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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…

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: Atrial tachyarrhythmias are a leading source of morbidity and mortality after Fontan-type procedures and antiarrhythmic drug therapy is often ineffective in these patients. AIM: To evaluate short- and long-term outcomes of radiofrequency current ablation for atrial tachycardia (AT) in patients after the Fo…

BRAF-mutant melanoma patients can theoretically access both immunotherapy and BRAF-targeted therapy as treatment for metastatic disease. BRAF-targeted therapy is increasingly used 1st line for poorer prognostic patients, so we wanted to assess realistic expectations of these patients accessing 2nd-line immunotherapy. W…

BACKGROUND: With the development of imaging techniques in diagnostics of head and neck carcinomas, especially computed tomography and ultrasonogaphy, one might expect that the incidence of occult metastases would be reduced. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of occult metastases in a large population coho…

Over last decade problem of infectious diseases in Poland remains stable with trends of decreasing incidence of most reported infectious diseases. In particular there was observed decrease in incidence of tuberculosis and foodborne infections causes by Salmonella sp. On the other hand it was observed increase of report…

OBJECTIVE: To study the association between non-fasting serum triglyceride concentrations and mortality in women from coronary and cardiovascular disease and all causes. DESIGN: Follow up by ambulatory teams of men and women who underwent cardiovascular screening for a mean of 14.6 years. SETTING: National health scr…

This study is aimed at describing the patterns and trends of burns among children in the past 25 years in Albania, a transitional post-communist country in the Western Balkans. It included all burned children admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the University Hospital Center "Mother Teresa" of Tirana in the past 5 y…

BACKGROUND: Gastric banding is one of the simplest surgical procedures for the treatment of morbid obesity. We performed more than 150 'laparotomy' (open) gastric bandings and more than 50 'laparoscopic' bandings in the last 1 0 years. METHODS: In most procedures we used non-adjustable bands, but since the beginning of…

PURPOSE: To determine exemplarily the amount of DNA damage and the repair kinetics after interventional radiologic procedures by using visualization of foci of the phosphorylated form of the H2AX histone variant (gammaH2AX) to quantify DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) at percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of th…

Background and Purpose- Amidst legalization of therapeutic and recreational use of marijuana/cannabis in the United States, cerebrovascular effects of marijuana use remain largely unknown, especially among young adults. We aimed to examine the association between marijuana use (18-44 years) among young adults and strok…

The growth of 184 children with Type 1 diabetes was analysed using data collected prospectively in the Oxford district between 1969 and 1992. The overall mean height standard deviation score (Ht SDS +/- SD) at diagnosis was 0.35 +/- 1.05 which was significantly greater than the national standard of Tanner (1966). Howev…