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From 24.10.1969 to 31.12.1986, seventeen years, 1274 infants and children with proven isolated ventricular septal defect were observed and followed in Pediatric Cardiology of Santa Marta Hospital. There were 659 males and 615 females, ranging from 3 days to 12 years, born in portuguese territory and without syndromes.…

UNLABELLED: The retrospective cohort study surveys the influence of age, co-morbidity and laboratory values on FVIII-activity (FVIII:C) in patients with haemophilia A with (mild n = 48, moderate n = 10, severe n = 7 and carriers n = 23). Median observation was 19 years for patients with haemophilia A and 9,5 years for…

Epidemiology of allergic eye diseases has not been sufficiently studied so far. The first statistical studies regarded the coexistence of allergic conjunctivitis together with allergic rhinitis, as rhinoconjunctivitis. Only in the last 10 years eye allergy has been regarded as a separate epidemiological and clinical pr…

Few published works are available that provide a comprehensive description of tracking procedures. This article describes the data collection tracking protocol that was used in Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), to follow high-risk youth over a 5 1/2 year period. Youth were followed from 1994 through 2000. A…

PURPOSE: This paper presents the results of the last seven years with LASIK for the treatment of myopia. METHODS: 4170 eyes of 3163 patients with a mean preoperative spherical equivalent--9.66 diopters were submitted to LASIK. The eyes were divided in three groups according to the preoperative refraction: Group A (-5…

Between 1978 and 1988 5,035 urinary calculi have been analysed by X-ray diffractometry. 1,615 of these stones have additionally been investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The overall sex-ratio was 1.86 (m/f). Ca-stones and uric acid containing stones are more frequent in male patients (m/f = 2.08 and 3.86…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the extent to which asbestos use ban has affected global trends in malignant mesothelioma. This study investigated recent global mortality trends of malignant mesothelioma. METHODS: Data were collected from International Agency for Research on Cancer/World Health Organiz…

The aim of this study was to analyse the role of women's sociodemographic and healthcare access characteristics according to breast cancer screening practices (organized, individual or no screening). A cross-sectional study was set up in seven French districts using a self-administered postal questionnaire. Randomizati…

UNLABELLED: Esophageal resection is still today associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Minimally invasive procedures show a significantly lower rate of such complications and therefore might also be associated with a lower surgical risk. However, publications till date contain little or no data on the extent o…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the viability of giving implants to children <2 years old and to assess the development of speech perception. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective study with a follow-up period of 1-5 years. SETTING: New York University Medical Center. PATIENTS: The patients consisted of 11 consecutive profoundly deaf…

Sixty-six patients of all ages whose renal biopsy appearances satisfied strict criteria for the histopathological diagnosis of membranous nephropathy were studied and followed for a mean of 5-4 years (range 1 to 20 years). From initial investigation seven patients were found to have associated neoplasia, and in two pat…

BACKGROUND: We hypothesized that children with congenital solitary functioning kidney (CSFK) present forms of congenital urinary tract anomalies (CUTA) with higher chance of spontaneous resolution compared with patients with two kidneys. METHODS: We retrospectively selected 75 consecutive children with CUTA of the CSF…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe end-of-life (EOL) care in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) who died of cancer compared with mentally healthy individuals. METHODS: This was a nationwide cohort study of all adult individuals who died of cancer in hospitals in France between 2013 and 2016. Outcomes were com…

Climate-induced tree mortality became a global phenomenon during the last century and it is expected to increase in many regions in the future along with a further increase in the frequency of drought and heat events. However, tree mortality at the ecosystem level remains challenging to quantify since long-term, tree-i…

OBJECTIVES: To describe patterns of ED utilisation over time, by patient age group and triage classification. METHODS: Secondary analysis of data from all patients presenting to EDs in Victoria utilising the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD) for the years 2002-2013. The VEMD includes all hospitals in Victoria…

Early intervention is necessary in neonates with critical aortic stenosis. The advent of alternate therapy, particularly balloon aortic valvuloplasty, requires a reappraisal of the traditional surgical approach, including the efficacy of initial transvalvar gradient reduction and freedom from recurrence of obstruction…

Death in conditions of cachexia is increasing in potential dialysis patients, as treated cohorts are aging, the mean age of new patients increased and access to treatment is unlimited. The present study analyzes the clinical features of 417 deaths in conditions of cachexia recorded in 1981 to 1990 in the Dialysis and T…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk of developing ocular inflammation in the setting of sarcoidosis among non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Black/African American populations (BAA). DESIGN: Retrospective, population-based cohort study PARTICIPANTS: Participants were aged &#x2265;18 years, diagnosed with sarcoidosis in the last 1…

BACKGROUND: Young mothers aged 15 to 24&#xa0;years are particularly at higher risk of adverse health outcomes during childbirth. Delivery in health facilities by skilled birth attendants can help reduce this risk and lower maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. This study assessed the determinants of health fa…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the medium- and long-term effectiveness of selective posterior rhizotomy (SPR) for spastic cerebral palsy. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was made on 27 patients with spastic cerebral palsy undergoing SPR between January 1997 and January 2008, whose data were complete with more than 5 years fol…