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Over the last three decades, management of truncus arteriosus has evolved with improving outcomes. Surgical repair is currently performed primarily during the neonatal period. This has prevented the severe morbidity and mortality resulting from congestive heart failure and pulmonary vascular obstructive disease. Althou…

Over the last 5 years, 15 patients received ventricular assist devices (VADs) (Group 1) and 5 received percutaneous cardiopulmonary support (CPS) (Group 2) while in postoperative cardiogenic shock. Group 1 consisted of 8 men and 7 women ranging in age from 22 to 73 years (average age, 55 years). Nine of these patients…

An analysis of 24 schizophrenic patients, treated at the psychiatric clinic in Plzen during the last 20 years with the onset of the disease in childhood or adolescence. Not a single case was observed with onset of the disease under the age of 10 years, at the age of 10-14 years six times, at the age of 15-18 years 18 t…

BACKGROUND: During recent years, wheelchair basketball has gained worldwide popularity. Several studies have demonstrated a high prevalence of injuries amongst wheelchair basketball players. Few studies, however, have investigated the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in the context of different point classifications…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to present the effective design of N-plasty of the iliotibial band and surgical results of its use as a treatment for refractory external snapping hip. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated 17 patients (24 cases) with external snapping hip who underwent N-plasty between October 2013…

OBJECTIVE: An important number of epileptic patients who began with epileptic seizures during the first year of life have not just been well classified. The objective is to identify the different types of epilepsies and epileptic seizures which begin during the first year of life, according to the last classification o…

Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) of the pattern shift reversal type were determined in a representative group of 57 prisoners of war (POWs) released in 1992 from detention camps in former Yugoslavia. The parameters were correlated with the conditions in four camps (1-4). All subjects were male, with a mean age of 34.75…

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) has developed in the last 30 years many notable applications to the spectrometry of radioisotopes, particularly in radiocarbon dating. The instrumentation science of trace element AMS (TEAMS) that analyzes stable isotopes, also called Accelerator SIMS or MegaSIMS, while unique in man…

This review describes some recent developments in the area of asymmetric catalysis using organometallic complexes of ligands which contain two or three P-O or P-N bonds. This category of ligands has, until the last five years or so, been underrepresented in asymmetric catalysis, particularly in contrast to phosphine li…

It has been presented flow of socio-medical development and implementation on former Yougoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina territory in last thirty years. The names of those who are deserved for socio-medical development and its insufficiency on the organization on health system and some specific parts of it. Doubtles…

Since 1968, Glasgow Council on Alcohol has steadily increased the scope and variety of its efforts to help problem drinkers and their families. Apart from a large increase in client numbers over the last 20 years, there has been a number of interesting developments in identifying 'at risk' groups and directing them int…

Bone fixation of the suprapubic suspension sutures has been used in conjunction with transvaginal needle suspension in 115 women with genuine stress urinary incontinence over the last two years with excellent results being obtained. Utilizing the pubic tubercle as the fixation point for the suspension sutures (rather t…

For optometrists, malpractice claims are relatively rare and seldom result in litigation. Therefore, there are very few reported court cases dealing with the optometric malpractice issue. In fact, within the last ten years there have been only five reported cases. Claims involving failure to diagnose have been the most…

Atypical imaging features of multiple sclerosis lesions include size >2 cm, mass effect, oedema and/or ring enhancement. This constellation is often referred to as 'tumefactive multiple sclerosis'. Previous series emphasize their unifocal and clinically isolated nature, however, evolution of these lesions is not well d…

Besides eosinophilic esophagitis, other eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases (EGIDs), such as eosinophilic gastritis, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, and eosinophilic colitis, are increasingly diagnosed over the last decade. Whereas diagnosis and therapy of eosinophilic esophagitis have been standardized, the diagnosis…

OBJECTIVE: The clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) has changed widely in developed countries in the last few decades. We evaluated its variations in our series over a 20-year period (i.e., 1997-2016). METHODS: A retrospective survey was conducted in our series of 364 well-characterized consecut…