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From January 1985 to October 1990, 487 adult renal transplantations were performed at our institution. Of 16 ureteral complications noted 15 were initially managed with percutaneous nephrostomy. Of the 8 complications that occurred during the last 2 years 5 resolved on percutaneous nephrostomy and stenting, or stenting…

Injury of the ureter is the most frequent trauma in urological practice. The most important deal concerning a patient's expectancy is early diagnosis and adequate treatment. During 1994-1998 the authors have treated 65 patients with diagnosis an injury of the ureter. The most frequent cause was the iatrogenic injury. T…

OBJECTIVE: to investigate prevalence and factors associated with not consulting a physicianin the last 12 months in Rio Grande, RS, Brazil, 2016. METHODS: this was a population-based cross-sectional study, using Poisson regression for multivariate analysis. RESULTS: a total of 1,297 individuals took part in the study…

Internet-augmented medicine has a strong role to play in ensuring that all populations benefit equally from discoveries in the medical sciences. Yet, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected from 1999 to 2014 suggested that during the first phase of internet diffusion, progress against mortali…

The aim of this study was to describe the sexual behaviour of a sample of genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic attenders, 5 years after the launch of the UK government HIV media campaigns. A gender-specific and anonymous cross-sectional self-completion questionnaire was modified from the National Survey of Sexual Attitu…

IMPORTANCE: Recent immigrants face unique cultural and logistical challenges that differ from those of long-standing residents, which may influence the type of care they receive at the end of life. OBJECTIVE: To compare places of care among recent immigrants and long-standing residents in Canada in the last 90 days of…

Calorimetry has a long history as a technique for establishing the absorbed dose, and graphite calorimetry has often been used to establish absorbed dose standards for use in radiation therapy. However, a conversion process is necessary to convert from dose to graphite to dose to water, which is the quantity of clinica…

A retrospective review of 20 ureterovaginal fistulas in 19 patients treated within the last 20 years was done. All fistulas developed after gynecological procedures. The ureterovaginal fistulas resolved in all 7 patients in whom a self-retaining internal stent was placed in either a retrograde (5) or antegrade (2) mann…

In the last years, 11 patients with tumors of anterior mediastinum were treated at the Oncologic Centre in Lódź. Lymphocytic-epithelial thymoma was diagnosed in 6 patients whereas thymoma was suspected in 5 patients. Therapy was a problem mainly in these 5 patients, especially if lymphoma was considered in t…

The choice of surgical techniques has gone through a great evolution during the last few years in our service. Closed techniques were formally used in 80 per 100 of our operations (1974-1979) and now this has dropped to 12.5 per 100 (1979-1983) motivated by the failures we obtained with the closed techniques. This is s…

Of the patients operated upon for goiter (n = 1891) within the last 10 years, 625 had hyperthyroidism. Exophthalmia was present in 22.7% toxic nodular goiter in 26.5%; the remaining patients had autonomous adenoma. The different prognosis and treatment of Graves' disease in contrast to other kinds of hyperthyroidism is…

BACKGROUND: Satisfactory clinical results of meniscal allograft transplantation (MAT) have been reported in recent years. However, it remains unclear whether the clinical outcomes of MAT when combined with an osteotomy are inferior to those of isolated MAT. PURPOSE: To compare the survival rates and clinical outcomes…

OBJECTIVES: The benefits of professional dental treatment for oral diseases have been widely investigated. However, it is unclear whether professional dental treatment provides additional benefits for improving general health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data were obtained from the US National Health and Nutrition Examinat…

BACKGROUND: Cold ischemia time (CIT) has been associated to heart transplantation (HT) prognosis. However, there is still uncertainty regarding the CIT cutoff value that might have relevant clinical implications. METHODS: We analyzed all adults that received a first HT during the period 2008-2018. CIT was defined as t…

The most commonly accepted scenario of early Earth includes: creation of the universe around 13.8 Ga (Giga-annus; or 10years ago); establishment of our solar system ~ 4.60 Ga; and formation of Earth ~ 4.54 Ga. The earliest life forms on our planet so far observed to have existed, are microbe…

In 2011, we made predictions on the basis of data from the National Practice Benchmark (NPB) reports from 2005 through 2010. With the new 2011 data in hand, we have revised last year's predictions and projected for the next 3 years. In addition, we make some new predictions that will be tracked in future benchmarking s…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of over-treatment and hypoglycemia in Turkish type-2 diabetes patients and to identify the risk factors. METHODS: Patients ≥ 65 years, having a minimum 5 years of type-2 diabetes, were included in the study. Patients' body mass index, mean HbA1c level, disease onset and me…

This review focuses specifically on the developments in brain imaging, as opposed to the spine, and specifically conventional, clinical, cross-sectional imaging, looking primarily at advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). These fields are viewed from a perspective of landmark publica…

To celebrate 30 years of peer-reviewed publication of cutting edge stem cell research in Stem Cells, the first journal devoted to this promising field, we pause to review how far we have come in the three-decade lifetime of the Journal. To do this, we will present our views of the 10 most significant developments that…

BACKGROUND: Choroid plexus papillomas (CPPs), of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), are a rare entity and no surgical series have been reported so far. We reviewed all the pertinent literature of 12 patients operated on in the last 20 years at our institution. METHODS: All the patients were adults, ranging from 19 to 6…