98,328 papers found

OBJECTIVE: To explore the short-term effectiveness of medial open wedge high tibial osteotomy (OWHTO) combined with posterior slope angle of tibial plateau correction to treat the osteoarthritis of limited flexion knee with varus deformity. METHODS: The data of 18 cases (18 knee) with osteoarthritis of limited flexion…

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to analyze the survival of posterior composite restorations published within the last 19 years (1996-2015). METHODS: In this study only prospective, clinical trials with specification of the failure rate according to Class I/II composite fillings were included. Studies were analyze…

PURPOSE: To analyse changes in choroidal thickness and retinal sensitivity (Se) in patients with geographic atrophy (GA) with or without choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) in the fellow eye. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with bilateral GA (B-GA group) and patients with unilateral GA and CNV in the fellow eye (U-GA group) wer…

BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of literature investigating the use of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) in a dermatologic surgery setting. OBJECTIVE: To identify the treatment characteristics and adverse events, including Local Anesthetic System Toxicity (LAST), in patients receiving perioperative LB. MATERIALS AND METHODS:…

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer survivors (BCS) still experience fatigue that may impair their quality of life even after completion of treatment. There is a need to understand the sociodemographic and treatment-related factors associated with this to develop relevant and effective interventions. AIM: To assess the relation…

PURPOSE: Visual field trend analysis can be influenced by outlying values that may disproportionately affect estimation of the rate of change. We tested a modified approach to visual field trend analysis to minimize this problem. METHODS: Automated pointwise linear regression (PLR) was used in glaucoma patients with &…

Several randomized clinical trials in multiple myeloma (MM) completed in the last two decades have clearly shown that high-dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell support significantly increases the number of complete remissions and median overall survival in comparison to conventional chemotherapy. The median s…

Over the last 5 years, a number of utility-based allocation systems have been proposed in an effort to increase the life-prolonging potential of deceased donor kidneys in the United States. These have included various adaptations of age-matching and net benefit, including the Eurotransplant Senior Program, Life Years F…

A 14-month-old boy presented with hepatoblastoma, which was completely excised. He had pulmonary metastases, diagnosed 1 year later, treated with chemotherapy followed by resection at age 2 1/2 years. At the age of 3 1/2 years a further metastasis was shown on CT scan and this was resected. Two further metastses were r…

BACKGROUND: Lifestyle choices are associated with cardiovascular disease and mortality. The purpose of this study was to compare adherence to healthy lifestyle habits in adults between 1988 and 2006. METHODS: Analysis of adherence to 5 healthy lifestyle trends (>or=5 fruits and vegetables/day, regular exercise >12 tim…

A review of the literature of the last 5 years (1997-2002) indexed in the MEDLINE and LILACS databases found 53 studies of stress echocardiography made in Latin America. More than half of the studies used dobutamine-induced stress. The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy were generally more than 80%, simi…

The description of the human growth pattern in limited largely to the traditional vocabulary of "linear growth rates," i.e., height or length increments divided by certain time intervals such as months or years. These studies have been performed using conventional techniques of body length or stature measurement with a…

PURPOSE: For children, craniospinal irradiation (CSI) with photons is associated with significant toxic effects. The use of electrons for spinal fields is hypothesized to spare anterior structures but the long-term effects remain uncertain. We studied late effects of CSI using electrons for spinal radiation therapy (RT…

BACKGROUND: Outcome and treatment-associated morbidity analysis of trigone meningioma surgery. METHODS: We retrospectively assessed 27 neurosurgically treated patients (median age 63 years, range 15-84) between 1999 and 2019. The median preoperative Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) was 80 (range 20-100), and the majo…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the in vitro susceptibility and cross-resistance of gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin vs older fluoroquinolones among coagulase-negative staphylococci recovered from patients with clinical endophthalmitis. METHODS: A combination of E tests and disk diffusion methods was used to determine in vitro su…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of the surgical correction of high myopia 5 years after anterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) implantation and to analyze the lens position and related complications. SETTING: Federal University of São Paulo-Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: Th…

OBJECTIVE: A previous study suggested that the most likely explanation for the rise and subsequent fall in caries in children in England and Wales during the last 50 years was the concurrent increase and then reduction in the sugar challenge to the population, mitigated after the early 1970s by the preventive effect of…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Azathioprine (AZA) forms the cornerstone for maintenance of sustained remission in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There is apprehension regarding the long-term effectiveness and safety of AZA in IBD. We present our experience with AZA use and outcomes in a cohort of IBD patients followed up over…

UNLABELLED: Dental caries is a rapidly emerging oral health problem amid the children with differing prevalence rate in different states of India. The data available from Ghaziabad city regarding dental caries are scarce; therefore, the study was conducted in 5-15-year school-going children in urban population of Ghazi…