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The authors exam 8 subfrenic abscesses cases observed in the last 5 years in Fatebenefratelli Hospital of Milano - Emergency Surgical Department. After considering etiologic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of their casuistry, they remark the importance of the basal illness, particularly in secondary subfrenic abscess…

BACKGROUND: Accidental falls in older people are a major public health problem but a relatively limited number of studies have analyzed the mortality trends from this cause. Effective public health interventions have been found to prevent the incidence of falls and their complications. Therefore, characterizing the mor…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of parity and interpregnancy interval (IPI) on perinatal outcomes in advanced maternal age (AMA) parturients. METHODS: A population-based retrospective cohort study of all women older than 40 years, who had a singleton live birth after 24 weeks in the United States in 2017 Women we…

OBJECTIVE Gamma Knife surgery (GKS) is a promising treatment modality for patients with vestibular schwannomas (VSs), but a small percentage of patients have persistent postradiosurgical tumor growth. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical and quantitative MRI features of VS as predictors of long-term tumo…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among adults seeking care in primary healthcare centers in Cordoba city, Argentina. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of adults 18-69 years of age seeking care for general health problems in public (i.e., government-funded) primary…

Favorable bone fusion and clinical results have been reported for anterior cervical fusion (ACF) using titanium interbody cage (TIC). This method might induce postoperative subsidence and local kyphosis, but the relationship between radiological changes and preoperative local alignment is not known. The purpose of the…

Study Design&#x2003;Case series. Objective&#x2003;Posterior percutaneous endoscopic cervical diskectomy (PECD) can preserve the disk in patients with a foraminal disk herniation. However, progressive angulation at the operated segment is a concern, especially for patients with cervical lordosis&#x2009;<&#x2009;10 degre…

Sixty multibacillary leprosy patients with an average initial bacteriological index (BI) of 2.5 were followed up after they had completed the WHO--recommended multidrug therapy regularly till attaining bacteriological negativity. The minimum duration of treatment was two years as stipulated by WHO and the maximum durat…

The relationship between female hormone use and primary liver cancer was analysed using data from a case-control study conducted between 1984 and 1992 in Milan on 82 female incident cases with histologically or serologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma and 368 controls admitted to hospital for acute non-neoplast…

BACKGROUND: Operative procedure cancellations are a dilemma for the healthcare system as well as for the patients. It causes increased workload and cost to our system. For patients, it has major financial, psychological as well as medical consequences. We aim to self-identify the causes of cancellations for efficient o…

For centuries, filamentous fungi have been used in the making of food and beverages, and for decades for the production of enzymes and pharmaceuticals. In the last decades, the intellectual property (IP) landscape for fungal technology has seen an ever increasing upward trend, introducing new and promising applications…

When an investigational anticancer drug is being tested, demonstration of improvement in overall survival (OS) will generally lead to regulatory approval. However, the value that improvement in OS adds to patients' lives is guided largely by the context of the improvement and accompanying trade-offs. For example, when…

Since the birth of the first prototype of the modern reaction turbine, cavitation as conjectured by Euler in 1754 always presents as a challenge. Following his theory, the evolution of modern reaction (Francis and Kaplan) turbines has been completed by adding the final piece of the element 'draft-tube' that enables tur…

The most frequently used method for production of citrus transgenic plants is via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tissues found on explants obtained from juvenile seedlings. Within the last decade and especially within the last 5-6 years, this robust method was employed to produce thousands of transgenic plant…

Pain is a common complaint in children after surgery. Four out of five children require analgesia even after minor surgery, and after more extensive surgery, significant postoperative pain may last for weeks. Severe pain during, and after surgery may aggravate long-lasting negative effects to the body and mind. In orde…

Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are giant multi-domain enzymes that catalyse the biosynthesis of many commercially important peptides produced by bacteria and fungi. Several studies over the last decade have shown that many of the individual domains within NRPSs exhibit significant substrate selectivity, which…

Evolution of food and nutrient intake patterns in urban San Jos&#xe9;, Costa Rica, during the last decade, was studied comparing data from the last two national surveys (1978, 1982) and 1987 data obtained from 5 families previously included in the 1982 survey. Total food and nutrient intake was found to be similar to t…

Six cases with cervical cord contusion are described. All were over 50 years old, had an hyperextension injury of their cervical spine, suffered from tetraparesis predominant in the upper limbs and showed no X-ray evidence of injury to the cervical spine. Marked cervical spondylosis was present in five cases, one also…

Twenty-four children under the age of 10 years with femoral shaft fractures were treated by early immobilization of fracture and application of hip spica cast. The average hospital stay was 3.5 days. The average shortening at time of fracture union was 15 mm. The average time of follow up was 6.7 months. All fractures…

The recent development of various membrane-based techniques for the purification of valuable natural products is reviewed and covers the important research that has been conducted in the last 5 years on the utilization of microfiltration, ultrafiltration and nanofiltration techniques, either carried out on their own or…