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Intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) is the most serious event in haemophiliacs, resulting in high rates of mortality and disability. Although the use of a prophylaxis regimen has improved outcomes, the mortality caused by ICH is still around 20%. ICH is more frequent at two different ages: in childhood (mostly in children a…

In the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Uludağ University Medical Faculty in Bursa, during the last 11 years, the Peter G. Jones technique for the surgical correction of muscular torticollis in older children has been introduced. Twenty children between 4 and 13 years of age were treated for muscular torticollis.…

Over the last 10 years, the Nutrition Unit at Hope Hospital has trained and looked after 76 patients on home parenteral nutrition for a total of 100 patient years. Although 40 per cent of patients have required home parenteral nutrition for 6 months or less one patient has been on treatment for 7 years. The quality of…

BACKGROUND: Kidney transplant outcomes have dramatically improved since the first successful transplant in 1954. In its early years, kidney transplantation was viewed more skeptically. Today it is considered the treatment of choice among patients with end-stage kidney disease. METHODS: Our program performed its first…

Recently, the surface ozone concentration in the Korean peninsula has been increasing more rapidly than in the past, and seasonal changes are appearing such as increases in the number of ozone alerts in springtime. We examined changes in the timing of annual maximum South Korean Olevels by fitting a sine function to da…

The AgED Study aimed to evaluate the detection, awareness and management of age-related eye disease (AgED) in South Australian general practice. Three South Australian metropolitan general practices were recruited and all patients aged 75 years and older were invited to participate. A cross-sectional postal questionnai…

The aim was to develop and validate an instrument to track online problem poker gamblers with player account-based gambling data (PABGD). We emailed an invitation to all active poker gamblers on the online gambling service provider Winamax. The 14,261 participants completed the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI). P…

Thyroid gland is one of the most vascularized organs of the body, nevertheless clinical and surgical series report an incidence of secondary malignancies in this gland of only 3%. Colorectal carcinoma metastatic to the thyroid gland is not as uncommon as previously believed, infact the number of cases seems to be incre…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of life of firefighters and rescue professionals, and characterize their socio-demographic, health, work and lifestyle profile. METHODS: Cross-sectional study that used a socio-demographic, lifestyle, health, work data questionnaire and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life aspects, in Fir…

BACKGROUND: During the last two decades, the trend of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) for health services by Iranian households has been a matter of concern and it has exposed a significant proportion of them to catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures. OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to investigate three o…

BACKGROUND: Although lymphoproliferative disorders are well-described and known entities post renal transplantation, acute myeloid sarcoma is a rare if ever reported occurrence in this setting. Immunosuppressive therapy is thought to be the main culprit in these cases. CASE REPORT: A 51-year-old man underwent renal tr…

OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in a Portuguese population by menopause date, from 1985 to 2005. METHODS: Participants were 382 postmenopausal women assessed as part of the ongoing follow-up evaluation of a cohort of Portuguese adults. Data were collected on education, lifet…

Pneumonectomy is a lung resection that is associated with significantly higher operative mortality and morbidity than lobectomy. Beside classical causes of operative morbidity, such as respiratory and cardiovascular, the most important cause of postoperative complications is bronchopleural fistula. This complication oc…

The term endometriosis means the presence in an ectopic site of normal functioning endometrial tissue, the ectopic endometrial tissue, as the normal uterine mucosa, undergo hormonal stimulation and follow the proliferative and functional changes along the menstrual course; this evolution, characterize the clinical stor…

The aim of the present study was to examine the relations between continuity of care and the general practitioners' accumulated knowledge about their patients. A further objective was to evaluate the link between continuity of care and the doctors' sense of medical responsibility towards the patients. Emphasis was plac…

Growth-retarded rats fed a tryptophan deficient diet at 21 days for periods of 6-22 months were shown to reach normal body weight when subsequently fed Purina Rat Chow. They demonstrated an increased ability over similar aged controls to recover from hypothermia induced by 3-minute whole-body ice water immersion, were…

INTRODUCTION: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains a highly lethal malignancy with limited therapeutic options and poor overall survival. In recent years, advances in genomic profiling have revealed the complex molecular and cellular heterogeneity of PDAC, offering new avenues for therapeutic intervention.…

INTRODUCTION: Adolescent overdoses have been rising over the past decade. Emergency department (ED) visits for both acute overdoses and for adolescents in opioid withdrawal have risen post-COVID. Urine drug screens have poor utility in the ED but are routinely obtained for medical clearance and in the management of pat…