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BACKGROUND: Renal amyloidosis has emerged as an important differential diagnosis when heroin addicts are admitted to renal clinics with proteinuria and nephrotic syndrome. MATERIAL: We present nine heroin addicts with renal AA amyloidosis, a condition previously not encountered in Norway, who were admitted to our rena…

The original method of esophageal anastomosis failure treatment and prophylaxis was used in 2190 patients. The method involves a device, providing a continuous irrigation of the anastomosis area with antiseptic and prevents contact between the suture line and gastric contents. It allowed to decrease of anastomosis fail…

Eyelid schwannoma (neurilemmomas) is an extremely rare, benign neoplasm. A case of Cystic Schwannoma in eyelid of a young adult is reported. A 19-year-old male presented with a firm-nodular painless lesion, 3.5 cms in diameter, located on the left lower eyelid for the last 2 years. The lesion was surgically excised. Hi…

The efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with 5-aminolevulinate and methyl aminolevulinate in the treatment of actinic keratosis has been demonstrated in a large number of clinical studies over the last several years. Here, we recapitulate the major findings, comparing the various photosensitizers, light sources and…

While the new ambulatory payment classification (APC) payment structure is seen by most ED observers as a positive move, it may not be a plus for your facility or your observation unit. Studying the new relative value units (RVUs) and your own case mix will tell your how your unit will fare. If the vast majority of you…

For decades politicians have tried to reduce or stabilize the costs of health supply in Germany. The shortening of the average lengths of stay in hospitals seems to be one of the most popular measures. This development can be seen above all in the field of obstetric care. In the last 15 years the average stay of women…

The concept that tuberculosis is a disappearing disease has turned out to be untrue not only for Russia, but also for many countries of the world. The last good year was, in terms of tuberculosis morbidity among the children of Vladivostok, 1992 (15.5 per 100,000 children). In the past years, the morbidity has substant…

Helping people with severe and profound developmental disabilities acquire and maintain constructive occupation is an objective of great practical importance. During the last 15-20 years, studies directed at this goal have largely relied on five strategies of self-management of instruction cues. Those strategies consis…

In the last 2 years we performed 26 nonstrain hernioplasties for postoperative ventral hernias (16 laparoscopic and 10 open operations). Indications for laparoscopic operation were hernias after "primary" laparotomy, multiple aponeurosis defects, and also demand of simultaneous operations. We preferred open plastics in…

Brenner tumor is a solid benign tumor of the ovary, with its origin in the parammesonephric celomic epithelium and represents about the 0.5 an the 0.79% of all ovarian tumors. We present a case of a woman in which we found a Brenner Tumor in the left ovary while we were performing an abdominal total hysterectomy. As a…

We use the basket as the first choice method to treat the pelvic ureteral stones, according to the standard technique. In the last two years ('96, '97) the basket has been used in 49 cases (27 and 22 respectively) with pelvic ureteral stone; 4 of them were treated also by ESWL. So, 45 Pz have been treated only by baske…

Skeletal Sr/Ca and 18O/16O ratios in corals from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, indicate that the tropical ocean surface approximately 5350 years ago was 1 degrees C warmer and enriched in 18O by 0.5 per mil relative to modern seawater. The results suggest that the temperature increase enhanced the evaporative enri…

Vertical mammaplasty, a technique that avoids submammary scars, has proved to be a reliable method of breast reduction because it is adaptable to most cases and produces beautiful and durable results. What about secondary cases? In the last 14 cases referred for secondary mammaplasty, at 1-19 years after their initial…

This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of endoscopic pneumatic balloon dilatation as the initial treatment for achalasia of the cardia. 15 patients with achalasia underwent a total of 19 dilatations using the new polyethylene dilator (Microvasive Rigiflex Balloon Dilator) over the last 6 years. An overall treatme…

Our investigation on the chemistry of biologically active natural products during the last 40 years since 1953 are reviewed in this paper. The following subjects are discussed: I. photochemical relationship between rhodopsin and compounds related to areca alkaloid, II. furanoid diterpenoid constituents from dioscoreace…

The charts of the last 200 patients with idiopathic preretinal macular gliosis (IPRMG) seen in the Retina Service of Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, were reviewed. We found that IPRMG is a disease of older people, tends to have a nonprogressive course, and rarely causes severe visual los…

The levels of antibacterial amongst 991 strains responsible for significant bacteriuria, isolated in central Scotland at the end of 1990, have been determined by breakpoint sensitivity testing. Overall resistance to the commonly used antibacterials for UTI, trimethoprim and ampicillin was 23% and 36%, revealing that re…

Results are presented of a series of 84 patients receiving renal retransplants over the last 12 years. One year survival rate of patients and transplants was 87.6% and 79.1% respectively, compared with 92.5% and 81.2% for the 783 first grafts performed during the same period. Positive prognostic features were the absen…

The results of treatment of 1,843 patients with acute cholecystitis are analysed. Operations were carried out on 766 patients, postoperative lethality 3.5%. A more active surgical tactics was accepted in the last 3 years, as the result of which postoperative lethality fell to 1.2% in 1988. Cholecystostomy was conducted…

On the basis of our own patient population of the last 12 years which involved 17 traumatic ruptures of the descending thoracic aorta in the isthmus area (preoperative hospital mortality at the time of diagnosis: 5.8%; surgical mortality: 27%; postoperative hospital mortality: 18.7%) the problems of assessing indicatio…