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PURPOSE: To report the first long-term biochemical control rate of patients treated with two protocols using a combination of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) and high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer in Japan. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Between October 1997 and July 2001, 71 patients with loca…

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…

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…

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…

Studies that use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and its age-appropriate versions as indices of affective decision-making during childhood and adolescence have demonstrated significant individual differences in scores. Our study investigated the association between general intellectual functioning and socioeconomic status…

During the last decade increasing incidence of lung cancer among women have been observed in Poland. The aim of the study was to demonstrate differences among men and women with lung cancer. Lung cancer was diagnosed in 785 female and 4619 male in 1995 in Pulmonary Outpatients Departments. Women were younger than man w…

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…

Trichophyton violaceum is an anthropophilous dermatophyte endemic to parts of Africa and Asia, sporadic in Europe. It is an emerging pathogen in Italy due to immigration. We report 36 cases of infections due to T. violaceum, diagnosed in the last 5 years by mycological examination. The source of contagion was…

The incidence of complications after hepatectomy has been considerably reduced over the last 20 years. Better knowledge of liver anatomy and liver regeneration, and methods preventing bleeding during surgery have resulted in morbidity rates below 20% and mortality rates less than 5%. The treatment of the liver cross se…

Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with preservation of the inferior vena cava (IVC) was performed in 7 patients during a period of 7 weeks. For 5 years in this center are realized 180 OLT, the last 93 of them with preservation VCI (51.6%). This method had important advantages versus standard operation--blood loss…

When the stomach tube has to be lengthened in case of antethoracic esophageal replacement, a circumferential seromuscular incision is made and the lesser curvature side of the tube is cut through, in the same line of incision. The rent produced is longitudinally suture-closed, by which a definite elongation (about 2 cm…

Open Access (OA) is a model for publishing scholarly peer reviewed journals, made possible by the Internet. The full text of OA journals and articles can be freely read, as the publishing is funded through means other than subscriptions. Empirical research concerning the quantitative development of OA publishing has so…

OBJECTIVE: To examine practice changes in the conduct of radiological investigations in Australia following urinary tract infection (UTI). DESIGN: Observational study using data from the national Medicare database over the 15-year period July 1993 to June 2008 for four investigations: renal ultrasound (renal US), mict…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) is now widely performed and is considered the standard of care for the treatment of certain diseases of the spleen. Although multiple studies have documented the safety and feasibility of laparoscopic splenectomy, little long-term data are available. We present a…

AIM: To investigate the historical changes in survival with diabetes in adult type 2 diabetes patients. METHODS: We analyzed 9066 deaths, 54.2% males, registered at "I. Pavel" Bucharest Diabetes Centre, aged 40-64 years and deceased between 1943 and 2009. We split the analysis in three time periods according to year o…

UNLABELLED: Highly cross-linked polyethylene has been associated with low in vitro wear, but also has decreased in vitro ultimate yield strength. We therefore asked whether highly cross-linked polyethylene would result in lower outcome scores, wear, or early failure in a young patient population. Seventy THAs in 64 pat…

Over the last 8 years, 61 patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) have been treated at this institution. Twenty-four have also had a diagnosis of Crohn's disease (38%). This dual pathology is examined in detail in this retrospective review. There were 11 males and 13 females with a mean age of 39 years (range 18 to…