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Shoulder arthroscopy is an orthopaedic procedure that has grown significantly in popularity over the last 40 years. The 2 principle patient positions during shoulder arthroscopy include the beach chair position and lateral decubitus position. This Technical Note details the operating room setup for shoulder arthro…

INTRODUCTION: First-ray metatarsophalangeal arthrodesis is a classic surgical procedure in the treatment of severe hallux valgus, hallux rigidus, revision surgery, and inflammatory arthritis. The objective of this study was to verify if metatarsophalangeal plate arthrodesis could correct the M1M2 intermetatarsal angle.…

AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the annual rate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) decline and associated risk factors with this decline in diabetic nephropathy patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 122 type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients (66F, mean follow up time 39 +/- 19 months, mean age 56 +…

Assessed condom use, barriers to condom use, oral contraceptive use, partnership status and STD history in 457 15-30 year-old women attending four family planning clinics. Subjects were classified into three condom use groups: Non Users (37%); Current Users (33%); and Past Users (30%). Factor analysis revealed five bar…

Dust dominates extraterrestrial flux on the earth (30,000 tonnes/yr), however only ~5% of the cosmic dust survives atmospheric entry which is basically in two forms: melted and unmelted. Melted micrometeorites undergo transformational changes due to heating during atmospheric entry which obliterate evidences regarding…

The paper describes the history of the Russian Research Center of Roentgenology and Radiology set up 90 years ago, the main advances of the researchers of the Institute in roentgenology and radiodiagnosis in historical perspective--from the last century up to the present day. It gives a brief list of the most important…

The amino alcohol serinol (2-amino-1,3-propanediol) has become a common intermediate for several chemical processes. Since the 1940s serinol was used as precursor for synthesis of synthetic antibiotics (chloramphenicol). In the last years, new scopes of applications were discovered. Serinol is used for X-ray contrast a…

The ACR has published more than 160 guidelines to assist radiologists in quality practice. One of the most controversial guidelines is on communication, first adopted more than a decade ago. This guideline is coming up for reconsideration and perhaps revision by the ACR Council at the ACR AMCLC in Washington, DC, in Ma…

ABO incompatibility and positive cross match between the donor and the recipient are no longer considered absolute counter indications to renal transplantation. One-year and 5-years graft survival are similar to ABO compatible transplantation, although a higher incidence of acute humoral rejection is observed. Calcineu…

Much of what is know about quorum sensing has come from the study of marine biology. The original description of the phenomenon was based on the study of marine bacteria and the luminescent pathway. More recently, aquatic organisms have been found to inhibit bacterial fouling of surfaces by blocking signaling pathways…

Menstrual Psychosis is a unique disorder (Altschule et al, 1963). Over the last 150 years, sporadic case reports of this disorder are found in the literature. As yet, the standard psychiatric diagnostic nomenclature i.e. DSM, ICD-10 does not acknowledge its individuality. We report a 16-year-old female patient who was…

I hide behind my limited presentation time to retreat from offering answers to this dilemma, save to cite one example to illustrate that knowledge workers are not politically hopeless. In response to a severe need, investigators mobilized in the last 5 years to advocate for increased federal funding for research. The s…

Aneurysms of splanchnic arteries represent an uncommon but important vascular disease, which many times presents itself as clinical emergency and often results in death. 11 patients with splanchnic aneurysms were treated in our Department during the last 15 years. These aneurysms were located in 5 cases in splenic arte…

Eosinophilic cholecystitis is a rare form of cholecystitis. Histologically, it is characterized by a dense, transmural leukocyte infiltrate composed of more than 90% eosinophils. The etiology remains obscure, although it had been associated with allergies, parasites, hypereosinophilic syndromes, eosinophilic gastroente…

As a health care professional for many years, Ivan Hanson was an advocate of quality health care and the caring component. As a health care consumer during his nearly 5-year struggle with cancer, he had ample opportunity for thoughtful reflection about this same care and caring. During the last stage of his illness he…

During the last 10 years new approaches for rapid opioid detoxification have included drug combinations such as clonidine and naltrexone to speed and ease the transition from opioid agonist to antagonist maintenance. Other drug combinations include naloxone with midazolam or methohexitone for inpatients, but rapid outp…

Carl Langenbuch realized in Germany in 1882, the first cholecystectomy. On this century of experience, the technique has been converted in a classic way. Since 1910, it was converted on the gold standard in the treatment of the cholelithiasis, place that it still conserve. In the last three years, with the apparition o…

A retrospective study of autopsied material in the last 15 yrs is documented an increasing incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in Hong Kong Chinese. The incidence of significant PTE increased from 0.58% in the first 5 yr period to 2.08% in recent years. The topographic features and characteristics of these PTE…

There have been major advances in Doppler technology over the last 5 years which are particularly useful in the field of urology. In the early 1980s the clinical significance of Doppler was limited to the diagnosis of testicular torsion and its use was primarily intraoperative. Today, however, new advances, i.e. pulsed…