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PURPOSE: Pediatric cancer survivors may have lower quality of life (QoL), but most research has assessed outcomes either in treatment or long-term survivorship. We focused on early survivorship (i.e., 3 and 5 years post-diagnosis), examining the impact of CNS-directed treatment on child QoL, as well as sex and age at d…

BACKGROUND: The decrease in the magnitude of stunting over the past 20 years has been slow in Ethiopia. To date, in Ethiopia, the trends in and extent of inequality in stunting have not been investigated using methods suitably developed for disparity studies. This paper investigated both the extent and overtime dy…

STUDY DESIGN: Systematic review. OBJECTIVE: We systematically reviewed the level of clinical evidence presented at Cervical Spine Research Society annual meetings from 2008 through 2017. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The Cervical Spine Research Society is dedicated to advancing knowledge of the cervical spine to promot…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the early effectiveness of three-point suture technique in treatment of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tibial eminence avulsion fracture by arthroscopy. METHODS: Between January 2016 and December 2017, 12 patients with ACL tibial eminence avulsion fractures underwent arthroscopic fixation o…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of open reduction and trans-carpometacarpal joint internal fixation with mini locked-plate for treatment of comminuted fracture of base of the fifth metacarpal. METHODS: Between July 2015 and December 2017, 8 cases of comminuted fractures of base of the fifth metacarpals were t…

OBJECTIVES: In this study, we aimed to answer the following questions: (i) Do patients with tibial pilon fractures treated with an ankle hinge Ilizarov external fixator have a better ankle function versus ankle fixed? (ii) Is the incidence of posttraumatic arthrosis lower in patients treated with an ankle hinge Ilizaro…

N-Heterocyclic carbenes, despite being isolated and characterized three decades ago, still capture scientists' interest as versatile, modular and strongly coordinating moieties. In the last decade, driven by the increasingly refined fundamental understanding of their behaviour, the emergence of new carbene frameworks a…

In last few years, the shortage of molybdenum-99 (99Mo) was felt in the developed and developing countries hospitals, where diagnostic nuclear medicine is practiced. To overcome the shortage of 99Mo various routes of its production by accelerators and reactors generating low and high specific activity products have bee…

Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common form of severe antibody deficiency. The disorder is associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, including infections and chronic lung, gastrointestinal and autoimmune diseases. A 29-year-old female patient has had frequent sinopulmonary infecti…

Monolithic column is a continuous unitary porous structure prepared by in-situ polymerization or consolidation inside the column tubing. Monolithic columns have been attracted great attention due to their simple preparation procedure, high permeability and high mass transfer rate. Big progress on the technology and met…

Social commentators have argued that changes over the last decades have coalesced to create a relatively unique generation of young people. However, using large samples of U.S. high-school seniors from 1976 to 2006 (Total N = 477,380), we found little evidence of meaningful change in egotism, self-enhancement, individu…

Over the last decade, bone marrow transplantation has been employed with increasing frequency in an attempt to treat a variety of malignant processes--including acute and chronic leukemia, lymphomas, and a variety of solid tumors. This review attempts to summarize the progress that has been made over the last 10 years…

The information about outcomes at 5 years in patients receiving transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has grown. We interpreted the information on this topic using the restricted mean survival time (RMST). The purpose of our study was to summarise the current evidence using an original outcome measure with pote…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of subsequent pregnancy after peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) on maternal and fetal outcome. METHODS: Prospective study of 34 patients with the diagnosis of PPCM (mean age = 26 years). At the time of first diagnosis 5 were in NYHA functional class (FC) II for heart failure, one in FC I…

During the course of 16 years, i. e. from 1953 to 1968 inclusively, a total of 2111 patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated at the Oncological Institute in Brno. Of these, 1829 patients, i. e. 86.6% were irradiated, 282, i. e. 13.4% underwent primarily a radical excision and subsequently were irradia…

The variations in the distribution of solar radiation due to the  ~ 10 years Milankovitch cycle, which is connected to the Earth eccentricity variation, cannot explain the sharp drop in temperature of 6 °C ÷ 10 °C that marks the transition from the interglacial…

BACKGROUND: Acute Pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory pathology with large regional variations in incidence and etiology. AIM: The aim of the study was to provide a description of the epidemiologic situation of AP in Albanian population, regarding incidence, etiology and severity of the disease. METHODS: We have stu…

Adult intussusception is rare. It represents only 5% of all intussusceptions and 1% of bowel obstruction. Clinical presentations are usually variable with a variety of acute, intermittent and chronic symptoms. It is associated with an underlying pathologic process in 90% of cases. A lack of Malaysia data prompted revie…

In Hungary valve replacement is still a major indication for heart surgery in adults. In the Cardiovascular Surgical Clinic of Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest from 1976 to 1990 2435 patients were operated for valve disease. Majority of the cases had single (aortic n = 856, mitral n = 912) or double (aortic +…