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A structural graft is often used to maintain correction and achieve union after anterior calcaneal lengthening osteotomy for treatment of flexible flatfoot. Autograft, the current gold standard, is limited in availability and configuration and is associated with donor site morbidity in as much as 48%, whereas the alter…

The treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms remains controversial. The PHASES score was developed to predict the 5-year risk of aneurysm rupture. We have assigned PHASES scores to a cohort of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients to assess the distribution of scores and its ability to predict outcom…

This essay summarizes and integrates my experiences and observations-starting in the middle 1970s-as an athlete, scientist interested in human performance, biomedical researcher, and "expert," who sometimes advises athletes, coaches, and sports policy-makers. In this context, my focus has been primarily on endurance sp…

We report the case of a 29-year-old man who presented with a sudden headache. Computed tomography showed a small intraventricular hemorrhage in the left lateral ventricle. Cerebral angiograms suggested rupture of a coexisting feeder aneurysm in the left temporal cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM). The left proxi…

BACKGROUND: Management of esophageal cancer has changed to a combined modality approach over the past two decades due to poor outcome. Recently, multimodal treatment has become the standard practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate the changing trends in management and outcomes of esophagectomy over 15 years from…

Microblading is a novel method of semi-permanent makeup, which has achieved popularity in the last few years. We present the case of a patient who developed cutaneous sarcoidosis after microblading of her eyebrows. A 45-year-old female presented with a 6-month history of pruritic erythematous granulomatous plaques on b…

Stress induced exhaustion disorder is the disease that caused most sickleavedays in Sweden during the last 10 years. Teachers have the highest percentage of sick leave, and is the group where the number on sick leave increases most. No previous studies have achieved a statistically significant increased return to work…

Physical therapists work in different medical and related settings and serve to maintain and restore functional capability. Pakistan has a disability rate of 2.65% with a total of around 5.035 million disabled people. Physical therapy as a profession started in 1956 at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with a 2-ye…

PURPOSE: To report the results of a simple outpatient method for soft tissue socket expansion in young children with congenital anophthalmos. METHODS: Seventeen congenital anophthalmic sockets of 15 infants of a mean age of 4.2±4.4 months were fitted with specially designed serial solid acrylic shapes or hydrogel…

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) produce almost a million deaths a year in Latin America (LA), becoming the main cause of death in the last years, and it is estimated that the number of deaths in the region attributable to CVD will increase in the near future. This new epidemic is a consequence of the demographic, economi…

OBJECTIVE: The authors examine the tenure of first-time Chairs in academic departments of psychiatry in order to stimulate discussion on extant workforce and leadership issues. METHOD: Data on tenure of Chairs in psychiatry and other nonsurgical specialties were derived from the longitudinal database of the Associatio…

BACKGROUND AND METHODS: We conducted an all-Ireland population-based prospective epidemiological survey of motor neurone disease (MND) using the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland MND registers to examine the incidence and prevalence of the disease over the period 2004-2005. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Incidence of…

Infection represents a serious complication in vascular surgery. The average of 2-3% of reconstructions are involved. The article offers a review of current diagnosis and treatment of infection after vascular reconstruction. Emphasis is put on early diagnosis and its impact on prognosis of patients. We summarize the pr…

Of approximately 2,000 pathologically confirmed symptomatic CVD patients, atherothrombotic infarctions were found in 23%, lacunar infarctions in 18%, cardioembolic infarctions in 17%, hypertensive cerebral hemorrhages in 16%, lobar type hemorrhages in 3%, subarachnoid hemorrhages in 4%, progressive subcortical vascular…

During the last few years, a unique group of patients was recognized among the burn patients treated in our institution. They were all young men with small, isolated, lower-extremity burns that, in appearance, were not compatible with the claimed etiology. In an attempt to characterize these patients, we retrospectivel…

Driving while intoxicated rates have declined substantially in the last 20 years. This is as a result of public opinion combined with increased law enforcement efforts. A recent tool has been the Breath Analyzed Ignition Interlock Device. This new technology is designed to prevent persons with excessive blood alcohol l…

OBJECTIVE: To discuss the etiology, diagnostic criteria and treatment of Nelson's syndrome. METHODS: Twenty-three patients with Nelson's syndrome who were treated in our department over the last 19 years were analyzed retrospectively. Removal of adenoma by the transsphenoidal approach was done in 21 patients and by tr…

A case report of a girl aged 3.5 years affected by the extremely rare combination of idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis (IPH) and coeliac disease (CD) is presented. It is the 13th such case that has been published over the last 25 years and only the 7th to be reported in a child. We believe that the concurrence of the…

Much outstanding progress concerning the application of ESR spectroscopy/imaging in the biomedical field has been made in recent years. The literature in this field has already been specifically covered by several reviews. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the most important findings, obtained in the…

795 cases of inguinal and femoral hernia repair, utilizing polypropylene meshes, were performed during the period 1/1/91-31/3/97. The Trabucco repair was performed in 301 cases (37.8%), while the Lichtenstein technique in 494 (62.2%). In the last two years the Lichtenstein technique was preferred to homogenize the resu…