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Two groups of 9-15 month old Italian infants were studied, at a 9 years' interval, to evaluate and compare feeding practices and their effect on iron status. Nutritional iron supply has increased in the last decade, due to a larger use of breast milk and iron-fortified infant formulas. In 1983, 21.6% of infants were br…

OBJECTIVE: The study objective was to review our first 300 consecutive robotic-assisted mitral repairs performed from June 2005 to October 2012 and to compare the surgical outcomes of our previously reported initial 120 cases with the subsequent 180 procedures. METHODS: Our initial 120 robotic-assisted mitral repairs…

UNLABELLED: Asthma is one of the most frequent chronic illnesses in paediatric age children. In the last reviews carried out by the group of experts (EPR II) in 1997, a chapter was included on education for the groups who are involved with looking after patients with asthma, and proposes the inclusion of questions focu…

In last decades, the incidence of esophageal cancer in the male as well as female population of Slovenia has been increasing moderately. The number of long-term survivals is rather low. The treatment results of 13/714 (1.8%) 5-year survivors with esophageal cancer treated during the years 1960-1989 at the Institute of…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of cyclosporin A (CSA) in the treatment of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN), a prospective controlled clinical study was performed. METHODS: This study included a group of 30 IMN patients, among them 15 were treated with CSA and 15 with captopril (CAP). The diagnosis of IMN w…

Sarcopenia is common in later life and may be associated with adverse health outcomes such as disability, falls and fracture. There is no consensus definition for its diagnosis although diagnostic algorithms have been proposed by the European Working Group for Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP), the International Work…

Nitric oxide (NO) is a small gaseous molecule with an odd number of electrons and is rather soluble in hydrophobic phases. It was once known for its toxicity in the environment and for its applications in meat curing. After 1980 its importance was discovered in many physiological fields such as vascular regulation, neu…

Child psychiatric epidemiology over the last 25 years is reviewed in terms of conceptual and methodological issues arising out of substantive findings. The Isle of Wight surveys undertaken in the mid-1960s are briefly described to establish a starting point, and progress since then is reviewed in terms of topics not or…

The development of Pichia pastoris as a production platform for recombinant proteins has been a remarkable success story over the last three decades. Stable cheap production processes and the good protein secretion abilities were pacemakers of this development. However, limitations of protein folding, glycosylation or…

Occupational airborne exposure was examined for a stratified sample (N = 1275) of the general population aged 18-73 years in Hordaland County, Norway. The subjects identified all jobs of more than six months since leaving school and stated whether they had been occupationally exposed to specific agents and work process…

BACKGROUND: Failure to continue scheduled follow-up is a common challenge in child and adolescent mental health services and may reduce treatment effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: The present retrospective study aimed to examine demographic, clinical, and treatment-related characteristics associated with attendance at the las…

UNLABELLED: PRéCIS:: Publications in glaucoma have seen an increase in the number of authors and disclosures per article, authors with dual degrees, and international authors, but contributions of women to articles published remains low. PURPOSE: Authorship trends have been studied across many medical specialties…

BACKGROUND: Several studies have concluded that the use of nurses' time and energy is often not optimized. Given widespread migration of nurses from developing to developed countries, it is important for human resource planning to know whether nursing education in developing countries is associated with more exaggerate…

We present Ignatio Ponseti's approach to idiopathic clubfoot management and its biological basis. The key principles of the Ponseti method of treatment are 1. All deformity components are corrected simultaneously except equinus, which is corrected last, usually by percutaneous Achilles tenotomy. 2. The correction is ma…

International guidelines recommend the intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) as an assist of the left ventricle. Assist devices other than the IABP have become available. To improve the overall treatment of patients with heart failure, basic knowledge of assist devices in referral department is crucial. The TandemHeart incre…

In 1995, Radzicka and Wolfenden reported that the rate enhancement produced by orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase (ODCase) approaches 10(17), making this enzyme the most effective pure protein catalyst known in Nature [A. Radzicka, R. Wolfenden, Science 267 (1995) 90-93]. Over the last 12 years, there have been many…

Oncourological morbidity for the last 2 years according to data of inter-district urological department is considered in the article. Ratio of oncological patients has risen end equals 5-6% of total urological contingent, cohose rejuvenation cannot but draw attention. Cancer of prostate dominates in morbidity structure…

Radiographs are presented to illustrate the outcome of routine chemotherapy for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in a local authority polyclinic setting. Intensive, daily, supervised, short-course, 4-drug chemotherapy has been administered to ambulant patients on a 5-day-a-week basis for 5-6 months (100-130 dail…

To determine the natural history of minicore-multicore myopathy (MMM) we studied 5 patients who were found to have this disorder from 6 to 16 years ago. Four of these patients had improved muscle strength since their original assessment and one patient had deteriorated. There were no clinical electrophysiological or pa…

A 5-year-old girl with McCune-Albright syndrome, was observed over a 7-year period. She presented with gonadotrophin-independent puberty and later developed gonadotrophin-dependent puberty. Hormonal signs of central puberty remained unchanged over the last 2 years.