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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…

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…

OBJECTIVE: Tentorial meningiomas are complex lesions that may not always be completely resected without significant morbidity or mortality. In this study, we evaluate the outcomes of tentorial meningiomas treated with Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS). METHODS: We performed a retrospective review of a prospectively comp…

The rate of frostbite was examined with questionnaires filled by 1095 reindeer herders frequently exposed to cold, in particular in driving snowmobiles in the winter. Altogether 443 frostbite injuries, most (72%) of them on the face, had occurred during the last two years, especially when driving a snowmobile. The prev…

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…

Febrile children of both sexes, aged between 0-15 years coming to the Civil Hospital over the last 12 years had their blood tested for malarial parasite. Five hundred and twenty-six slides positive for Plasmodium were analysed for species and stage identification. Of the total 59.3% children with malaria were between 5…

IMPORTANCE: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections cause anogenital cancers and warts. The 9-valent HPV vaccine provides protection against 7 high-risk types of HPV responsible for 90% of cervical cancers and 2 other HPV types accounting for 90% of genital warts. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether HPV type-specific antibo…

BACKGROUND: Mean organ donor age has increased in recent years, conditioned by causes of death and population profile. We analyzed organ donation in Galicia during the last 8 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed donors in Galicia between 2000 and 2007, studying age, cause of death, donation effectiveness, and org…

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…

The paper reports on the casuistics of the colon cancer in the Clinic of Surgery of the "Griviţa" Clinical Hospital, for 21 years (1966-1986) with emphasis on the situs peculiarities on the right and left colon. Whereas the left colon cancer (LCC) started in 32% of cases with subocclusive and occlusive syndromes…

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…

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…

To evaluate patient compliance with Papanicolaou (Pap) smear screening after tubal ligation compared with other methods of birth control in patients who develop cervical cancer, a retrospective review of 262 women with cervical cancer diagnosed at age < or = 70 years was undertaken at the Albert Einstein College of Med…

BACKGROUND: This study reports early mortality and survival from colorectal cancer in relation to the pattern of treatments delivered by the multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting at a high-volume institution in England over 14 years. METHODS: All patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer and discussed during MDT meetin…

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…

BACKGROUND: Congenital nephrotic syndrome is difficult to manage, particularly the Finnish type (CNF), with patients experiencing severe edema, sepsis and thrombosis before kidney transplantation. Further, nephrosis and thrombosis remain problematic after transplantation. METHODS: Of 22 CNF patients managed at our hos…

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…