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PURPOSE: To evaluate the indications, visual outcomes, and complication rate after posterior implantation of an iris-claw aphakic intraocular lens (IOL) in subluxated lenses due to Marfan syndrome. METHODS: Eyes without adequate capsular support had posterior chamber iris-claw aphakic IOL implantation between 2006 and…

Drug abuse is a serious public health problem. Moreover, co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders are common among drug users. This paper examines psychiatric disorders of young cocaine and heroin users using the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (WMH-CIDI). A cohort of 12…

In a cross-sectional study, MSM aged ≥18 years were venue-sampled in New York City in 2008, interviewed, and tested for HIV using oral fluids. Participants who reported testing HIV negative at their last test in the previous 24 months were analyzed (n = 287 of 550 sampled). Those testing positive at the intervie…

Obesity and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) are challenging public health issues as globesity popularizes. The present study illustrates the trend of obesity and MetS for the last 12 years in Taiwan based on the analysis of Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan. Between the two surveys, a large growth on MetS prevalence…

OBJECTIVE: As there are no standard criteria for monitoring suppression during treatment of central precocious puberty (CPP) with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogues (GnRHa), we assessed the use of pelvic ultrasound examination for this purpose. DESIGN/PATIENTS/MEASUREMENTS: In 31 girls with CPP, transabdominal…

"Proof-of-principle" that cell replacement therapy works for neurodegeneration has been reported, but only using donor cells collected from fetal brain tissue obtained from surgical terminations of pregnancy. Surgical terminations of pregnancy represent an increasingly limited supply of donor cells due to the tendency…

To evaluate the clinical effectiveness and complications of large-diameter metal-on-metal prostheses, particularly in the elderly, we performed cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA) using metal-on-metal prostheses with large-diameter femoral heads (mean, 45 mm) in 59 patients (average age, 75.1 years) between January…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether gender is an independent factor associated with disease expression in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS: 438 patients with early RA (disease duration less than one year) were studied. They all were patients with early RA who presented at the Rheumatology Clinic of the…

BACKGROUND: Haemophilias are the commonest X-linked disorders affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 male births. Detection of carrier women in families with haemophilia and subsequent antenatal diagnosis of confirmed carriers are important services for these patients and their relatives. Over the last 6 years we performe…

PURPOSE: We review our experience during the last 16 years, adopting different surgical approaches for epispadias repair, and compare the results of complete penile disassembly technique with perineal muscular complex reassembly since 1995 with previous repairs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From 1984 to 1999, 58 epispadias…

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to evaluate the clinical and echocardiographic results of a cohort of patients subjected to aortic valve replacement with pulmonary autograft (Ross procedure). DESIGN: We studied prospectively with clinical and echocardiographic evaluation all patients subjected to this type of ao…

The objectives of this study were to investigate underdiagnosis of asthma in adolescents and young adults in general practice and to examine the influence of patient characteristics. The results of screening on asthma (questionnaire, spirometry) were compared with the diagnosis made in general practice. Screening resul…

PURPOSE: Most studies about medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (HTO) reported outcomes without focusing on gender differences. Therefore, the study compared the long-term survival rate and postoperative subjective knee function after HTO in female versus male patients with symptomatic medial compartment knee osteo…

BACKGROUND: There is evidence of the occurrence of trachoma in Peru, and studies have shown that soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are affecting rural communities in the Amazon basin in Loreto Department. This study was done to estimate trachoma prevalence, STH prevalence, and the associated factors for both disease…

PURPOSE: Although the outcomes of ACL reconstruction are generally satisfying, there are several patients who do not regain their pre-injury sporting level and suffer persistent symptoms. Orthopaedic practice has evolved significantly over the last five years to address these drawbacks. The aim of the present survey wa…

BACKGROUND: We sought to describe changes in demographic variables, process of care measures, and outcomes of patients treated in a regional ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program over the last 15 years. METHODS: We describe demographic variables, process of care measures, and outcomes of pa…

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to evaluate mid-to-long-term clinical and radiological outcomes after an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for symptomatic discoid lateral meniscus (DLM) in young patients and to determine whether degeneration of the residual meniscus and articular cartilage progresses during the…

OBJECTIVE: Neurosurgical techniques for the treatment of sellar pathologies have been evolving continuously over the last decades. Additionally to the innovation of approaches and surgical techniques, this progress yielded to the application of modern intraoperative surgical tools as well as peri- and intraoperative im…

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe the rates of residential relocations over the course of 10.5 years and evaluate differences in these relocation rates according to gender and decedent status. DESIGN: Prospective, longitudinal study with monthly telephone follow-up for up to 126 months. SETTING:…

Synthetic polymer chemistry has undergone two major developments in the last two decades. About 20 years ago, reversible-deactivation radical polymerization processes started to give access to a wide range of polymeric architectures made from an almost infinite reservoir of functional building blocks. A few years later…