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The last decade has brought new technical developments to incisional hernia repair. Agreement has been achieved that tension-free hernia repair using prostheses reduces recurrence rates significantly. Currently, discussion focusses on laparoscopic (intraperitoneal onlay mesh = IPOM) versus open (sublay) approach, and o…

Biologically-based skin substitutes have developed as commercial products over the last 5 years. The first generation includes the collagen-based synthetic device, Integra, and Alloderm, which is based on devitalised and cross-linked human dermis. These are used as dermal replacements for third degree burns. Within the…

BACKGROUND: Due to their relationship with clinical progression, follow-up of exercise capacity and muscle strength is important for optimal disease management in patients who have undergone the Fontan procedure. We aimed to retrospectively analyze exercise capacity and muscle strength trajectory over approximately 2 y…

We have used 822 polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts in arterial reconstructions for limb salvage over the last 6 years at Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Four hundred and twenty-seven femoropopliteal reconstructions with PTFE had a 6 year cumulative life table patency rate of 55% with…

BACKGROUND: Retrospective evaluation of the frequency, efficacy, and tolerance of antiviral treatment for chronic viral hepatitis B and C (VHB, VHC) in children in Ostrava. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The sample included 17 children with chronic VHB, aged 3-15 years, treated with conventional interferon alpha in 1993-2008,…

BACKGROUND: Sex-specific trends over time with respect to kidney graft survival have scarcely been described in earlier studies. The present study aimed to examine whether kidney graft survival differs between women and men over time. METHODS: This study was based on prospectively collected data extracted from a quali…

INTRODUCTION: The increasing use of e-cigarettes among the youth is a public health problem that needs surveillance. We report changes in e-cigarette use, cigarette smoking, and "dual use" among youth in 10 countries. AIMS AND METHODS: Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)s from Georgia, Iraq, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro,…

PURPOSE: Little is known about the current practice of airway management in Germany and its development over the last decades. The present study was, therefore, designed to answer the following questions. Which airway management procedures have been performed over the last 16 years and how has the frequency of these pr…

UNLABELLED: Given the increasing incidence of thyroid cancer cases affecting the pediatric population in Europe, an epidemiological analysis of the available data is essential in order to update standards of care and recommend diagnostic and therapeutic strategies coherent to the new epidemiological trend. An observati…

BACKGROUND: In contrast to the 3 major aeroallergens tree pollen, grass pollen, and house dust mites, allergic rhinitis caused by herbal pollen has received comparatively little attention in recent clinical studies. Since various weeds flower during summer until fall, allergic rhinitis to weeds may be underdiagnosed an…

OBJECTIVES: Follow-up of women with biopsy-confirmed CIN2+ who were either treated immediately with LLETZ or managed conservatively to determine the rates of patients back on routine screening programme after a median of three years in two groups. METHODS: In this retrospective study, 310 patients were involved who ha…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Infectious diseases (IDs) are major causes of morbidity and mortality and their surveillance is critical. In 2002, we implemented a simple and versatile homemade tool, named EPIMIC, for the real-time systematic automated surveillance of IDs at Marseille university hospitals, based on the data from…

BACKGROUND: In spite of some unquestionable positive tendencies observed over the last few years, occupational infectious diseases still pose a serious problem in Poland. During the last thirty years overall as many as 41,000 cases of occupational contagious and invasive diseases were identified. METHODS AND MATERIALS…

It has previously been reported that benign partial epilepsy in infancy constitutes up to 29% of the epilepsies presenting in the first 2 years of life. To determine the proportion of benign partial epilepsy in our epilepsy population, we retrospectively reviewed 331 patients with greater than two afebrile seizures in…

Interval colorectal cancers may arise from missed or incompletely excised precursors or from a unique rapid progression pathway. We compared the clinicopathologic and molecular profiles of interval and matched non-interval colorectal cancer to determine whether interval colorectal cancers harbor any unique genetic&#xa0…

INTRODUCTION: In Romania, no nationwide data for acromegaly treatment and control rate are available. Our objective was to assess the acromegaly control rate in a tertiary referral centre, which covers an important part of Romanian territory and population of patients with acromegaly. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We reviewe…

Sixty-five patients (aged between 3 years 5 months and 60 years) suffering from medically resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) were operated on over a period of 33 months in Bethel Epilepsy Center. Thirty-three patients had mesial TLE and 32 patients had TLE of different etiology. The postoperative follow-up lasted 2…

A review of 277 patients under the age of 16 years admitted to the pediatric spinal injury unit at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center from 1960 to 1989 showed that 70% of the patients were male; complete and incomplete injuries were about equal; and the average age was 8.8 years. The cause of spinal injury by time period…

Between 1961 and 1985, 14 patients (9 males, 5 females; mean age 42.3 +/- 7.26 years) underwent surgery for excision of cardiac myxoma. Origin of the neoplasm was left atrium in all patients. In the last 7 cases diagnosis was obtained by echocardiographic examination. The clinical manifestations were dyspnea in 8 cases…

BACKGROUND: Environmental changes are drastically influencing way of life and healthcare, and are considered a global health emergency. Nursing professionals stand as a great opportunity to positively influence this situation. AIMS: To understand the role of nursing and its importance within the health field for susta…