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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…

As a part of Marmara Sea, Izmit Bay (Turkey) has been one of the most polluted sites in the region for the last 25 years. On 17 August 1999, a powerful earthquake along the North Anatolian Fault struck the eastern part of the Marmara region including Izmit Bay. The earthquake destroyed many coastal cities. The Bay was…

The evolution of 109 allergic children with 129 IgE-mediated food sensitizations has been evaluated. The follow-up period was from nine months to 14 years. The period up to clinical tolerance was analyzed, together with the influence of two possible prognostic factors: specific IgE antibody levels at the beginning of s…

BACKGROUND: Standard treatment for untreated advanced-stage follicular lymphoma is rituximab plus chemotherapy. The incidence of histological transformation of follicular lymphoma has been reported only in heterogeneously treated populations and rarely with long-term follow-up. Additionally, the incidence of secondary…

Although mammalian reovirus exhibits only limited pathogenicity in humans, it has been, and still remains, instrumental in studies of viral replication and pathogenesis. Generally considered as cytolytic, this virus can sometimes establish long-term persistent infections in tissue culture. In fact, in this context, it…

First-year college students were surveyed by telephone to determine their current level of tobacco use and find out what advice they had previously received from physicians regarding tobacco products. Current tobacco use reported in this 1st-year population was 19% in men and 17% in women. Although 99.6% of the student…

Four generations of a family are described in which 7 of 8 affected members suffered from prolonged dystonic seizures; the eighth member's attacks were those of paroxysmal choreoathetosis. The attacks lasted up to 4 hours, were precipitated by alcohol, emotion, or fatigue, and responded poorly to phenytoin and barbitur…

Conventional varicocelectomy is often complicated by high recurrence rate, ranging from 6 to 25% and the persistence usually is due to residual venous communications. We report our experience of 21 years in varicocele correction using 3 different operative techniques on 389 adolescents. In the first 12 years (120 patie…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the procedure and effectiveness of total femoral replacement for treating femur malignant tumor. METHODS: The clinical data of 9 patients with femoral malignant tumors who underwent total femoral replacement between July 2013 and March 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. There were 5 males an…

BACKGROUND: Secondary infertility in developing countries is mostly attributable to blockage of the fallopian tubes due to adhesions caused by reproductive tract infections. There is a dearth of information on the prevalence and causes of secondary infertility from Pakistan. This paper presents results on factors assoc…

In order to determine the pulmonary outcome following blastomycosis during childhood, we compiled a case series of hospitalized patients from a retrospective review with later recall for pulmonary function testing, coupled with prospective measurements of pulmonary function in three patients, at a tertiary care childre…

The authors have evaluated the evolution of values of serum aluminium concentration (Als) in the whole pool of patients undergoing RDT in Piedmont in the years 1982-1990. We have compared the data of the Piedmont Regional Registry of Dialysis and Transplantation at the end of 1990 to those obtained in 1982, 1986 and 19…

The 5-HT(7)receptor (5-HT(7)R), characterized in 1993, is the most recently described member of the serotonin family. Since its discovery, 5-HT(7)R has been the subject of extensive research due to its widespread distribution in the brain, suggestive of multiple central roles. The focus of this review is to illustrate…

Oxidative stress is considered one of the possible mechanisms behind chemobrain or the cognitive dysfunction persistent after chemotherapy treatment. Breast cancer patients have reported chemobrain symptoms since the 1990s. In this present bibliometric review, we employed the VOSviewer tool to describe the existing lan…

Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a flagship species in nature conservation of the world; to protect this species, 67 nature reserves have been established in China. To evaluate the protection effect of giant panda nature reserves, we analyzed the variation of giant panda number and habitat area of 23 giant panda…

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: As life expectancy increases and population age advances, diagnosis and treatment of diseases common in the geriatric population assume an increasingly important role in modern medicine. In the last few years, the emergence of age-specific reference ranges for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) has ad…

OBJECTIVES: In this short review we provide an update of our earlier inventories of publications indexed in MedLine with the MeSH term 'Medical Records Systems, Computerized'. METHODS: We retrieved and analyzed all references to English articles published before January 1, 2008, and indexed in PubMed with the MeSH ter…

Finland belongs to the group of countries in which the consumption of strong opioids is low. This seems to reflect the general quality of cancer pain treatment. During the last 10 years, many efforts have been made to improve the treatment of cancer pain in Finland. To assess one parameter of change, the present study…

AIMS AND BACKGROUND: This study retrospectively analyzes the use of chemotherapy in patients who died of advanced cancer either after having been in care at the Medical Oncology Unit (MOU) of the University Hospital of Bologna, Italy, or after having been assisted in their terminal disease phase by the Bologna Oncologi…