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BACKGROUND: Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AE-COPD) are related to high mortality, especially in hospitalized patients. Predictors for severe outcomes are still not sufficiently defined. OBJECTIVES: To assess the mortality rate and identify potential determinants of mortality in a cohort…

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is characterized by growing ossifications of spinal entheses and tendons, which may cause trachea and esophagus compression when located anteriorly in the cervical spine. PURPOSE: Our previous systematic review on the epidemiological and clinical…

AIMS: To investigate the course of dyspeptic symptoms, predictors of symptom relief and use of antidyspeptic drugs in patients with duodenal ulcer disease and functional dyspepsia 6-7 years after successful Helicobacter pylori eradication. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with H. pylori-positive duodenal ulcer or functi…

PURPOSE: Craniopharyngiomas (CPGs) are aggressive brain tumors responsible of severe morbidity in children. The best treatment strategies are under debate. Our study evaluates surgical, pituitary, and hypothalamic outcomes of a tailored staged-surgical approach compared to a single-stage radical approach in children wi…

INTRODUCTION: Pelvic fixation in patients with neuromuscular scoliosis is difficult, due to their fragile general condition and poor bone quality. Many techniques have been described, associated with high rates of mechanical complications. The objective of this work was to evaluate the mechanical complications and long…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies on stroke recurrence in younger adults often contain small sample size which makes it difficult to study trends in stroke recurrence over a long period of time. AIMS: The aim of the present study was to investigate temporal trends in the risk of recurrence in younger patients with a first…

OBJECTIVE: To study the effectiveness of trifocal bone transport by using monolateral rail system in the treatment of bone defects caused by post-traumatic tibial osteomyelitis. METHODS: The clinical data of 28 patients with tibial defects caused by post-traumatic osteomyelitis treated with trifocal bone transport tec…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The annual risk of ischemic stroke distal to > or =50% asymptomatic carotid stenoses was approximately 2% to 3% in early cohort studies and subsequent randomized trials of endarterectomy. This risk might have fallen in recent years owing to improvements in medical treatment, but there are no pub…

Nontrivial critical models in 2D with a central charge c=0 are described by logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs), and exhibit, in particular, mixing of the stress-energy tensor with a "logarithmic" partner under a conformal transformation. This mixing is quantified by a parameter (usually denoted b), introduced…

Adequate surgical radicality in regard to the extent of gastric resection as well as to systematic lymphadenectomy with the aim of R-0-resection is the treatment of choice in gastric carcinoma. The demand for such a procedure based on the results obtained in the last years with increasing rates of resectability togethe…

EuroCrops contains geo-referenced polygons of agricultural croplands from 16 countries of the European Union (EU) as well as information on the respective crop species grown there. These semantic annotations are derived from self-declarations by farmers receiving subsidies under the common agricultural policy (CAP) of…

Over the last 60 years, the diamond anvil cell (DAC) has emerged as the tool of choice in high pressure science because materials can be studied at megabar pressures using X-ray and spectroscopic probes. In contrast, the pressure range for neutron diffraction has been limited due to low neutron flux even at the st…

A hypnosis protocol for treating panic disorder is provided. The implementation of this protocol is demonstrated through a case example involving the successful treatment of a 28-year-old firefighter presenting with a 4-month history of near-daily panic attacks. Core principles associated with this protocol include: (1…

Eight out of the 33 cases of primary stabbing headache seen in a general neurology clinic (40% have headache as their chief complaint) in the last 3.5 years are presented. The epidemiology, association with other primary headache disorders, secondary associations, testing, and treatment of primary stabbing headache are…

Scholarship on couple communication about cancer employs variable conceptualizations of communication, and common measurement strategies make questionable assumptions about communication. This study provides a descriptive foundation for a multiple-topic, multidimensional approach to studying couple talk about cancer. B…

Many rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for the diagnosis of infectious diseases have been developed over the last 20 years. These allow (1) administering a treatment immediately in case of a potentially fatal disease, (2) prescribing a specific rather than presumptive treatment, (3) quickly introducing measures aimed at int…

By definition, biopharmaceuticals includes the recombinant therapeutics proteins, monoclonal antibody and nucleic acid based-products used for medical purposes, which produce through the biotechnology. It has grown enormously during last 25 years, even that each four pharmaceuticals product contains one biopharmaceutic…

Scalp ringworm (tinea capitis) is a significant public health problem in the UK. An infection with dermatophyte fungi, it affects scalp hair follicles and surrounding scalp skin and often causes alopecia, which can be permanent. The condition is commonest in pre-adolescent children, although it also occurs in adolescen…

The incidence of melanoma has been rising over the ten last years and is increasing faster than for other cancers. According to informations of the national cancer registry, there are approximately 1500 new cases of melanoma per year in Switzerland. The incidence for melanoma is 7.5 new cases per 100000 inhabitants per…

The treatment of advanced colorectal cancer has long been a dilemma for clinicians. After many years of therapy limited to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-based chemotherapy, a number of new discoveries have significantly advanced this field in the last decade. The advent of irinotecan has given us hope for a second line chemoth…