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INTRODUCTION: The gold standard of vascular access for chronic hemodialysis patients is the arteriovenous fistula (AVF). If an AVF cannot be created, the hemodialysis catheter can be inserted into the internal jugular, femoral or subclavian vein. After exhausting the abovementioned standard accesses, translumbar access…

The use of radioactive emanations has been of great importance for the performance of endourology procedures, such as percutaneous nephrolithotomy (NLP). The damage to health caused by radiation has been a sensitive issue. The objective of this work was to determine the dose received by the surgeon during NLP and the t…

INTRODUCTION: Stress fractures occur in individuals in whom repetitive strenuous muscle and tendon force act on bone; that have not adapted to such forces. Under a constant load, osteoclast resorption and osteoblastic reconstruction of bone are in equilibrium, resulting in normal remodeling. If loading increases, addit…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This report provides an overview of advances in wound repair devised by our research team during the last four decades. This collective review is presented in two parts. DISCUSSION: The following components are included in Part I: 1) search and treat life-threatening trauma; 2) conduct a tho…

PURPOSE: To review the long-term outcome of infants undergoing three-muscle surgery for infantile esotropia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Surgical records of 10 patients with esotropia > or = 55 prism diopters (PD) who underwent three-muscle surgery for large-angle infantile esotropia were reviewed. Outcome measures included…

We describe a partial skeleton with facial cranium of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus gen. et sp. nov., a new Middle Miocene (12.5 to 13 million years ago) ape from Barranc de Can Vila 1 (Barcelona, Spain). It is the first known individual of this age that combines well-preserved cranial, dental, and postcranial material.…

During the last few years, several innovative technologies have become available for performing sensitive and accurate genetic analyses. These techniques use fluorescent detection strategies in combination with nucleic acid amplification protocols. Most commonly used is the real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). To…

The incidence of Menière's disease was investigated in a total of 3222 patients with vertigo or dizziness who had visited Kitasato University Hospital during 1985-1991. Two hundred and fifty-one of the cases (7.8%) were found to suffer from Menière's disease and the male:female ratio was 1:1. Seventy cases of…

This article outlines a new system for computerized family reconstitution. It has been developed in the last 10 years by a multidisciplinary team of Quebec researchers belonging to the Inter-University Research Center on Populations (SOREP). Basically, this system is characterized by 1) an attempt to computerize as muc…

This study examined the epidemiological characteristics of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) presenting in Canterbury, New Zealand, between 1970 and 1999. All patients with type 1 DM aged 0-19 years at diagnosis within the Canterbury geographical region were either admitted to the regional hospital or seen acutely as outpa…

Common walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide for its high-quality wood and nuts. It is generally accepted that after the last glaciation J. regia survived and grew in almost completely isolated stands in Asia, and that ancient humans dispersed walnuts across Asia and into ne…

BACKGROUND/AIM OF STUDY: Liver transplantation was first performed in 1967, and has become an accepted form of treatment worldwide for chronic liver diseases, acute liver failure and certain metabolic diseases. We document our experience in Singapore over the last 7 years since the first transplant was performed in 199…

OBJECTIVE: To describe and evaluate our experience with robotically assisted laparoscopic staging of endometrial cancer in first hundred cases as compared with the first and last 30 cases of patients staged by this method. DESIGN: Comparative retrospective study. SETTING: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Fac…

BACKGROUND: Tobacco consumption is a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality. The Saudi Ministry of Health started a national tobacco control program in 2002 with increased and intensified efforts after joining the World Health Organization Framework Convention for Tobacco Control in 2005. METHODS: In order to a…

We compared arthroscopic partial menisectomy with limited debridement versus arthroscopic abrasion arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis. Group I consisted of 131 knees in 131 patients treated by partial meniscectomy and debridement of loose articular cartilage or removal of loose bodies. All patients had grade…

Herein we combine 2 studies: a 25-year prospective followup on 270 spinal cord injury patients and a more than 20-year (average 24.2 years) evaluation of 175 paraplegics. The mortality rate was 49 per cent after 25 years, with renal disease as the major cause of death (43 per cent). Vascular deaths were just as prevale…

Introduction Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) produces a prolonged serum bupivacaine level. It carries a warning to avoid additional local anesthetics for 96 hours due to a theoretical additive risk of local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST). Whether patients exposed to additional local anesthetics soon after LB have a cli…

Long-term trends in the spatial distributions and sources of metal(loid)s in soils adjacent to the west coastal areas of South Korea have been systematically investigated for 10 years (2010-2019). Monitoring in 17 sites clearly showed site- and region-specific distributions, being associated with land use type (signifi…

BACKGROUND: Granuloma annulare is a chronic noninfectious granulomatous skin condition with variable clinical presentations. Generalized granuloma annulare, defined as widespread disease with >10 skin lesions, accounts for 15% of all cases. Numerous associated diseases have been controversially discussed, most importan…

OBJECTIVES: To explore the attitudes, views and understanding of women attending a Hindu temple in London, UK towards cervical screening, human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and two HPV self-sample collection devices: the Dacron swab and Evalyn(®) brush. METHODS: A mixed methods design comprising a survey and four…