97,291 papers found

BACKGROUND: The authors present their current attitude towards management of craniopharyngiomas in children. Radical surgery cannot be performed when one is not sure about its potential danger to the visual pathways and the hypothalamus. METHODS: Most of the surgeries that have been performed in our institution via an…

OBJECTIVES: To refine our prognostic evaluation and consequently our therapeutic strategy to disseminated prostate cancer. METHOD: A cohort of 71 patients with metastatic prostate cancer, recruited between 1981 and 1985, was followed for 7 to 11 years. RESULTS: The surveillance of this cohort revealed the following m…

A 55-year-old female patient developed a severe chronic lumbar pain syndrome over a period of 17 years. An intervertebral disc operation was performed 5 years after the start of the painful illness. The patient later developed resistance to therapy and was unable to stand or walk. She was confined to bed and wheelchair…

A retrospective analysis was made of the clinical course in 24 patients with syringomyelia who had not been treated surgically. 5 patients died during follow-up, and the survivors were followed for 1 to 37 (median 9) years after diagnosis. 8 of the 19 survivors followed a slowly progressive course over 4 to 46 (median…

BACKGROUND: Screening tests on blood bags is important step for blood safety. In Iran, screening for HCV started from 1996. We decided to determine the new cases of hepatitis C in our thalassemic patients, after screening of blood bags was initiated and trace backing from recipients to find their donors. MATERIALS AND…

Adaptive cognitive control (ACC) involves behavioral adjustments to environmental changes and can be instantiated by implicit knowledge, including temporal predictability of task-relevant events. For example, our past driving experiences might inform us that yellow traffic signals generally last between 3 and 6 s. This…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the contraceptive preferences of women based on their age and to track changes in these preferences over time. METHODS: This was an observational, retrospective cross-sectional study. Data from 2742 patients were evaluated for this study. The patient group of the first 4 years was classified as…

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the changes in running performance and the sex differences between women and men in 24-hour ultra-marathons held worldwide from 1977 to 2012. METHOD: Changes in running speed and ages of the fastest 24-hour ultra-marathoners were determined using single- and multi-level regression analy…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: during the last 30 years we have observed only two children (aged 6 and 3 years) with systemic reactions after tetanus vaccine, given unnecessarily 5 and 10 months after appropriate primary immunization. The adverse reactions after tetanic toxoid appear to be directly related to excessive titre of…

Blood transfusion rates with cardiac surgery over time have decreased, this trend has not been examined for patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. We investigated blood transfusion trends with LVAD implantation in a statewide database. Between July 2004 and June 2014, 666 LVADs were imp…

BACKGROUND: Dent's disease (DD) is a rare X-linked recessive tubulopathy characterized by low molecular weight proteinuria, hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis/nephrolithiasis and chronic kidney disease. With this manuscript, we reported three patients diagnosed as DD in our department in the last 10 years and thereby des…

BACKGROUND: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is a global public health problem affecting the quality of life of menstruating women. This study aimed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of female students experiencing PD. METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional study included 484 female students (aged 16-31 …

The aim of this study was to examine trends in the presentation of cutaneous malignant melanoma at King's College Hospital (KCH) over the last three decades (1970-2000). KCH was one of seven centres that participated in the 1987 Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) publicity campaign aimed at promoting earlier self-recogniti…

In 42 cases of complicated retinal detachment following trauma after failed primary vitrectomy, at six months follow-up anatomic retinal reattachment posterior to the scleral buckle was achieved in 20 of 40 eyes (50%). Of the 40 eyes, 11 (28%) had a visual acuity of 5/200 or better. Of the eyes that were completely att…

INTRODUCTION: The urinary microbiome (UMB) includes living bacteria, their genomes, and their products from interactions with the host environment. A "core" UMB could potentially exist, with variations between age and sex groups. Changes in UMB composition have been associated with benign urological disorders, but also…

A man in his mid-20s presented with a painless swelling over his right thigh, which had been progressively increasing over 3 years. He underwent an excisional biopsy for the same, which showed reactive lymphadenopathy. Since the last year and a half, he developed a lower abdominal wall swelling with mild redness…

The Italian beekeeping industry has grown steadily during the last decade, according to data from the national beekeeping registry, which came into existence in February 2015. Winter colony losses remain a matter of concern for beekeepers in Italy, and administration of the questionnaire defined by the Coloss Associati…

The purpose of this study is to map the literature on mental health and well-being of university students using metadata extracted from 5,561 journal articles indexed in the Web of Science database for the period 1975-2020. More specifically, this study uses bibliometric procedures to describe and visually represent th…

UNLABELLED: There are numerous neuropsychological tests for assessing executive functions in aging, which vary according to the different domains assessed. OBJECTIVE: To present a systematic review of the most frequently used instruments for assessing executive functions in older adults with different educational leve…

During the last 10 years or so, the renal research community has set the primary cilium into the lime light. From being viewed as a possible evolutionary rudiment, today the primary cilium has achieved the noble status of a physiologically relevant and necessary cellular structure. Its prime function in renal epitheliu…