasty (PK). The unique feature of the study is a descemetorhexis diameter larger than the full-thickness graft, i.e., peripheral to the PK interface.…

We used 5704 14C, 10Be, and 3He ages that span the interval from 10,000 to 50,000 years ago (10 to 50 ka) to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in terms of global ice-sheet and mountain-glacier extent. Growth of the ice sheets to their maximum positions occurred between 33.0 and 26.5 ka in response…

Operative correction of symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux (GER) was undertaken in 530 children during a 21-year period. Gastroesophageal fundoplication (GEF) alone was performed in 415 children; 83 had simultaneous GEF and pyloroplasty; 13 had pyloroplasty alone; and 19 had GEF with later pyloroplasty. Of the last 35…