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Over the last 20 years, 170 patients have been operated on for infrarenal aortic aneurysm. Ninety-six were operated on electively. Seventy-four underwent emergency surgery, of whom 62 had a ruptured aneurysm. In elective surgery mortality was low, falling in recent years from 10.5 to 2.7%, due to systematic postoperati…

A review of publications over the last ten years of methods in the field of physical anthropology for determining age, sex, race and stature of human skeletal material is presented. Comparisons are made with the types of papers published in the previous ten years (1958-1968) in six categories: (1) Visual examination of…

This report describes the pooling of 5 longitudinal studies conducted during the last 20 years in West Germany. The pooling provides the following improvements: By increasing the number of participants the reliability and precision of the results are improved. The sample becomes representative of the whole area of the…

BACKGROUND: Many previous studies have reported that COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness decreased over time and declined with newly emerging variants. However, there are few such studies in Japan. Using data from a community-based retrospective study, we aimed to assess the association between vaccination status and severe…

Between January 1970 and December 1990, 223 patients underwent pancreaticoduodenal resection for pancreatic or periampullary tumors. Forty-four of these patients were 70 years of age or older and 179 patients were less than 70 years of age. In the older group, 27 patients were operated upon after 1986. The overall oper…

A positive perception of motor skills is important for physical activity participation. The aim was to investigate which modifiable factors predict children's perceived motor skills. Mothers completed questionnaires when their child was 3.5 and 5 years old. At 5 years old, the children's perceived motor competence (PMC…

BACKGROUND: Changes in China's health care system in the last three decades was remarkable. The current study aims on examine the change of equality of health care utilization in mainland China based on a nationwide household interview survey. METHODS: We used household interview data extracted from six waves of Natio…

A population study of drug consumption among people born in 1902 was performed in Umeå, Sweden. The cohort was followed between 79 and 88 years of age. The number of persons in the study varied between 124 and 72. Mean consumption increased from 2.5 to 5.2 drugs per man and from 3.3 to 5.3 per woman. The main corr…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Following cardiac injury, the heart has limited ability to regenerate leading to decreased efficiency and function. Cardiac reprogramming offers a promising treatment to ameliorate the damage caused by ischemia through conversion of cardiac fibroblasts to induced cardiomyocytes (iCMs). Here, we aim t…

There has been an almost exponential increase in the use of molecular dynamics simulations in basic research and industry over the last 5 years, with almost a doubling in the number of publications each year. Many of these are focused on neurological membranes, and biological membranes in general, applied to the medica…

Postpartum hemorrhage is a life-threatening situation, in which hysterectomy can be performed to prevent maternal death. However, it is associated with high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality and permanent infertility. The incidence of pregnancy-related hysterectomy varies across countries, but its main indicati…

Ganglioneuroma is a rare tumor. Such tumor arising from cranial nerve is further rare. So far our knowledge, in the literature there is no report of ganglioneuroma involving glossopharyngeal nerve. Here, we report a case of very small glossopharyngeal nerve ganglioneuroma and the patient also had longstanding glossopha…

Resveratrol, a natural polyphenolic stilbenoid widely found in grapes and wines, displays beneficial properties such as cardio-protective, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. Trans-resveratrol (RSV) is the most bioactive and more abundant stereoisomer found in nature. Despite the positive properties of RSV, t…

A year-end wrap-up of new drug approvals and launches reveals that activity in the pharmaceutical industry continues at a high level, with 55 new drugs and biologics introduced on their first markets in 2014 (as of December 23, 2014). Additionally, 29 important new line extensions (new formulations, new combinations or…

BACKGROUND: The number of citations an article receives reflects its scientific impact. The introduction of internet-based resources to search and access articles has made it possible to review even whole scientific areas. This study identifies the top 50 most-cited articles over the last 25 years in specialty journals…

Authorship characteristics of publications appeared in the 1967-1977-1987-1997 volumes of the Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly) were analysed and compared with corresponding data in the international medical literature. Following results were achieved: 1. The total number of medical publications gradually decreased altho…

A revision of the treatment of the juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) is made, Salicylates, still in use, require control of the salicylate level in order to obtain a higher efficiency and to prevent toxicity. New drugs appeared in the last years (by-products of propionic acid, tolmetin acid, fenclofenic...), are useful…

BACKGROUND: Assisted living (AL) is an increasingly common, place of care for dying persons. However, it remains unclear to what extent residents are able to age in place or if AL represents an additional transition before death. OBJECTIVES: Examine the sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, health care util…

INTRODUCTION: Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (SCNC) of the larynx is a rare tumor entity with a 5-year overall survival (OS) of only 5 % after treatment with chemoradiotherapy. METHODS: A systematic review of the literature was performed for "SCNC" and "SCNC in head and neck". Our hospital's own electronic…

BACKGROUND: The use of actigraphy in pediatric sleep research has increased over the past decade, yet few guidelines exist to help investigators with scoring and interpretation. The primary aim of this study was to compare two commonly reported non-automated rules for scoring sleep-onset and sleep-offset. METHODS: For…