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BACKGROUND/AIMS: The eradication rate of() has been decreasing recently in Korea due to antibiotics resistance. The aim of this study was to investigate the trend of eradication rate and clinical factors affecting the eradication rate ofin the last 10 years in west Gyeonggi-do, Korea. METHODS: The trends of eradicatio…

BACKGROUND: Controversy remains over whether different surgical approaches exert an impact on the component positioning in total hip arthroplasty. We conducted a retrospective study to reveal the long-term position of prostheses in the first group of patients in China who underwent direct anterior hip arthroplasty. ME…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between depressive symptoms not identified by the family physician and polypharmacy in patients over 60 years old. METHODS: A case-control design with non-probabilistic sampling. INCLUSION CRITERIA: > or = 60 years old both sexes, without disease or with one disease-balanced il…

Out of 254 patients included in Krasnodar stroke register in the last half-year of 1997, 48.8% survived one year, 26.8% were alive by June 2003 and 5.5% have left the region. A dynamics of the prevalence of the risk factors for secondary stroke during 5.7 +/- 0.2 years indicated a significant increase of cardiovascular…

Twenty patients with discrete subaortic stenosis were studied during last 11 years. Cross sectional echocardiography and angiography demonstrated a membrane in 17 (85%), fibromuscullar collar in 2 (10%), and diffuse tunnel type of obstruction in 1 (5%) patient. Eighty five percent of patients had severe obstruction wit…

PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to assess the role of residual hip dysplasia as a risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA) in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). METHODS: Fifty-one patients (60 hips) with late-detected DDH were studied. Reduction had been performed at a mean age of 19 months (range 4-65 m…

OBJECTIVES: (1) To compare the number of hospital days used by survivors with those by persons in their last, second last, and third last year of life in relation to age; (2) to analyse lifelong hospital utilisation in relation to life expectancy. DESIGN: Cohort study using a 10% sample (stratified by age and sex) of…

INTRODUCTION: Over the last decades, a progressive increase in height and weight has been observed throughout Europe. Increase in weight has been more marked however, with a resulting increase in overweight and obesity prevalence. RESULTS published have analyzed the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and educat…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence and longitudinal trends of Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) in the pediatric population of Southern Alberta over the last 15 years. RESULTS: Fifteen cases of childhood WG were confirmed. The average annual incidence was 2.75 cases/million/year, with a steep increase over the last 5 y…

Eighty-one cases of renal cell carcinoma in last twelve years (1975-1987) have been reviewed and examinations contributing to initial diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma were studied retrospectively. In earlier 5 years from 1975 to 1980, ultrasonography less contributed to detection of renal cell carcinoma than computed…

A retrospective review of all stool samples obtained from children aged < 16 years with diarrhoea from University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur, from 1978 to 1997 was undertaken to ascertain the pattern of bacterial pathogens causing diarrhoea in children in an urban area in Malaysia. Of 26444 stool sam…

In 51 consecutive patients with malignant hypertension collected from 1976 to 1981 we have analysed patient and kidney survival at 5 years and at last follow-up. The patients were 41 men, 10 women, mean age 53 years, with a stage III (63%) or stage IV (27%) fundi and a diastolic blood pressure (BP) greater than 130 mmH…

OBJECTIVES: In this research we analyzed the results of surgical treatment of cauda equina syndrome (CES) caused by acute lumbar disc herniation. We emphasize the early treatment for good neurological recovery. METHODS: A retrospective-prospective, non randomized, clinical study was performed between Jan 2010 and Dec…

OBJECTIVE: To provide scientific evidence for breast cancer prevention and control through epidemiological analysis of the incidence, mortality and survival rate of female breast cancer in Beijing. METHODS: The registration data of females in Beijing urban area from 1982 to 2001 were retrospectively reviewed. The inci…

Follow-up studies over more than one and a half years (average 6.5 years) were performed in 51 patients with "moyamoya disease". Activities of daily living (ADL) was assessed and graded into five levels both at the time of admission into hospital and at the last assessment in the follow-up study, as follows. Grade I: F…

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) was introduced into the microbiological routine more than 10 years ago. Since then it has almost replaced biochemical identification. It is unrivaled in terms of accuracy and cost. From a laboratory's perspective it would be an…

This work presents a family, a mother and her 3 daughters, aged: 10 months, 4 years, 5 years with Rieger's anomaly. For children, this anomaly is associated with glaucoma and buphtalmy, this last element is the one that made the family ask for medical assistance and come to the hospital. The study of the disease was do…

OBJECTIVES: Patients with end stage renal disease in dialysis are a population susceptible to suffer various types of cancers, mainly in the kidney and urinary tract. These tissues suffer systemic carcinogenic effects, including all that result from chemical and immunological changes secondary to renal failure, from th…