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OBJECTIVE: To describe age and sex-specific prevalence of cancer in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) hospitalizations in the United States over the last decade. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective serial cross-sectional study using all primary AIS discharges (weighted n=5,748,358) with and without cancer in the 2007-2019…

PURPOSE: To explore whether epidemiological shifts regarding reproduction and pregnancy have influenced the spectrum of indications for late termination of singleton pregnancies (TOP) above 17 weeks of gestation and to evaluate temporal changes in maternal demographics and fetal indications over the last 16 y…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of the Evans lateral lengthening calcaneal osteotomy (E-LLCOT) in treatment of talocalcaneal coalition (TCC) with hindfoot valgus deformity. METHODS: Between January 2014 and October 2017, 10 patients (13 feet) of TCC with hindfoot valgus deformities underwent E-LLCOTs. Ther…

PURPOSE: The spectrum of intraocular and systemic findings in patients with ocular syphilis is described. Persistent visual dysfunction and structural abnormality, in spite of targeted antibiotic therapy, were identified and analysed. METHODS: Patients with ocular syphilis who were treated at University Hospital Zuric…

To observe the outcomes of total hip arthroplasty in patients with stiff hip and moderate or severe leg length discrepancy and to explore the strategy for balance recovery.A retrospective review was conducted on the clinical data of 30 patients who had stiff hip and moderate or severe leg length discrepancy treated wit…

BACKGROUND: Unintended pregnancy is an important reproductive health problem in both developed and developing countries and is most prominent in low-middle income countries. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the total fertility rate is high at 5.9 births per women, and a mother's probabily of dying at an age bet…

BACKGROUND: Peritoneal carcinomatosis is an increasingly common finding in gastric carcinoma. Previously, patients were treated as terminal, and median survival was poor. The use of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in this context is still highly debatable. OBJECTIVE: T…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate effectiveness of long-term treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG) with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). BACKGROUND: There are no definitive studies showing effectiveness of IVIG therapy in long-term treatment of MG. Most studies have investigated the acute treatment of MG with IVIG. We describ…

The chemo-thermal oxidation method at 375°C (CTO-375) has been widely used to quantify black carbon (BC) in sediments. In the present study, CTO-375 was tested and adapted for application to soil, accounting for some matrix specific properties like high organic carbon (≤ 39%) and carbonate (≤ 37%) co…

Over the last 20 years at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna 20 cases of chondrosarcoma (CS) of the thoracic wall (14 males, 6 females, mean age 49 years) have been submitted to surgery. Localization was costal in 11 cases, costosternal in 3, sternal in 3, costovertebral in 3. The most frequent histological v…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate suicide attempts in pediatric population and analyze the morbimortality. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We have reviewed thirty reports from twenty six patients hospitalized in UCIP by suicide attempts with an average age of 15.5 years (range 11-19) between January 1991 and Apri…

The study analysed the incidence of subjects with tuberculosis who were sputum positive and with at least one drug resistance of the bacilli was observed. The number of such cases in the total population of sputum positive cases in the years 1966-1992. In this period a marked decrease of patients with drug resistance w…

Very few reports in the literature have dealt with lumbar disc herniation in the elderly and its treatment by chymopapain chemonucleolysis. Between September 1981 and May 1991, 42 patients aged between 60 and 80 years were treated by chemonucleolysis for lumbar disc herniation. The clinical symptoms and signs, similar…

A total population study of children, aged 13 years and under, suggested that there has been an apparent rise in the frequency of autistic disorder and autistic-like conditions (excluding Asperger's syndrome) in one area of western Sweden over the last ten years. The frequency was 4.0/100,000 in 1980, 7.5/10,000 in 198…

Sixteen hospitalized patients, aged between 10 and 76 years (mean: 34.3 years), with bacterial meningitis were treated i.v. with cefoperazone at daily doses of 4.5 g to 9 g. In two cases ampicillin was given in combination with cefoperazone during the last four days and the first five days of treatment, respectively. T…

From a total of 1,152 consecutive patients with heart valve replacement (1964-87) 108 patients (9.4%) had to be reoperated. Mechanical valves had to be replaced (n = 89) mainly because of perivalvular leakage followed by prosthetic stenosis and dysfunction. The lowest reoperation rate was found with Björk-Shiley p…

For 30 years, GH deficient children have been treated with human GH. Earlier, therapy was given by intramuscular injections, but recently subcutaneous injections have been used. For the last few years, many children have been given daily injections, which have proved more effective. The form in which GH is supplied and…

This paper represents a historical analysis of the results achieved by esophageal cancer surgery over the last three decades, as they appear in the literature of the years 1954-1985, and in our own experience between 1965 and 1985, with the aim of assessing the evolution of operative mortality and long-term survival. I…

20 medulloblastomas in children were treated at the Neurosurgical Department of Perugia over the last 6 years. The age ranged between 1.2 and 15 years, with a mean of 8 years. The ratio between males and females was 3/1. Only three tumors were localized within one cerebellar hemisphere. A shunt was performed before the…

The recent literature still reports a high incidence of delirium in patients operated with extracorporeal circulation. This syndrome is found more often in patients over 50 years and in patients with a previous history of delirium, alcoholism, drug addiction or cerebral damage and is more frequent after valvular than a…