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OBJECTIVE: Revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) imposes physical and financial burdens on patients and depletes limited medical resources. Causes for revision THAs can change as technology changes. Therefore, understanding contemporary causes is essential for clinical decision-making. We analyzed causes and trends ass…

OBJECTIVES: To study clinical characteristics of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in Kuwait and to collect data on annual relapse rates and disability measures. METHOD: An MS Registry was created in Amiri Hospital. Demographic, clinical characteristics, and disability measures using Expanded Disability Status Scale (E…

BACKGROUND: GNE myopathy is a clinicopathologically distinct distal myopathy with autosomal-recessive inheritance. The GNE gene mutations are known to cause this form of distal myopathy MATERIALS AND METHODS: Over the last 6 years, a total of 54 patients from 48 families were diagnosed to have GNE myopathy based on th…

IMPORTANCE: Interval breast cancers (IBCs) are cancers that emerge after a mammogram with negative results but before the patient's next scheduled screening. Interval breast cancer has a worse prognosis than cancers detected by screening; however, it is unknown whether the length of the interscreening period is associa…

OBJECTIVE: To present our 15 years' experience in the management of 67 pregnancies in renal allograft recipients in Egypt. METHODS: A retrospective study of 67 pregnancies that occurred in 41 renal allograft recipients over the last 15 years. The study was performed in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Nephro…

As a pilot investigation for a longitudinal study of psychoanalytic careers, a survey was conducted of analysts who graduated during the last fifteen years from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Graduates were asked to describe both their analytic practice and their interest in pu…

In a large paediatric renal unit over the last 14 years, 19 children (10 male and 9 female, aged 1 week to 16 years, mean 7 years) with renal artery stenosis (RAS) were evaluated. Transplant RAS cases were not included. All 19 children were hypertensive. In 10 this was an incidental finding. Based on clinical findings…

Magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain in 285 patients between the ages of 2 and 25 years were retrospectively studied to determine the appearance of brain iron accumulation. The globus pallidus, red nucleus, substantia nigra, and dentate nucleus were evaluated with long TR/TE (repetition time/echo time) spin-echo…

BACKGROUND: Custom-made transparent facial orthoses (TFOs) (face masks) are used to improve facial burn scars. We conducted a systematic literature review on TFO manufacture and use. METHODS: Pubmed and Cochrane databases were searched without restrictions for relevant articles. TFO manufacture details and use accordi…

The results of studies in Quaternary geology, archeology, paleoanthropology and human genetics demonstrate that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in mid-latitude North America mainly along the Pacific Northwest Coast, but had previously inhabited the Arctic and during the last glacial maximum were in a refugium…

BACKGROUND: Functional neurological disorders (FND), a subtype of functional disorders (FD), are a frequent motive for neurology referrals. The various presentations and the unknown physiopathology of FD have led to the multiplication of terms describing these disorders over the years. METHODS: We examined the FD-rela…

Dietary habits are a determining factor of the higher incidence and prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In the aim to find a possible preventive and intervention strategy, the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) has been proposed as an effective approach. Within the MedDiet, moderate wine consumption with…

The merging of small-scale syntheses and rapid crystallization methods have provided access to crystalline samples of berkelium (Z=97) and californium (Z=98) coordination complexes and compounds that can be interrogated with a suite of spectroscopic tools and structural elucidation approaches that have come online over…

BACKGROUND: In the last years, the production and applications of nanoparticles based on iron oxides in the field of biomedicine presented a great interest due to their particular properties. Because of the expansion of the pharmaceutical industry numerous new systems for drugs delivery have appeared, and those centere…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between pre-symptom onset live births and functional outcome in women with inflammatory polyarthritis (IP). METHODS: 1872 women with no subsequent pregnancies were registered with the Norfolk Arthritis Register between 1990 and 2004 and followed-up for a median of 5 years. Fu…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incident and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and prediabetes in obese children in the last ten years. METHODS: The clinical data of hospitalized children with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) or obesity between October 2000 and September 2011 were retrospectively studi…

BACKGROUND: A series of preliminary research projects on plants used in Calabria (Southern Italy) in veterinary science and in other ethno-botanical fields (minor nourishment, domestic and handicraft sector) was carried out in the last twenty years. From the ethno-botanical point of view, Calabria is one of the most in…

A number of recent studies have attempted to trace diet at different stages of an individual's life by comparing isotope ratios of bone from different gross anatomical sites within the skeleton. In this study we develop this approach further by separating bone of differing mineral densities within one skeletal element,…

The muskox (Ovibos moschatus) is the largest terrestrial herbivore in the Arctic and plays a vital role in the tundra ecosystem [1-4]. Its range, abundance, and genetic diversity have declined dramatically over the past 30,000 years [5]. Two subspecies are recognized, but little is known about the genetic structure and…

PURPOSE: To assess the clinical outcome and survival of an inlay resurfacing prosthesis for focal femoral condyle chondral and osteochondral defects. METHODS: Two hundred sixty-six patients (mean age, 38.25 years; range 25-56 years) with symptomatic femoral condyle chondral and osteochondral defects were rev…