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837 neonates required mechanical ventilation at the Neonatal Intensive Unit in the last five years. 136 of them developed tension pneumothorax. Authors report our experience in these patients, who underwent next protocol: 1. Early diagnosis. 2. Underwater-seal drainage. 3. Suction drainage. 4. Selective intubation of c…

The medical and psychiatric diagnoses of 168 clients aged 16 to 65 years in a Norwegian institution for the mentally retarded were registered together with medication, level of functioning, and types of problem behavior. Most of these clients (64.9%) were profoundly or deeply retarded, and only 6.5% were independent of…

Surveillance activities in Italy during the last 5 years can be summarized in three broad categories: collection of data in order to describe the epidemiological pattern of hospital acquired infections, achieved through multicenter studies, involving hospitals or focused on specialized units; organizational efforts for…

Bilateral corneal endothelial photomicrographs of 90 cases, who underwent unilateral cataract extraction 5 years ago, were analyzed utilizing a specular microscopy and a graph pen digitizer. Data on surface areas of the corneal endothelium in each group of three different surgical procedures were compared mutually and…

Severe mitral insufficiency following myocardial infarction in 15 patients is reported. The mean interval from infarction to surgery was 2.8 years. All patients were operated on with mitral valve replacement and in 14 aortocoronary bypass and/or resection of left ventricular aneurysm was necessary as well. Rupture of o…

Stapedius reflex level, slow auditory evoked potential (AEP), and hearing threshold level of 18 normal adult probands (11 female, 7 male) as well as of 14 normal hearing cerebral palsied children between 4 and 12 years of age (5 female, 9 males)--were determined in different postures which correspond to the influence o…

OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical, biochemical profile and outcome of patients with biliary atresia (BA) who underwent living related liver transplantation (LRLT) at authors' institute in the last 5 y (2008-2013). METHODS: Case records of the 20 patients diagnosed with biliary atresia who had undergone living related l…

Tibetans live on the highest plateau in the world, their current population size is approximately 5 million, and most of them live at an altitude exceeding 3,500 m. Therefore, the Tibetan Plateau is a remarkable area for cultural and biological studies of human population history. However, the chronological profile of…

PURPOSE: Selumetinib is a MEK inhibitor indicated for pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and symptomatic inoperable plexiform neurofibromas (PNs). METHODS: This retrospective study collected data from 70 patients (aged 3 - 18 years) with NF1 and symptomatic inoperable PNs treated with…

AIM: High frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is gaining recognition as a new symptomatic treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD). The first available long-term observations show the stability of the efficacy of this procedure in time. METHODS: Quadripolar leads were implanted bilaterally under stere…

Dental caries is an important Public Health issue. However, the treatment of this disease in tertiary dental care requires further investigation. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate caries-related hospital morbidity in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) from 2008 to 2022. An ecological study w…

While the outcome of patients with multiple myeloma has significantly improved over the last two decades, the disease remains incurable for the majority of patients. With the advent of novel agents, there has been a shift towards prolonged therapy as opposed to fixed-duration therapy, aimed at improving progression-fre…

PURPOSE: To re-assess the scientific literature to ascertain if there is scientific evidence to support antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with periodontal disease as a means to decrease the risk of prosthetic joint infections. INTRODUCTION: Prosthetic joint infections occur in approximately 0.3-2% of patients an…

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis has a median survival time after diagnosis of 2-5 years. The main goal of treating IPF is to stabilize or reduce the rate of disease progression. Nintedanib and Pirfenidone have been a breakthrough in the management of IPF. Here we evaluated the effectiveness of Pirfenidone and…

We have investigated the morphological and structural aspects of hydatid cysts recovered from sheep raised in southern Sardinia during two surveys conducted over the 20 years since the last control attempt at the end of the 1980s. In the first study carried out during 1995-1997, a few years after the last control attem…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incident and prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and prediabetes in obese children in the last ten years. METHODS: The clinical data of hospitalized children with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) or obesity between October 2000 and September 2011 were retrospectively studi…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of a sample of Italian radiologists undergoing a proficiency test of screening mammography. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analysed the results of 705 tests (537 first tests, 168 repeat tests) taken during 1997-2005 by 537 Italian radiologists.…

OBJECTIVE: To determine on radiographs the presence of Basilar Impression (BI) in children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). To confirm this sign and altered geometrical relationships of the craniocervical junction in course of time with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS AND PATIENTS: In a cohort study of 130…

BACKGROUND: Preservation of limb function after resection of malignant bone tumors in skeletally immature children is challenging. Resection of bone sarcomas and reconstruction with an allograft in patients younger than 10 years old is one reconstructive alternative. However, long-term studies analyzing late complicati…

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…