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Our aim is to evaluate the outcome of 13 patients, under the age of 18, who underwent 15 valve replacements with mechanical prostheses, from January 1985 through December 1995, in our Hospital. The mean age was 11.7 +/- 5.0 years (from eight months to 18 years); six patients were male. The follow-up was five months to…

BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a serious public health challenge in tropical and subtropical regions, including Indonesia. Children under 5 years old face particular risk of contracting malaria due to low immunity. We examined potential factors associated with malaria infection among under-5 children in Papua Province, In…

BACKGROUND: Recently reported prevalences of myopia in primary school children vary greatly in different regions of the world. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of refractive errors in an unselected urban population of young primary school children in eastern Sydney, Australia, between 1998 and 2004, for comp…

Amyloidosis is a complex multi-system disorder characterized by deposition of an aberrant protein in tissues with kidney being the main target organ. The age of presentation of amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis is highest among adults aged 60-80 years followed by 45-55 years. However, presentation in younger age group is rare…

OBJECTIVE: We report the results of our angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) registry to assess the occurrence, the impact of exposures to vinyl chloride, and to quantify latency. METHODS: We examined more than 73,000 death certificates of North American workers employed between 1940 and 2008. RESULTS: We found 13 deaths…

The progressive interest in transgenic plants as advantageous platforms for the production and oral delivery of vaccines has led to extensive research and improvements in this technology over recent years. In this paper, the authors examine the most significant advances in this area, including novel approaches for high…

BACKGROUND: Convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage has been associated with different diseases, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome and cerebral amyloid angiopathy being the 2 main causes. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether headache at onset is determinant in identifying the underlying etiology for convexal subarac…

Forty-five displaced femur fractures in children were treated with unilateral external fixation as a standard treatment from March 2007 to March 2009 and the last follow-up was completed in May 2012. The average age of the children at presentation was 9.93 years. Patients were followed up till union, at 1 year, and at…

OBJECTIVE: To find out the reasons for use and non-use of dental services among people visiting a dental college hospital in India. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on 180 people, aged 15-65 years visiting the outpatient department of a dental college hospital in India. A self-administered…

Ewing's sarcoma of the finger is extremely rare. Pain and swelling of the affected finger are the most frequent presenting features. We report two cases of Ewing's sarcoma located at ring finger and the thumb in two children aged 14 and 10 years. The first patient died of generalised metastases despite surgery, chemoth…

The aim of this study was to call the attention to the often disregarded message that hypertransaminasemia may be a marker of both liver and muscle diseases by presenting personal case reports and a systematic literature review. Three male children (mean age 5.7 years) were inappropriately addressed, during the last 12…

OBJECT: The goal of this study was to determine whether failure rates of hydrocephalus shunts have fallen over the years as a result of experience or technical improvements. METHODS: A structured search was performed of the English language literature for case series reporting failure rates after shunt insertion. A me…

Removal of the tonsils, or tonsillectomy, is a very frequent surgical procedure in Denmark (5 million inhabitants). Nowadays, about 7-8,000 patients are operated on each year. The indications for surgery and the surgical principles have largely remained the same for a century, but different techniques have been employe…

Six different weathered lignite samples were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Few microorganisms were observed on lignit just excavated and only spores and short hyphae were observed on lignite samples excavated 5 months, 1 year and 4 years before sampling. When lignite samples were moistened with distilled wa…

In mixed-mating plant populations, one can estimate the relative fitness of selfed progeny w by measuring the inbreeding coefficient F and selfing rate s of adults of one generation, together with F of adults in the following generation (after selection). In the first application of this multigenerational method, we es…

In an earlier report, we found that X-linked congenital adrenal hypoplasia may be associated with gonadotrophin deficiency. This combination has since been confirmed by many others. At the last examination, our patients were 22.4, 19.9 and 17.5 years old. They were doing well on replacement therapy with hydrocortisone,…

In the last ten years, 89 hepatic resections were performed for trauma. Thirty-three patients survived and were followed up for one month to seven years: 15 patients had right lobectomy, nine left lobectomy, and nine left lateral segmentectomy. Complications were primarily pulmonary. All patients had transient derangem…

Population ageing may further increase formal care use. Strong predictors in addition to age include time to death and the cause of death. The aim of this study is to analyse trends in the use of formal care in Finland by these factors. We analysed patterns of care use among all Finnish residents who died at the age of…

BACKGROUND: Mentally impaired and demented nursing home patients are at increased risk of undertreatment for pain. We wanted to examine pain assessment and complaints and pain treatment of nursing home patients according to mental state, and with special regard to treatment of patients with dementia diagnosis and cogni…