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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…

The standard treatment approach for metastatic breast cancer with HR- and Her-2-neu + disease is trastuzumab with systemic therapy. But in patients having severe cardiac dysfunction, trastuzumab is avoided. Various combination regimens are available in that setting, but no study has shown better efficacy of capecitabin…

BACKGROUND: Severe heterotopic ossification (HO) (grades III and IV) after total hip arthroplasty (THA) over the last 25 years requiring excision is very uncommon. We performed a systematic review of the literature and reported a new case series with operative treatment after primary uncemented THA. METHODS: A systema…

BACKGROUND: Self-reported data about the interval since last cancer screening are often used to determine whether individuals are due for periodic screening and to monitor adherence to guidelines for early cancer detection. PURPOSE: In a study conducted within the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, we examined th…

Objective Letters of recommendation (LORs) are an inescapable aspect of the application process. Standardized LORs (SLORs) have been developed and compared with traditional narrative LORs (NLORs). This study investigated whether there was a difference in degree of association between LOR types and face-to-face intervie…

AIM: To investigate poisoning exposures to chemicals that were unlabelled, mislabelled or not in their original containers in New Zealand over the last 10 years, based on calls to the New Zealand National Poisons Centre (NZNPC). METHODS: Call data from the NZNPC between 2003 and 2012 were analysed retrospectively. Par…

Few studies have examined the ability of individuals with learning disabilities, in general, or with Down syndrome, specifically, to discriminate speech. The purpose of this study was compare the speech discrimination abilities of eight children with Down syndrome (aged 5.7 to 12.8 years) to seven nonverbal mental-age…

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight among Japanese children and adolescents has steadily increased during the last 20 years. Thus, we utilized the 1978-1981 data collected by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry to construct reference curves of body mass index (BMI) for contemporary Japanese c…

In 1993 a territory-wide cross-sectional growth survey on 25,000 Chinese children from birth to 18 years was performed in Hong Kong. Compared to the last growth survey in 1963, definite secular changes were observed. There was an increase of final adult standing height of 3.6 cm in boys and 2.7 cm in girls, in which 1.…

During the last 3 years 20 patients (median age 8 years) have undergone construction of a continent urinary reservoir at our pediatric urology service. Of the patients 12 had failed exstrophy reconstruction, 7 had myelodysplasia with a neurogenic bladder and 1 had extensive bladder damage as a result of a previous oper…

Laparoscopy and work-hour restrictions are altering surgical training. We hypothesized interns were no longer gaining experience in open appendectomy, historically an intern index case. We retrospectively reviewed Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) case logs of postgraduate Year (PGY) 1 genera…

Before 1979, there were only 5 undergraduate dental schools in Iran with a total admission of 200 students per year, and only 2,000 dentists and about 50 specialists practicing in the country. Currently, there are 18 dental schools with a total admission of 750 undergraduate students, 5 postgraduate programs in 10 disc…

In the last few years, an enormous progress has been achieved in the treatment of Colorectal Cancer due to a better know ledge of the biology, natural history, prevention and treatment of colon and rectum adenocarcinoma. Genetic alterations produce changes in thecolonic mucosa that lead to the formation of adenoma and…

The objective of this study was to describe trends in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the United States by demographic, life-style, and heart disease risk factors. Data were obtained from the Epidemiologic Followup Study to the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a nationally represe…

The authors report the surgical management of 19 patients with chronic intestinal ischemia over the last ten years. There were 11 women and 8 men (mean age 59 years). Most patients (13/19) suffered from widespread generalized atheromatosis. Fifteen patients had symptoms which were mostly aspecific and insidious in onse…

The career paths of some early clinical pharmacists from their first positions during the years 1965-1974 to their current positions were studied. In August 1985 a group of pharmacists was surveyed to determine (1) the extent to which they had maintained a clinical practice (defined as direct patient contact, including…

Primary Gastrointestinal Angiosarcoma (PGAS) constitutes a rare malignant tumor arising from vascular or lymphatic endothelial cells. The aim of this study was to review the available literature on PGAS and to elucidate its biological behavior and optimal therapeutic approach. PubMed and Embase bibliographical database…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the advantage of single posterolateral approach for exposing the fragments of lateral malleolus and posterior malleolus in treating bimalleolar and trimalleolar fractures. METHODS: Between January 2013 and June 2015, 47 patients with ankle fractures were treated. Of 47 cases, 16 were male and 31…

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) has been steadily increasing over the last thirty years, particularly among women. Due to the conflicting results of various studies on the link between rheumatoid arthritis and reproductive health, we have undertaken this study to explore their relationship. M…

We report the present day GNSS velocities (2015-2021) and strain rates in Himachal, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalaya covering the rupture zones of the 2005 Muzaffarabad earthquake and the 1905 Kangra earthquake. Geodetic strain rates estimated from GPS velocities of about 58 sites spanning last two decades of measurements i…