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The authors wish to remind of the advantages of an old conservative therapeutic method used in redislocated long bone fractures--cast wedging, Gipskeilung. This mode of treatment makes it possible to restore axial as well as planar dislocation and it is used in corrections of redislocated fractures of the leg and is ap…

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the results of total knee arthroplasty undertaken for Charcot arthritis patients. METHODS: Between September 2000 and January 2007, 4 consecutive patients (2 men and 2 women; 5 TKAs) with Charcot arthritic knees were treated. At the time of surgery, the mean age of the patients was 67.3 years (64…

BACKGROUND: There has been an increase of cannabis-related disorders in Germany during the last 10 years. According treatments are being established, however little is known about the treatment populations. METHODS: The population of an outpatient treatment program for diagnosis and therapy of cannabis-related disorde…

This paper presents preliminary analysis of the nutritional status assessment (NS) and morbidity of low-income children under 5 years of age seen by the Food and Nutritional Surveillance System of a primary health care unit in Rio de Janeiro between 1987 and 1991. The distribution of lengh/stature for age (LSA) was ske…

Horizontal gastroplasty has been performed on 100 pathologically obese patients over the last nine years. In our series, the mean age was 39.3 +/- 8.2 years and the mean body weight was 120.8 +/- 19.6 kg. One year after surgery the average weight loss was 29.7 kg which corresponds to a reduction of 24.6% of the preoper…

In a prospective, controlled, randomized, multicenter study the immunogenicity of a single (day 0) and two (day 0, 28) booster vaccination against diphtheria were compared in subjects who had received their last diphtheria vaccination more than 10 years ago. Both short-term and long-term immunogenicity was assessed by…

Thoracic empyema encompasses a spectrum of inflammatory manifestations ranging from thin parapneumonic pleural effusion to the formation of a thick, constricting rind. The aim of this study is to determine the applicability of thoracoscopically aided pleural debridement (TAPD) in children with complicated empyema and t…

Electromyographic biofeedback is commonly used successfully to treat tension-type headache, while thermal biofeedback is considered the best behavioral therapy for migraine. Ten female patients with episodic common migraine (age 20-35 years, age of disease onset 16.2 +/- 5.1 years, illness duration 13.6 +/- 10.7 years)…

During the last decades considerable progress was made in medical and biomedical techniques, enabling early diagnosis and a better understanding of how tumors develop. At the same time, treatment by surgery has changed, becoming less and less mutilating. In order to analyze loco-regional relapses and factors of prognos…

Important advances have been made in the treatment of haemophilia during the past 30 years. We have analysed the data of all the known 163 patients with severe haemophilia A living in Finland in 1930-79 in order to study changes in the prognosis of severe haemophilia A. During the period of 50 years the mean age at dea…

Optimizing end-of-life (EOL) care for multiple myeloma (MM) represents an unmet need. An administrative cohort in Ontario, Canada was analysed between 2006 and 2018. Aggressive care was defined as two or more emergency-department visits in the last 30 days before death, or at least two new hospitalizations withi…

OBJECTIVE: The authors' aim was to determine whether clozapine was associated with a decrease in state hospital bed-days for patients with chronic schizophrenia. METHODS: Patients were started on clozapine in a state facility and were followed while taking the medication for 1.5 years (N = 172), two years (N = 86), an…

Polydiacetylenes (PDAs) are a family of mechanochromic polymers that change color from blue to red and emit fluorescence when exposed to external stimuli, making them extremely popular materials in biosensing. Although several informative reviews on PDA biosensing have been reported in the last few years, their mechano…

OBJECTIVE: The reported prevalence rate of bile duct cysts is very low. However, the clinical presentation of bile duct cysts is common to other hepatobiliary diseases. In this article, we report on a series of patients who have been surgically treated over the last 15 years. MATERIAL AND METHOD: All the patients who…

Seventeen clinico-pathological cases of leukoencephalopathy due to vascular diseases are reported. All of them had diffuse, often spotty demyelination sparing the U fibers, the corpus callosum, the internal capsule and the optic radiations. Microscopic examination of the white matter showed the association of the follo…

About 3000 refugees from Vietnam have come to Norway in the last 5 years. A survey, including a clinical and radiographic examination for caries and gingival health, was carried out on 142 refugees. They were aged from 2 to 18 years and were examined within 6 weeks of arrival in Norway. The mean dmfs score of subjects…

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of Zero-P and ROI-C devices applied to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) surgery of cervical degenerative disc disease (CDDD). METHODS: From January 2020 and December 2020, 56 patients with CDDD who underwent ACDF using Zero-P or ROI-C were inc…

Our aim in this study is to report the long-term renal outcome of a cohort of Saudi children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). All patients with childhood lupus nephritis (cLN) proved by renal biopsy seen between January 2000 and June 2015 were reviewed. The renal outcome was assessed according to serum creatini…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the functional and clinical outcomes of anterior tibial tendon transfer in patients with relapsed or residual clubfoot deformity presenting with dynamic supination and forefoot adduction after treatment with the Ponseti method. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective multicentre review was conduc…

During the last 15 years in the Pathology Laboratory of Aretaieion University Hospital, 256 cases of teratomas were examined and 11 cases (4.3%) presented characteristics of struma ovarii. Eight patients aged 19-34 years and four 41-74 years (median 41 years). One 74-year-old patient presented with virilization signs b…