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The large scale employment in recent years of vasoactive drugs in the treatment of impotence forms the basis for a significant statistical study on incidence of complications and collateral effects. We studied 658 patients submitted to ICF (intracavernous pharmacoinfusion) diagnostic and therapeutic in the last 6 years…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the surgical management of rigid post-traumatic thoracolumbar kyphosis (RPTK) by simultaneous posterior-anterior circumferential releasing, correction and anterior corpectomy with preserved posterior vertebral wall. METHODS: Twenty patients with RPTK were treated between October 2004 and October…

Between October 1973 and mid-January 1987, 500 patients underwent a modified Fontan operation at the Mayo Clinic. This included 163 patients with tricuspid atresia, 154 patients with double inlet ventricle, and 183 patients with other complex single ventricle malformations. There have been 80 hospital deaths (16%). In…

PURPOSE: To determine the long-term cognitive outcomes in children who underwent intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. METHODS: This single-center study enrolled 186 children between 3 and 6 years of age and included 101 children in the final analysis:…

BACKGROUND: Every year more than half million mother die due to pregnancy related preventable causes like haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis, and obstructed labour and unsafe abortion. Among these deaths 99% occur in developing countries. The study was conducted to assess the maternal death rate and to analyse…

INTRODUCTION: Some studies have considered abdominal aortas of 2.6-2.9 cm diameter (ectatic aortas) at age 65 years as being abnormal and have recommended surveillance, whereas others have considered these normal and surveillance unnecessary. It is, therefore, not clear how to manage patients with an initial aortic dia…

IMPORTANCE: Choroidal nevus is a precursor for uveal melanoma and there are no known risk factors besides white race. Female sex hormones have been hypothesized to play a role in the pathogenesis of uveal melanoma. OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between female reproductive factors and choroidal nevus in the US…

BACKGROUND: In the Romagna Region of Italy, mammography screening for breast carcinoma (BC) was implemented as a routine practice in the regular healthcare system. The Romagna Cancer Registry evaluated the effects of self-selection for mammography on the stage of BC at the time of presentation. METHODS: Of the 851 inv…

PURPOSE: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) can serve as adjunctive treatment for vestibular schwannomas (VS) for residual or recurrent tumor after surgical resection. However, it is poorly understood whether prior surgical resection influences the risk of facial nerve injury from GKRS. METHODS: An institutional database…

To describe temporal trend and characteristics of newly HIV-diagnosed patients in a medical care area in Northwest Spain over the last 10 years. All newly diagnosed patients for HIV-infection from 2004 to 2013 at a reference medical care area in Northwest of Spain were identified. Epidemiological, virological, immunolo…

BACKGROUND: Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a rare and aggressive primary brain tumor. While high dose methotrexate (HDMTX) regimens remain standard of care, it remains unclear if optimization of HDMTX doses and the addition of rituximab provide clinical benefit. Over the last 30 years, standard care…

BACKGROUND: The dismembered pyeloplasty is the operation of choice for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO). Recently, with the advent of improved minimally invasive techniques and equipment, laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty has gained popularity. We present our experience with a minimally invasive open pyelop…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the femoral head-shaft angle (HSA) is a predictor of hip displacement in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: The patients were recruited from a population-based hip surveillance program. Inclusion criteria were age under 5 years, bilateral CP, Gross Mot…

Through socio-hygienic monitoring of the Northern administrative district of Moscow in 2006-2010 the study of nutritional status and morbidity rates for alimentary-associated diseases of the digestive tract, the endocrine system, cardiovascular diseases and obesity - was conducted in children (5-11 years old), adolesce…

Changes in sex hormones and bone turnover were studied longitudinally in 31 women aged 47-54 years who were approaching the menopause. Every 6 weeks for 2-3 years, hormones and biochemical estimates of the bone turnover were determined and the bone mass was measured at two forearm sites by single photon absorptiometry.…

Through the potency monitoring program at the University of Mississippi supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a total of 18108 samples of cannabis preparations have been analyzed over the last decade, using a validated GC/FID method. The samples are classified as sinsemilla, marijuana, ditchweed, hashis…

BACKGROUND: SELENON-related myopathy (SELENON-RM) is a rare congenital myopathy characterized by slowly progressive axial muscle weakness, rigidity of the spine, scoliosis, and respiratory insufficiency. Laminin-a2-related muscular dystrophy (LAMA2-MD) has a similar clinical phenotype, which ranges from severe, early-o…

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…