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Parent interviews with regard to their children's accidents and to accident protective measures in the Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) aimed at extending our knowledge of age- and gender-specific injuries and to identify risk groups and risk factors for injury prevention. Th…

BACKGROUND: Endocrine therapy with a standard duration of 5 years is well known as an effective treatment for endocrine-sensitive breast cancer. SUMMARY: In the adjuvant setting this treatment reduces the 15-year mortality rates by about 30 and 40% with tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitor, respectively. The well-known l…

Meningitis is most likely in children under the age of 5 years, with a smaller peak in incidence in young adults aged 15-19 years. Following the incorporation of Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) and group C meningococcus vaccines into the UK childhood immunisation schedule, the incidence of disease caused by these pathog…

Optic nerve gliomas may occur alone or as components of neurofibromatosis. They are rare tumors accounting for 2 to 5% of all intracranial tumors and 6% of the intra-orbitary neoplasms. The authors present 11 cases of optic nerve-glioma diagnosed in Curitiba in the last 25 years. Out of these 11 patients there were 10…

During the last 6 years, we examined 402 cases (including 5 cases in their 20's and 17 cases in their 30's) of colorectal cancer. We compared three groups (cases in their 20's, cases in their 30's, and cases over 40 years old), and had the following results. Cases in their 20's had a higher rate of familial history of…

14 cases are reported of bladder replacement for ileocecal intestine reservoir according to the technique developed in the Mintz clinic. All the patients aged 40-65 years have been treated for the last 6 years in urological clinic of Medical University in St. Petersburg. 9 (64.3%), 3 (21.5%), 1 (7.1%), 1 (7.1) patients…

Residual dysplasia and iatrogenic osteochondritis are two complications of treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip. Confidence is placed in the use of slow orthopedic reduction with a combined stabilizing Salter's osteotomy. This method was applied in 20 cases while in 10 patients a Salter's operation was perfor…

PURPOSE: The purpose is to study the 5-year results of aflibercept monotherapy using an individualized regimen in naïve patients with neovascular AMD (nAMD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a prospective observational study including naïve nAMD patients who underwent aflibercept injections with at least 5 yea…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Appropriate disaster knowledge, education and training are essential elements for adequate disaster preparedness. This is particularly evident for paramedics who are integral part of frontline disaster response teams. No reviews evaluated the published research on this subject within the Saudi conte…

BACKGROUND: The optimum abbreviated period for measurement by indirect calorimetry (IC) to estimate the resting energy expenditure (REE), including the acclimation period, in healthy individuals has not been established. This study aimed to determine the acclimation time required to achieve the REE steady state during…

OBJECTIVE: An organized cervical cancer (CC) screening program was introduced in Slovenia in 2003. With the purpose of clinical audit we analyzed the clinicopathological characteristics of CC patients for the period between 2003 and 2005. STUDY DESIGN: The retrospectively collected data of 450 CC patients were present…

BACKGROUND: Despite the increasing proportion of female medical students globally, women remain a minority of authors in mainstream medical journals. Whether similar differences in gender representation extend to medical student journals (MSJs) remains unknown. In this bibliometric analysis, we explored female author r…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between homestead food production and night blindness among pre-school children in rural Bangladesh in the presence of a national vitamin A supplementation programme. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study. SETTING: A population-based sample of six rural divisions of Bangladesh assesse…

A comparative study was undertaken involving 21 Mexican women who discontinued the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate 25 mg plus oestradiol cypionate 5 mg (Cyclofem) and norethisterone enanthate 50 mg plus oestradiol valerate 5 mg (Mesigyna) to assess the time required for the return to menses and ovulation. All subjec…

Eleven patients with 17 involved knees were surgically treated for congenital dislocation of the patella between 1978 and 1993. Ten patients with 13 involved knees followed up for a minimum of 2 years postoperatively composed the study group. Six patients had both involved knees operatively treated. In four patients, c…

BACKGROUND: Surgical attempts to treat obesity began because of the discouraging results of conservative medical treatment, which successfully achieved initial weight loss but failed to maintain it. Gastric restrictive procedures, currently the most popular surgical methods for obesity therapy, have proved to be effect…

Age adjusted mortality in Belgium (B) and The Netherlands (NL) was calculated from 5 yearly age-specific death rates between the ages 45-74 and 75-85+ years. Mortality was available in Belgium from 1954 to 1991 or 1994 (depending on the cause of death) and from 1950 to 1993 in The Netherlands. In the 45-74 years age cl…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of membrane induction technique in the treatment of Gustilo-Anderson ⅢB type injury of distal femur complicated with bone defect. METHODS: The clinical data of 20 patients with Gustilo-Anderson ⅢB type injury of distal femur complicated with bone defects admitted…

OBJECTIVE: Determining the optimal osteotomy length for patients with unilateral Crowe-IV developmental dysplasia of the hip undergoing subtrochanteric osteotomy remains challenging due to the significant variability in pelvic and spinal alignment. Incorrect osteotomy length, compounded by pelvic or spinal tilt, can ad…

BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is the primary cause of premature death in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). This study aimed to describe the impact of a HF diagnosis on short-term prognosis and to investigate the added prognostic value of an HF diagnosis to the ACHD Anatomic and Physiologic classification (ACHD-AP…