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BACKGROUND: Most heart function clinics cannot absorb their high volume of referrals. The effectiveness of clinic discharge protocols to offload stable patients is understudied. We examined predictors and barriers of implementing discharge criteria at our tertiary heart function clinic. METHODS: This is a retrospectiv…

Applying accommodating resistance combined with isoinertial resistance has been demonstrated to be effective in improving neuromuscular attributes important for sport performance. The main purpose of this study was to determine whether short sprints can be acutely enhanced after several sets of back squats with or with…

AIM: To investigate the effects of cold acclimation on the thermal response and neuromuscular function of the hand. METHODS: Ten healthy subjects [three female, seven male, age (mean +/- SD): 27.9 +/- 7.9 years] immersed their right hand in 8 degrees C water for 30 min, 5 days a week for 3 weeks. On the first and the…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnosis and prognosis aspects of carcinoma of the cervix in a group of young patients less 35 years old, not very clear in literature. STUDY: Retrospective and comparative diagnostic and prognostic study. This study is related to the epidemiology and prognosis of such cervical cancer in…

BACKGROUND: Although global estimates for dementia risk reduction are available, risk profiles might differ in a high-income, welfare-state setting. Few studies have been conducted that simultaneously estimate the prevalence of dementia risk factors and their associated risk of dementia within the same nationwide popul…

We report a case of a 9-year-old girl presenting with unilateral retinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with symptomatic macular edema. Over 5 years of follow-up includes optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus photographs, and fluorescein angiography at baseline and at follow-up. Systemic and neurologic workup wa…

In recent years, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have enjoyed a renaissance, as the world is currently facing an emergency in terms of severe infections that evade antibiotics' treatment. This is due to the increasing emergence and spread of resistance mechanisms. Covalent conjugation with polymers is an interesting stra…

The Wolfson Medical Center was established forty years ago, in 1980, with the aim of providing residents of the surrounding cities with medical services of international standards. It has about 700 hospital beds. The population served by the Wolfson Medical Center numbers about one million residents, from the cities of…

We performed a retrospective study on 30 subjects having subclinical depression in the past, involved in a psychotherapeutically process in the last 5 years, which gradually returned with a post-partum depressive episode. The subjects were between 20 and 38 years of age, without psychotic disorders, selected by psychol…

The investigation of the placebo and the nocebo effect and their mechanisms has a rather short history of less than 20 years, especially in gastroenterology, and only the last 5 years have resulted in substantial improvement of understanding. Placebo refers to symptom improvement following a treatment, nocebo to the op…

Nontransplant therapeutic options for acquired and constitutional aplastic anemia have significantly expanded during the last 5 years. In the future, transplant may be required less frequently. That trilineage hematologic responses could be achieved with the single agent eltrombopag in refractory aplastic anemia promot…

The following is a general overview of the management of CNS germinomas. Over the last 35 years, CNS germinomas have become one of the pediatric brain tumors with the best outcomes with a greater than 85% overall survival over 5 years. This is in part due to the fact that germinomas are very responsive to chemotherapy…

In the 1980s, enteral nutrition became increasingly recognised as a safe, effective and cost-efficient method of providing nutrition to patients with a functional gut (Silk, 2003). With this came the development of feeding-specific nasogastric (NG) tubes (Rees et al, 1986) and the formulation of nutritionally complete,…

Informing a cancer patient has been an issue of particular interest to the scientific community over the last 50 years. Since 1989 we have been studying the characters or personality types based on the Kahana and Bibring's approach as part of Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry. The question posed was how these chara…

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is due to inherited deficiency of C1-inhibitor (C1-INH) and causes localized swelling that may be life-threatening when it affects the larynx. Replacement therapy with plasma derived C1-INH has been the principal life saving treatment for more than 20 years in several European countries. Nev…

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, many scientists involved in cancer research have directed their attention to telomerase, an enzymatic complex which is specifically involved in duplicating telomeres, the very ends of linear chromosomes. The discovery that most immortal cell lines in vitro and human tumor cells in vivo ha…

The painting "The Three Generations" is considered one of the highlights in Charley Toorop's works. It essentially represents a self portrait of the artist herself, with John Rädeker's sculpture of her father Jan Toorop, and her son Edgar Fernhout. The completion of this painting took 9 years (1941-1950). However,…

Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage is one of the cerebrovascular complications in beta-thalassaemia major patients. This is a report of 2 cases of fatal intracranial haemorrhage. Their ages were 12 and 7 years respectively, and they had been receiving regular blood transfusion for the past 3 and 2 years respectively.…

Survival and clinical status in 105 acromegalic patients followed for up to 24 years after surgery is assessed against serum growth hormone (GH) levels and other factors. Primary treatment was at first (90)Yttrium implants or craniotomy, later transsphenoidal operation. GH levels were similar for each method, and the r…