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BACKGROUND: The number of low birth weight infants with congenital heart disease is increasing and catheterizations may have an increased risk for mortality and morbidity. OBJECTIVES: We investigate the outcome and complications of cardiac catheterizations in infants weighing < 2.5 kg. METHODS: Retrospective review o…

BACKGROUND: Crohn's disease is associated with small bowel cancer whilst risk of colorectal cancer is less clear. AIM: To ascertain the combined estimates of relative risk of these cancers in Crohn's disease. METHODS: MEDLINE was searched to identify relevant papers. Exploding references identified additional publica…

During the last 15 years, a total of 26 patients were treated for pancreatic pseudocysts, at the 2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, University of Athens. There were 16 (61.5%) men and 10 (38.5%) women aged between 19 and 82 years old (mean age 61 years). Dominating symptoms in most patients were epigastric mass an…

Over the last six years 8 patients with cavernous haemangioma of the liver were operated in our institute, of whom 7 women and 1 man, aged from 32 to 77 years average, 19.6 years. In two patients double haemangiomas of the liver were removed. So the number of resected haemangiomas was 10. The size of these haemangiomas…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the occurrence of osteolysis in total hip arthroplasty (THA) with highly cross-linked polyethylene prosthesis during a follow-up of more than 15 years. METHODS: The clinical data of 84 patients (105 hips) treated with THA in the Affiliated Hospital of Kanazawa Medical University in Japan between…

BACKGROUND: In Russia as in other countries introduction of infant vaccination against pertussis in 1950s led to dramatic decrease of whooping cough. The current vaccination schedule includes a 3-dose infant series and toddler booster; the pre-school booster was cancelled in 1980s and never reintroduced. Whole-cell vac…

OBJECTIVE: Therapies for chronic kidney disease have changed greatly over the last decade. The aim of this study was to examine the changes in the clinical characteristics and carotid atherosclerosis of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) over the last 9 years. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 150 consecu…

The 2002 Dutch Euthanasia law applies to patients aged 12 years and older. Developments in end-of-life care and decision-making in the last decade have sparked the debate about usefulness and necessity to extend euthanasia to include children under 12 years of age. This paper describes two opposite positions: the affir…

As result of long-years monitoring of density and diversity of Ixodidae living on Tomsk territory and in suburbs it has been shown that at least two species of ticks (I. persulcatus and I. pavlovskyi) inhabit there simultaneously. It has been studied that percent of I. pavlovskyi increased nearby town buildings. In the…

Cuminum cyminum and Carum carvi are the sources of cumin and caraway seeds respectively, which have been used since antiquity for the treatment of various indications in traditional healing systems in wide geographical areas. Cumin and caraway seeds are rich sources of essential oils and have been actively researched f…

Chemiluminescent (CL) detection techniques for DNA assays and immunoassays have become very popular in recent years. This review discusses recent advances in those CL assays that have occurred over the last few years. In the monoplex assay section, different classes of CL labels including nanoparticle, DNAzyme, acridin…

In recent years, defibrillators that use a biphasic waveform instead of the traditional monophasic waveform have become increasingly common. In fact, since we last published on this topic in 2001, most defibrillator suppliers have begun concentrating solely on developing and marketing biphasic defibrillators while phas…

Polycystic ovary syndrome is one of the most common endocrinopathies worldwide and for many years it was one of the most difficult to elucidate. In the last 10 years, understanding of this condition has increased greatly. It is now clear that polycystic ovary syndrome is not an ovarian disease, rather it is a disorder…

In this work, the authors support the therapeutic validity of gastric-duodenal resection in urgency surgery. This study has been made on 479 cases observed during the last 21 years (1957-78). In 58 of them we have made a sinking of ulcer, in 421 patients we have made, immediatly, a gastric-duodenal resection with B II…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of the treatment of scoliosis with a pedicle screw system through paraspinal intermuscular approach (PIA). METHODS: This is a retrospective case series study. A total of 10 patients diagnosed with scoliosis had surgical indications and treated with a pedicle screw system in…

OBJECTIVES: To assess the epidemiological characteristics of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children in Gipuzkoa (Spain) as well as the serotype distribution among these episodes and to analyze the potential impact of new conjugate vaccines. METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of cases of IPD in the pe…

During the last 3 years (1983 to 1985) accurate measurements of the distance between rectus muscle insertions and the corneal limbus were made on strabismus patients during surgery. After dissection of a muscle the distance from the posterior limbus (gray-white line) to the insertion line of the muscle was measured wit…

AIM: To evaluate the results of hip reconstruction with extensive excision for tumor confined to the femoral head and neck. METHODS: We designed a resection preserving the greater trochanter and lower portion of calcar femorale, and utilized conventional total hip prosthesis. We retrospectively reviewed 7 patients, wh…

The study investigated the effects of World War II (WWII) on psychological and social functioning of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors 60 years after the war. The authors hypothesized that the level of posttraumatic symptoms, depression, and social isolation of survivors who were at least 5 years old (but younger than 18…

A search was made for 26Mg (26Mg*) from the decay of 26Al (half-life = 0.73 million years) in Al-rich objects from unequilibrated ordinary chondrites. Two Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) and two Al-rich chondrules (not CAIs) were found that contained 26Al when they formed. Internal isochrons for the CAIs yielded an initia…