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BACKGROUND: Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) are susceptible to a variety of bacterial infections, including infections caused by Salmonella species. We sought to identify the most common infections caused by Salmonella spp. in SCD patients at our hospital, and to determine their mortality rates and susceptibili…

We studied survival and disease complications in 1,146 patients with thalassemia major, born from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1987. At last follow-up, in March 1997, probability of survival to age 20 years was 89% and to age 25 years was 82% for patients born in the years 1970-1974. Patients who died had a serum fe…

: Despite the National Plan for the Elimination of Measles and congenital Rubella (NPEMcR), in 2017, a measles outbreak occurred in Italy, due to sub-optimal vaccination coverage (<95%) for many years. Since that year, the anti-measles vaccination became compulsory in minors (0-16 years) for school attendance. The aim…

Over the past 4 years, our pediatric orthopedic unit has developed a new hybrid protocol combining the advantages of Ponseti's method and the French functional physiotherapy method. Sixty-one patients (92 feet) completed treatment. Clubfoot was unilateral in 30 (49.2%) patients and bilateral in 31 (50.8%) patients. The…

The authors present their experience in diagnosis, therapy and follow up of the Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome (PAES) during the last 26 years. PAES appears most frequently in young athletic male patients. From 1967 to 1993, 20 patients, 17 male (85%) and 3 female (15%), with 26 entrapment legs were treated. Aver…

The treatment goal algorithm for psoriasis, first originated in 2007, has ever since been adopted into treatment guidelines. It remained unclear how many patients have experienced the use of treatment goals in routine care and how these are perceived. The aim of the pilot study was to get first insight in the use and i…

AIMS: Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC, Byler's disease) is an autosomal recessive disorder resulting in liver fibrosis/cirrhosis and liver insufficiency. Before the 1990s, liver transplantation was the only effective therapy for these children. During the last 12 years, two alternative methods of su…

The possibility that hypokalaemia might increase the mortality of treated hypertensives in the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic has been examined by comparison of serum potassium in decedents and survivors and by calculation of age-adjusted mortality rates for patients grouped in quartiles of serum potassium measured at t…

BACKGROUND: Age at onset of large-vessel vasculitis (LVV) is commonly used to distinguish giant cell arteritis (GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TA). However, LVV between age 50 and 60&#x202f;years may be difficult to classify. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study including LVV aged between 50 and 60&#x202f;years a…

To address the impacts of past climate changes, particularly since the last glacial period, on the history of the distribution and demography of marine species, we investigated the evolutionary and demographic responses of the intertidal batillariid gastropod, Batillaria attramentaria, to these changes, using the snail…

The purpose of this study was to catalogue spleen and liver features by US in a cohort of 103 pediatric patients with Gaucher disease, and to document response to enzyme replacement therapy by serial US examination. There were 42 boys and 61 girls, 2 were splenectomized. Forty-eight patients received enzyme replacement…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ab-interno canaloplasty combined with microstent implantation in patients with severe glaucoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included patients with severe glaucoma (mean age 74.6&#xb1;8.7 years), predominantly primary open-angle (90%). All eyes underwen…

Montgomery, TR Jr, Olmos, A, Sears, KN, Succi, PJ, Hammer, SM, Bergstrom, HC, Hill, EC, Trevino, MA, and Dinyer-McNeely, TK. Influence of blood flow restriction on neuromuscular function and fatigue during forearm flexion in men. J Strength Cond Res 38(7): e349-e358, 2024-To determine the effects of blood flow restrict…

OBJECTIVE: To explore the method and effect of small incision TightRope fixation in the treatment of fresh acromioclavicular joint dislocation. METHODS: From January 2016 to May 2018, 28 cases of fresh acromioclavicular dislocation were treated, including 20 males and 8 females, aged 26 to 87 years with an average age…

BACKGROUND: The method of evaluating office blood pressure (OBP) varies greatly among different guidelines. OBJECTIVES: We performed a cohort study to compare the association of various directly transferred attended automated OBP (AOBP) estimations with all-cause and cardiovascular mortalities. METHODS: Overall, 475&…

INTRODUCTION: Drug traffickers are increasingly making use of the human body for illegal drug transport. Three ways of intracorporeal drug transport are practiced, namely "body packing", "body stuffing" and "body pushing". Since police and border guards cannot accurately detect intracorporeal drug transport, authoritie…

OBJECTIVES: To define the frequency of cytomegalovirus disease among kidney transplant patients in an intensive care unit in which this complication was suspected and to identify predisposing factors and their possible impact on clinical outcome. METHODS: Retrospective observational study in which kidney transplant pa…

UNLABELLED: Cannabis use is rising in the USA. Its relationship to cannabinoid signaling in bone cells implies its use could affect bone mineral density (BMD) in the population. In a national survey of people ages 20-59, we found no association between self-reported cannabis use and BMD of the hip or spine. INTRODUCTI…

BACKGROUND: Aging and increasing comorbidity is changing the end-of-life experience of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the developed world. We quantified, at a population level, the receipt of health care services and associated costs across a comprehensive set of sectors among decedents with and without HIV. METHOD…

Cystinuria is a genetic cause of recurrent kidney stones which may be more recurrent and larger than more common non-cystine stones. They may have a greater impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We measured this impact by surveying HRQoL in patients with stones, comparing non-cystine stone formers (NCSF) to…