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OBJECTIVE: Most children with endocrine diseases require long-term continuity of care. We investigated the prevalence of loss to follow-up (LTFU) in pediatric patients with chronic endocrine diseases and the risk factors associated with LTFU. METHODS: This observational cohort study included all children with chronic…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of two-stage revision of infected total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using an antibiotic-impregnated articulating cement spacer. METHODS: The clinical data were analyzed from 23 patients (23 knees) undergoing two-stage revision for late infection after primary TKA between January…

Affective disorders and impulsivity are quite common when using anabolic substances, in this case-study one of the rather rare cases of a psychotic disorder following the abuse of androgenic steroids is described. A 30-year old formerly healthy white male was admitted as inpatient to psychiatric hospital showing sympto…

Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our blue planet. The waters move in a global circulation system, driven by subtle density differences and transporting huge amounts of heat. Ocean circulation is thus an active and highly nonlinear player in the global climate game. Increasingly clear evidence implicates ocean circu…

Embolization using IDC was carried out for 33 aneurysm cases in the last 3 years. The indication for the embolization was that the direct surgery was considered to be difficult, because of 1) technically impossible to do clipping, 2) aneurysm of the posterior fossa, 3) reject of patients. Regarding the location of aneu…

In the last 2 years we have performed 100 laparoscopic varicocele ligations. The indications for surgery were pain, a small testicle or prevention of subfertility. 4 patients had undergone previous embolization therapy or open operation and developed recurrences. 5 patients had bilateral varicocele. No severe intraoper…

A summary of the proceedings of the third world congress on psychiatric genetics is presented. The meeting was held in New Orleans on October 2-5, 1993 and brought together researchers from around the world. The International Society of Psychiatric Genetics sponsored and organized this meeting. Rapid advances of the la…

Morbidity, prevalence, temporary loss of capacity for work and invalidity due to rheumatic diseases for the last 5 years in the Ukraine are analysed. Ways of further improvement of rheumatological service are determined. Aspects of coordinated approach to the solution of urgent rheumatological problems on the part of d…

The sequel of a resolution of the West German Länder Ministries of Health in 1982 was the development of the Federal Health project Community-Oriented Health Education (1984-1989). This project was managed by the Federal Agency for Health Promotion in Cologne. Berlin-Steglitz is one of the Public Health offices in…

In the last 2 years, much progress has been made in colorectal cancer research. Many of the findings, especially those involving adjuvant therapy, have important clinical applications. For example, fluorouracil (5-FU) (Adrucil) combined with levamisole hydrochloride (Ergamisol) is now recommended as adjuvant therapy fo…

Since the first reported case of human dirofilariasis in 1964, a total of 56 cases have been recorded from Japan, including 39 pulmonary and 16 extra-pulmonary cases. The difference in case number between pulmonary and extre-pulmonary sites is statistically highly significant (P = 0.001). Distribution of the lesion in…

Nine cases of glossopharyngeal neuralgia have been seen in the last 5 years and are reported. They fall into 2 groups, namely otitic and oropharyngeal, according to the initial location of pain. The condition is probably more common than is recognised, largely because there are diagnostic difficulties with the otitic f…

Four headache patients, 3 females and 1 male, are described, who all have experienced episodes with complete transitory blindness; in 3 it was bilateral, in the 4th there was asymmetry, the vision nevertheless also being markedly reduced globally in the other eye. Two of the patients got the visual disturbance far ahea…

During the last 18 years we have treated few hundreds of patients with large incisional hernias. In more than the half of the cases our surgical procedure followed 3, 4 or even 5 previous surgical operations. In about 160 patients the hernia was connected with obesity, and in 25 females with pendulous abdomen. Our resu…

The role of surgery in the treatment of impotence has greatly increased during the last 5 years. The recognition and surgical correction of those mechanical derangements of the penis that prevent coitus have enabled many men to resume or commence intercourse. Men with irreversible impotence usually find it possible to…

Simultaneous bilateral renal cell carcinoma has been treated in 5 patients at our hospital during the last 6 years. Improvements in radiologic diagnostic techniques are responsible for the increased detection of these lesions. Results of surgical management are reported. Angiographic embolization of renal cell carcinom…

This report describes a technique for the correction and fusion of scoliosis with the aid of a flexible metal rod that is fixed by wires under tension to the bases of the spinous processes on the convex side of the curve at a number of points. The results in a series of 100 cases are reported. In the last seventy patie…

3-4 weeks following an otherwise uncomplicated first vaccination against smallpox a boy, then aged 15 months and last seen at the age of 5 1/2 years, gradually developed a complete Kanner syndrome. The question whether vaccination and early infantile autism might be connected is being discussed. A causal relationship i…

The irregular eating patterns of both shift workers and evening chronotypes adversely affect cardiometabolic health. A tool that conveniently captures temporal patterns of eating alongside an indicator of circadian rhythm such as chronotype will enable researchers to explore relationships with diverse health outcome me…

Cancer is age-related. However, oncology and palliative medicine services focus on the needs of younger and middle-aged adults. This study examined trends in cancer deaths across age in Wales over the last 20 years. All Wales death certificates from 1981 to 2001 were examined for total and cancer deaths. Place of death…