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A study on the frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) urogenital infection comprised 2393 patients (1,197 women and 1,196 men), aged 18-69 years. Urethral and cervical specimens were tested using immunofluorescent (DFA) for symptomatic and immunoenzymatic techniques (EIA, IMx, Vidas-ELFA) for asymptomatic patients. Ba…

During the last 3 years, random urine samples from 408 patients were tested for elevated homovanillic acid (HVA) and vanillylmandelic acid (VMA) levels to rule out the diagnosis of neuroblastoma. Thirty-seven of these patients had elevated HVA and/or VMA levels, and neuroblastoma was subsequently diagnosed. In three ad…

BACKGROUND: Whether primary aldosteronism (PA), the most common endocrine cause of hypertension (HTN), contributes to HTN and cardiovascular disease burden in systemic sclerosis (SSc) has never been explored. We aimed to assess the prevalence and management of HTN, prevalence of positive PA screening test results and t…

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus infection is a major public health problem in India, and all health-care workers (HCWs) need to be immunized to prevent occupational exposure. This study was done to find the hepatitis B vaccination rates, immune response, and predictors of titer <10 mIU/ml among students and HCWs of a ter…

INTRODUCTION: Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI) has been the first technique in reconstruction of a valid articular surface. The aim of this study was to evaluate clinical results of this technique at an average follow up of 162&#xb1;27months (range 88-208) in a group of patients who underwent ACI. MATERIALS A…

OBJECTIVES: In patients with localized prostate cancer and life expectancy longer than 10 years, radical prostatectomy (RP) remains the Gold Standard. Radical surgery must achieve good oncological and functional outcomes with early continence and potency. In expert hands RP offers very low post-prostatectomy urinary in…

BACKGROUND: Clinical heart disease was recognized in the first descriptions of Friedreich's ataxia (FA). Cardiac manifestations reported for this progressive neurologic disease include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, and electrophysiologic disturbances. Longitudinal data for childhood cases are lim…

BACKGROUND: Surgical myocardial revascularization without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is not new, with the first consecutive series of patients appearing in the early eighties. There has been increased interest in this alternative approach, especially in patients with comorbidities. There is controversy regarding adva…

Multiple primary cancers in 30,386 consecutive autopsy cases from 1883 to 1982 in Tokyo University Hospital and 273,796 registered autopsy cases from 1974 to 1982 in Japan were examined. The frequency of multiple primary cancers among all cancers at Tokyo University Hospital was less than 0.5% until 1940. From 1960, it…

BACKGROUND: Implantation of the Actifitpolyurethane meniscal scaffold in patients who have pain after partial meniscectomy provides short-term pain relief and better function. But there is a lack of information about medium-term outcomes. The objective of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the MRI and functional o…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Real-life (or real-world) studies can provide information that cannot be derived from randomized controlled trials. This approach is currently becoming of relevance for many treatments. In recent years, the real-life method has been applied also to allergen immunotherapy, providing new insights on it…

Cancer-related mortality have been declining in the last decades. Approximately half of adults and more than two thirds of children oncological patients live longer than 5 years after diagnosis. However, this optimistic scenario has been counterbalanced by an increasing cardiovascular risk in cancer patients. Atheroscl…

INTRODUCTION: Proliferating trichilemmal tumour defined with more than one terms by many author, after well documentated series reported as "proliferating epidermoid cysts" by Wilson-Jones, firstly in 1966. They are rare, slowly growing, lobular masses inherited autosomal dominantly and localized on scalps of older wom…

In Japan, we have been engaged in the standardization of clinical laboratory testing for more than 30 years for the purposes of (1) development of reference materials, (2) development of external quality control system and validation. As a result, we have been able to control % CV of enzyme measurements such as AST, AL…

In the last 5 years in our hospital was operated 25 patients with pelvisubperitoneal tumors. Major clinical symptoms are compression and body mass effect. The localization and tumors dimensions, are established by CT and RMI. Surgical resection, difficult by the relations with iliac vessels and nerves, was do it in sub…

Since the first successful laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 1987, surgeons have begun to focus their attention on more diverse procedures. The last few years have brought a tremendous amount of enthusiasm toward laparoscopic surgery, which has finally reached the colorectal surgical communities. Currently,…

Ten children with intra abdominal lymphatic cysts operated in the last 8 years are reported. They formed 0.50% of all pediatric surgical admissions and 33.3% of all intra-abdominal cystic lesions. The mean age was 5 1/2 years and the male-female ratio was 1:1. Half the cysts were in the mesentery and 30% in the omentum…

Haemophilus influenzae is a frequent causal agent of serious infections in infants. Mostly these infections occur at the age of 3 months to 3 years. Reports about infections in the neonatal period were rare in the past and most of them were single cases. In the last years an increase of neonatal infections due to Haemo…

A total of 50 patients with primary malignant melanomas received epifocal DNCB therapy. In 46 cases the tumors disappeared completely. Therefore, we partly refrained from excision of the treated area. Only 4 melanomas of great thickness did not respond satisfactorily. In the treatment of cutaneous metastases, however,…

This article reports our experience with 101 polytetrafluoreoethylene and 102 umbilical vein grafts inserted into the femoropopliteal and femorocrural arteries of 98 and 97 patients, respectively, during the last 5 years. These grafted extremities are compared to 416 saphenous vein grafts placed in similar arteries of…