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Sixteen patients (age 13-53 years) with accidental deep hypothermia have been rewarmed in our clinic during the last 10 years, 14 by femoro-femoral cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) of whom 11 had a cardiopulmonary arrest (asystole in 5 and ventricular fibrillation in 6). On admission, the latter were clinically dead showin…

Musculoskeletal sarcomas (MSSs) are rare cancers and often aggressive tumors that originate from mesenchymal tissue. Patients with advanced MSS often report difficulties with symptom burden, which can reduce their health-related quality-of-life.The aim of this study was to describe the patterns of the physical symptoms…

BACKGROUND: Concurrent male-male sexual partnerships have been understudied in sub-Saharan Africa and are especially important because human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence and acquisition probability are higher among men who have sex with men (MSM) than among heterosexual men and women. METHODS: We conducted…

The aim of this literature review is to identify the effects of social isolation and lonliness on persons with dementia and to highlight interventions for private homes and long-term care facilities. It includes articles published in the last 5 years for a total of 45 articles. Social isolation and/or lonliness is link…

Was to study the promising areas for using nanotechnologies in dentistry, existing methods of diagnostics, treatment and prevention of the dental diseases based on the properties of nanoparticles, to review the scientific literature devoted to this problem. In this literature review we use 86 sources: 1 Russian and 85…

The aim of this systematic review was to synthesize research in the last 5 years to report the current state of the science related to interprofessional education (IPE) in nursing. Findings suggest that more studies with rigorous research designs are needed to compare outcomes for interprofessional interventions and to…

The European Association of Urology defines a young urologist as an urologist under the age of 40 or the urologist who has completed their residency within the last 5 years, irrespective of their current academic position. The time interval between the residency and higher specialization in urology is an important time…

Laparoscopic parastomal hernia repair has become a viable option to overcome the challenges that face the hernia surgeon. Multiple techniques have been described over the last 5 years, one of which is the lateralizing "sling" technique, first described by Sugarbaker in 1980. In this study, we report the technique and o…

W. A. Mozart died due to the consequences of chronic epidural hematoma after sustaining a dull injury to his head, probably at an early age. Exacerbation of the process was repeated over a period of many years and manifested itself as pyrexial disease, meningeal irritation with intense headaches. After the attack subsi…

Thyroid gland surgery is a treatment of choice for morphological changes of the gland, although patients with some functional problems, indicated from endocrynologist, underwent surgery. The goal is to analyze retrospectively patients with thyroid gland diseases according to incidence and surgery. We analyzed surgicall…

Mycoses of the skin are extremely frequent. The clinical presentation often resembles the one of other frequent inflammatory skin diseases not caused by fungi. Adequate diagnostics are critical for the establishment of proper treatment. A total quality management system has been devised in Germany during the last 5 yea…

The establishment of an adequate recombinant erythropoietin (epo) treatment for haemodialysis patients has challenged nephrology workers for the last 5 years. Starting with epo, it was quickly clear that its management was complex and a lot of conditions were involved in its effective application.

"This article focuses on the explosive population growth in Quintana Roo [Mexico] during the last few years and its...implications [for] the local economy. First, the article briefly describes population structure, emphasizing some migratory and socioeconomic aspects. Next it considers the status sectoral and regional…

Burn scars of the lower part of the face are a difficult problem in plastic surgery. Full thickness skin graft or local flaps usually give poor cosmetic result. Over the last 5 years, we used 24 skin expanders in the neck area to cover burn scars of the chin and jaw. Discussion of the method and 4 cases are reported.

Acute myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrhythmias, and conduction disturbances are the most common cardiovascular complications of cocaine and its alkaloidal freebase "crack." Cocaine abuse-related acute aortic dissection has been reported only rarely: three cases in the last 5 years. Described herein, to our knowledge, i…

Leukotrienes are derived from lipoxygenation in position 5 of arachidonic acid. They have numerous biological activities, mainly in inflammatory processes. During the last few years, however, it has become quite evident that they also possess a potential for immunoregulation. In particular, LTB4 can induce suppressor c…

Solitary extramedullary plasma cell tumors, although uncommon, have been reported with increasing frequency over the last few years. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of the tumors arise in the gastrointestinal tract. This report demonstrates that a solitary anaplastic cecal extramedullary plasmacytoma can mimic a polypoid…

In a 20-year old patient there were 5 relapses of meningococcus meningitis during a period of 14 years following the first illness. The development of the last relapse was atypical. A congenital cranio-nasal fistula and liquorrhea was found, inflammatory changes in the lumbar and nasal, an expressed cystic-adhesive mem…

Since 1984, 12.294 different medical specialists have been certified in Chile by the Autonomous Corporation for Certification of Medical Specialties (whose Spanish acronym is CONACEM). Infernal Medicine certification started in 1985, approving 1364 candidates thus far. Certification can be obtained in three ways. Sixty…