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Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity has a high prevalence affecting 5 % of school-age children. We present a case series of 82 children with said disorder not associated with neurological diseases or intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder, treated during a period of 8 months in a neuropediatrics…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of smoking among hospitalized patients in a general hospital, and to evaluate their profile. METHODS: A random representative sample of 111 patients, classified as nonsmokers, former smokers or smokers, was evaluated. The smokers were submitted to the Fagerström test and meas…

OBJECTIVES: Since pubertal maturation is an important covariate in studies that evaluate physical and social changes that occur during the teen years, we examined pubertal parameters in a group of US girls. STUDY DESIGN: Black and white girls recruited at age 9 were followed annually for 10 years. Preece-Baines model…

BACKGROUND: This audit was carried out to assess the frequency of positive results out of the total test requests made for HBsAg and HCV at our laboratory. The frequencies for three years were compared for significance. We have reported monthly total test requests and frequency of positive tests for each of these years…

Because of its wide variety of symptoms, the neurovascular compression syndrome of the upper thoracic aperture or thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) has to be distinguished from several differential diagnoses, especially orthopedic ones. It is mainly characterized by pressure lesion of the brachial plexus and secondly, by…

As a part of the Central European Study a long-term study of the pubertal development of 687 Hungarian girls was undertaken and the findings compared with those of a cross-sectional study of a group of girls from Münster. In addition to assessment of the breast and pubic hair according to Tanner's classification,…

Experience with 261 subjects undergoing aortic valve replacement is presented. The mean age of our patients (29.6 years) is much less an compared to reports from the West. History of rheumatic fever was obtained in 53%. Aortic regurgitation was documented in 72.7% of our subjects whilst the remainder had calcific aorti…

The aim of our study was to evaluate the evolution of glucose metabolism in 57 patients after treatment of their acromegaly and to determine risk factors for the persistence of abnormal glucose tolerance. Therefore, we performed IGF-I measurements, oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs), and HOMA to evaluate insulin sens…

Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) is an attractive method to increase strength and proprioception of elderly individuals. However, a major clinical concern about the prescription of PNF is the belief that it can cause a cardiovascular overload, because it involves close-to-maximal loads and isometric cont…

OBJECTIVE: Bacterial meningitis is a serious disease most common in children. We report the epidemiology and outcome of bacterial meningitis in children between the age of one month to 16 years admitted to three Pediatric Departments in Iceland in 1973-2000 (28 years). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Information was collected r…

UNLABELLED: During the last years in vitro investigations have demonstrated the possibility of nitrosation of different amines and amides including a number of drugs. The aim of the presented investigations was to test whether an endogenous nitrosation of piperazine, Obesin (propyhexedrine), and ephedrine is possible i…

The incidence of exercise-induced hematuria is reported to be between 5% and 25% and available literature suggests that it lasts for a few hours to a maximum of 3 days. We analyzed the urine sediment of healthy participants between the age of 20 and 50 years before and after a 5 km run. Anyone with abnormal pre-…

OBJECTIVE: Progressive motor impairment anatomically attributable to a single critical demyelinating lesion on eloquent corticospinal tract locations occurs in progressive solitary sclerosis and in some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) with highly restricted CNS lesion burden (2-5 lesions). We determined whether a…

OBJECTIVE: To compare functional and oncologic outcomes in elderly (&#x2265;&#x2009;70&#x2009;years) and nonelderly (<&#x2009;70&#x2009;years) patients after transoral robotic surgery (TORS). METHODS: A retrospective chart review was conducted on 114 patients who underwent TORS for head and neck squamous cell carcinom…

OBJECTIVE: To introduce the satellite rod technique utilized in severe spinal deformity after three-column osteotomy (3CO) and to evaluate the radiographic and clinical outcomes at 2-year follow-up, further discussing its utilization in this particular cohort. METHODS: A total of 32 (19 females and 13 males) with an a…

OBJECTIVE: Therapies for chronic kidney disease have changed greatly over the last decade. The aim of this study was to examine the changes in the clinical characteristics and carotid atherosclerosis of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) over the last 9 years. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 150 consecu…

During the course of 16 years, i. e. from 1953 to 1968 inclusively, a total of 2111 patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix were treated at the Oncological Institute in Brno. Of these, 1829 patients, i. e. 86.6% were irradiated, 282, i. e. 13.4% underwent primarily a radical excision and subsequently were irradia…

BACKGROUND: Narrow-band ultraviolet B (UVB) has been used for skin diseases in children. However, the use of phototherapy in childhood has limited due to the possible risk of skin cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the narrow-band UVB phototherapy in children for the treatment of va…

Recently it became known that Volkswagen Group has been cheating with emission tests for diesel engines over the last six years, resulting in on-road emissions vastly exceeding legal standards for nitrogen oxides in Europe and the United States. Here, we provide an estimate of the public health consequences caused by t…

PURPOSE: The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) rupture rarely occurs, especially in skeletally immature adolescents, and poses a dilemma in appropriately managing the open physis with its vast growth potential. However, although many epiphyseal-protecting techniques for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction h…