98,289 papers found

BACKGROUND: The number of people in South Africa with chronic conditions is a challenge to the health system. In response to the coronavirus infection, health services in Cape Town introduced home delivery of medication by community health workers. In planning for the future, they requested a scoping review of alternat…

Limited endoscopy capacity usually represents the main barrier to the extension of screening to subjects older than 70, given the high positivity rate in this age group. We assessed CRC incidence and mortality by number of previous negative fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) among subjects turning 70. We selected persons…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the levels of COVID-19-related fear and to investigate fear-associated factors among older people. METHODS: This study was conducted with patients aged 65 years and older from the Family Medicine Clinic of Health Sciences University Şişli Hamidiye Etfal Hospital over a 1-month perio…

BACKGROUND: At our academic tertiary care medical center, we have noted patients referred for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) who increasingly require advanced cannulation techniques. This trend is noted despite increased endoscopist experience and annual ERCP volume over the same period. AIM: To…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the presentation, assessment, treatment, and pregnancy outcomes of 22 women with a rudimentary uterine horn. METHODS: We reviewed the data regarding the outcomes of patients with a rudimentary horn pregnancy (RHP) who were managed at Peking Union Medical College Hospital over the last 30 years.…

Animal companionship can have many physical and psychological benefits; however, animals can also be a source of zoonotic infection, including enteric illnesses; it has been estimated that in Canada, nearly 85,000 enteric illnesses due to eight pathogens occur each year related to animal contact. There is a lack of bas…

PURPOSE: To assess the long-term visual acuity (VA) outcome after congenital cataract surgery at Imam Hossein Medical Center (Tertiary Referral Center) (2004-2014). METHODS: In this descriptive study, records of 120 patients with a history of congenital cataract surgery were studied. Those with traumatic, metabolic ca…

BACKGROUND: Periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) is an effective treatment for preosteoarthritis and early osteoarthritis in young and active patients with hip dysplasia. However, conversion to total hip arthroplasty (THA) for failed PAO is difficult owing to morphologic changes. The objective of the present study was to inv…

OBJECTIVE: To study the microsurgical decompression combined with cervical artificial disc replacement clinical efficacy for the treatment of cervical spondylosis. METHODS: From January 2006 to November 2011, 21 cases of cervical spondylosis, totally 23 intervertebral spaces, were under the microscope disc decompressi…

OBJECTIVE: Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD) with a multifactorial pathophysiology and possible increasing incidence. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the independent associations of PD duration, age, dialysis fluids, and kidney transplantation wi…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of secondary prevention of breast cancer and associated factors. METHODS: A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of Pelotas, southeastern Brazil, in 2002. The study sample comprised 879 women aged 40 to 69 years. Information was collected on demographic…

1. The authors present 86 children and adolescents with rheumatic heart disease of the Pediatric Cardiology Service of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia who received valve replacements in the period between September, 1964 and April, 1973, a series which is more numerous and of longer follow-up than any published u…

Iraq became the world's battlefield for terrorist attack to the victims by different types of weapons of missile including explosive cars, explosive belt, fragments, rifle bullets, and handgun bullets. This situation in Iraq has been present for the last 3 years. As surgeons, we cannot influence the surge of this viole…

BACKGROUND: The ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) was thought in order to maximize the value of epidemiological research into asthma and allergic diseases in childhood, establishing a standardized methodology and facilitating collaboration and comparison between several countries. METHOD…

BACKGROUND: Dislocation of an artificial intraocular lens (IOL) into the vitreous is a rare complication in cataract surgery. The removal of the IOL from the vitreous can be associated with various difficulties. As vitreal surgery in Latvia has been developed only during the last two years, patients with IOL dislocatio…

We report on three children with severe, recurrent focal segmental glomeruloscerosis (FSGS) in their first allografts, treated with methylprednisolone, plasma exchange and cyclophosphamide. This protocol is based on a previous publication showing its successful use in three children. Our patients were 2 girls and 1 boy…

During the last 5 years, 640 patients had treatment to their port wine stains (PWS) with a flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser. One hundred and fifty-six patients have been discharged for varying reasons, of which 59 (38%) achieved excellent (at least 75%) lightening of their birthmark. Of the remaining patients, those w…

PURPOSE: To discuss the results obtained by giving adjuvant treatment for childhood ependymoma (EPD) at relapse after complete surgery only. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Between 1993 and 2002, 63 children older than 3 years old entered the first Italian Association for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology protocol for EPD (gro…

To evaluate the clinical efficacy of posterior lumbar interbody fusion combined with Ponte osteotomy in the treatment of patients with degenerative scoliosis.The medical records and imaging data of degenerative scoliosis in department of orthopedics, Peking Union Medical College Hospital from 2013 to 2022 were retrospe…

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has set elimination (interruption of transmission) as an end goal for schistosomiasis. However, there is currently little guidance on the monitoring and evaluation strategy required once very low prevalence levels have been reached to determine whether elimination or resu…