97,290 papers found

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…

In Italy, the number of people living with diabetes is about 3.5 million (5.5% of the population), with an increase by about 60% in the last 20 years and with 1 person out of 3 older than 65 years. The Italian Health Service system estimates that 10 billion euros is spent annually on caring for patients with diabetes,…

Intestinal transplantation (IT) has become a standard treatment for patients with intestinal failure and complications of parenteral nutrition. The pool of intestinal transplant recipients has been slowly growing over the last two decades. Of the 2191 ITs performed between 1 January 1990 and 31 March 2012, 50.5% were c…

From 1985 to 2001, the Burch-Schneider antiprotrusio cage (B-S APC) was implanted in 57 cases (55 patients) with massive acetabular deficiency. The B-S APC survived until the last review 5 to 21 years after operation in 89.5% of the cases, produced substantial pain relief, and increased range of hip motion and walking…

The analysis of the dynamics of the oncological mortality in the Republic of Bashkortostan from 1989 to 2005 was carried out. It is revealed that since 1992 the oncological mortality occupies the third position in the structure of population morbidity (10.4-14%). The minor trend to the increase of this mortality rate f…

It is well known that multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that mostly starts in the second to third decade. In the present study, we reviewed our own observations of the clinical and paraclinical features in the 36 of 890 (4.04%) MS patients whose symptoms started before 16…

There is limited literature dedicated to the surgical problems of infants and childhood, especially diseases of the groin and scrotum, in the setting of sub-Saharan Africa. We do not know the morbidity and mortality rates associated with surgical conditions of the groin and scrotum in children of our sub-region. This s…

This study documents prospectively the Knee Society knee- and function score of 28 patients with rheumatoid arthritis with 34 PFC unconstrained total knee arthroplasties from preoperative values on at yearly intervals. The average follow-up period was 3.4 years (range 2-5.5 y). At last follow-up over 80% of the knees w…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of uni-portal non-coaxial spinal endoscopic surgery (UNSES) via a single incision for the treatment of adjacent two-segmental lumbar disc herniation (LDH). METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on 33 adjacent two-segmental LDH patients treated with…

We performed a retrospective chart and radiograph review of 10 patients with a history of poliomyelitis involving a limb that subsequently underwent primary total knee arthroplasty between 2000 and 2008. One posterior stabilized (PS), two condylar constrained (CCK), and seven rotating hinge (RHK) prostheses belonging t…

AIMS AND BACKGROUND: To update trends in smoking prevalence in Italy to 2003, with specific focus on the young. METHODS: A population-based, face-to-face survey conducted in February-April 2003 on 3,535 individuals aged 15 or over, representative of the whole Italian adult population, plus an over sampling of 426 subj…

PURPOSE: Amputation of the penis or emasculation in children is rarely reported in the medical literature. This study involves 7 children with these injuries admitted to the University Hospital San Vicente de Paul, Medellin, Colombia, from 1960 to 1995. A new surgical technique is described for penile reconstruction th…

Due to the comprehensive hepatitis B virus vaccination program in Taiwan since 1986, the development of antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C infection and covered by National health insurance. Besides, the increased prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and currently, appro…

BACKGROUND: Frameless image-guided radiosurgery (IGRS) is an effective and non-invasive method of treating patients who are unresponsive to medical management for trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This study evaluated the use of frameless IGRS to treat patients with medically refractory TN. METHODS: We performed a retrospect…

The aim of the study was to explore trajectories of breathlessness intensity by function and life-limiting illness diagnosis in the last 3 weeks of life in palliative care patients.A prospective, consecutive cohort study obtained point-of-care data of patients of Silver Chain Hospice Care Service (Perth, Austral…

Vanadium (V) is a critical and important metal used in various industries, but its accumulation in the environment poses a risk and can lead to pollution. The study of microorganisms for metal recycling in renewable biotechnologies has attracted significant research interest. However, there is limited information on th…