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BACKGROUND: Approximately thirty thousand people in Scotland are diagnosed with cancer annually, of whom a third live less than one year. The timing, nature and value of hospital-based healthcare for patients with advanced cancer are not well understood. The study's aim was to describe the timing and nature of hospital…

PURPOSE: To report the initial clinical experience with fully endovascular extra-anatomic femoro-popliteal bypass (FPB) for limb salvage in patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) and no traditional endovascular or surgical revascularization options. METHODS: Between June 2013 and May 2018, endovascular procedure w…

OBJECTIVES: Violence and bullying in the school setting are a serious social and health problem that have created great alarm in the last few years. We aimed to describe bullying and factors related to this phenomenon in students in the city of Barcelona. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study of a representati…

Sixteen cases of tuberculosis of the knee treated by total knee arthroplasty with followup of 3.4 to 11 years were reviewed. Eight cases were treated with antituberculous chemotherapy for 2 to 20 months before and 1 year after the arthroplasty. Another 8 cases were not diagnosed primarily and therefore received only po…

A 17-year-old female with a 5-year history of disseminated lupus erythematosus has remained without immunosuppressive therapy for the last 3 years. She was admitted to the hospital for acute abdominal pain, generalized edema, and rapidly developing dyspnea and somnolence. Although all symptoms were consistent with acti…

OBJECTIVE: To study the outcome of childhood-onset drug-resistant epilepsy. METHODS: Fifty-five patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, meeting inclusion criteria, were identified from the Pediatric Neurology Clinic database with seizure onset less than age 13 years and a minimum follow-up of 5 years. Seizure remission…

Forty-three patients with hyperparathyroidism (HPT), including 20 atomic bomb survivors (46.5 per cent) were treated surgically in our institute during the last 19 years. The mean age of the patients at the time of atomic bomb exposure (AB*E) was 17.6 +/- 1.5 years. The mean latent interval between atomic bomb exposure…

Of the 239 patients with primary liver cancer treated in our department over the last 13 years, 27 had cholangiocellular carcinoma, and 4 cystic adenocarcinoma of the liver. In this paper, the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocellular carcinoma was reviewed and discussed. Twenty-four (88.9%) of the 27 patients with…

AIM: To investigate the clinical outcomes of bilateral decompression via unilateral approach (BDUA) on degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis in patients over 75 years of age. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Elderly patients (n=41; average age=79.3±2.5 years) who underwent BDUA under spinal anaesthesia between…

BACKGROUND: Job-related stress and its extreme form, burnout, continue to affect almost half of all frontline healthcare workers and first responders. Current treatments are inadequate. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate a model of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) delivered in a group format to address symptoms of anxiety,…

Two patients, a woman aged 34 and a man aged 56, were included in the study. They reported the existence of pain in the areas of the infraorbital nerve, which, over the last four to five years, aggravated by the stimuli of eating, laughing, and being touched. 2 ml of 0.5% lidocaine was administered to these pati…

The modified Barcat technique was used to treat 168 patients with hypospadias during the last 5 years. The technique, which is applicable for distal hypospadias, uses apposing fully mobilized meatal based skin flaps. Cosmetic and functional results are excellent, with only 3.5% of the patients requiring reoperation. Be…

PROBLEM: Within the course of the last ten years, a possible association between carcinoma of the colon and prior cholecystectomy has been discussed. METHODOLOGY: In 342 patients with colorectal carcinoma, and in a control group of 182 patients with gastric carcinoma, the rate of prior cholecystectomy was investigated…

Long-term follow-up of kidney donors is needed not only for the individual donor's benefit but also to establish analyzable databases to improve the selection criteria for future donors. We collected data including the date of transplantation, the date of the last follow-up, donor's age, sex, their relationship to the…

OBJECTIVE: Determine the relationship between the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) value and all-cause mortality in life insurance applicants aged 50 years and over. METHOD: By use of the Social Security Master Death Index, mortality was examined in 115,590 insurance applicants aged 50 and up for whom blood samples for…

BACKGROUND: Barely two per million Belgian children/adolescents are diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) annually. In this retrospective study, we aimed to investigate the diagnostic features, clinical and laboratory characteristics, and treatment outcome of this rare entity. METHODS: Medical records of all p…

Over the last 40 years, imprisonment has become a common stage in the life-course for low-skilled and minority men, with implications not only for inequality among adult men but also for inequality more broadly. Unfortunately, all research documenting how increases in imprisonment have transformed the life-course of po…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The porphyrias are a group of rare, mainly inherited, diseases caused by a deficiency of one of the enzymes of the haem biosynthesis pathway. The biochemical hallmark of an acute attack is an increase in urine porphobilinogen (PBG), together with an increase in urinary excretion of δ-am…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of lateral condyle sliding osteotomy (LCSO) in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for the treatment of lateral femoral bowing deformity. METHODS: The clinical data of 17 patients with lateral femoral bowing deformity treated by LCSO during TKA between July 2018 and July 2020 was…

OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to assess the prevalence and correlates of sexual risk behaviours among adolescents in four Southeast Asian countries. METHODS: In the cross-sectional "Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)", 24,423 adolescents (mean age 14.1 years, SD=1.7) from Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Timo…