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Within the framework of the gerontological and geriatric population studies in Göteborg, Sweden, 473 elderly persons were examined using pure-tone audiometry in two recent cohorts. The aim of this study was to present cross-sectionally acquired hearing data in these contemporary groups aged 70 and 75. Another obje…

Corticotroph tumor progression after bilateral adrenalectomy/Nelson's syndrome (CTP-BADX/NS) is a severe complication of bilateral adrenalectomy (BADX). The aim of our study was to investigate the prevalence, presentation and outcome of CTP-BADX/NS in patients with Cushing's disease (CD) included in the European Regist…

In academic years 2002/3-2004/5, the use of alcohol was investigated by anonymous questionnaire in 1,032 first and third year pharmacy students in the Czech Republic. Frequencies of beer, wine and spirits use, the age of the first contact with alcoholic beverages, the age of the first drunkenness and the frequency of d…

We studied survival and disease complications in 1,146 patients with thalassemia major, born from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1987. At last follow-up, in March 1997, probability of survival to age 20 years was 89% and to age 25 years was 82% for patients born in the years 1970-1974. Patients who died had a serum fe…

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of Zero-P and ROI-C devices applied to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) surgery of cervical degenerative disc disease (CDDD). METHODS: From January 2020 and December 2020, 56 patients with CDDD who underwent ACDF using Zero-P or ROI-C were inc…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have not shown a correlation between knuckle cracking (KC) and hand osteoarthritis (OA). However, one study showed an inverse correlation between KC and metacarpophalangeal joint OA. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective case-control study among persons aged 50 to 89 years who received a r…

A genetic and demographic study of 40 kindreds (113 cases) with hemophilia A, representing one quarter of all Chilean cases is reported. Only 10 sporadic cases were found. Segregation analysis of progeny from matings Aa X AY showed p = 0.2206 +/- 0.043. Fertility of 59 obligatory carriers was 3.88 children per mother w…

AIM: To estimate whether and when children dying from a malignancy are recognized as being beyond cure and to study patterns of care the last weeks of life. METHODS: A nationwide retrospective medical record review was conducted. Medical records of 95 children (60% of eligible children) who died from a malignancy 2007…

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and radiological results of hybrid total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS: This study recruited 105 patients (169 cases) who underwent hybrid TKA for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis from 1999 to 2002. Maxim (Biomet Inc., Warsaw, I…

OBJECTIVE: To (1) track the incidence of pleomorphic adenomas (PAs) and (2) compare demographic and treatment trends in PAs over the last five decades in a single county. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort of all patients with a pathologic diagnosis of nonrecurrent PA from January 1976 to December 2022. SETTING: Olms…

BACKGROUND: Children exposed to a tuberculosis (TB) index case are at risk of TB infection and disease. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe the proportion of child contacts who developed TB infection or disease after exposure and to assess the diagnostic pathways and adherence to current guidelines. MET…

INTRODUCTION: Neurological diseases can be due to direct diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS) or be a bystander syndrome of systemic diseases. Treatment options depend on the cause. Toxic, metabolic and nutritional, and immune-mediated consequences of clinically occult neoplas…

INTRODUCTION: There are 2 standard techniques of laparoscopic groin hernia repair, totally extraperitoneal repair (TEP) and transabdominal preperitoneal repair (TAPP). TEP has the advantage that the peritoneal cavity is not breached but is, however, considered to be more difficult to master when compared with TAPP. We…

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fractional carbon dioxide laser for the treatment of acne scars. Thirty-one participants, 15 female and 16 male, whose mean age was 34.84 ± 10.94 years, were included in this prospective study. The study took place between 2012 and 201…

BACKGROUND: Blood conservation strategies have evolved greatly over the last 5 years. There is a paucity of large blood utilization studies of total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) that include recently performed surgery. The purpose of this study was to use a large database to evaluate trends…

BACKGROUND: Despite the increase in cancer incidence in the last years in Serbia, no nation-wide, population-based cancer epidemiology data have been reported. In this study cancer incidence and mortality rates for Serbia are presented using nation-wide data from two population-based cancer registries. These rates are…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether client-owned dogs in Australia, last vaccinated with Canvac(®) vaccines containing canine parvovirus-type 2 (CPV-2), canine distemper virus (CDV), canine adenovirus type 2 (CAV-2) ± canine parainfluenza virus (CPiV) at least 18 months ago, were seropositive or responded serolog…

AIMS: In patients with surgical atrial septal defect (ASD) repair, late atrial flutters (AFLs), including cavotricuspid isthmus (CTI)-dependent and non-CTI-dependent scar-related flutter (AFL), are common. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of these arrhythmias has a high acute success rate. We aimed to characterize the lon…

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of modern imaging procedures are being applied for the diagnosis of appendicitis. We compared one hundred consecutive appendectomies of the years 1988, 1998 and 2008 concerning reliability of preoperative diagnosis and resulting costs. METHODS: We analysed the first one hundred consecu…

Bone mineral density (BMD) of the lumbar spine was measured in 286 women (46-55 years of age) using dual photon absorptiometry. The women were classified in three categories: premenopausal, perimenopausal and postmenopausal. The postmenopausal group was subdivided according to the number of years since the last uterine…