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PURPOSE: To report 10-year clinical outcomes of tube shunt (TS) surgery at a tertiary care center. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. METHODS: Eyes were included that underwent a first TS surgery between January 2005 and December 2011 at a tertiary referral eye hospital and with at least 10 years of follow-up. Demog…

PURPOSE: Endoscope-assisted transsphenoidal surgery over the last few years has led to more radical excision of pituitary adenomas (PAs) with a low complication rate. Systematic registration of complications by experienced surgical teams could help to improve this technique while ameliorating the patients' quality of l…

BACKGROUND: The indication of Fontan conversion (FC) from atriopulmonary connection (APC) to total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) is unclear. We sought to analyze the mid-term outcome of prophylactic and therapeutic Fontan conversion compared with that of primary TCPC. METHODS: Patients with a univentricular heart wh…

Blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensives has improved; however, it still remains to be insufficient. We have investigated the trend in BP control status of the hypertensive patients followed for 10 years in hypertension clinic. Subjects included 133 patients who have been followed from the first visit during 1998-2…

BACKGROUND: Patients with advanced colorectal cancer have a poor prognosis once standard therapies fail. This retrospective study presents the characteristics and outcomes in 144 patients treated in phase I clinical trials. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical outcomes in 144 consecutive patients with col…

BACKGROUND: The major horse breeds in Finland are the Finnhorse (FH) and the American Standardbred (SB). The foaling rates of the FH have consistently been lower than those of the SB. During the last years, a decreasing trend in foaling rates of both breeds has been observed. The purpose of this study was to describe a…

The geographic/temporal pattern of cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) registered in the Czech Republic since 1970 was analysed to verify the surmise of a global warming effect. Using a geographic information system, over 8,700 notified places of infection were pin-pointed on a map and overlaid with a digital elevat…

The epidemiological surveillance of autologous blood donors has been carried out in France since 1993. The number of autologous donors increased regularly from 1993 to 1997 but has decreased during the last three years to become less than 50,000 in 2000. The sex-ratio was stable over time (0.85 male for 1 female). The…

UNLABELLED: Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes are common agents of respiratory or ORL pathology. Pneumococcus sensitivity has progressively decreased to penicillin and other antimicrobial agents, mainly in south of Europe, but this resistance report can be erroneous by a selection bias, because they s…

The clinical effects and safety of release and decompression techniques on nerve roots through percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) while treating patients with central lumbar disc herniation (CLDH) were explored. Patient cases of lumbar and leg pain treated in Bethune International Peace Hospital f…

BACKGROUND: Victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) have higher survival rates and more favorable neurological outcomes when basic life support (BLS) maneuvers are initiated quickly after collapse. Although more than half of OHCAs are witnessed, BLS is infrequently provided, thereby worsening the survival and…

BACKGROUND: The development of HIV and STD prevention programs needs information about sexual behaviour. The aim of this study is to analyze whether there were differences in HIV/STD risk behaviours according to type of high school (public/private), gender and age in adolescents. METHODS: A representative sample of 4.…

There are scarce data about headache prevalence and its characteristics among elderly people. The aim was to carry out a cross-sectional study to determine the 1-year prevalence of tension-type and migraine headaches in people >65 years old in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. All 1615 people living in the study catc…

BACKGROUND: The responsibility of medical schools is to educate physicians who are able to provide integrated health care services including curative and preventive components to individuals and the community. They should acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for management of health services with a scientific bac…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk factors of cirrhosis in early stage alcoholic liver disease. PATIENTS: We investigated 83 heavy drinkers (60 males and 23 females) in whom the first of two liver biopsies showed normal or pure alcoholic fatty liver. RESULTS: When the six following variables: sex, age, delay between the f…

BACKGROUND: The risk of proteinuria in Type 1 diabetes declined > or = 30% over the past 50 years, and improvements in metabolic control are believed to be largely responsible. Little is known about secular changes in the risk of proteinuria in Type 2 diabetes. METHODS: We examined trends in the incidence rate of prot…

This study was designed to investigate the clinical efficacy of laminectomy with instrumented fixation in treatment of adjacent segmental diseases following anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) surgery. Between January 2008 and December 2015, 48 patients who underwent laminectomy with instrumented fixation to…

BACKGROUND/AIM: Several changes have occurred in Olympic boxing (OB) in the last few decades, influencing the results in official competitions. The aim of this study was to assess how the evolution of rules changed the rate of the results that can influence boxers' health. METHODS: From a web-research, the results of…

Epidemiologic studies conducted in the 1990s identified several independent healthcare associated risk factors for HBV and HCV infections in Pakistan. In 2002, we re-examined healthcare associated HBV and/or HCV infection risk factors in volunteer blood donors. In this case-control study, we collected data using a stru…

BACKGROUND: There has been an increase of cannabis-related disorders in Germany during the last 10 years. According treatments are being established, however little is known about the treatment populations. METHODS: The population of an outpatient treatment program for diagnosis and therapy of cannabis-related disorde…