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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the relationship of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and satisfaction with social support with the quality of life of schizophrenic patients. METHODOLOGY: This study included a sample of 268 participants. An interview was conducted to obtain sociodemographic and clinical data, suppl…

Chagas' disease is a parasitic zoonosis with high prevalence in Chile. It is distributed in rural and periurban section in the northern most seven out of thirteen regions in which the country is divided, and affects about 142,000 individuals dispersed in most of the 165 counties sited in the chagasic zone. Triatoma inf…

PURPOSE: To determine the long-term cognitive outcomes in children who underwent intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. METHODS: This single-center study enrolled 186 children between 3 and 6 years of age and included 101 children in the final analysis:…

Common arterial trunk is a congenital malformation that is relatively uncommon, representing 0.21-0.34% of congenital heart disease. Natural history, if not treated, leads to early death. Cardiac surgery has been modifying its natural course during the last 30 years by prolonging the lifespan of patients affected. Desp…

BACKGROUND: Every year more than half million mother die due to pregnancy related preventable causes like haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis, and obstructed labour and unsafe abortion. Among these deaths 99% occur in developing countries. The study was conducted to assess the maternal death rate and to analyse…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the surgical management of rigid post-traumatic thoracolumbar kyphosis (RPTK) by simultaneous posterior-anterior circumferential releasing, correction and anterior corpectomy with preserved posterior vertebral wall. METHODS: Twenty patients with RPTK were treated between October 2004 and October…

AIM: To review previous studies (the last 6 years) about the Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) antibiotic resistance in order to evaluate the trend in antibiotic resistance. METHODS: In this study, the PubMed, MEDLINE, Science Direct, Google Scholar and Scielo manuscripts were reviewed from 2009 to 2014. RESULTS: On th…

Between October 1973 and mid-January 1987, 500 patients underwent a modified Fontan operation at the Mayo Clinic. This included 163 patients with tricuspid atresia, 154 patients with double inlet ventricle, and 183 patients with other complex single ventricle malformations. There have been 80 hospital deaths (16%). In…

OBJECTIVE: Although restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is a common neurological disorder, data on the long-term course and management of the disease are scarce. The aim of the current study was to extend the knowledge on the long-term clinical course and treatment outcome of RLS/WED. METHODS: In t…

IMPORTANCE: Choroidal nevus is a precursor for uveal melanoma and there are no known risk factors besides white race. Female sex hormones have been hypothesized to play a role in the pathogenesis of uveal melanoma. OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between female reproductive factors and choroidal nevus in the US…

PURPOSE: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) can serve as adjunctive treatment for vestibular schwannomas (VS) for residual or recurrent tumor after surgical resection. However, it is poorly understood whether prior surgical resection influences the risk of facial nerve injury from GKRS. METHODS: An institutional database…

BACKGROUND: In the Romagna Region of Italy, mammography screening for breast carcinoma (BC) was implemented as a routine practice in the regular healthcare system. The Romagna Cancer Registry evaluated the effects of self-selection for mammography on the stage of BC at the time of presentation. METHODS: Of the 851 inv…

Between 1984 and December 1990 balloon valvuloplasty for valvular pulmonary stenosis was planned and performed in 92 children over 6 months of age (range 0.8-17.9 years). Valvuloplasty decreased the invasively determined peak systolic gradient from 61 +/- 34 (mean +/- SD) to 27 +/- 20 mmHg (P < 0.0001). At follow-up ca…

To describe temporal trend and characteristics of newly HIV-diagnosed patients in a medical care area in Northwest Spain over the last 10 years. All newly diagnosed patients for HIV-infection from 2004 to 2013 at a reference medical care area in Northwest of Spain were identified. Epidemiological, virological, immunolo…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the femoral head-shaft angle (HSA) is a predictor of hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: The patients were recruited from a population-based hip surveillance program. Inclusion criteria were age under 5 years, bilateral CP, Gross Mot…

At the end of life goals of care change from disease prevention to symptomatic control, however, little is known about the patterns of medication prescribing at this stage.To explore changes in prescribing of symptomatic and preventive medication in the last year of life in older nursing home residents.A retrospective…

Through socio-hygienic monitoring of the Northern administrative district of Moscow in 2006-2010 the study of nutritional status and morbidity rates for alimentary-associated diseases of the digestive tract, the endocrine system, cardiovascular diseases and obesity - was conducted in children (5-11 years old), adolesce…

Changes in sex hormones and bone turnover were studied longitudinally in 31 women aged 47-54 years who were approaching the menopause. Every 6 weeks for 2-3 years, hormones and biochemical estimates of the bone turnover were determined and the bone mass was measured at two forearm sites by single photon absorptiometry.…

Through the potency monitoring program at the University of Mississippi supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a total of 18108 samples of cannabis preparations have been analyzed over the last decade, using a validated GC/FID method. The samples are classified as sinsemilla, marijuana, ditchweed, hashis…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The eradication rate of() has been decreasing recently in Korea due to antibiotics resistance. The aim of this study was to investigate the trend of eradication rate and clinical factors affecting the eradication rate ofin the last 10 years in west Gyeonggi-do, Korea. METHODS: The trends of eradicatio…